Posts in category Gameday Drinking

So the Cincinnati Reds are in town tonight, with the Sox finally back home at Fenway after a long and mostly painful west coast swing. …

One of the advantages of living within a 20 minute drive (or one-hour drunken stumble) of Fenway Park is the ability to bask in its …

The 2020 Red Sox season is officially circling the bowl. We’re just a dozen games from the final flush and with the Celtics in the …

We’ve just hit Memorial Day weekend, so it’s difficult to sit here and say that this four game set in Baltimore is gonna make or …

The phrase “most important game of the year” has been bandied about so much, it’s lost much of its power. After all, to be honest, …

It has been brought to my attention that on this date in 2012, Bobby V’s Red Sox had a better record than the 2014 team …

Take another look at the sweet play by Xander Bogaerts that ended last night’s Red Sox game: See that fist pump there? That’s exactly what …

Here is tonight’s starting line-up: 1. Brock Holt (L) 1B 2. Xander Bogaerts (R) 3B 3. Dustin Pedroia (R) 2B 4. David Ortiz (L) DH …

Last night’s antics will be pretty tough to beat. Especially since tonight we get Ruby De La Rosa, who came to Boston as part of …

As the great Peter Gammons pointed out, since the Drew signing was announced, Xander Bogaerts is hitting .390 with a 1.042 OPS. That tells me …

So the Red Sox have lost seven games in a row. Even worse, as a number of astute folks have pointed out, their current record …

  I only have one question about the Red Sox signing Stephen Drew to a one-year (prorated) fourteen million dollar contract: WHY? When the rumors …

Last October, the Sox and Rays were the toast of the AL East, duking it out in the ALDS while the Jays, Yanks and Orioles …

  This is it, Sox fans, this is the road to five hundred. A sweep of the hapless Rays and the Sox find themselves sitting …

Tonight marks game one of the Red Sox – Yankees 2014 rivalry. Last season the Yankees finished 12 games behind the Sox in the AL …

I had a front-row seat to the shitshow that was yesterday’s game. Alright, it wasn’t quite a front row seat, more like a grandstand perch …

Since clinching the AL East last Friday, the Red Sox have gone 1-2 and been outscored 14-10. And the teams outscoring them, it should probably …

I don’t care if tonight the Red Sox set a new record for most people in one park wearing fake beards. I just want the …

How the hell did it get to be the first game of the last home stand of the season? Time flies when you’re beating the …

With the start of a four game set in Happytown, the Sox have a chance to put a sizable hurtin’ on the Yankees. Every win …

Today, on the first day of September, the Red Sox are in a good place. Four and a half games up in the East. Best …

Not actually, but he did say all the things you’re supposed to say before a heavily-hyped match-up between two teams that could very well find …

Tonight, ladies and gentlemen of Red Sox Nation, we get what we’ve been begging for: minor league wunderkind and Top Sox Prospect Xander Bogaerts is …

I know we’ve still got ourselves a first place team, holding the slimmest of margins over the Rays in the East. But the Sox are …

After crawling out of a bizarre series in Houston that saw us score 22 runs and give up 17 over three games against the worst …

I figured Monday night’s game, which saw the Red Sox shut down by the worst team in baseball, would be the oddity in this series. …

Last night, as the Sox dropped a one-run game to the D-Bags, I must have still been on a high from Thursday night’s improbable comeback. …

Tonight’s game is bonus baseball, a make-up game we didn’t anticipate when the 2013 schedule was first drawn up. So instead of sitting around getting …

I’m not the type for sentimental tangents, unless we’re talking about tiny zebras, which are cute as all hell and f$%king awesome. So I won’t …

It’s ironic that this morning’s walk-off win against the Yankees happened two days shy of the ninth anniversary of Bill Mueller’s famous walk-off against Mariano …

Normally a Red Sox-Yankees match-up has that Clash of the Titans vibe around it. But right now, as the Yanks come to Fenway six games …

Tonight, the team with the best record in the American League takes on the team with the second-best record in the American League in what …

Or at least please make us forget about the shit show that was last night’s loss to the Angels. I’m not asking for much. Just …

Really just an excuse to use this video clip. But, still. We’re looking rather Mongo-ish these days. Here’s hoping we can keep it going. Six …

Earlier this morning, as I floated, pale and white, along some of Cape Cod’s finest waters, I found myself pondering a few questions. Like “Are …