Posts in category Class of 2004

I always get sentimental around mid-October. Not because it was around this time in the 90s that my Uncle Thad, last seen walking down route …

I know that last night wasn’t the first time Manny Ramirez has been back on Fenway’s hallowed grounds since his departure from Boston. But seeing …

When Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS began, I was in New Jersey on business. I sat in a crowded hotel bar with my boss, …

A little less than fifteen years ago, in October of 2003 to be precise, I was on a late afternoon Acela from NYC to Boston. …

12 years ago today I came down off my beer high and asked “did last night really happen?” This is what I blogged a few …

Before The Steal there was The Walk, Kevin Millar’s improbable base on balls against Mariano Rivera that help fit Dave Roberts for his Superman cape. …

With all respect to Aerosmith and the J. Geils Band, the 2004 Red Sox are the biggest rock stars to come out of Boston. With …

Through the years, I’ve made a lot of jokes about putting my fist through a wall during a Red Sox game. Fact is, dear readers, …

…when it comes to tackling Ultron, the New York Yankees, and other threats to humanity.

Puppet Red makes his glorious return to our site, but now he has a new friend: Puppet Denton. To everyone who has ever thought to …

Today marks the ten year anniversary of game six of the 2004 ALCS, which will forever be known, at least in France, as “Le Game …

Before The Steal there was The Walk, Kevin Millar’s improbable base on balls against Mariano Rivera that help fit Dave Roberts for his Superman cape. …

Folks, it has been ten years to the month since the Red Sox drop kicked us all into the promised land, winning the World Series …

So our old pal Jonathan Papelbon got tossed from a game today after making an “obscene” gesture to the fans who booed him for another …

Am I really ten years older? I am. Also, I probably drink too much.

I don’t know whether it’s the way this year’s Red Sox team has been stumbling out of the gate or the fact that we’re nearing …

Cue whatever music you think is appropriate for Armageddon. What you are about to read will disturb you, but it is far more frightening for …

See that guy? He’s the one that helped break an 86-year World Series drought. Then he went and won another one three years later, because …

When I got the news that D-Lowe was retiring from baseball, I got a bit sentimental. Sure it might have been the 52 beers I’d …

When Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS began, I was in New Jersey on business. I sat in a crowded hotel bar with my boss, …

See the guy in the photo above? He has balls of steel. Really. They are steel. The children he purports to have are not his …

The motto for this year’s Red Sox team? What a Difference a Day Makes. In yesterday’s post, I wrote them off for dead, refusing to …

I’m done. Call me a fair weather fan. Call me a bandwagon jumper. Call me anything you want. This was a postseason that began with …

It was over in the second inning. Schilling, our warrior, our top gun was on the hill. And he couldn’t get it done. Had nuthin’. …