April 2009

Greatest. News. Ever. NESN announced today that [Dave] Roberts, the former Red Sox outfielder and postseason hero, has joined the network to serve as a studio analyst. Roberts will join Hall of Famers Dennis Eckersley and Jim Rice on NESN’s pre- and post-game shows. Roberts will make his NESN debut this Monday from the new [...]

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Only kidding. It’s just us. When Denton and I started this silly-ass blog back in 2004, we did it for one reason: It was cheaper than therapy. And in the aftermath of the 2003 ALCS, we needed a whole lotta that stuff to ease the pain and, particularly in Denton’s case, get back into solid [...]

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That was pretty much vancredible. Especially since it looked out of reach early on, as Lester struggled yet again, giving up 5 runs over the first four innings. But the Sox saved it up for the late innings, which, honestly, I should have known. Because, much like Ida Luchrenstein from my sophomore year of college, [...]

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A couple readers pointed out that TC’s goatee, to which I’ve now dedicated about 500 posts, is not the product of sudden hipster tendencies or exposure to the works of Allen Ginsburg. Rather, it’s part of the Beard-A-Thon inspired by the Bruins in their quest for the Stanley Cup. Fans are growin’ beards, and common [...]

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Last month, I made a prediction that 2009 would be the Year of the Lugo. And I stuck by that forecast when it was announced he’d be back in the line-up last night. Despite the fact that I kinda agreed with Denton’s assessment that we’d been riding a win streak with Green, and you don’t [...]

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Yesterday I was waxing rhapsodic about the simple joys of TC’s goatee. But I neglected to mention that it’s equally gratifying to see Jim Ed getting his full Fred Sanford on. With the awesome power of TC’s goatee, Rice’s beard and Eck’s ‘stashe in our corner, who can hope to beat us? The campaign to [...]

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The lineups are out for tonight’s game; starting at short and batting in the nine-hole is Julio Lugo. To me, this makes no sense. As the saying goes, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. The team is on an 11-game win streak with Nick Green at short and Lugo off hunting Sleestacks…I mean rehabbing. [...]

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…but if someone told me last month that the Sox would be going on an eleven game winning streak, and that David Ortiz would be homer-less through that entire stretch, I’d have demanded that their urine be checked for traces of mind-altering substances. While it’s depressing to see the guy who carried us on his [...]

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Mike Lowell was named AL Player of the Week on Monday, and he might owe a piece of that to Jason Bay. Three of Lowell’s six RBI in Saturday’s game were courtesy of his seventh inning home run. That home run came after Jason Bay was intentionally walked. And why not walk Bay? All he [...]

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