Fireside Chats #27: Where there’s no Red Sox baseball left, but that doesn’t stop us from talking for over an hour

Paul and Tim look back on the ALCS and the 2008 Season, then look forward to the 2009 Red Sox. Who should the Red Sox target this offseason, who should they resign?

For Love of the Game: Yankees fan guilty

To recap, Rodriguez went to the bar to watch his favorite team play, they lost, he shot someone, then spent the next four years of his life in jail while the team, whose victory and alcohol fueled his murderous rage, wins two World Series titles.

Don’t call it Weathergate

There are so many reasons to love the sport of baseball. One of the top reasons for this writer is that even after 100 years of playing the nation’s pastime, there is still a good chance that every year you’ll see something that has never happened before. The 2008 World Series is a great example of that; not because of the Rays turnaround, or the Phillies dominance thus far, but because of the weather.

First and foremost, before this spreads any worse, please refrain from the annoying habit of adding the word “gate” to anything controversial. I would rather exchange text messages with Kwame Kilpatrick then look back 20 years from now and hear about the Weathergate World Series.