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Part of our rights as Red Sox fans is the ability to think all hell’s breaking loose one minute, and jump on the World Series …

Last night, something truly wondrous happened: Multi-millionaire Rick Porcello took the hill for the Red Sox and we didn’t lose. Rick did do his best …

Any night in which the Red Sox can only muster three hits and Allen Craig gets one of them is not gonna end well. So …

If the 2014 Red Sox were looking for something to rally around to drive this season’s campaign, last night they found it: a desire to …

So the Red Sox have lost seven games in a row. Even worse, as a number of astute folks have pointed out, their current record …

Last year, when the Sox took the field on Opening Day, I didn’t know what to expect. But it certainly wasn’t a World Series champion. …

Okay, I’m lying on the S.H.I.E.L.D. thing. But would it surprise you if John Lackey, who has defied every tenet of the reality you and …

Last October, the Sox and Rays were the toast of the AL East, duking it out in the ALDS while the Jays, Yanks and Orioles …

I believe it was Nathaniel Hawthorne who once observed that men simply work better together once they’ve shotgunned Bud tall boys. So it was refreshing …

I have absolutely no idea what Gomes is talking about in this brief interview with Jenny Dell. But I’m happy to nominate “Battle tested, battle …

Roughly 24 hours after game three raised my blood alcohol content to “Curt Leskanic,” the Red Sox got down to business, finishing off the Rays …

As much as I’d love to get the series back to Boston so that we can silence the Rays once and for all before the …

I don’t think anyone was calling for a sweep when the Rays emerged as the Red Sox’ quarry in the ALDS. In fact, with visions …

If I’ve learned anything in my life as a Red Sox fan, it’s that anything can happen. So while I am impressed with the Red …

Last night, while trolling the post-game coverage on TV and sinking further into a Twinkies- and light beer-induced coma, I swore I heard Trenni Kusnierek …

I’ll admit, I was no fun to be around last night during game two of the ALDS. For one thing, I was washing down Hostess …

As I mentioned on our most recent podcast, my expectations for the 2013 Red Sox were pretty low. In the aftermath of 2012, if they …

He’s right, you know. Still, I hope the Red Sox can continue to make things happen today. To the Rays.

Coming into game one of the ALDS between the Red Sox and Rays, there were a lot of questions: Would the Rays, running on pure …

It’s a preview of the Red Sox-Rays ALDS, but with less actual info and basically a bunch of pretty worthless insights shared by two guys …

Come on. You knew it was gonna be the Rays. Sure, all this talk of Tito coming back and playing Obi Wan to John Farrell’s …

I have to admit, even though I’m glad the Red Sox will have no part of it, the one game, win-or-go-home Wild Card structure has …

Clay Buchholz is back tonight. He of the hot wife and hair that looks like the alien symbiote Spider-Man costume will be returning to the …

Today, on the first day of September, the Red Sox are in a good place. Four and a half games up in the East. Best …

If back in April you told me that come September, Felix Doubront would have the second-best record on the Sox’ staff, I would have responded, …

Just substitute Fenway Park for the “dee-luxe apartment.”

Perhaps the only good thing to come out of our recent 1-3 trip through Kansas City was the fact that while the Royals were treating …

…you do not talk about Twitter Fight Club. Because, let’s face it, Twitter fights are about as pointless as stumbling into In-N-Out Burger after a …

That noise you heard around 10:15 eastern time was me dropping a couch from my second-floor digs. Because when Mighty Mike Napoli whiffed and Fernando …

Tonight’s game is bonus baseball, a make-up game we didn’t anticipate when the 2013 schedule was first drawn up. So instead of sitting around getting …

I’m not the type for sentimental tangents, unless we’re talking about tiny zebras, which are cute as all hell and f$%king awesome. So I won’t …

Two things that have become painfully apparent over the past 48 hours: the Rays are not going to stop being a thorn in our ass …

It’s ironic that this morning’s walk-off win against the Yankees happened two days shy of the ninth anniversary of Bill Mueller’s famous walk-off against Mariano …

Among the great Red Sox Victories In Playoff Series We Eventually Lost, game six of the 1975 World Series perhaps stands tallest. And that makes …

So I asked for two wins and I got ’em. The first was a rain-interrupted make-up of a rain-interrupted game that the Sox took, 5-1. …