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Just when you think it can’t get any worse…it does. Adrian Gonzalez getting ejected last night was just another example of the childish, me-first attitude …

Last night was just another feather in the dunce cap for the 2012 Red Sox. As Red stated, winning that game as a tribute to …

Playing baseball is a little like playing poker, especially if you’re pitching. The pitcher has to decide what to throw next, much like the poker …

Not to belittle the life and memory of Johnny Pesky, but I selfishly thought for a few brief moments that his passing might serve as …

I know this season hasn’t exactly been packed with games I’d want to relive night after night on DVD. And Josh Beckett hasn’t been a …

Every chance we get, we try to do a little somethin’ somethin’ to stick it to cancer. This month, I’ll be participating in Project Trivia, …

Holy shit. Word is that Johnny Pesky, everybody’s grandpa and a fixture in the Red Sox organization for as long as I can remember, has …

Anyone who says that watching the 2012 Red Sox play is only slightly more enjoyable than getting attacked by robot bears is missing the point. …

The Red Sox went out this afternoon and showed us what it could have been like this season if they had gotten their collective heads …

Derek Lowe has become the 135th player from the 2004 Red Sox to get picked up by the Yankees, joining Mark Bellhorn, Mike Myers, Alan …

When Red and I started this blog in 2004, we were in a bad place. Grady Little had sent us into another offseason without a …

In a season punctuated by ill-timed injuries, spirit-crushing losses, non-stop rumors and Nick Punto, we haven’t had a lot to cheer about. But Clay Buchholz …

So the million dollar question: Will the Red Sox, behind Clay Buchholz, their best pitcher of late, snap this three game skid? Or will they …

Amazingly, we are still not in last place. Preposterously, we are only 5.5 games out of the wild card. Realistically, the last couple months of …

Remember when we used to call Josh Beckett “Commander Kickass?” And he used to strike fear into the hearts of batters and strike their asses …

Despite the fact that the Red Sox are, amazingly, still in the running for a Wild Card spot, the 2012 season has been largely a …

So, we’re back below .500, which is kinda cute and easy to overlook in April but like the goddam Sword of Damocles in August. Tonight’s …

So we lose a series to one of the AL’s worst teams, with a few of those losses being of the “someone just stepped on …

Gary Tanguay “reported” this morning on the Toucher and Rich show that John Lackey was the snitch who snuck up the back stairs and tattled …

I’m never one to hate on the team. Sure, I’ll mock, lambaste, ridicule… but at the end of the day, I truly want them to …

Anyone that doesn’t believe the season is over after last night’s shitshow needs to seek professional help. The team is a train wreck, they are …

Autumn in New England can be beautiful. Crisp weather, breathtaking scenery, the perfect transition from lazy summer beach days to the winter months and holidays. …

See that post title? That will also be the title of Bobby V’s inevitable tell-all book after he is officially branded the fall guy for …

Is it the cancer-beating, no-hit-throwing, strikeout pitcher of the past? Or is it the guy we’ve seen recently who walks a lot of batters and …

Last week, Denton gave me a copy of the Oil Can Boyd autobiography. It remained in my car until this morning, when I finally brought …

I think you know the answer. The minor tweak of adding Breslow and dumping Albers will have no significant impact. If the Red Sox were …

The Red Sox won again last night, making it three in a row. Which is awesome. But not so awesome was when Ryan Sweeney got …

The Red Sox play the next ten games (seven of those against Detroit and Minnie) at Fenway, followed by seven on the road against Cleveland …

While it would be nice to think that the Sox really will be all “Hulk Smash” from here through September, I’m not counting on anything. …

I’ll admit, I had a bazillion things going on the other day, and the Red Sox game was little more than white noise. Until Teixeira …

The last two Red Sox teams to finish below .500, the 1997 and 1994 Red Sox, both had 49 wins on July 28, just like …

Last place Sox versus first place Yanks? Aaron Cook against Phil Hughes? Mark Teixeira’s bat pitted against Adrian Gonzalez The Invisible’s? This might be the …

Look, by the time the dust clears on this weekend’s series with the Yankees, the Red Sox could very well be more than a dozen …

Here we are, in the uncomfortable position of having an off day after yet another nutbusting loss. So let’s forget about the Red Sox for …

Josh Beckett was good, just not good enough. After a visit to the mound in the seventh by Bobby Valentine (which I doubt included a …