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From one of my favorite movies, Summer of Sam. This season, I feel like the drunk guy in the clip.

Watching the preview of ESPN’s upcoming film, Four Days in October did precisely what I assume they wanted it to: teleported me back to those …

If my math is correct, the Sox would have to win all of their remaining games while the Rays played .500 ball just to tie. …

Honestly, I thought this home stand would be a cakewalk. Even though there wasn’t much I’d seen since April that should have produced such confidence, …

That was the one memorable line from a horrendous seventies sitcom, The San Pedro Beach Bums. For a couple of weeks, everybody was saying it. …

John Lackey brought his bag’o’suck to Fenway last night and single-handedly snuffed any hopes for October baseball. Anyone that didn’t see this coming just hasn’t …

Statistics say we won’t make the playoffs. BUT I SAY STATISTICS ARE DUMB AND MOSTLY DRUNK! So how can you trust them? Go with your …

A few weeks ago, Red and I hosted our second annual event to raise money for the Jimmy Fund during the Radiotelethon. The turnout was…a …

Say this much for the 2010 Red Sox: they’re keeping it real. They could have folded up long ago citing injury, plague, gingivitis, or just …

Clay Buchholz does for win number 16 in Seattle. Tune in now folks, this ain’t no late-night game!

Dice-K goes for win number ten tonight. Unfortunately,other than people on the west coast and a few drunks around here, I’m not sure many people …

With the Rays now in first place and the Sox seven games behind the Yanks for the wild card, I’m not exactly clearing up my …

Seriously, if the Red Sox can’t beat this guy, it’s time to think about a new career. He looks like he belongs on the chess …

At this stage of the season, as playoff hopes fade like murky watercolor paintings left out in the rain (a lyric proudly lifted from the …

Now, finally, we can all admit we’re just playing out the string. As Red said, we’ll watch, we’ll root, we’ll cheer, but we know:we’re looking …

I honestly thought — without the help of drugs or alcohol — that this west coast swing might be where the Sox turn it around. …

Folks, I have to admit: I’ve been living a lie. I just got back from a week-long sojourn to Las Vegas. And before I set …

We know him as the RemDawg. Former Red Sox player, cancer survivor, our beloved color commentator on NESN. We enjoy all of his antics: from air …

Tim Wakefield just doesn’t get enough love from the baseball world. But getting nominated for the Roberto Clemente Award is pretty cool: Every team in …

I don’t like the Rays. They are like cartoon characters playing in a real baseball league, right down to the Clark Kent manager. They have …

I’ve got a bad feeling about this series. After yesterday’s festival of suck, capping a season of frustration, tension levels have to be pinning the …

Denton may have written off 2010, but I don’t go as quietly. Not so long as the slide rule and abacus tell me that the …

Mike Lowell, already a huge fan favorite, raised his level of badassery a few notches when it was revealed he is playing with a broken …

Was this really just a month ago? The Red Sox were literallyfighting for a play-off spot. Now they are on the verge of being double-digits …

The house should be full when Manny rolls in tonight, based on the demand for tickets for the series. Always one to make a grand …

Forget about Earl, Hurricane Manny touches down in Fenway this weekend. I think I’ve made my position clear on this; I’d cheer my ass off …

  As always, whenever Red and I run into a question we can’t answer, we turn to SG Nation to provide a little gray matter …

Right about the time Felix Doubrant starting pitching BP in the eighth (whatever happened to “Bard in the eighth, Papelbon in the ninth?”), a big-boned …

Sunday afternoon, long before I’d ingested whatever alcohol had me predicting a John Lackey triumph last night, I had the pleasure of serving as one …

Now that I’ve had time to flush last night’s loss out of my system (thanks to Mother Alcohol), I’m looking forward to seeing Lackey step …

Say it with me, Tito: Bard in the eighth, Papelbon in the ninth. Simple, right? To quote Sting, that was “a humiliating kick in the …

I like to think of myself as a guy who “gets it.” That time my ex-wife went out for groceries and was never heard from …

No, not “cut a hole in the box.” Get your minds out of the gutter please. Step one was to win game oneof this three-game …

“I know what they’re coming with,” Garza said, “and they’re coming with a lot to prove; everybody saying they’re out of it, they’re too far …

Two games today, and if we can beat up on Seattle twice — something any self-respecting team looking for a spot in the playoffs should …