May 2010

First: full disclosure. I didn’t see a bloody second of last night’s Sox-Yanks mash-up. I was trapped at a business function that went on and on and on like the Old Testament. Although, thankfully, no one was wearing robes. But watching the highlights, and seeing the Sox claw back from a 5-0 deficit and hang-on [...]

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More heroics from an unlikely source, another shaky closing effort from Paps, and we’re back even at 20-20. It seems to be the theme for the season, taking the good with the bad. Ortiz went 2-for-3 with an RBI, Drew left with a couple of injuries. Youkilis starts showing his MVP potential (including a big [...]

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…or at least that’s what I keep telling myself. It’s called positive thinking, folks. And when your team touts the second highest payroll in baseball but can barely keep its head above .500 at home, you need as much of it as you can get. So just keep reciting that simple phrase over and over [...]

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Now is anybody worried about John Lackey? Granted, the bats should have feasted against a Triple-A call-up, but you need more out of Lackey than what he’s been giving. Next up, Yankees. Posts from me will be spotty at best, I’m basking in the paradise of St. Bart’s for the week and Red is in [...]

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If there’s one thing the 2004 postseason taught me, it is that SEEING DAVID ORTIZ SMASH MAMMOTH HOME RUNS MAKES ME HAPPY. Therefore, I was left ecstatic by last night’s game against the Tigers, in which The Large Father launched two achingly beautiful, majestic round-trippers. The Elf got in on the laser show as well [...]

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Never a dull moment in the Boston sports world, eh? Last night, the Celtics advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals by beating the Cavs into submission. Never have I seen a team just flat-out quit at the end of a playoff game the way LeBron and company did. Tonight, the Bruins jumped out to a [...]

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Back in the pre-Tina, pre-Heidi days of 2004, NESN’s resident bombshell was Krisily Kennedy, the former Miss Rhode Island who worked the Sox pre-game show. The next year, she was gone, leaving for the greener pastures of ABC’s reality show, The Bachelor. But she left some spectacular memories, like the time she and I bumped [...]

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The Red Sox had an off-day so we take solace in the second-best thing to a Red Sox win: a Yankee loss. Sabathia got lit up and the Yankees were four-hit by Verlander and the Detroit bullpen. But that’s not what we’re here to talk about. As the Bruins’ hopes collapse under the weight of [...]

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