One of the toughest choices the Sox are gonna make this offseason concerns the Captain himself, Jason Varitek. The tough guy with the Pee Wee …

You never know what you’re gonna find on that internet thing! For example, you can actually vote for Surviving Grady as the 2009 Best Sports …

Random thoughts before I drive the hookers home: 1) Call it the Attack of Former Red Sox Managers. During last week’s ALCS, Walpole Joe Morgan …

Now that I’ve sobered up and posted bail, well on my way to a full recovery from being eliminated in a game seven, I need …

Wanna know the strangest thing about today? It’s not that the goddam Tampa Bay Devil Rays are about to play in the World Series, giving …

Details of Joba Chamberlain’s arrest are coming out, and it looks like faithful members of the Nebraska chapter of Red Sox Nation helped the Yankee …

Hey, you. Over there. In the skirt. My name’s Derek. And I’d like you to welcome me into your heart. Again. Derek Lowe is putting …

Somewhere, somehow, there has to be someone who got drunk in Vegas last spring and, for a couple laughs, put money down on Tampa Bay …

If only we didn’t start the season with that goddam trip to Japan… Kidding. Honestly, I thought we’d do it. Once we took game five, …

Well, here we go again. The entire season comes down to one game. Tradition vs. dome. Beard vs. Mowhawk. Uncle Teets vs. Grandpa Joe. The …

Keep prayin’, baby. How many times? How many times can we keep the devil in check? Blow cheap cigar smoke in Death’s face? Stuff the …

If I learned anything from the 2004 ALCS, it’s that you don’t get greedy. You take one precious game at a time when your team’s …

Never did I think I would welcome the sounds of Buck Martinez and Chip Caray tongue-bathing the Rays or 30,000 trailer-park residents ringing cowbells. But …

I wrote the words below in 2004, following game five of the ALCS. Last night, when the Rays went up 7-0, I texted a friend …

I can’t agree more with Mr. McAdams. I think Maddon outcoached himself by making the pitching change. Sure, “Big Game” James Shields has a 10+ …

Sure, there were a lot of great Red Sox Pop Culture Moments. Like the time a slightly drunken Carl Yastrzemski appeared on the Tonight Show …

…so if you give us a chance to remember The love we had once together Wait and see Time is all that we really need …

Excellent work, I say. By allowing ourselves to once again assume the role of Ned Beatty in Deliverance, by dropping our third straight playoff game …

Nervous? What do you mean, nervous? Me?! Nervous? About Shakey Tim Wakey on the mound? In a most critical playoff game? In which a loss …

Good. That was my first impression watching the Sox get taken out behind the woodshed by, in no particular order, the entire Rays batting order, …

Once again, Denton and I will help knock the fine art of liveblogging down to jerk level with running commentary on today’s game three at …

Red is truly a better man than I am. After watching a game as painful as having your pubes plucked out one at a time …

For a game that started out like happy hour at Thunder Mountain, it slowly devolved into a torturous, horribly-umpired affair, ultimately crashing with Hindenburgesque splendor …

At least when he’s on he is. Listen, I’ve heard it non-stop today on the talk shows, in the barrooms (hell yes, I hang there …

Look at that glorious filthy bastard! Look at him! Mere facial hair to most, but to clever people like me who talk loudly in restaurants, …

DAISUKE! SHIELDS! COCO! COWBELLS! THAT GODDAM RAYS MASCOT! JOE MADDON’S HIPPER-THAN-THOU EYEWARE. IT’S ALL SET TO COLLIDE TONIGHT… AT THE TROP! Also, it’s our first …

The Angels series is firmly behind us, a fleeting memory that passed by – as the song says – like a warm summer day. The …

Think the handsome millionaires who play for your favorite pro baseball teams are immune to the current economic slowdown and credit crunch? Guess again! They …

I live in my own mind. Ain’t nothin’ but a good time. No rain just sunshine. Out here in my own mind.

Is it just me, or does it seem like it’s been a hundred days since we last saw a baseball game? Thank god the drought …

Last year, as the Sox barrelled toward an improbable victory over the Injuns in the ALCS, the K-Men’s wooden Papelbon puppet–or, “The Pappet”, as we …

For the third time in five years, the Red Sox faced the Angels in the ALDS. For the third time in five years, the Red …

Mentally drained. Slightly drunk (again). Hoarse, pale and gaunt. Only two meals today–Red Bull and a Pop Tart for breakfast, pork chop and half-case of …

No bets. No guarantees. No braggadocio. No “Here we come, Tampa Bay.” Although I hated the outcome, last night’s Sox loss was everything you could …

Every time I see Mikey “Scenic” Lowell hobbling to the plate or contorting his body in the field, I think two things. The first is, …