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Farrell To Be Introduced As Sox Manager, Still Faces Daunting Task Of Rebuilding
The Red Sox will hold a press conference at 12:00 PM today to introduce their new skipper, former Blue Jays manager and Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell, to members…
Surprise! Baseball outcomes are kinda hard to predict.
If you’re a Red Sox fan and you feel like the 2012 season is already lost, take a deep breath and consider the following before you cancel your cable subscription…
The Red Sox have a heartbeat
A few weeks back, after a disappointing loss to the Yankees at home heading into the All-Star break, I wrote about how the team showed no fire, or fight,…
Lavarnway, Gomez could see more Major League action in the wake of Ortiz injury
Ryan Lavarnway could be promoted while Ortiz is out, as a possible “warm-up’ in the event of a Kelly Shoppach trade.It is highly unlikely that we will see an every…
With Ortiz Out, Pressure Shifts To Gonzalez
Adrian Gonzalez took a step in the right direction last night. His Eighth inning home run lifted Boston past Kevin Youkilis and the Chicago White Sox, but on that very…
Diary of a disgruntled Red Sox fan
For years, the Boston Red Sox held the title of loveable losers. They frustrated you year after year, but you still loved the group of guys that was put on…
Fearing a repeat of the late-August massacre of 2006
In mid August of 2006 I spent a long weekend at an old farmhouse in Sweden, Maine, not far from the New Hampshire border. I was there with a…
Pedroia’s on the DL, and maybe that’s a good thing
The table above features Dustin Pedroia’s offensive numbers from 2007, his rookie year. Most of us remember that Pedey started off terribly and was widely derided as too small to…
Youk lost his spot. Period.
My spacious forehead is a bit rosy today, and not just because I didn’t wear enough sunscreen over the weekend. All day I’ve been smacking myself in disbelief as all…
David Ortiz sounds off on media
Today in Boston, Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz had a bit of a meltdown when asked some probing questions by the Boston media. The slugger, fresh off of…
You’ll never guess who’s been the Sox 2nd best hitter so far.
David Ortiz is leading the Red Sox in just about every offensive category, he’s clearly been their MVP so far this season (crazy how we all thought he was washed…
This week represents a chance for the Sox to make up some serious ground In the AL East
Reports have surfaced that after Josh Beckett’s awful outing on May 10th, David Ortiz called a players-only meeting, and essentially told the pitching staff that it was time for them…
What good pitching hath wrought
The streaky Red Sox have won four straight, by scores of 7-5, 4-1, 12-1, and 6-1. How did this happen? Well, here are the starters of those games, with their…
Lets Play GM
What fan doesn’t think they are smarter than their teams GM? Well I don’t claim to be, after all I would be at Yale, Williams, Amherst etc. pursuing the job…
