February 2011

The heart of a lion? Not exactly. The Red Sox should put stupidity clauses in their contracts that allow them to send players packing when they open their mouths and ineptitude and apathy spill out. “Honestly, I think it was overblown,” he said Monday about those who measured his season a disappointment. “I’d won 14 [...]

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The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund just announced that Wake and Clay will continue as Jimmy Fund Co-Captains for the 2011 season. In this role, the two will be omnipresent at Jimmy Fund events and promoting the most admirable thing there is to do — helping sick kids. They’ll also be spokesplayers for [...]

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Congratulations to Red Sox Nation Governor Jared Carrabis, who swept the New England Sports Blog Awards last night. Sox Space was voted Best Red Sox Blog for the second consecutive year, and also Best New England Sports Blog (overall). A huge and well-deserved night for one the biggest Red Sox fans out there. Thanks to [...]

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If you’ve been waiting for a Denton live appearance, look no further, tonight is your lucky night. I am heading in to Remy’s for the New England Sports Blog Awards…since this site happens to be reigning champion. Voting for the individual awards is closed, but voting for the overall Best Sports Blog award takes place at [...]

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Hello, Spring Training. Good to see you. It’s pretty obvious I’ve been scoping you from the other side of the bar. Since last November, to be precise. And I’m pretty friggin’ excited that you’ve finally dropped your guard and decided to approach me. But before we go any further, I have to be honest. This [...]

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Is this the most contrived “holiday” of them all? It must have been invented by either a florist or a chocolate-maker, exploited by Hallmark, finally perfected by Victoria’s Secret. But it does mark the midpoint of February and get us a day closer to baseball. Position players report in a few days, and the Sox [...]

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With all due respect to Bob Dylan, a true American icon, I would have rather heard the Sox’ bullpen band run through a collection of sea shanties and Slim Whitman tunes than that monstrous take on “Maggie’s Farm” from last night’s Grammys.

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Catching up on some of my reading over the weekend and I was especially smitten with an article in USA Today chronicling A-Gon and Carl Crawford’s indoctrination into the madness that is Red Sox Nation. There’s a great bit about Crawford’s run-in with Ben Affleck, but the best part, for me, was when Crawford compared [...]

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Our pals at NESN report that the Powers the Be have added giant LED video screens to Fenway’s centerfield, ensuring that no patrons will thirst for lack of larger-than-life replays and, we can only hope, Dustin Pedroia home movies. Still not added, sadly, are “Terry Francona’s Bigelow Tea Hot Tub Party Loft” and the “Heidi [...]

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