Oops (and the Beckett Bowl!)
I know, I know. I’m a jerk. I promise more updates and instead I disappear for 5 months. But don’t worry, I’ve got an excuse! There was no way I was going to skip the Boston Bruins Stanley Cup run. If you’re a Boston sports fan, you know that this is completely understandable. The problem [...]
A lot of offseason changes
We are now only 3 days away from Opening Day and I have yet to say more than a few words about the Sox all offseason. I will admit that I have been swept up in the Bruins success this winter and my new job has taken up a large (read: all) portion of my [...]
2011 MLB Predictions
It has been a long bitter-cold and snowy off-season but we’re now a little over 3 weeks away (26 days) from the start of Spring Training so I suppose it is time to get back in the swing of things. Now I’m not much of a sports betting man but I have a habit of [...]
The Green Fields of the Mind
It isn’t a wrap until one of my favorite pieces of baseball prose is relayed: The Green Fields of the Mind by A. Bartlett Giamatti It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the [...]
Mike Lowell’s goodbye speech
Prior to today’s game, the Red Sox and company held a little pre-game ceremony for Mike Lowell in honor of his retirement from baseball. Here were Mikey’s comments given out by the Sox press patrol: “First of all, I’d like to thank the Red Sox organization for this ceremony and the very, very generous check [...]
Youkilis out until 2011
When it rains, it pours (literally.. have you looked outside today?!) Kevin Youkilis, one of the few remaining healthy players on the 2010 Red Sox went down with a thumb injury on Monday against the Indians. The thumb had been bothering him for a few weeks but Youkilis tried to fight through it until the [...]
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