Posts in category Opening Day

I first wrote this blog post in 2011, roughly five years after my dad passed. Right up until the day he died, Opening Day was …

The late 90s were not a good time to be a Red Sox fan, unless you happened to enjoy teams that regularly ripped your heart …

Today is the first game of the 2018 season to be played at Fenway Park. It’s Fenway Opening Day, if you will, a day much, …

Hello. Hi. Okay, so. I’m back. Alright, now that we’ve got the niceties out of the way, let’s talk baseball. Opening Day 2018 is upon …

I’m old enough to remember back when Big Lee Smith gave up a game-winning home run in his Red Sox debut back in 1988, so …

On my way in to the game today, so I will shamelessly re-post this entry from a couple years back. Because it all still matters. …

Back in 2001, when Red Sox ownership dropped a ton of money on free agent Manny Ramirez, more than a few eyebrows were raised. But …

Today is Opening Day for the 2016 Boston Red Sox. And in my mind — a sick and twisted place you don’t want to visit …

Gotta love the way Hanley Ramirez just toys with opposing teams. Early in the game he’s just goofin’ around, waltzing around the dugout with David …

  We may look back on Red Sox Opening Day 2015 as the day Clay Buchholz became an ace. I know, I know, we’ve seen …

You can blame all of this on a train ride. Over a decade ago, in October of 2003 to be precise, I was on a …

First things first, my track record for Red Sox pre-season prognostication is dismal. For every one time I’m spot on (I once got taken to …

Hey, they can’t all be gems. Those Dwight Evans first pitch home runs to start the season are few and far between. So I won’t …

If North Korea’s gonna start lobbing nuclear missiles our way, I hope they at least have the good sense to wait until the Jackie Bradley …

Another Red Sox Opening Day is upon us and, holy shitnips, it’s the tenth motherflippin’ Opening Day since we started this weird-ass blog. But unlike …