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If the stories coming out of this year’s spring training camp are any indication, the 2011 season seems certain to bring us enough bizarre anecdotes …

From the magnificence that is It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

This clip of outtakes from Red Sox photo day has been seen pretty much everywhere. As a matter of fact, I believe redsox.com had it …

Hey, I know it’s just a spring training game. But it’s Jeter, Teixeira, A-Rod, Cano, Posada and Andru Jones versus Darnell, Tek and… uh… I …

Hey ladies, Jim Rice here. Not the Hall of Fame Jim Rice on NESN with the complicated glasses and the multicolored suits. This is the …

As always, thanks to our friends at Treehouse Studios for the puppet.

Yeah, that’s right, stolen base for “Wheels” Ortiz. Normally I would disregard this type of stat assuming it was a typo or there is some …

Just as ballplayers have contract language stating “don’t drive your moped down an ice slope in the winter” and “avoid tiger-baiting at all costs,” NESN …

Somewhere in a Florida diner… You’re fat. Also, reprehensible. And a lousy closer. You’re loud and abrasive. I just tweeted about how much you suck. …

Every off-season it happens: the Yankees make a big free-agent signing, the Red Sox make a counter move. Or the Sox make a trade, and …

After last year’s DL-apalooza, the last thing we wanted to hear coming out of spring training were any “Carl Crawford trips on ham sandwich” or …

And thus officially begins the greatest and most frustrating time of the year. Greatest because baseball is back. And God knows we’ve waited long enough …

There’s been a lot of talk over the past few years about how winning may have dulled the intensity of Red Sox fans. How even …

Meet Adair Bard, wife of future Red Sox closer Daniel Bard. According to my new favorite website, playerwives.com, the two were married last year in …

Who is this clean and lucid fellow chatting up Peter Gammons? And was there a pot of tea and tray of Nice Biscuits nearby? Because …

The story that the Red Sox “put a tail” on Carl Crawford before they made him an offer has been out there for a few …

Since he landed with the club in 2004, Terry Francona has been like our own, personal Captain Picard, taking us boldly where no Red Sox …

Not only do we already have Heidi on the case at spring training, but look who’ll soon be joining her. Oh, we’re looking forward to …

No, silly, I’m not talking about Lindsay Lohan. I’m talking about making 2011 the year of the Sox addict. Granted, we will never experience the …

I’m so busy with my full-time gig, gambling addiction, freelance work for the CIA, efforts to legalize kangaroo prostitution and finishing my book, Gary Kroeger: …

It’s been far too long since we’ve had any kind of Steinbrenner uprising. But finally, after grossly overpaying for another three years of Derek Jeter, …

Nothing gets us in the mood for baseball like Red Sox team picture day, where players seem to outdo each other in desperate attempts at …

On Saturday, NESN was running various Sox-related Tweets along the bottom-screen ticker during its massive spring training show. At one point, one of ours came …

How many hard-working young ball players out there would kill for the shot that Elijah Dukes was given? A third-round draft pick in 2002, a …

Remember back in 2006, when the Sox practically went to war with Japan and Scott Boras for the right to bid on Daisuke Matsuzaka’s services? …

As I’ve pointed out numerous times in the past, I believe Bearded Youkbacca gives the Sox more of an edge than Clean-Shaved Youkbacca. In fact, …

Sporting a Mohawk-like ‘do and apparently having just downed a gallon of Quaalude cocktail, Johnny speaks. Surprisingly articulate (come on, it’s all relative), Johnny talks …

Somewhere on my list of obsessions, below the Red Sox of course, is Seinfeld. So it is with a heavy heart that I report the …

There’s no doubt that by inserting Adrian Gonzalez into the line-up, the Red Sox have become a stronger offensive force. And A-Gon taking up residence …

The heart of a lion? Not exactly. The Red Sox should put stupidity clauses in their contracts that allow them to send players packing when …

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund just announced that Wake and Clay will continue as Jimmy Fund Co-Captains for the 2011 season. In …

Congratulations to Red Sox Nation Governor Jared Carrabis, who swept the New England Sports Blog Awards last night. Sox Space was voted Best Red Sox …

If you’ve been waiting for a Denton live appearance, look no further, tonight is your lucky night. I am heading in to Remy’s for the …

Hello, Spring Training. Good to see you. It’s pretty obvious I’ve been scoping you from the other side of the bar. Since last November, to …

Is this the most contrived “holiday” of them all? It must have been invented by either a florist or a chocolate-maker, exploited by Hallmark, finally …