Sumo Lounge TRIVIA: Lefty winners

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...

How they voted: The 2008 Boston Red Sox

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...

Top 50 Free Agents – Important Dates to Know

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...

Projections for 2009 Red Sox and others

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...

Free Agent Frenzy 2009

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...

Move the Marlins to Boston

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...

Phillies Fix My Car

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...

Buchholz solid in AFL start

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...