March 2010

As NESN explains, SI’s Baseball Issue picks the Red Sox to finish third in the AL East behind the Yanks and Rays. On the other hand, the latest issue of ESPN: The Magazine (which I was perusing last night while spread out on ESPN: The Futon) picks the Sox for AL wild card, then goes [...]

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Remember this guy? Cowboy Up, the Karaoke Kid, Jack Daniels shots? He’s available. The 38-year-old Millar hit .223 in 283 plate appearances with the Blue Jays last year. The former Red Sox first baseman may find a job soon as he is being scouted by the Texas Rangers, according to ESPN.com. Not that there’s any [...]

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I heard a few folks at the office complaining yesterday about how Opening Day is actually Opening Night. Apparently, as the Globe’s Eric Wilbur pointed out, local movers and shakers — an elite group including one of those Andelman guys, a WAAF DJ and some other folks routinely featured in Boston Magazine — are pretty [...]

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Not that mayor, or that cup, actually. The Sox beat the Twins 11-5 to clinch the spring series. This is big: right up there with having perfect attendance in first grade or finding a five-dollar bill in your jacket pocket. Clay Buchholz started out shaky but settled down before too much damage was done. He [...]

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According to today’s Globe, it looks like Terry Francona finally got up the gumption to let John Lackey know that he’ll be working out of the number three slot in the rotation, behind Commander Kick Ass and Jon Lester–something you and I and your mother and the raccoon that’s been slowly burrowing through your house [...]

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Slogging around through late-night TV and I did a double take when I saw none other than El Duque — a thorn in our ass during his years with New York and Chicago — peddling some wacky-ass filter that can save you money on your next water bill. Or something like that. Next up, David [...]

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The Great Avenging of 2009 began in earnest today, as Daisuke Matsuzaka made his Spring Training debut, throwing two innings, giving up a run and two hits, and then collapsing in a heap on the mound. Actually, that last part didn’t happen, but it wouldn’t have surprised me if it did. Considering everything that’s ailed [...]

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Gopher, deer, turkeys, whatever wanders in the crosshairs will soon find its way to Jon Lester’s wall. Lester is features in this month’s Outdoor Life magazine, and sounding quite Beckettesque. My best fishing trophy is a 10-pound bass I caught while in High-A ball in Florida. Just yesterday I shot a bobcat with a bow [...]

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Because it’s becoming increasingly obvious that unless he gets kidnapped by Mexican robots or slips and falls into a time vortex, Commander Kick Ass of the F#$k Yeah Brigade is going to be the Sox’ Opening Day starter — front and center, lights shining, guns blazing, blood sufficiently diluted with whiskey — against the World [...]

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