DOUG MIRABELLI RUMORS

"Obviously it was an assassination directly at my character for unprovoked reasons. I've been gone for five months. I mean, to just randomly come after Doug Mirabelli? For what reason? Because you don't like me? I mean, you don't have to like me. Obviously he doesn't like me," - A former Padre speaking about his former GM The Friarhood posted a question...

An arbitration panel awarded Doug Mirabelli and his wife more than $1.2 million in damages and fees.

Larry Lucchino yesterday said the Red Sox may move the right field fence in 6 feet to make our bullpens roomier and up to code. Michael Silverman today suggests there might be something else to it, and I'm inclined to agree: Another question, slightly more cynical, comes to mind. Is there some kind of old or new Yankee Stadium envy, or plain old offensive envy, going on here...

It feels like every catcher in the Red Sox system is hurt.  I'm expecting the bullpen catchers to break something soon.  So when we saw Victor Martinez hopping around like someone dropped Ben Gay in his cup... we knew the Sox would be in a bit of a bind.  So everyone's just kinda scratching their heads for a replacement.  First up:  Kevin CashWith...

Hinske was acquired by Boston during the fateful year of 2006 to provide much-needed depth at first base, the outfield corners and third base (although he never once appeared in a game at third for Boston). Hinske was similar to Doug Mirabelli during his time in Boston that he had a low batting average (.229 in Boston) but a fair amount of pop. He also had strong plate discipline...

Dougie's going deep tonight! A popular meme about a day in the life of Doug Mirabelli (there were two such days, I can't find the other one) was passed around back when Mirabelli was a cult figure in Boston. It might be odd for some to think that Doug Mirabelli was a cult figure for Red Sox fans, but I can assure you... he was. Mirabelli was acquired as a response to...

From the Globe via ESPN, a proposed three-way (very, very different from the sort of "three ways" Doug Mirabelli used to propose) between the Sox, Padres and Cubs ain't happening. The deal -- if one can believe it ever truly existed -- would have sent Ellsbury and Buchholz to the Cubs, Andrew Cashner and Josh Vitters to San Diego, Adrian Gonzalez to Boston, and Joe Perry and Ric...

We had the 200,000th visitor to The Mighty Quinn Media Machine since I installed SiteMeter back in April, 2006 (about five weeks after I founded this site). It was shortly after 8 PM tonight and it was a person from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, checking out the funny Doug Mirabelli post through Facebook.I thank you all who come here and make writing this site such fun for me.

Red Sox cut knuckleball catcher Doug Mirabelli...

Red Sox blogger Fragile Freddy listed virtually every move Sox GM Theo Epstein has made over the last 24 months and broken them down into 'moves that worked,' 'moves that didn't work,' and 'moves that remain in doubt.' This is a great breakdown of all that's happened in Beantown over the last two years. It's hard to pile on a guy that helped...