by evan brunell | Oct 18, 2008 | 2008 ALCS, James Shields, Josh Beckett
Josh Beckett – Evan Brunell Well, today’s a big day, isn’t it? Either the Red Sox go home or they continue their improbable streak of winning eight of their last nine playoff elimination games. Taking the hill tonight is, of course, Josh Beckett. The...
by evan brunell | Oct 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the brand-spanking new Fire Brand of the American League! Let’s take a whirl around… REGISTER FOR A USERNAMEThis is the backbone of Fire Brand. Although you can still leave anonymous comments, why bother? Look at the Fire Brand menu bar, there...
by evan brunell | Oct 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Fire Brand is moving to its much trumpeted layout and location sometime tomorrow. If you haven’t done so yet, please update your bookmarks to FireBrandAL.com! If you forget to, don’t worry — you’ll be able to find us rather easily from the...
by evan brunell | Oct 14, 2008 | Andy Sonnanstine, Tampa Bay Rays, Tim Wakefield
IN THE FIELD Tim Wakefield last pitched in a game on September 28, meaning that while he will be extremely well-rested, the potential exists that he will be far too rusty to make a meaningful contribution. The question then becomes: how long of a leash do we offer...
by evan brunell | Oct 13, 2008 | 2008 ALCS, Jon Lester, Matt Garza, Tampa Bay Rays
@ Oct. 13 GAME 3 – ALCS 2008 Matt Garza (0-1, 7.50 @ Jon Lester (1-0, 0.00) Fenway Park (Boston, MA) 4:37 PM EDT, TBS 2B Akinori Iwamura CF Jacoby Ellsbury CF B.J. Upton 2B Dustin Pedroia 1B Carlos Pena DH David Ortiz 3B Evan Longoria 3B Kevin Youkilis LF Carl...