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Calm down everybody. Did you learn nothing in 2004? Being down 2-1 to the Indians isn’t much different than being up 2-1. They’re still the …

It’s incredibly easy to rag on Eric Gagne for his general ineptitude with a Sox game on the line, questionable taste in eye wear and …

You never know who is going to step up in October and be the man. Game two featured opportunities galore, but the likes of Schilling …

a) The awkwardly hip woodshop/American literature/The Vietnam War and Its Impact on American Culture professor b) Jeff Daniels in The Squid and the Whale. c) …

That was our chance, I figured, after Youk flew out to center with the potential winning run aboard in the bottom of the ninth. No …

October. Curt Schilling. Enough said.

With all due respect to Charlton Heston and Will Smith, I think Josh Beckett would do a lot better as the last man on earth. …

We all know Josh Beckett is a cocky, hard-throwing, fist-pumping, ass-kicking winner. But in a great story in USA Today, we learn, well, he was …

In anticipation of tonight’s showdown between the Sox and Injuns at Friendly Fenway, we decided to pour through the memory banks to recall our favorite …

Dudes, if you’ve spent any time over the last four seasons reading this blog — and I know you haven’t — you’d understand that I …

Today’s Cleveland Plain-Dealer Indians blog tells me that “Red Sox Nation is so busy basking in the defeat of their hated rivals, no one is …

So someone comes up to me in the office today and asks, “Are you praying for the Yankees to beat the Indians so we can …

A wise man named Wesley Snipes once said, “Always bet on black.” If you can find Wesley these days, hiding from IRS agents in a …

Even after watching it 500 times, Manny’s game-two-winning, heart-attack-inducing, pimped-out-to-the-extreme, earned-you-or-a-teammate-a-fastball-off-the-jublees home run still gets me giddy. And bonus props to the guy for coming …

When you’re up against guys like Manny and Ortiz, you have to pick your poison. Mike Scioscia picked Manny and paid the price. In the …

Tonight, Daisuke Matsuzaka will take the mound in his biggest start to date. Bad enough the guy’s gotta follow-up Josh Beckett’s ridiculously spectacular performance Wednesday …

Josh Beckett was particularly Josh Becketty last night, smothering the Angels with a complete-game, four-hit shutout and basically stopping short of hog-tying Garret Anderson, stomping …

I said something very similar to this before the 2004 playoffs. For mojo’s sake, I felt it needed to be said again. Baseball in October …

Superstitious punk that I am, I avoid rallies that occur before the playoffs even start like the plague. But I will say this: Yesterday, during …

Ladies and gentlemen, your mission statement for the 2007 post-season. In handy photo format.

Especially when home is Fenway Park. For anyone that doesn’t think home field advantage is a big deal in baseball, take a look at the …

The first couple seconds of this clip, shot with a cheap-ass camera by a drunken blogger while half of my place was being consumed in …

Too drunk and tired to say anything more than hell yeah. Except what the f@#k is Patrick Bateman doing standing behind Lowell in that screencap? …

Listen, Friday is Saturday’s surly mistress, inviting you to stay out a bit later, drink a bit more, have that second steak dinner and keep …

So the hitting’s coming together, Mike Lowell has been outed as a native of Krypton, and Manny’s back with a vengeance. And now the Sox …

Just to get you pumped, a couple of stats from sportsline.com… Lester allowed one run and three hits over 6 2-3 innings in his lastouting, …

Any photo of a Yankee pitcher walking off the mound in the 10th while an opposing player rounds the bases in triumph is like a …

While Red basks in the beauty of the Great White North, catching up on the latest hockey and curling news, the rest of us eagerly …

Jesse Litsch, now a close friend of Red Sox Nation, shut down the Yankees, holding them to one run on an A-Rod groundout. The Jays …

Well, with Red off wrestling Polar Bears or Penguins, or whatever the hell lives in Calgary, I had hoped to spend the week talking about …

When Theo Epstein was basking in his Caribbean retreat last off-season, setting up the players on the Red Sox like some multi-million dollar chessboard, last …

A great article in today’s St. Petersburg Times, in which Scott Kazmir and BJ Upton lament the fact that so many pesky Sox fans have …

Nothing like a visit to the Trop to cure what ails you. Especially if what ails you is not being able to win baseball games. …

In Wednesday’s post, I conjured a scenario in which the Papel-Bot gives up a grand-slam. Later that evening, he gave up a grand slam. Then, …

Dudes, being a Red Sox fan is like being a member of the KISS Army. Yes, you get up and shake your ass for Destroyer …