What Dreams May Come?
Remember when the Sox returned home after the 2004 World Series? How classy it was that Ellis Burks was the first guy off the plane …
Who Died and Made You Jacoby Ellsbury?
First he wins everyone in America a free taco. Then he comes up huge with three doubles in game three of the World Series, becoming …
Into Thin Air
The Red Sox have shown the world how they play ball: to win. In game one, it was the power of the lumber supporting one …
Rockies Fans Can Dance
Of course, this guy has nothing on our own Lord of the Dance, but at least he’s showing some team spirit. He later suffered a …
Jonathan Papelbon: Now Available in Fully-Poseable Puppet Form
First things first, could we please get some props for those dudes who constructed their own Papel-Bot marionette last night, complete with moving legs for …
This Could Be The Last Time…?
He arrived in a flurry of Dunkin’ Donuts and truck commercials, and tonight, as we try to take another step toward our second World Series …
How I Fell In Love With Josh Beckett: A Totally Straight Guy Explains
The 2003 ALCS left me a quivering pool of Irish oatmeal, barely able to take on solid food and haunted by images of a shirtless …
World Series Theatre Presents Coco Crisp and Royce Clayton in "Free Tacos"*
Royce: You said if somebody steals a base in the World Series… Coco: The first time somebody steals a base… Taco Bell is gonna give …
Greetings From Josh Beckett
Howdy, Colorado. Josh Beckett here. Yeah, f@#kin’ ALCS MVP Josh Beckett. That one. Your Rockies worked me over pretty good back in June. I was …
Open Letter to the MLB Execs Who Green-Lighted a Wednesday Night Game One
Game one? On a Wednesday night? Dudes, come on. That’s great for hobos and inmates, but what about the working man? The guy who pays …
Wakefield Sitting This One Out
Tim Wakefield won’t be taking the hill in the 2007 World Series; The Red Sox announced that he will not be on the roster. On …
Why Not Just Tap My Nuts With a Hammer?
As if losing an ALCS in which your team had a 3-1 edge didn’t sting enough, the Cleveland Plain Dealer lowers the full testicle stomp …
Jonathan Papelbon and the Eight Most Ominous Words in the History of Live Television
Sunday night, immediately following the final out of game seven, Jonathan Papelbon likely had the FCC on high alert when, after being asked by the …
Looking Back: Great Literature Made Better By Adding Kevin Millar
With El Bencho back in our lives Sunday night, throwing out the first pitch and generally acting El Bencho-ish (I didn’t see him during the …
With All Due Respect to Ryan Garko, Champagne Tastes Much Sweeter at Home
American League champions? I’ll drink, eat and dust off my collection of Brendan Donnelly-inspired scrimshaw (“Brendan versus the whale,” “Brendan spears some natives,” “Brendan gets …
J.D. Drew Would Like to Apologize for Ruining Your Sunday Dinner Plans
You can’t tell me you didn’t call it. Because you did call it. I called it. Your grandmother called it. The guy who played “Dr. …
Curt Schilling is Ready for His Close-Up
Look at that face. Look at it, I say! Is that the face of a guy who’s gonna let you down tonight? Who’s gonna let …
October Sky
Carly Simon said “These are the good old days,” and if you’re a Red Sox fan, those words hold truth. We had all day yesterday …
Who Says You Can’t Go Home
I think a lot of people had the Red Sox dead and buried after game four. Down three games to one and facing the alleged …
Shippin’ Up to Boston
Do you get the feeling we’ve seen the last of Josh Beckett in the 2007 ALCS? Because I sure as hell don’t. If we’re in …
Faith Retested
I know this isn’t 2004 and a lot of the players are gone, but a lot of them were here for the historic comeback and …
Captain Carl Says Don’t Smoke. And Don’t Sweat the Indians.
How many times can you truly beat the devil (and by devil, of course, I mean John Stamos)? In 2004, we proved that anything can …
Got You Where I Want You
I suppose we have them just where we want them now, these Cleveland Indians. Lulled into a false sense of security, riding high on the …
In Wake We Trust
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 …
And The Hits Just Keep On Not Coming
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 …
Game Three Hero Needed: All Applicants Welcome
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 …
Who Does Casey Blake Look Like?
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) …
The Gagne/Lopez Comedy Hour
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 …
I Am Legend
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. …
"Kid Heat" Welcomes you to the ALCS
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 …
Great and Not-So-Great Moments in Red Sox vs. Indians Playoff History [1990s Edition]
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 …
Open Letter to the 2007 Red Sox
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 …
One More Time Into the Fray
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 …