Just Manny Being Manny
How many times have we heard that over the past few seasons? Or just in the past week? Sunday night there was the “wall incident”, …
Paging Abe Froman
Best win of the season. Am I crazy to call it that? Certainly the best win since that last game I called the best win …
Hot In The City
‘Cause when a long-legged lovely walks byYeah you can see the look in her eye~Billy Idol A hot steamy day at the ballpark in Boston. …
Alan, We Hardly Knew Ye
He was gloriously scuzzy, looking more like the guy who tries to sell you a John Deere tractor at Home Depot than the guy you’d …
A Word From The Top
Steinbrenner here. How is everybody in second place Red Sox Nation feeling this morning? A little queasy? A little bit like the scared kid who …
Can’t Break Me
Okay, that one hurt. I was ready to let it go. Let it just walk away like a girl who’d wronged me too many times. …
Do You Still Believe?
Last year at about this time, the Red Sox were floundering. Lowe and Wakefield were pitching BP and Foulke had blown 3 out of his …
The Advantages of Scoring 17 Runs
A good night means a short post-game press conference. Which leaves more time for your “alternative” hobbies. When it’s against the Yankees, bartenders will often …
Exterminate!
It could have been worse. Kenny Loggins could have sung the National Anthem. They could have stopped the game in the seventh inning to show …
In A RemDawg World…
Who would pay $135 to go watch a ballgame on TV? Not even a real game, but an exhibition game? Well…me…and 999 other Red Sox …
Party Like An All Star
All Stars on the field. Jack Asses in the broadcast booth. Yes, I’m “one of those guys” who actually tries to enjoy the all-star break. …
Give Us A Break
Yesterday’s game proved one thing: the All Star break couldn’t come at a better time. The team looked flat, the line-up makeshift, and the bullpen …
Friday Night Lights
The good news: A great game, punctuated by an excellent performance from Arroyo [two runs over 7 2/3 innings] and a Spiderman-esque line drive snare …
Other Line-ups Terry Francona Considered Before Settling on the One Used Last Night
The “Alex Extravaganza”Alex CoraAlex LifesonAlex P. KeatonAlex KarrasAlexander GouldJane AlexanderArt AlexakisJason AlexanderMark Bellhorn The “Former Players With Goofy Names” BitDwayne HoseyBrian LooneyGreg PirklChris SnopekMidre CummingsEd …
All-Star Performance?
Eight and two-thirds innings. Nine strikeouts, 0 walks. Was it enough? Did Matt Clement’s near-complete game put him in the driver’s seat for the final …
Jesus Saves!
Red: Didya see the catch? Guy in Next Office: Good game. Wakefield pitched a hell of a game. Red: Hells yeah. But did you see …
Hard to Swallow
Sunburned, dog-tired, undernourished and munched by black flies, I got my sorry ass back from New Hampshire just in time for the fifth inning. And …
Keeping Pace
The starting pitcher was gone. The manager was gone. And the 0-2 pitch to Manny was gone. A bizarre night at Fenway with Wells getting …
No Way That Just Happened
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me”~Abraham Lincoln And so was the case last night. Bad pitching, …
I Need A Fix
Here we are. July 1st. According to the calendar it is the halfway point of the baseball season. And I would have to say, all …
All Anger, All the Time
Kenny Rogers is angry. I know this, because I saw videotape of him trying to rassle a balding cameraman about half his size. Then he …
We Are All On Drugs
They’re going to kill me, these bullpen peoples. In 2005, every pitch from Keith Foulke has been a top-down, balls-out ride on the Holy Christ! …
From Cleveland, With Love
‘Round this time last week in Cleveland, the Injuns had won nine in a row and were rolling to the point that the local Arby’s …
Destroyer
Don Orsillo: The magic is back, and when I say “the magic,” I mean the Sox applying a generous helping of beat-down on opposing teams. …
Stay Cool
Papi launches one to the sixth ring of Saturn. Wakefield gets his knuckle mojo on. Manny hands “Last Month Manny” his passport and suitcase and …
Where My Head Is At
We were born into this hot, sticky quagmire. Told from day one to expect nothing but heartache and silver-toed boots to the nuggets. Our grandfathers …
We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 1999
Seven innings in the books and the Sox are trailing 4-2. They’ve struggled against a tough lefty, and Alan “Jet Plane” Embree (his ERA is …
We Shut ‘Em Up And Then We Shut ‘Em Down
So you’re the Cleveland Indians. You’ve got it going on, having swept three consecutive series against the Giants, Rockies and D’Backs, by a total margin …
All We’re Missing is a Screaming Jessica Biel
You know how you watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre* and you sit there knowing that Leatherface is coming out of the goddam hole in the …
Feel Good Inc.
So after paying $300 for seats [to one of the city’s more “reputable” scalpers], you sit your ass down in Fenway’s section 16, and then …
Respect The Bell
And while you’re at it, respect Mueller, Tek, Damon, Foulke and even Millar. Last night was the definition of a team victory. Everyone in the …
Big Willie Style
The Pirates are in town tonight, which means it’s time to sing the praises of my favorite Pirate ever, Willie Stargell. Dude hit 475 home …
Start Me Up
First things first: I didn’t see any of last night’s game. Instead, I was careening 37,000 feet above the earth, praying to any deity I …
The Sun Has Gone Down and the Moon Has Come Up, and Long Ago Somebody Left with the Cup
Manhandled. Shut down. David Wells takes the hill and the Cincinnati Reds scamper away like a pack of frightened Ring Dings. A 7-0 victory. Wells …
Papa Tek
Congratulations to Captain Jason Varitek and family on the birth of their third daughter yesterday. They named the new addition Caroline. Interesting, even “sweet” you …