Sox on Strike

The Red Sox have voted unanimously not to play their final spring training game and to board the flight to Japan unless Major League Baseball agrees to pay each Red Sox coach a $40,000 stipend for the trip. Francona alluded to some coaches’ salary being only a...

Know Thy Enemy: 2008 Baltimore Orioles

Welcome to the 2008 Know Thy Enemy series. A staple of Fire Brand that covers all AL East foes plus itself, it starts early this year because the Red Sox are headed to Japan to open the 2008 season against the Oakland Athletics. What follows is Fire Brand’s...

Schedule

—– Boston Red Sox 2008 Season Schedule Gm Date Time Opp. Result Decision Rec. 1 3/25 6:05 @OAK^ BOS 6, OAK 5 W: Okajima L: Street S: Papelbon 1-0 2 3/26 6:05 @OAK^ OAK 5, BOS 1 W: Harden L: Lester 1-1 3 4/1 10:05 @OAK BOS 2, OAK 1 W: Matsuzaka L: Blanton...

It’s a baby boy!

Daisuke Matsuzaka is now the father of a baby boy weighing in at six pounds, 10 ounces. The baby, who’s name was not released, arrived in the world at 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning to Matsuzaka and wife Tomoyo. The birth was believed to have occurred in Boston with...