by evan brunell | Nov 4, 2008 | Quick Post, Trivia
Congratulations to Tessie’s Dad for winning the last round of trivia! He gets a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ3 with 5 MP, 6X Optical Zoom, 2-Inch Diagonal LCD. Oooh la la! TD — please e-mail me your mailing address to send to. Now, we start off a new round, the...
by shawn medeiros | Nov 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today is election day for one of the most important and polarizing elections in the history of our great country. I hope everyone takes time out of their day to fufill their most important responsibility as an American citizen. Although all votes are confidential, we...
by shawn medeiros | Nov 3, 2008 | Quick Post
Last year, on November 6th, 2007, I released my top 50 Free Agents rankings and predictions. You can check out the archive on my old blog if you are interested. It was my first shot at something like this, and it didn’t end as well as I had hoped, getting only...
by evan brunell | Nov 3, 2008 | A.J. Burnett, Andruw Jones, Ben Sheets, C.C. Sabathia, Coco Crisp, Daisuke Matsuzaka, David Aardsma, David Ortiz, Derek Lowe, Dontrelle Willis, Dustin Pedroia, George Kottaras, Hideki Okajima, J.D. Drew, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jake Peavy, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jason Varitek, Javier Lopez, Jed Lowrie, Jon Lester, Josh Beckett, Juan Pierre, Julio Lugo, Kevin Youkilis, Manny Delcarmen, Manny Ramirez, Mark Teixeira, Mike Lowell, Pedro Martinez, Russell Martin, Tim Wakefield
Bill James has come out with his new handbook for 2009, and in the handbook are the early statistical projections for players next year. This may be especially significant in the case of the Red Sox, as James has a vast amount of knowledge of players in the Red Sox...
by evan brunell | Nov 1, 2008 | Free Agency, Quick Post
I assume at least some of you know about the Free Agent Frenzy — a game that MLB.com rolls out where you predict where 15 top free agents sign and the confidence level you have of that. You get Opening Day tickets if you win. Here’s my ballot: Bobby Abreu...
by josh lacey | Oct 31, 2008 | Quick Post, Tim Wakefield
The Red Sox have exercised Tim Wakefield’s $4 million dollar perpetual team option for the 2009 season. Next year will mark Wakefield’s 15th season with the team. Over that time Wake has knuckled his way to 164 wins in a Red Sox uniform, third only to...
by mike scandura | Oct 31, 2008 | Community post, Florida Marlins
It has never been more difficult to get a ticket to professional sports than it is in Boston as of Halloween day, 2008. While the Red Sox have sold out every game for 4+ years, things aren’t much better with Boston’s other teams. The Celtics, coming off a...
by josh lacey | Oct 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
For Philadelphia Phillies fans, it was the best of times, unless you are Ted Passon, who’s “best of times” turned into a “worst of times” at the flip of a switch, or in this case…car. souce: phillyfixmycar.blogspot.com “Hey...
by shawn medeiros | Oct 30, 2008 | Clay Buchholz, Quick Post
Clay Buchholz, currently playing for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League, pitched five innings of one run ball yesterday evening against the Mesa Solar Sox. Buchholz struck out three and walked two, dropping his ERA to 2.60 over his four starts for...
by shawn medeiros | Oct 30, 2008 | Manny Ramirez
Just like 6.1% of all Americans during the economy’s recession, Manny Ramirez is currently unemployed and looking for work. Worse yet for the guy, there is a good chance the new administration is going to tax the bejesus out of him to spread the wealth around....