July 2009

I’m calling the Great John Smoltz Experiment a failure. The guy has managed just one win while compiling a 6.31 ERA. Would have been a nice story, but “Smoltzie” is starting to be a bullpen killer. I always though he looked a bit like James Taylor…now he’s starting to pitch like him. The first time [...]

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When Millwood left Smoltz, he was but a learner, but now he is the master. Or something like that. Alls I know is Thoroughly Modern Millwood now plays for Texas and Smoltzie’s with the Sox and I’m hoping that we can lay down a Sinatra-sized beating on the Rangers tonight. So feel free to join [...]

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For a long time, perhaps too long as our man Chad Finn suggests, WEEI has been the bastion of sports radio in this fine city. Ninety-eight pound competitors spring up from time to time, but they are quickly steamrolled by the 800-pound gorilla–much the same way Yaz Bread overwhelmingly outsold Jimmy Piersall Breakfast Danish back [...]

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Sometimes you come across a couple photos that really need no set-up or introduction at all. Their inherent awesomeness speaks for itself. Ladies and gentlemen, these are two such photos. Individually, they’ve been all over the place over the past week. But by bringing them together–right here, right now–it is my hope that their combined [...]

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I watched this one from my local (where, through the magic of Blogger-via-Blackberry, I still sit, sucking down Bud Light like it was my job). And in the second, when the first three Sox got on base and the next three went down in order, I said, to no one in particular, “Failing to put [...]

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Versus I like our chances.

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Tonight we get what I like to call “The Trifecta.” First, the long-awaited return of Red Sox baseball. The four-day drought for me was like spending four days underwater. It really starts to play tricks with the mind. Too often this week I found myself talking to inanimate objects or doing play-by-play of the guy [...]

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The Julio Lugo era in Boston is over. While it will bring great sadness to certain readers of this site who claimed to be “ahead of the curve on Lugo” (you know who you are!) the rest of can rejoice. Lugo was a disaster of Renteria-like proportions in Boston. He has lost his range and [...]

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The All-Star break has left some Red Sox fans with an insatiable THIRST for baseball. But you may not know that many players feel your pain as well. While some are content to fill their break with brewskis and “According to Jim,” there are others whose lust for the game never sleeps. In this very [...]

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