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The Importance of Spring Training

Written on March 14th, 2008 by Mike Edelman12 Comments

Baseball, and specifically the Red Sox, are an all out obsession of mine for two hundred and ten or so days of the year, starting with the first pitch around [...]

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Live from Spring Training

Written on March 11th, 2008 by Guest Columnist0 Comments

Fire Brand reader Gerry checks in…
SPRING TRAINING OBSERVATIONS.
Tradition Field. Port St. Lucie, FL. Mets vs. Red Sox
Dodgertowon. Vero Beach, Fl. Dodgers vs. Red Sox
RED [...]

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Nine Up, Nine Down: Spring Training Notes

Written on February 28th, 2008 by Evan Brunell13 Comments

Mike Mussina responded to comments Theo Epstein made about Mussina and his complains on going to Japan in 2004. Said Theo:
“Kevin Brown and Mike Mussina spent the whole time b—tching [...]

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Live from Spring Training

Written on February 16th, 2008 by Evan Brunell2 Comments

NESN’s got live coverage of spring training and clips of players going through the exercises. I just wanted to make one point:
Josh Beckett looks perfectly fine. He doesn’t look out [...]

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What in the name of David Wayne Pauley is going on here?

Written on February 15th, 2008 by Shawn Medeiros8 Comments

I took a day off today and thought I
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Filed under Coco Crisp, Daisuke Matsuzaka, David Pauley, Dusty Brown, Mark Wagner, Pedro Martinez, Spring Training Tags:

Pitchers and catchers report: Are the Sox the favorite?

Written on February 14th, 2008 by Shawn Medeiros24 Comments

I know that Evan is claiming that I didn’t write an article today; I have strong disagreements with what this man says about me. I’m not saying that MVN’s website [...]

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And So It Begins (Again)

Written on April 4th, 2007 by Mike Edelman2 Comments

For most Red Sox fans, opening day has some kind of humor or irony to it. As Evan pointed out, the last three years we
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Red Sox News Announced

Written on March 27th, 2007 by Evan Brunell15 Comments

Craig Hansen has been optioned to Triple-A (gee, what a surprise…).
Alex Ochoa has accepted his assignment to Triple-A, and could have a chance of coming up as a backup outfielder [...]

Filed under Alberto Castillo, Alex Ochoa, Brendan Donnelly, Bryan Corey, Cory Keylor, Craig Hansen, Hideki Okajima, J.C. Romero, Javier Lopez, Joel Pineiro, Jonathan Papelbon, Kyle Snyder, Manny Delcarmen, Mike Timlin, Spring Training, Trades Tags:

The Closer

Written on March 23rd, 2007 by Zach Hayes22 Comments

Following a tumultuous off-season full of unneeded speculation and endless articles dissecting every angle of the Red Sox bullpen, and which one of our pickups or mainstays would fit himself [...]

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Papelbon Named Closer

Written on March 22nd, 2007 by Evan Brunell55 Comments

The Red Sox will announce after today’s spring training game that Jonathan Papelbon has been tabbed the Red Sox closer.
This means that a battle for the fifth spot in the [...]

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