March 2011

After fumbling through the last week and a half of Grapefruit games, the Sox flipped the switch from “Phantom Menace” to “Empire Strikes Back” during last night’s final spring training contest, treating the Houston Astros to a 10-0 clubbing. It was a game packed with all the stuff you’d want to see before slipping into [...]

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That’s right ladies, I’m back. Seventies Jim at your service. And I mean that in any way you want to take it, sexual or otherwise.  Anyway, I dig the sights and sounds, the styles of 2011 so much, I’ve decided to stop by more often. For example, I can’t get enough of that Red Bull [...]

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We all like seeing the Sox sign such high-caliber players as Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez. And we all know that luring the premium talent requires cash. Lots of it. Preferably in the easy-to-carry sacks. Therefore, if we want the Sox to continue buying up the choice free agents, we should do our part by [...]

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Today’s game against the Rays was the last in their Fort Myers facility where they’ve played March baseball for the past 19 years. Starting next year, the Sox move their springtime home to Lee County where a Fenway replica will serve as their pre-season digs. It seems like a sad ending, but I guess what [...]

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The Sox played the Rays to a 1-1 draw today, with a home run from Gonzalez and four innings of one-run, one-hit pitching from Buchholz. They also may or may not have traded for backup catcher Mike McKenry. Far more important than any of that, though, at least to these baseball-starved eyes, is that the [...]

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We know we’re getting ahead of ourselves, what with the first official pitch of the Red Sox’ 2011 regular season still more than 72 hours away. But nothing gets us in the mood for baseball quite like James Earl Jones kickin’ it Bart Giamatti style in this scene from Field of Dreams. It’s the scene [...]

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The news out of Sox camp today is that Alfredo Aceves and Hideki Okajima will be starting the season in scenic Pawtucket, RI, while Matt Albers and Dennys Reyes — who, unlike Oki and Aceves didn’t have options and likely wouldn’t have cleared waivers — snagged the last two bullpen spots. So that gives us [...]

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In his Baseball Notes column in the Sunday Globe, Nick Carfado makes the following suggestion to Red Sox management: …sign Pedro Martinez, let him get ready at his own pace, then pop him into the majors after the All-Star break. What would be more exciting than that? At first, I just dismissed it as the [...]

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Now that Tito and the Sox have lulled the rest of the AL into a false sense of security, they can take the East by storm when the real games begin. Losing ten in a row, some in rather painful fashion, might have other fans worried. But not us. We hear from Francona in yet [...]

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