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The Cup Is Never Half-Full or Half-Empty, 'Cuz We Keep Re-Filling It
August 26, 2009 by
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A couple ugly plays early on threatened to sink us, especially that one where Okajima--looking as comfortable as a guy waiting to catch a piano from a tenth-story window--attempted a back-to-the-plate basket catch on a routine infield pop fly. Needless to say, it didn't work out...
Bagging Wagner
August 25, 2009 by
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When I heard that the Sox got Wagner, I was pretty freakin' excited. I mean, the guy's baseball card is worth millions. Plus, he's a Hall of Famer, used to drink and throw down with Ty Cobb, and he was born in 1874, which means he instantly has something in common with...
Welcome to the Rest of the Season
August 25, 2009 by
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First things first: Thank you, Jose Contreras. Because if you hadn't booted that bases-loaded dribbler that Ortiz unceremoniously corked off with two outs in the bottom of the third, we wouldn't have snagged six unearned runs and we might have been staring at our second loss...
The Cashman-Headwarmer Dialogues: Episode 645: Victory, Thy Name is Yankees
August 24, 2009 by
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Cashman: Well, that's that. Two wins out of three in Boston. Seven and a half game lead in the division. The East is ours and we can pretty much run out the B squad for September to get the boys nice and rested.Headwarmer: Rested for what? Collapsing in a flaming heap come October...
You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart
August 24, 2009 by
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So I missed the game last night, instead deciding to see Springsteen at the Comcast Center (forever "Great Woods" to me, much like the Blue Jays will always play in "SkyDome" and every ATM is a "Baybank machine") for the umpteenth time. Yes, I'm old...
This Ain't No Foolin' Around
August 23, 2009 by
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This season's Red Sox - Yankee series has been a see-saw battle of one-sided events. Eight in a row by the good guys to start the season, followed by an ugly second-half, four-game sweep by the pinstripes. This weekend's series has been a microcosm-in-reverse of the season...
What's the Frequency, A.J.?
August 23, 2009 by
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I'll be the first to admit: I had about as much confidence in Tazawa beating Burnett as I had in Rob Schneider sustaining a career without help from his buddy Adam Sandler. Turns out I was wrong (on the Tazawa part). The young lad tamed the self-proclaimed World's Toughest...
In Keeping With the Spinal Tap Theme...
August 21, 2009 by
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...last night's game gets a two-word review: **** sandwich.I figgered Brad Penny would rise to the occasion, prove the naysayers wrong and crank out the game of his career. Instead, he folded like a deck chair, giving up 8 runs over 4 innings and reminding us all that if the Red...
Tonight We're Gonna Rock You Tonight
August 21, 2009 by
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I hate going out on a limb and making predictions, especially when Brad Penny, the Steven Seagal of pro baseball, is on the hill against a stocked Yankees line-up. But I look to the return of the RemDawg as the harbinger: the Sox have no choice but to roll. Roll over those high-paid...
Meet the Bloggers, Kick the Bloggers
August 21, 2009 by
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Next week, Denton and I will be doing our part for the Jimmy Fund Telethon by holding a Sox game watching thing at Crossroads Ale House at the corner of Beacon and Mass Ave on Thursday night, August 27. There's no special "reserved room" or high-falutin' velvet roped...
Demolition Men
August 21, 2009 by
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Such are the highs and lows of the 2009 post-All Star Game Sox. Last Friday, after that come-from-behind, ninth inning laser show, I was secretly plotting my flights to LA for the Sox vs. Dodgers World Series. Then the Rangers took the next two games and I was back among the waterfront...
He Walks The Line
August 20, 2009 by
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Yes, that is Joe Maddon. No, it is not an old photo of him before his hair turned gray. Maddon dyed his hair black in preparation for an upcoming road trip that he has assigned a Johnny Cash theme."I had been wanting to do it," said Maddon, who had his wife, Jaye, dye his...
To Be The Man, You Must Beat The Man. So That Makes Clay Buchholz The Man.
