Git ‘Er Done

See the game thread below to comment on during the game. Two games in one day! We can win both. I miss the old Curt Schilling. You know, the one who could throw that fastball past anyone, with a devastating splitter. The one we saw last year? Not the one that we...

One Huge Week

This is the week. The week of judgement and decision. The week where the warriors step up to the plate and the losers take a seat on the bench. The week where the playoff seedings are decided. This is the biggest week of the regular season. The biggest week of our...

An Ex-Enemy Becomes A Friend

Not to hijack the game thread or “the week of judgement and decision” but … Back when we signed David Wells, I said that: At first, I was shocked. Yankee lover David Wells was coming to Boston. This is the guy that loves and idolizes (and one would...

Cowboy Down And Out?

Evan recently wrote a great article on the drop in production from Edgar Renteria, an idea I decided to steal and use on Kevin Millar. Always the outgoing, friendly and laughable mainstay of this Cowboy Up era, Millar

The Best GM in the Game

By Andrew Lipsett This is not an article about Theo Epstein. It is only tangentially an article about the Boston Red Sox; take it as an object lesson, one which will be made clear further along. Mostly, however, take it as a story. I find it hard to express how much I...

The View From Second Place

Go ahead and hit the panic button. The cord finally came loose on this first place deal, and the previously written-off injury plagued and struggling Yankees are all of a sudden invincible, and more importantly, in first place. Our boys let the lead slowly slip away,...

Offensive Explosion

On the menu tonight for the Red Sox: first, a nice appetizer courtesy of David Ortiz defying human life with another monster shot, followed immediately by a side salad of Manny Ramirez back-to-back, the main course featuring more long balls and, to top it off, a...