February 2011

And thus officially begins the greatest and most frustrating time of the year. Greatest because baseball is back. And God knows we’ve waited long enough for its return. But frustrating because I know in just a couple weeks, I’ll be tired of the palm trees and Hawaiian shirts in the stands and be begging for [...]

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There’s been a lot of talk over the past few years about how winning may have dulled the intensity of Red Sox fans. How even the rivalry with the Yankees has lost its edge since the emasculation in the 2004 ALCS. Maybe the real issue has been the lack of someone in a Yankee leadership [...]

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For the latest edition of the Surviving Grady Red Sox podcast, Red and Denton decided to balance our “onions” jokes and alcohol-soaked lunacy with someone who actually knows baseball, so we are pleased to welcome special guest Beth from Cursed To First. Once the niceties are out of the way, the three jump upon the [...]

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Meet Adair Bard, wife of future Red Sox closer Daniel Bard. According to my new favorite website, playerwives.com, the two were married last year in Georgia. Recent enough that she probably still has that new wife smell. It’s no mystery why Bard throws the heat and gets out of innings as quickly as he does; [...]

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Who is this clean and lucid fellow chatting up Peter Gammons? And was there a pot of tea and tray of Nice Biscuits nearby? Because I’m getting a real “tea and Nice Biscuits” vibe from this must-watch NESN interview with Commander Kickass. Meanwhile, if you have an Android phone and were ever drunk enough to [...]

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The story that the Red Sox “put a tail” on Carl Crawford before they made him an offer has been out there for a few days. It’s back in the headlines because Crawford said he was “creeped out” by the news. Here’s some news to creep you out more: if I was the one about [...]

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Since he landed with the club in 2004, Terry Francona has been like our own, personal Captain Picard, taking us boldly where no Red Sox teams have gone in our lifetimes, tackling exotic and often dangerous alien life forms (Mariano Rivera, Youk’s jockstrap), and generally keeping the universe safe from intergalactic scum (see ALCS, 2004). [...]

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Not only do we already have Heidi on the case at spring training, but look who’ll soon be joining her. Oh, we’re looking forward to it, too, Amalie. We are, too. PS: [And by "we", of course, I mean me and Denton. Not me and that creepy person I see in the mirror who keeps [...]

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No, silly, I’m not talking about Lindsay Lohan. I’m talking about making 2011 the year of the Sox addict. Granted, we will never experience the magic created by Red’s “Who Died And Made You Mark Bellhorn” shirt, but the Sox Addict shirt kind of says it all. I have visions of NESN panning the crowd [...]

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