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John Smoltz Heading To Boston (Of Course)
After 20 years in Atlanta, the 41-year-old pitcher is signing with the Red Sox, who presumably will place him in a bullpen rocking chair to spin yarns about Tom Glavine and the Old South. [MLB.com]
Wednesday, Dec 10
What You Missed At Baseball's Winter Meetings [Hot Stove Roundup]
• Winter Rumors, Hopes [Crashburn Alley] • Sheets Leaving Home (bye bye) [Viva El Birdos] • An open letter to Brian Sabean [Giants Examiner] • Red Sox set sights on Teixeira [Yahoo] • Marrying for money is bad idea [NY Daily News] Reporting from MLB's Winter Meetings [ESPN The Mag]
Wednesday, Oct 22
World Series Game One Live Blog: Phillies At Rays
God. I knew I'd have been inundated with Manny Ramirez vs. Boston Red Sox columns were that the World Series, but now I'm sick of the countless columns about Rays lefty specialist Trever Miller facing his old team, the Philadelphia Phillies. Aren't you sick of it too? I'd link to an example but ......
Where My Team Stands: Philadelphia Phillies
I have no confidence in the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series. I'll freely admit that. This is just the type of scenario that Philly sports fans have become accustomed to in the past 25 years, where even our best teams will come up short against an opponent we wholly underestimate....
Tuesday, Oct 21
Where My Team Stands: Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays: 2008 American League Champions But the Rays are indeed in the World Series and a trip to the Fall Classic means… Little did many know that the Rays ticket to the World Series was punched as soon as the Phillies won the NLCS. It was fate.
Opinion: Joba Chamberlain Will Not Tolerate Any Strip Club Heckling
The New York Daily News details how Joba apparently spent most of the night drinking Grey Goose vodka at Dillinger's, a downtown bar, before then hitting the Night Before Lounge, a strip club. That's where he was harassed by at least one Red Sox fan, who got in this zinger, which apparently s...
Monday, Oct 20
It's Obama And McCain ... AFTER DARK!
5. Philadelphia Eagles (3-3). The Eagles have a home game at 1 p.m. Sunday, and then the city hosts Game 4 of the World Series that night. That should be fun. What could possibly go wrong? I love the NFL, but, as I'm sure you're aware, I'm a baseball guy through and through. Which is why I'm always appre...
Sunday, Oct 19
ALCS Game Seven Live Blog: Red Sox-Rays
8:39 — As noted by Buck Martinez and Jason Varitek, the catcher can go hitless (phew!) and still make an impact. Maybe I should have gone into the business as a catching shortstop. 8:11 — Dustin Pedroia practiced hitting home runs in his basement, where the ceiling was ten feet high. That's why...
Wednesday, Oct 15
Ah, F&%# It, Gimme A Beer
Hey, if this guy can't spur the Red Sox on to victory, no one can. What they're saying on the intertubes about Tampa Bay's 13-4 victory over Boston in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series ... He sets and he throws — A knuckleball, high and flat; Another home run.
Tuesday, Oct 14
Tampa Bay Fans; Not Especially Coordinated
What they're saying on the intertubes about Tampa Bay's 9-1 win over Boston in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series. • Recap: Jon Lester In The Best Pitcher In Baseball. Math: B.J. Upton + Evan Longoria = Rest of AL East Crying. Pena + Rocco = Smiles. Crawford = Varitek Headache. Navi = B...
Monday, Oct 6
To Watch Tonight
• MLB: ALDS, Game 4: Tampa Bay Rays at Chicago White Sox (NOW) Love lifts Upton where he belongs? [TBS] • NFL: Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints (8:30 p.m., ET) One dome is as good as the next. [ESPN] • MLB: ALDS, Game 4: Los Angeles Angels at Boston Red Sox (08:35 p.m., ET) Mike Napoli will not b...
