July 2010

Awright, f$%k it. Everyone’s gonna pay the price for that one today. No way my boss gets 100 percent out of me. And one of my coworkers will almost certainly end up with the Keurig machine wedged up his south 40. Also, that vendor who’s driving down from Vermont for a meeting with me will [...]

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With Josh Beckett and Clay Buchholz coming off the DL, the Sox will need to make room in the rotation. Short of tying John Lackey in a burlap sack and shipping him to Guam — something that I’m sure has been debated in the Fenway back offices — the likeliest guy to go to the [...]

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This year, to coincide with the WEEI/Jimmy Fund Telethon, Denton and I will be hosting a Surviving Grady fundraiser on Thursday, August 19 at 7:00pm at the Lansdowne Pub. Which, for those of you reading this from Jupiter, is right across the street from Fenway Park. We’ve got a private room reserved for the event. [...]

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In seasons past, the not-so-olden days, the west coast swing spelled an early exit from the play-off race for the Red Sox. It was always looming out there around this time of year. A huge black cloud on the horizon, waiting, like the middle-school bully to ruin your day. This season, it would have been easy [...]

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The Sox have dropped 8 of their last 11 games. They were outscored 23-11 in their most recent series against the Rangers. They’ve got Kevin Cash, a career .184 hitter, standing in for Victor Martinez. They’re about to play 10 games on the road, and will be playing 20 of their next 27 games outside [...]

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Thanks to Kevin Youkilis, the Sox are back into the land of winning. After Cliff Lee manhandled the Red Sox batters for eight-and-two-thirds innings, Youk showed what he does to people who even think about signing with the Yankees. His two-out double tied the game in the ninth, and his sac fly ended it in [...]

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I hear what they say. How Theo must’ve been taking hallucinogens when he signed me for barrels of cash. How I’ll be tits up by the third year of my contract. How I’m just not giving the kind of Return On Investment the Sox thought they’d be getting after I snuffed them out of the [...]

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I’ve been meaning to post something all week about our own Jerry and DO being named to GQ’s list of the best MLB broadcasters. But I got so wrapped up in sorting my flat-front trousers (in a variety of subtle tones and with an absolutely perfect taper, might I add), that I never got around [...]

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At the rate the Sox are going, Elf, Buchholz and Vic are gonna get back just in time to shut off the lights and lock the doors. Since that 17-9 run in June, the patchwork teams we’ve been fielding in July are in free fall, losing 7 of their last 9 and dropping 5 and [...]

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