August 2009

I don’t like to brag, but I totally called that one. And it hasn’t happened a lot this season. Typically when I predict a big game, the Sox pull a complete Hindenburg. But this time, they came up huge. Clay came up huge. Just when we needed it most. And a match-up that looked tough [...]

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On paper, tonight’s match-up between Magic Roy Halladay and Li’l Clay Buchholz–perhaps the only guy in the world who makes Bronson Arroyo look Ebert-esque–doesn’t look good for us Sox fans. But I have a strange feeling that Clay is coming up huge tonight. That he’d like to do everything in his power to erase our [...]

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Look, 2009 Red Sox, I’m a guy who doesn’t need a lot of extra excitement in his life. I make my own excitement, goddam it. When things get boring, I give myself a few good whacks with a car antenna. When they get really boring, I just lower the ol’ onions into a deep fryer. [...]

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Journey with us, friends, as we venture inside the mind of J.D. Drew Friday’s ninth inning comeback win in Texas. Okay. It’s the top of the ninth. We’re down two and I’m batting ninth. Miller time. Man, it’s hot. I should have been an accountant, who needs this shit. Nice hit Ortiz, I would have [...]

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There aren’t many sure things on this 2009 team — at least not a lot of positive sure things. But one of them is Commander Kick Ass. He’s been dealing like a goddam Chinese missile peddler for months, as if trying to erase even the slightest memory of that slow emergence from the gate back [...]

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Nights without fresh baseball leave me feeling like a sack of loose change, howling at the moon, peering at the neighbor’s wife through the blinds and pulling every drawer out of the fridge to find the last few cans of PBR that I know I stashed in there somewhere. Typically, on a night like tonight, [...]

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After watching the Sox drop the series to the Texas Rangers and fall a half-game out of the Wild Card lead, a drinking buddy and I engaged in some friendly debate over the musical question, “What, exactly, is wrong with this team?” My friend insisted the troubles start at the top. And I guess I [...]

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Guys, we’re all aware of the struggles we’ve been having putting runs up and winning games. We’ve wasted a lot of good pitching performances with the inability to get a key hit. My pre-game Bigelow tea-party and group hug don’t seem to be as inspirational as I’d hoped. So, I’ve dipped into the “Road Trip [...]

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The Red Sox have thrown out eight baserunners trying to steal this season, 103 have made it safely. Last night the Rangers swiped eight bases on Jason “he calls a good game” Varitek’s watch. “I’m trying to get outs and make good throws,” Varitek said. “I’m making thebest throws I can make.” Unfortunately, the only [...]

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