January 2011

As the great Huey Lewis once noted, “the power of love is a curious thing/makes one man weep, makes another man sing.” It can also make a man positively batshit loopers, which is a good thing when you consider that Josh Beckett married his rocket scientist girlfriend last weekend. I was close to performing last [...]

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First he says Jeter should play outfield. Then he said the Red Sox are a better team than the Yankees. Now, he signed Bartolo Colon. Next… Could Happen.

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We salute one-time Red Sox Rocco Baldelli — one of the true “good guys” in the game — on the announcement of his retirement as a player. He’ll be joining the Rays’ front office.

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Remember that time Surviving Grady won the award for the Best New England Sports Blog? Yeah…that was awesome. Well, old pal Rafe Anderson over at TruFan is firing up the competition again. Help a brother out and click on over there to nominate us. Red promises a lap dance to each and every one of [...]

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It is getting more and more difficult to find distractions to bridge the gap until baseball. The Patriots didn’t get us until February as expected, and reruns of Jake and the Fatman just aren’t cutting it. Thankfully, NESN saves the day with their quest to determine the best 2010 Red Sox game aired on NESN [...]

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Few Sox players in recent memory have been as polarizing as JD Drew. Folks seem to either love him and his magical stats, or despise his low-key demeanor. But no one can deny that the highlight of his career in a Boston uniform — to this point, anyway — was that miraculous grand slam that [...]

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Sure, they’ll be members of the Rays. But this move now turns every Boston-Tampa Bay match-up in 2011 into a sort of “class of 2004″ reunion. At least for Manny, Johnny, Teets, Youk, Ortiz, Tek and Wakefield. According to NESN, Damon reportedly signed a one-year deal worth $5.25 million, in addition to $750,000 in attendance [...]

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Eager to try out our fancy new headsets — the ones powered by the sun and pure imagination — Denton and I hastily recorded the first SG Podcast of 2011. It’s seventeen minutes of rambling that touches on, in no particular order, Rheal Cormier, Carl Crawford’s tattoo, telling your kids “the truth” about life, shoemaking, [...]

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Theo’s record of never having to attend an arbitration hearing remains intact after the signing of Jacoby Ellsbury and Jonathan Papelbon. Each player received a one-year deal after struggling through the 2010 season, though for very different reasons. Ellsbury only played in 18 games last year thanks to a rib-breaking collision with Adrian “The Terminator” [...]

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