2006: A look back

Well, the regular season ends today, and what a season it has been. Before we step into the bizarro-world that October can so often become I thought it might be fun to look back at some of the interesting events of this incredible season. My personal favorite, perhaps...

The Plan

Last time I heartily ripped into the Red Sox front office, specifically GM Theo Epstein, for their actions over the two previous seasons. The issues include indecision over the direction of the ballclub, terrible talent scouting and acquisition, trading away good...

Double the Fun

One of the areas of emphasis the Red Sox have been trying to push in the last few years has been harvesting a winning atmosphere in the minor league system. The Sox Director of Player Development, Mike Hazen, discussed this issue in an interview with Scout.com??s...

Where do we go from here?

So. Here we are. It’s mid-September, and we can no longer consider ourselves to be in the hunt for the division, nor are we realistically in the hunt for the wildcard. We’ve been blind-sided in the second half of the season, riddled by injuries and...

Last Game of the Season

Well. What a month. Even before the events of this past week I had decided to have a look back at ‘happier’ days, but then we heard about Lester. So rather than just happily flip back to telling stories about baseball fun it seemed appropriate to pause for...