by guest | Apr 7, 2004 | Uncategorized
FourZeroSix takes his ire out at NESN, who might want to do a little more fact-checking. The all-knowledgable people on New England Sports Tonight. I mean, look at all the facts they have displayed tonight: – Curt Schilling is 39 years old. – Pedro was...
by evan brunell | Apr 5, 2004 | Uncategorized
As the Red Sox gear up for the opener tomorrow (ESPN2 if you’re out of the Boston area, at 8 PM Sunday), another baseball league is gearing up for play – the Wicked East Coast fantasy league. This is a 14-team league, so it took a while for everyone to...
by evan brunell | Apr 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
Now that Nomar Garciaparra is out until the early beginnings of May, Pokey Reese will be shifting over to shortstop. Nobody questions Reese’s ability to defensively star. However, comparing Reese to Nomar offensively is a laugh. So clearly, where we need to try...
by evan brunell | Mar 30, 2004 | Uncategorized
Mr. Michael Cole Mussina lost his first game as the Yankees ace. Is this going to be anything new? No. (Let me preface this column by saying this does not mean Mussina is going to go 0-33 with a 7.00 ERA. He will get wins, just like Derek Lowe went 17-7 (with a 4.47...
by evan brunell | Mar 27, 2004 | Uncategorized
The New York Yankees, the most hated team in baseball, in any sport. And yet they have a following, a great one. (Take that with a grain of salt, many Yankee hats have mysteriously dissapeared the last three years.) Many Yankee fans have asked me to explain why we...
by evan brunell | Mar 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
The Tampa Bay Devil Rays (covered here) have been a lesson in obscurity these years since their inception – pulling off crazy moves by (still) GM Chuck LaMar, most notably trading Bobby Abreu for Kevin Stocker. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays showed signs of life last...
by evan brunell | Mar 23, 2004 | Uncategorized
The Toronto Blue Jays were a struggling team. What happened to the once-mighty Blue Jays, winner of two World Series back-to-back in the early ’90s? Incompetent general managing got to them, and this soon became a team much like the Boston Bruins – good,...
by evan brunell | Mar 20, 2004 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t so long ago, 1997, that the Orioles won the division with 98 wins. Their strong suit was their pitching, and their bullpen. How ironic that today, it’s their weak suit. They have not finished above .500 since that 1997 season. What happened? Bad...
by guest | Mar 17, 2004 | Uncategorized
Sam Killay replies to my Nomar article. Extremely good post. Able to run down everything I hated about Nomar – and then some I forgot about – especially #2. Right on, Burn [my note: I go under the persona of “Burn Factor” on bulletin boards.] 1...
by guest | Mar 16, 2004 | Uncategorized
Before I begin, let me first extend my heartfelt gratitude to Blind Swipe, for my very first insult. I am an uppity ingrate! And also thanks to Red Sox Haven (scroll to Mar. 15) for defending him and I. Now for a joint Fire Brand column based off a guest post that...
