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Red Sox, Dodgers complete blockbuster trade
When the Los Angeles Dodgers were awarded a waiver claim on Adrian Gonzalez on Friday afternoon, hardly anybody raised an eyebrow. We all thought it was standard procedure, gauging the trade…
Spice Up Your Saturday: Where Wally is the Latest Red Sox To Go Down
Our friend and cartoonist/illustrator Mike Spicer has agreed to share some of his work on BB. So be sure to check in at the start of each weekend for ‘Spice…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Curt Schilling Knows Everything About Everything
This morning Chad Finn of the Boston Globe did a thorough job of pointing out exactly what’s wrong with former pitcher Curt Schilling criticizing Bobby Valentine, the new manager of…
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…
