List/Grid Tag Archives: Jon Lester
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…
History made for Red Sox in walk off win over Yankees
A couple of Red Sox added to the history of the ball club in last night’s win over the New York Yankees. Jacoby Ellsbury became the first member of the…
Big Babies and Sniveling Sox
According to a Yahoo! Sports report by Jeff Passan, approximately half of the Red Sox squad had a meeting with ownership on July 27 to complain about manager Bobby Valentine…
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…
Biggest busts of the Red Sox first half
The Sox are 43-43 at the All-Star break after dropping 3 of 4 to the Yankees in mostly disgraceful and far-too-familiar fashion, which I foreshadowed last week. David Ortiz and…
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…
That went well…
Earlier this week I wrote that the Sox had a chance to make up some ground on the Rays and Orioles, who are at the top of the AL East….
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…
Last night’s loss at KC epitomized what’s wrong with Sox
I caught just a few innings of last night’s Sox-Royals game because “Idol” was on and my wife can’t miss it. (Okay, so I watch it too. Every year I…
Clay Buchholz is the worst starter in the league
Enough is enough. We can’t keep running Clay Buchholz out there every 5 games, hoping he’s going to stop grooving fastballs and stop leaving hangers over the plate. He shows…
Jason Varitek: King of No-No’s
Jason Varitek is officially announcing his retirement Thursday, which means both of the longest tenured Red Sox have decided to hang ‘em up in a span of less than two…
A personal account: Providing support to a report that John Lackey drank beer in the Red Sox clubhouse
The hits just keep coming for the 2011 Red Sox. Starting pitchers John Lackey, Josh Beckett and Jon Lester all drank beer and ate fried chicken on their off-days this…
Red Sox Hammered by Yanks
The Red Sox continued their downward spiral in the month of September, losing to the Yankees 9-1 and bringing their record for the month to 5-17. The Red Sox once…
2011 AL East Race Heats Up
With just a few weeks left to go in the 2011 MLB regular season, two very familiar faces sit atop the American League Division—the Boston Red Sox and their hated…
