August 2011

The thing about cancer is that it doesn’t give a shit who you are or how old you are or who you know or how much money your folks left you in that trust fund or how many jobs you’re working to keep food on the table or how many hours you spent studying for [...]

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Not only is baseball back today, it’s back with a rivalry showdown. The last time John Lackey faced CC Sabathia and the Yankees, it looked like a mismatch. But the Sox pounded the Yankees 10-4 behind a 4-hit night for Crawford and a 6 RBI show by Ellsbury. Lackey went six, giving up just three [...]

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Alright everybody, fun’s over, nothing to see here. The meteorologists got their dose of weather-viagra and we all ended up with a basement full of batteries, bottled water and porn magazines. Now, unless you called in to work with the old “a tree is blocking my driveway,” it’s back to the real world. I find [...]

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As one astute commenter pointed out, even a hurricane can’t stop these Red Sox. They swept the double-header at a rain-soaked Fenway Park and now have a two game lead in the East and two days off to enjoy it. Lester grabbed the win in game one behind nine runs and 13 hits, including a [...]

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Listen, I don’t give a damn about any hurricane. The weathermen always play these things up, anyway. Why? Because it sells newspapers and flashlights and fat-free pretzels and Rob Schneider DVDs. As I see it, if God wanted us to stay indoors today, he wouldn’t have set up the sweet double-dose of Sox-on-A’s action at [...]

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This is starting to get hard to watch. Is it possible that Tim Wakefield will not get his 200th win this season? Tonight it was clear pretty early that it wasn’t going to happen, as Wake gave up a pair in the second then completely unraveled in the fourth. The line-score isn’t pretty – six [...]

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Hey, thanks for yesterday, assholes. You had a 7-1 advantage on the goddam Yankees after three innings yet somehow managed to give up a dumbfounding twenty-one runs over the final six. After that shitshow, you’d better just lay down on the field the minute the first pitch is thrown. In fact, if David Ortiz wants [...]

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Last night, while the Sox were delivering another massive wedgie to the Texas Rangers, Denton and I recorded a new Surviving Grady podcast. If you have 20 minutes to waste between now and first pitch tonight, you may want to give it a listen. Topics may or may not include the 2011 playoffs, Gorilla Grodd, [...]

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Let me get this straight: The Red Sox drop the first game of this series to Texas, prompting an all out “Holy Christ we’d rather face Darth Vader and Nazis and Rodan and Klingons and Sontarans and a giant, glowing, laser-shooting orb than face the Rangers in the playoffs” vibe across the Nation. Then, over [...]

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