Posts in category Winning Is Awesome

Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration. This season was pretty much a lost cause way back in June. But last night, the …

Last night, after Alexi Ogando and the Bullpen Kids pissed away another lead — which has become their calling card this season — you would …

I don’t ask much from my last place baseball team. Give me a couple of heart attack moments where I’m reduced to pacing, cursing, throwing …

Now wait, before you judge: punching walls is a good thing. At least as I see it. Sure, the wall hates it and the noise …

Alright, we give Rick Porcello a lot of crap in these parts. And a lot of it, so far, has been justified. Watching ownership refuse …

The manner in which the Red Sox announced that Ben Cherington was gone and Dave Dombrowski was in — casually interrupting the annual Jimmy Fund …

I will admit that after watching the Sox drop eight in a row and flush whatever meager hope existed of a postseason run down the …

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A Red Sox team flounders right out of the gate, slogs its way through spring and early …

Is this real life? Are the same Red Sox who were pretty much throwing in the towel in June suddenly the hottest team in baseball? …

Now THIS is why our forefathers fought for our freedom. So that David Ortiz and Hanley Ramirez could go back-to-back, launching certified US-grade missles into …

Look, I made this silly-ass meme back when Clay Buchholz was pitching, as Robert California might say, like “some ineffectual, privileged, effete, soft-penis debutante.” It …

Last night, something truly wondrous happened: Multi-millionaire Rick Porcello took the hill for the Red Sox and we didn’t lose. Rick did do his best …

Timely hitting? Solid starting pitching? A couple sweet defensive plays? Sixteen hits including a homer? Against one of the best teams in the game and …

Look, at this point I’ll take any Red Sox wins, any way we can get them. Tonight’s, it just so happened, was a nice team …

In my lifetime, I can’t even recall how many times I’ve asked that question. All I know is that two Sundays ago, the Red Sox …

This is life as a Red Sox fan. One day, they’re bums and has-beens, the next, they’re world beaters. All I know is that on …

Okay, maybe the headline’s a little over the top. But in a season that has already stepped on my nuts and brought disappointments both expected …

Let’s face it: most of the first two months of this season have been largely forgettable for Mike Napoli and at least forty percent of …

If right around first pitch you had told me that you were picking Shane Victorino to be the hero of last night’s Red Sox game, …

You’ve heard the expression that even a busted clock is right twice a day? Well yesterday, Wade Miley was that busted clock. In a showdown …

Each of these late-night, west coast contests are like three games in one to me. There’s the first three innings, for which I’m wide awake, …

Last night’s Red Sox win was everything we needed exactly when we needed it. A starter — in this case, Rick Porcello — actually going …

Here’s the most important takeaway from last night’s game: the Red Sox won on a walk-off single by their number eight hitter who is hitting …

At this point, there’s nothing about Mookie Betts that surprises us. So when the guy robbed Bryce Harper of a home run with a Dewey-esque …

Half the line-up hitting under .200? Defense that almost begs to be accompanied by the Benny Hill theme music? Injury-prone folks like Teixeira and Ellsbury …

Last night, as the Sox/Yanks game hit the halfway mark, I looked at my watch and realized we’d only been playing for little more than …

So the first installment of this national nightmare we call interleague play is over, with the red Sox taking 2 of 3 from the Phillies. …

Gotta love the way Hanley Ramirez just toys with opposing teams. Early in the game he’s just goofin’ around, waltzing around the dugout with David …

  We may look back on Red Sox Opening Day 2015 as the day Clay Buchholz became an ace. I know, I know, we’ve seen …

Let me explain. I grew up in the ’80s in a baseball household. The Red Sox were my dad’s religion, and that’s how he raised …

For a few, bitter moments, last night’s Fenway homestand opener against the Jays seemed a terrible, terrible microcosm of this 2014 season. Specifically, I’m talking …

Pretty much the only thing we have going for us for the last month of the regular season is the chance to play spoiler. And …

Although his bat has been quiet of late, Mike Napoli remains a force to be reckoned with. The Italian Thor, you might say. For proof, …

  In a season chock full o’ suck, we rejoice in the little things. Beating the mediocre Jays is akin to bragging about being the …

Remember that guy named “Clay Buchholz” who was our single most effective pitcher out of the gate last season? That guy showed up again last …