August 2010

Now that I’ve had time to flush last night’s loss out of my system (thanks to Mother Alcohol), I’m looking forward to seeing Lackey step it up for this critical game–far more critical to the Sox than the Rays. I’m not holding on to negative vibes; if I lived that way, the Sox would have [...]

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Say it with me, Tito: Bard in the eighth, Papelbon in the ninth. Simple, right? To quote Sting, that was “a humiliating kick in the crotch.” Clay Buchholz had pitched a freaking gem. Other than Longoria’s solid single in the seventh, Clay had only given up an infield hit and a broken-bat blooper. The only [...]

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I like to think of myself as a guy who “gets it.” That time my ex-wife went out for groceries and was never heard from by me again until that letter from her lawyer three months later? I figgered I did something to piss her off. And that time my boss informed me of a [...]

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No, not “cut a hole in the box.” Get your minds out of the gutter please. Step one was to win game oneof this three-game series, and Jon Lester saw to that. Seven strong innings of two-hit ball while striking out seven. Bard in the eighth, Papelbon in the ninth. Didn’t we used to have [...]

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“I know what they’re coming with,” Garza said, “and they’re coming with a lot to prove; everybody saying they’re out of it, they’re too far back. It’s the Red Sox. You can’t ever count them out. There’s guys putting up career years like (3B Adrian) Beltre and Big Papi (David Ortiz) is having a resurrection. [...]

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Two games today, and if we can beat up on Seattle twice — something any self-respecting team looking for a spot in the playoffs should be able to do — then I’m a happy man. If we want October glory, we need Beckett and Lester to be reminded of what it means to be Beckett [...]

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  Thanks to the bats of Marco Scutaro in Boston and Jose Bautista in Toronto, the Sox have finally gained a game in the East. Scutaro had a two-run single in the fifth to give the Sox the lead. That lasted about eight minutes as Lackey melted down in the top of the sixth, giving [...]

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According to SI, via the Globe, the Sox have put a waiver claim on Johnny Damon. Interesting, although it’s likely nothing will come of it. Like that time the Sox claimed Gary Cherone, only to lose him to Van Halen. That said, bringing Damon back would give us that jolt of… something that we seem [...]

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At the beginning of the season, I figured Beckett, Lester and Lackey would be the keys to our success, the studs who’d keep us from any prolonged losing streaks and keep the Yankees nervously peering over their shoulders. As for Buchholz, I wrote him off as trade bait, a guy who probably wouldn’t be with [...]

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