The Calm Before The Storm
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 …
The Delicate Sound of Thunder
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 …
Joe Maddon and His Impossibly Hip Glasses Will See You at 7:15
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. …
Heart Attack and Vine
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 …
Smile. The Magic Number’s 14.
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 …
Missionary Man
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, …
Orioles Succeed in Taking Back the Yard
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 …
Temperatures Rising
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 …
Theo Epstein: He’s Just Like Us
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 …
By The Numbers
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 …
Can’t Fall Off The Floor
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 …
Standing in the Shadows of 2004
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. …
Happiness is King
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 …
Rollin’ the Dice
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 Future is Now
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 …
A Picture Says it All
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. …
And Now This Important Message from Kevin Youkilis to the Pitchers of the American League
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 Answer: JD Drew in the 5-hole
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 …
The Green, Green Grass of Home
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. …
That’s One of Your Thunder
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 …
Bring. It. On.
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 …
Can’t Break Me
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 …
The Bronx Is Up and I’m Brooklyn Down
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 …
Model Citizen. Zero Discipline.
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 …
Everything’s Coming Up Kielty
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 …
Sweet 16
When Wake is on, as he was yesterday, it almost isn’t fair. Opposing hitters look like they’re trying to swing at a butterfly as the …
Double The Fun
When it took Josh Beckett 35 pitches to get out of the first inning of game one of a doubleheader, Tito must have been reaching …
If You Got the Money, Honey, We Got Your Disease
As the moments tick down to curtain time, The Gammons continues to audition acts for tonight’s Hot Stove Cool Music show at Fenway. ::singing:: …so …
You Act This Way When Problems Arise
First things first, someone on the Red Sox owes me a motherf#$king turkey sub. Because in the ninth inning, when our offense squeezed out its …
Catch a Wave and You’re Sittin’ on Top of the World
At first glance, this game looked like it might be a perfect reason for implementing the slaughter rule in Major League Baseball (a rule the …
The Devil Rays Are Comic Book Heroes. No, Seriously.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Nothing frightens me more than the sight of David Ortiz trying to leg out an extra …
And In Your Arms, Mike Lowell, Salvation’s Not So Far Away
Just as there’s a part of me that keeps expecting J.D. Drew to bust out of his power shortage and launch 18 homers in the …
The Tropicana Killer and Our Choice for President of Red Sox Nation
Tonight, we get Timmeh, who is money in the rarified air of The Trop. Of course, he’s going to need to be, as he’s not …
David Ortiz is Off Jered Weaver’s Christmas List
While the rest of us were wetting ourselves with glee over David Ortiz’ Return to Power Island on Saturday night, Jered Weaver was steaming mad …
Bobby Kielty, Eric Hinske and the Power of the Mohawk
After the balls-to-the-wall drama of Saturday night’s game, yesterday gave us nothing but balls-to-the-griddle exasperation, and the ominous feeling the our return to the valley …