This morning Manny Ramirez was suspended 50 games for violating the MLB drug prevention policies after testing positive for banned substance. The banned substance is reportedly a fertility drug of all things. Seriously, if it wasn’t Manny in this story, I wouldn’t believe. But with Manny… a fertility drug makes sense. The man is from [...]
As much as I hate to dedicate an entire blog post to picking on the Red Sox archenemy, I’m going to because The Yankees are not just a team that is in some disarray, but they’re an organization that appears to be totally screwed up from top to bottom. On the field Their catcher just [...]
April 29, 2009 – 10:55 am 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 the gate, the Sox [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
March 28, 2009 – 10:28 am OK, here we go. Opening day is imminent. The 25 man roster is set. So what should we be expecting? What should we be hoping. Here are some thoughts on every player. Starting Pitchers Josh Beckett Man, this guy has a lot to prove. He’s a competitor. Probably a stubborn one, too. At this point [...]
November 18, 2008 – 1:08 pm On May 5, 2007, I sent an email to Crundy. The entire contents of which were as follows I think Dustin is finished. Cora is playing too good to sit on bench At the time, Dustin Pedroia was hitting something like .210. This followed up a late 2006 callup performance where he showed …well, not [...]
October 27, 2008 – 12:39 pm That photo never gets old, does it? Let me get right to the point on this. The Red Sox should resign Jason Varitek. For two years. For whatever dollars he wants for those two years (within reason). Forget all the stuff about how he’s he can’t hit like he used to (he can’t) and how [...]
October 22, 2008 – 11:13 am It’s a bummer that the World Series is starting tonight and our beloved Red Sox won’t be participating in it. I remember the last time the Sox came oh-so-close to the World Series. That was in 2003. In that game 7 vs. the Yankees, Grady Little had a panic attack and ultimately, Aaron Boone hit [...]