August 19, 2009 by
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I don't like to brag, but I totally called that one. And it hasn't happened a lot this season. Typically when I predict a big game, the Sox pull a complete Hindenburg. But this time, they came up huge. Clay came up huge. Just when we needed it most. And a match-up that looked...
Big Man on Paper
August 19, 2009 by
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On paper, tonight's match-up between Magic Roy Halladay and Li'l Clay Buchholz--perhaps the only guy in the world who makes Bronson Arroyo look Ebert-esque--doesn't look good for us Sox fans. But I have a strange feeling that Clay is coming up huge tonight. That the emotion...
"Who The Hell is Rod Barajas and Why Does He Hate Us So Much?" or "How I Died A Hundred Times Between 7:00 and 11:00pm, Eastern Time"
August 18, 2009 by
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Look, 2009 Red Sox, I'm a guy who doesn't need a lot of extra excitement in his life. I make my own excitement, goddam it. When things get boring, I give myself a few good whacks with a car antenna. When they get really boring, I just lower the ol' onions into a deep fryer...
Drew's Clues
August 18, 2009 by
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Journey with us, friends, as we venture inside the mind of J.D. Drew Friday's ninth inning comeback win in Texas. Okay. It's the top of the ninth. We're down two and I'm batting ninth. Miller time. Man, it's hot. I should have been an accountant, who needs this...
Women Swooning, Opposing Batters Cowering. Business as Usual for Josh Beckett.
August 18, 2009 by
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There aren’t many sure things on this 2009 team -- at least not a lot of positive sure things. But one of them is Commander Kick Ass. He’s been dealing like a goddam Chinese missile peddler for months, as if trying to erase even the slightest memory of that slow emergence from...
Off-Day, Off-Topic: Download This Song Now!
August 17, 2009 by
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Nights without fresh baseball leave me feeling like a sack of loose change, howling at the moon, peering at the neighbor's wife through the blinds and pulling every drawer out of the fridge to find the last few cans of PBR that I know I stashed somewhere.Typically, if I'm not...
This Goes All The Way to the Top
August 17, 2009 by
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After watching the Sox drop the series to the Texas Rangers and fall a half-game out of the Wild Card lead, a drinking buddy and I engaged in some friendly debate over the musical question, "What, exactly, is wrong with this team?" My friend insisted the troubles start at...
The Terry Francona Motivational Speaker Series
August 16, 2009 by
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Guys, we're all aware of the struggles we've been having putting runs up and winning games. We've wasted a lot of good pitching performances with the inability to get a key hit. My pre-game Bigelow tea-party and group hug don't seem to be as inspirational as I'd...
Things I'd Rather See Tek Doing...
August 16, 2009 by
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The Red Sox have thrown out eight baserunners trying to steal this season, 103 have made it safely. Last night the Rangers swiped eight bases on Jason "he calls a good game" Varitek's watch."I'm trying to get outs and make good throws," Varitek said. "...
Hangin' Tough
August 16, 2009 by
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The top of the AL East, our former place of residence, has long since been abandoned. Now our current digs atop the AL Wild Card standings are being threatened. We're putting faith in Junichi Tazawa and a line-up containing a 7-8-9 tandem of Casey Kotchman, Brian Anderson and Alex...
Tek, V-Mart, Surviving Grady T-Shirt Spark Rally
August 15, 2009 by
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I don't want to sound presumptuous, because God knows there are about a million variables that you could pin last night's mind-boggling win in Texas on, from Victor Martinez's clutch double to Frank Francisco's inability to do anything right in the top of the ninth...
Remember Me?
August 14, 2009 by
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I'm back!You need a glove to show some love up the middle? I'm your man.
The Line-Up That Wasn't There
August 14, 2009 by
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There are two great axioms in baseball. One is, "When Julian Tavarez asks you if you'd like to see his pet snake Armando, never answer in the affirmative." The other and perhaps more famous one is, "Good pitching beats good hitting." Yesterday, Justin Verlander...
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