So This Is Christmas
I wanted to echo Red’s holiday sentiments. Without you, we’d be just a couple of goofs sitting around talking about baseball. I guess we still …
The Boys of the NYPD Choir Were Singing "Galway Bay" and the Bells Were Ringing Out for Christmas Day
In my house, it ain’t Christmas until I’ve heard The Ramones tear through “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight)” and The Pogues serve up …
Keeping Tradition
Let’s face it, not much going on. Clemens is full of sh!t, the Pats are a step closer to history, and the rest of us …
Set TiVos to "Stun"
“After Christmas, I’m going to sit down with Mike Wallace of `60 Minutes,’ and I’ll do an interview, and he’ll ask me a ton of …
He Knows if You’ve Been Bad or Good
Just one more day and your entire year will be put on trial up North. The verdict: bad or good. The sentence: toys or lumps …
Dr. Roger Clemens, Belted By Irony
I was thumbing through a 1991 comic book about a superhero whose body is altered by chemistry, when I came across an ad featuring a …
2007 World Series Ball Gets Chomped
In his greatest move since scoping out Tina Cervasio’s spectacular rear end on NESN’s “Red Sox Weekly” (a moment of TV history lovingly captured in …
Return of the Hammer
Hebrew, that is. Unfortunately it won’t be in a Red Sox uniform. Gabe will be keeping it real with the Brewers next year. Sorry ladies… …
Breakfast With Santana, Dinner With Curt
The ProJo alerted us to this bit at twincities.com: The Boston Red Sox remain the favorite to acquire Johan Santana from the Twins, insiders say. …
Curt Schilling Wants You!
To wear red on Fridays. Let me get this out of the way up front: I generally don’t give a rat’s ass what Schill has …
Aqua Teens vs. The Red Sox and The Worst Lyric Ever
Dirt Dogs called to my attention this clip from adultswim.com, in which Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force exposes the secret Red Sox conspiracy behind …
Kevin Youkilis’ Jockstrap: Surprisingly Affordable
A couple years back, the stars aligned for a few brief moments and me, Denton, my sisters and a few other folks found ourselves granted …
NESN Presents: Youk and Lowell: Cops With Badges Episode 352: "On The Mitchell Beat"
Alright you knuckleheads. We got all these Mitchell Report suspects to work our way through. We need confessions, and you two gotta get ’em. One …
If There’s a Rock and Roll Heaven…
If you listened to music at all during the late seventies or early eighties, you know Dan Folgelberg. If there’s a song you remember from …
Feel Good, Inc.
Tired of all this talk about the Mitchell Report and how baseball has lost its innocence and how “Happy Days” was never the same after …
Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte Enjoy Steroids… and Smoked Meats
Do you think they were juicing when they shot this commercial? I mean, can’t you picture them horsing around on the set, then sneaking off …
Things to Do While Waiting for the Mitchell Report
Tickets go on sale Saturday for the next Hot Stove Cool Music concert, which will be held Sunday, January 6 at the Paradise. Tickets — …
Dinner With Peter Gammons on Ebay, or Why My Loved Ones Aren’t Getting Christmas Presents This Year
Attention, loved ones. Yes, all six of you. This was going to be the year I stepped it up a notch in the Christmas gift …
Mike Lowell + George Bush = Dinner Buddies
Today’s Herald tells us that Mike Lowell and Terry Francona have been invited to a “baseball-themed dinner” at the White House, which either means there’ll …
Eric Gagne Got an Early Christmas Present. Why Not You?
After sucking so badly that scientists in Zurich had to work overtime to develop new dimensions of suck just to accommodate him, Eric Gagne has …
Mike Timlin Is Comfortable in Boston, Thanks.
Mike Timlin, AKA the guy what’s holding Dave Roberts in the photo on the cover of Surviving Grady: The Book, is officially locked up for …
A Taste of Big Papi is Better Than None at All
Came across this video in a desperate search to find something fun to post about the Red Sox. I mean, I could always just say …
The Greatest Trick Eric Gagne Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World He Didn’t Exist
And just like that, the Eric Gagne Era ends. Cue violins. And leave your notes of sympathy in our comments section. Thank you.
How Much Would You Pay?
The public outcry to keep Jacoby Ellsbury in Boston was loud, and for the moment seems to have been answered. With the Santana deal slipping …
We Are All Made of Stars
Hungry for NESN’s sequel to Faith Rewarded? Next week, the 2007 version, Champions Again: The Story of the 2007 Red Sox will be released. Check …
When I Say I Need You, You Say You Better
According to today’s ProJo blog, Our Man Ellsbury’s been keeping one eye on his workouts and the other on the swirling trade rumors involving him …
Things I’d Rather Be Doing…
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of all the Santana talk. Just tired. Maybe it will happen, maybe it won’t. Maybe Ellsbury is …
The Road to Perfection
Thank you Brian Billick. Without your inept coaching the Patriots might have been tagged with their first loss of the season. But you wouldn’t let …
The Johan Sweepstakes Continues
With Andy Pettitte set to come back to the Yankees for another season, the Johan web gets a little more tangled. The Sox have apparently …
The Last Daredevil
A lot of people reading this site probably don’t even know the name Evel Knievel. But in the late sixties and early seventies, it was …
Ortiz and Santana Act the Fool
Some pretty cool insight from Torii Hunter on his former teammates Johan Santana and David Ortiz in today’s Herald: Center fielder Torii Hunter, a former …
We Interrupt This Blog
I know this space is generally reserved for all baseball all the time, and there is a blockbuster deal in the works with Johan Santana, …
Courage!
Of all the accolades and awards the members of the Red Sox have received, this could be the most impressive of the lot. Jon Lester …
Ortiz Speaks. We Listen.
Remember those old commercials for EF Hutton that said, “When Hutton speaks, people listen”? I’m the same way about David Ortiz. Guy makes any kind …
Matt Damon and Dustin Pedroia: Liked by Women
I think I was one of the few people who had no problem whatsoever with Ben Affleck being a fixture in those Sox-dugout-sidecar seats during …