May 2010

After taking 5-out-of-6 from the Rays and Phillies, it’s surreal to be sitting here talking about Jon Lester trying to pitch the Sox to s split against the Royals. But here we are. On paper, this game hardly seems worth playing if you’re the Royals. Lester has been dominating in May and the Royals, well, [...]

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Did we just witness the 2010 Cy Young winner beating the 2009 Cy Young winner? Based on the way Buchholz has pitched his last four games I think it’s very possible. After shaky outings against the Angels and Yankees, Buchholz has given up just four runs in his last 27-and-a-third. The opponents were the Tigers, [...]

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Look, humans, I hate to break it to you. But your 2010 Boston Red Sox are a .500 team. Simple as that. There will be no “summer surge,” no “twenty game win streak” and certainly no “power-f$%king the competition into submission.” Instead, you’ll have a frustrating June, July and August in which your team wins [...]

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Gary Coleman, famous for his role of Arnold Jackson on Different Strokes, died at the age of 42. Only in reruns will we ever hear “Whatchoo talkin’ about, Willis.” And if that isn’t reason enough to beat Kansas City, I don’t know what is.

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For anyone wondering how long it would be until Kevin Millar got Jim Rice to loosen up on NESN’s pregame show, the answer is… about thirty seconds in. From the opening bit in which El Bencho poured “shots” for his fellow broadcasters, the new guy was on, reminiscing about 2004, dissing his own skills as [...]

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We’ve seen this happen before: The Sox make hay against a couple awesome teams, only to get rolled by a sub-.500 dweller. And tonight, with the Sox on a tear and the NL champion Phillies and Rays eating their dust, the stage is practically set for the lowly Royals to come in and knock us [...]

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Dude? Are you serious? You get sweet seats to a game between heated AL East rivals and you spend the entire time fine-tuning the PowerPoint presentation for tomorrow’s big meeting? Or, even worse, ordering flat-front khakis off the Land’s End website? As a perpetually-broke denizen of the cheap seats (or, more often, the seats in [...]

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Adrian Beltre homered twice off of Matt Garza, had four hits, drove in six runs, and was a double shy of hitting for the cycle. In short, he made the Tampa pitching staff his personal harem of bitches. His Largeness added number 10 (also off Garza) and the Sox ran away with an 11-3 rout [...]

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Dude, I know you’ve got some Texas-sized anger inside of you. I’ve seen it come out on the Fenway mound, when you were wearing an Angel’s uni and we were kicking your ass all over the place. But now you’re with us, so I need you to channel that anger into stopping the Rays from [...]

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