boston-red-sox Stories - Battle of California
High Expectations Led to Chaotic Ranger Season
The title read "A clean slate for the Rangers" in a mid-September issue of the New York Daily news. The story began as so: "For yet another summer, the Rangers are starting their season with a number of new faces and the same high expectations." I...
your American League Champions
Congratulations to the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays. From out of no where, having never won more than 70's games, to League Champions... That is a huge hill to climb. And it ain't over yet! The blogosphere is teeming with posts about the Rays win, but I'll just link to a select few threads: Sticks of...
Kings Gameday: BoC, Baseball Edition
LA Kings vs. San Jose Sharks 1:00 PST, Fox Sports West & Bay Area Last game of the season I'm a Dodger fan born and bred. Dodger Stadium is like a church to me and baseball is its sermon, which is appropriate because I tend to fall asleep to both. I grew up listening to Vin Scully...
10 reasons to hate the...Tampa Bay Rays
Recently St. Pete Times writer Tom Jones (disappointingly not the crooner) wrote a column entitled "10 reasons to hate the Red Sox". I will pick up where Mr. Jones left off and give you reasons to hate every team in Major League Baseball (or maybe just the American League), starting with Jones'...
10 reasons to hate the...Seattle Mariners
1. Mariner Moose's rollerblading skillsYou may remember in the 1995 ALDS, Mariner Moose broke his ankle when he crashed into the outfield wall while being pulled by an ATV on rollerblades. Unfortunately, I could not find a video or any photos of this incident. I assume it looked something like...
Let Manny be Manny somewhere else
This year seemed different. Manny seemed like a new man. Manny seemed to genuinely care. He was running out groundballs, looking somewhat competent in the field, and actually talking to the media at times. It seemed like he was doing the whole contract year thing in hopes of getting the club option...
The Byrd Man Flies into The Hub
ESPN is reporting that the Boston Red Sox have acquired Paul Byrd from the Cleveland Indians.Here are some fun facts so you can get to know the newest member of Red Sox Nation...- He has an old-timey windup that hasn't been seen since the deadball era- He is nicknamed "Frasier" because he resembles...
My Top 5 BoSox Brawlers
Rich Levine over at Comcast Sports Net's Wicked Good Sports wrote a piece on the Top Five BoSox Bar Brawlers of the Last 20 Years. Although he made some strong cases for the guys he picked, I think he made a few oversights. So, here is my list of the guys I would want on my side during a bar room...
Boston loves BC
Many athletes from BC have left their mark on the Boston sports scene and I'm not talking about Doug Flutie or Dana Barros. I'm not even talking about that school out in Chestnut Hill with the basketball team full of thugs. I'm talking about the real BC, the Canadian province of British Columbia.As...
Do these look like All-Star numbers to you?
.218 7 HR 27 RBI 70 KsApparently these are the type of numbers that get you a place on the 2008 AL All-Star team.This wasn't a case of overzealous fans stuffing the ballot for their guys. It was the players who dropped the ball on this one. Maybe they thought that the Red Sox needed to be...
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