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You’re in the heat of a pennant race. Your lead in the division has been sliced Kate Moss-thin. You’ve already lost the season series to …

For the “Classic Manny” file, ProJo’s Steve Krassner recounts this priceless bit: Manny Ramirez (strained left oblique) visited Terry Francona’s office early yesterday and asked …

The hype is over. The water-cooler crowd can go back to talking about Belichick and defensive signals and other things they know nothing about. For …

Watching the Sox and Yanks on ESPN is truly a special, wish-you-didn’t-have-ears kind of hell. Just a non-stop onslaught of how amazing A-Rod is and …

Meet Josh Beckett – 2007 Cy Young winner. Beckett’s dominating performance over the Yankees while former contender Chien-Ming Wang crapped the sheets pretty much sealed …

What better way to wash all the dirty of last night’s loss from our collective mouths than watching Giambi, A-Rod, Cano and company get hamstrung, …

If I woke up in a booze-and-grilled-meats-induced stupor and saw the final score of this shit-storm, I would have been fine. I fully expected Dice-K …

First things first, I’d like to see a sweep. What better way to put the exclamation point on the 2007 season — and tender a …

Folks, it’s official. Amalie Benjamin is the captain of my heart. The driver of my soul. Everything that makes my mind go zing. In what …

Remember the days when you didn’t pitch to Ortiz with the game on the line under any circumstances? I think those days are upon us …

I don’t know how it happens every year: one day I’m strolling the beaches ( looking quite fetching in my Speedo and peeling sunburn) with …

Any night the Red Sox can get 20 hits and score 16 runs is a good night. But the fact that all this clatter was …

Tonight’s game won’t start until 7:15pm, but with Tim “Rays Killer” Wakefield on the hill, I believe it will truly be something worth waiting for. …

I’ve come to the conclusion that Alex Cora is distantly related to Theo Epstein. Or that he’s holding evidence of Rico Petrocelli’s long-rumored participation in …

See, Lugo’s got the right idea. We take three of four from the Os, Beckett’s got his league-leading 18th win, and we’re back home tonight …

This afternoon, we have Josh Beckett versus Jeremy Guthrie. With Commander Kick Ass of the F@#k Yeah Brigade on the hill, sounds like a slam-dunk, …

Right after Huff mashed that would-be-grand-slam a few feet outside the foul pole, I expected Francona to sprint out of the dugout and drag Dice-K’s …

What is it about playing the Red Sox that makes the ball “slip out of the hand” of so many pitchers? The other night in …

That is to say, he, too, was once a wee kid and went through an awkward stage which was forever captured for posterity in grade …

22: The number of consecutive scoreless innings Wake has pitched. 59: The record for most scoreless innings pitched (Orel Hershiser). 26: Number of consecutive starts …

Please tell me that Bobby Kielty is still nursing a bad back, or was tied up in the back of a van somewhere in Chelsea …

After Game Three of the 2004 ALCS, my blood still tainted with the residue of 2003’s immortal, blog-spawning collapse, I famously threw in the towel. …

So I return from my Labor Day extravaganza last night, sunburnt into submission and head wracked with hangover, and I see that the Sox have …

If there was ever a night to break out the industrial-size can of kick-ass, it’s tonight. The Yankees have already lost, with hapless Seattle putting …

The headlines for the past couple of games should start with “Once upon a time,” because we are seeing some fairy tale stories playing out …

Clay Buchholz became the first Red Sox rookie to toss a no-hitter, just two weeks after his 23rd birthday. This game was just what Dr. …

Thrown at twice in Yankee Stadium Thursday afternoon. Hit by a pitch twice yesterday at Fenway. What did Kevin Youkilis do to piss you off, …

The questions… If you buried all the Red Sox players that suck in shallow graves, where you you put the right fielder? Hey, we’re trying …

Dude, if ever there was a time that I needed to see the boys back in the friendly confines of Fenway Park, it’s right now. …

Dropping two in a row to the Yanks isn’t quite as scary as that headline in today’s Extra Bases blog: “Manny Could Be Out a …

Clemens vs. Beckett in the Bronx on a late August night? Dude, anyone who calls you between 7:00pm and 10:30pm tonight is clearly not your …

I have a dream. And that dream is that at some point in the 2007 season, J.D. Drew is going to pull off something so …

Typically, a late season series with the Yankees is reason to board up the windows, unscrew some vintage Nightrain and put the local authorities on …

Abhorrent as the recent Jose Offerman incident may have been, it still takes a backseat to the infamous Izzy Alcantara spectacle from a few years …

Although it hardly makes up for the sweepage we endured in the 2005 ALDS, I must say I got a perverse sense of satisfaction from …