Monthly Archives: April 2009

Sox 20 Game Review – first edition

Note: This is the first in year long series of posts on the 2009 Red Sox season.  I’ll be taking a look at the team’s progress in 20 game increments throughout the year.
After 20 games:
13 wins 7 losses 1 game out of first
After a 2-6 start out of [...]

That. Was. Awesome!!!!

I thought of a lot of titles for this post.  In the end “That was awesome!” was the best way to describe the 3 game spanking the Red Sox put on the Yankees this past weekend.  Simply put, it was the best set of Sox-Yankees’ games (from a Sox fan perspective) since the comeback in [...]

Yet another classic in The Rivalry

Four hours, 21 minutes.  Eleven innings.  Just another typical battle between the Red Sox and Yankees.  There’s 17 more of these to go this year?  To be honest, it will be hard for another 2009 game between these teams to be better than last night’s game.  In fact, we’re only at game 16, but there [...]

One last look at the ‘08-‘09 offseason

With the Yankees and Red Sox facing off for the first time this evening, now seems like a good time to reflect to put a nail in the coffin of any discussion regarding the winter hot stove season. 
Why now?  Because this will be the first time the Sox play the Yankees with Mark Teixeira [...]