December 2009

Popular thinking within the confines of my own brain is that the Sox will need to plug the hole left by Jason Bay with someone who can present something of a power threat at the plate. But after pining for power in yesterday’s post, I received a number of e-mails and messages through the SG [...]

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Driving home from parts unknown on Sunday, I flipped over to 98.5 thinking I might catch the late football game. No luck, but before I switched it off, I heard a voice I recognized. It took a few minutes before I realized it was none other than Jerry “WAY BACK!” Trupiano. I listened in horror [...]

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Pending a quick turn-yer-head-and-cough, it looks like Jason Bay will be heading to New York after all. But to the Mets, not the Yankees. So, yeah, we’re gonna need that bat. Your farewells and love letters to Jason can go in our comments section.

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From the Globe via ESPN, a proposed three-way (very, very different from the sort of “three ways” Doug Mirabelli used to propose) between the Sox, Padres and Cubs ain’t happening. The deal — if one can believe it ever truly existed — would have sent Ellsbury and Buchholz to the Cubs, Andrew Cashner and Josh [...]

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When I saw the headline “Heidi Watney, Kathryn Tappen Ready for Epic Fantasy Battle,” my first thought was that the good folks at NESN had made my Christmas wish come true with the pillow fight/popsicle eating contest of my dreams. Turns out, though, it’s just some bullshit fantasy football thing. Thanks, NESN. For nothing.

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Well, it’s over for another year. Weeks of planning and preparation and money-spending gone in a 10-minute blur of flying bows and shredded wrapping paper. And hopefully, a lot of smiles and dreams-come-true for the kids. Don’t get me wrong: I love Christmas. I love seeing the look on someones face when they open your [...]

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“I’m shakin’ the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. Then, I’m comin’ back here to go to college and see what they know. And then I’m gonna build things. I’m gonna build airfields, I’m gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories [...]

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Tonight you will be visited by three ghosts! Steinbrenner? What are you doing in my bedroom at midnight on Christmas Eve…are you here to tell me you got Bay, you prick? And what’s with the lid? Uh…hmmm, Bay…I mean…the ghosts. You will be visited this night by three ghosts: one from Christmas Past, one from [...]

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In a world in which Mike Lowell can keep boomeranging back to the Sox, despite the front office’s increasingly desperate attempts to cast him out, I guess it’s not surprising to hear that Jason Bay hasn’t completely dissolved from our 2010 left field plans. The Sox still need a bat in that line-up — Adrian [...]

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