March 2011

He’s a local guy from Milton who has bounced around in the majors for a few years battling injuries. Last year he got the call he’d always dreamed of: a chance to pitch for the Boston Red Sox. As the 2011 spring training season winds down, Rich Hill remains a left-handed option out of the [...]

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It’s no secret around here that I’m one of the few Manny fans left. I don’t buy half of the nonsense that drove Manny out of town. So he didn’t sprint down the line on every groundout? Watch Tek or some of the others…everybody takes an easy-out jog to first once in a while. And [...]

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When my eyes caught the words “Heidi Watney Video Diary” I thought my perverse prayers had been answered. Yesterday’s screen cap showed Heidi and some hot brunette, all smiles. I immediately pulled down the shades and started the video. But it was about her cousin winning some golf tournament and he was kissing the brunette. [...]

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Growing up, and for most of my adult life, Red Sox fans were the hard-luck losers. The wait-til-next-year gang. The folks who entered spring with high hopes, and quietly packed up the T-shirts and puffy foam hands come Labor Day. We were never gonna get a chance to kick the football before Lucy pulled it [...]

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On the day when everyone is Irish, the guy that jigged and hornpiped after two World Series just isn’t the same pitcher. Jon Papelbon, on the brink of the season he has been waiting his entire career for, is having a miserable spring. Despite his failings on the field, he claims there’s nothing to worry [...]

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Terry Francona made the official announcement yesterday: Jon Lester will start Opening Day. Unless you’ve been in a Turkish prison for the past three years, this should not be a surprise, Lester has been the ace of the Red Sox staff and deserves the nod. You can put him down for 32 starts, 16+ wins [...]

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A couple days back, when Denton posted the infamous shot of Pedro giving Don Zim the throw-down during the 2003 ALCS, it got me thinking: Is that the hands-down craziest thing I’ve ever seen during a Red Sox game? I have to believe it is. And I still wake up some mornings and ask myself, [...]

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Since that dark day when Johnny Damon signed with the Yankees, just a year after helping the Red Sox win a World Series, he hasn’t exactly been the most popular ex-Red Sox player. Many people, myself included, have gone out of their way to take shots at him; caveman references, his girlie arm, his stupid quotes…it was all [...]

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OK, so a March 14th game featuring Aceves vs. Banuelos might not have the intensity to result in something like Pedro rolling Zim down the mound, but it sure beats another episode of Minute To Win It! Tune in to the magic of Remy and DO on NESN at 7:05…

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