Thursday, Sep 4
Instant Replay II: Rise Of The Machines
Let the record show that the first use of instant replay in Major League Baseball was used on Wednesday to confirm an Alex Rodriguez home run in the Yankees' 8-4 win over Tampa Bay (a more deserving recipient there has never been). But wait, was it the first? Stacy Long of the Montgomery Adver...
Friday, Jun 6
Just Another Quiet Day In The AL East
Oh, and just to confirm that the Red Sox are challenging the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s as the most dysfunctional baseball family of all time, they also brawled within their own dugout on Thursday. Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis went at it for some reason, and had to be separated...
Tuesday, May 20
Jon Lester Is Unbreakable
Lester (3-2) struck out nine, walked two and faced only two batters over the minimum. Center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury thwarted the Royals' best bid for a hit, making a diving, backhanded catch on Jose Guillen’s sinking liner in the fourth. It was the fourth no-hitter caught by Boston's Jaso...
Friday, Feb 22
Baseball Season Preview: Toronto Blue Jays
Come October, after the Jays are done after winning their 83 games, the playoffs start. A couple National League teams that the Jays would use to roll the infield with get a chance at playing in the World Series. Some place like Denver ends up looking like Lame City for having a packed ballpark...
Sunday, Oct 21
Sweet Buddha In A Wheelbarrow, Everything's Going Massachusetts' Way: Patriots. Red Sox. Boston College. You just ...
Patriots. Red Sox. Boston College. You just can't stop ANY of them. As if Massachusetts sports fans didn't have enough to tout, New England Revolution midfielder Michael Parkhurst scored his first...
Tuesday, Oct 2
Opinion: Where My Team Stands: Boston Red Sox
Blue Balls. The Sox have left more than ten men on base a whopping 51 times this year, way more than the Yankees (38), the Indians (32), and the Angels (29). Needless to say, the Sox have hit into 146 double plays this year, the fifth-most in all of baseball, which means that bases loaded, one-ou...
Opinion: Where My Team Stands: Boston Red Sox
Up right now: The Boston Red Sox. Your writer is Eric Gillin. Red Sox fans: Stock up on Pepto Bismol, because your small intestines are gonna feel like a balloon animal filled with refried beans by the end of October. That is, if the Red Sox even make it that far.
Monday, Mar 19
Baseball Season Preview: Toronto Blue Jays
Well, there's more where that came from. The Jays should give us a lot to shout about in '07 after finishing second in the AL East last year despite letting Josh Towers start 12 games, changing their shortstop every other week and having a payroll that was $50 million lower than Boston's and $...
Friday, Jan 13
Ah, the Joys of Baseball Trade Rumors
We're admittedly a little tingly about this rumored Abreu-for-Manny-for-Miggy scuttlebutt that's been tossed around, oh, the last couple months. As a Philly fan, it'd be easy to see the town completely embracing Ramirez. Granted, they'll get on him about that whole "hustle" thing, but...
Tuesday, Nov 15
Podcast: Buster Olney Responds: "I Like My Job, Thank You"
Yeah, we got a lot of negative feedback. The people who were filling in were producers at ESPN, some of the people in various departments, and they asked me if this was like a regular baseball press conference. I said, No, it s more like watching West Wing. I didn t take it very seriously. Basicall...
Tuesday, Sep 20
To Watch Tonight ...
• MLB: Orioles at Yankees. "Aaron Small, Big Stein is counting on you. Costanza! Where's my calzone?" [YES Network] • MLB: Red Sox at Devil Rays. Boston a half-game ahead of Yankees — time for Schilling to break out the bloody sock. [PAX]
Thursday, Sep 8
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as Gilligan ascends to Sitcom Heaven ... • Your excuse to eat vast quantities of junk food is finally here: Raiders at Patriots kick off NFL season. • MLB: Angels at Red Sox. Converging fronts of negative mojo from Yankees, A's fans collide over Fenway, causing it to rain.
