Red Sox 5, Pirates 3: The Airing of Grievances…
2008-03-05 14:10:32
There seems to be a new trend in the sports world. Players make public the details of their contract negotiations, hoping to use that as leverage against the team they play for, and get more money. Which is apparently what Jonathan Papelbon is choosing to do in his contract negotiations. From Jonathan: “I’m at the [...]
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Red Sox 2, Marlins 3 Red Sox 2, Twins 2 You win some, you lose some…
2008-03-04 14:27:07
So Bartolo Colon is on his best behaviour, saying all the right things, and acting like a model citizen. He even pitched a very good 1st bullpen session on Monday morning, throwing 42 pitches to Doug Mirabelli under the watchful eye of pitching coach John Farrell who had this to say: “For not being on [...]
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Red Sox 24, Boston College 0 Red Sox 15, Northeastern 0 Pretty good way to start a season…
2008-02-29 08:55:10
Yeah, I know, they are only college kids, playing against World Champions, and I am not sure they college teams have EVER beaten the Sox, but it was still nice to have 14 innings (7 for each game)
And Josh Beckett did excellent in his 2 innings of work, keeping the Boston
College
players hitless, throwing [...]
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February 28, 2008: Happy 1st Spring Training Games Day!!
2008-02-28 11:44:19
Yep, today, Red Sox Nation, are the 1st 2 games of the years, yes, only spring training games, and against college players no less but its an actual organized baseball game with a lineup card and innings and strikes and balls and outs…..and in less than a month, it will all matter! Whooo [...]
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February 26, 2008: 2 more days until a baseball game!
2008-02-26 11:37:47
OK, I know, its just a Spring Training game, and that Josh Becket (or any of the other starters for that matter) will pitch no more than an inning or 3, and most of the starters will be gone by the 5th inning, to be replaced by young ‘uns we have never heard of–but it [...]
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February 25, 2008: Tons of weird stuff to talk about…
2008-02-25 11:54:38
OK, Manny has been weird…But dumping his current agent and signing with the Satan? Are you kidding me? Scott Boras??? Great–The 437-page report that is the justification as to why Manny CAN play as long as Julio Franco–at about $30-40 million a year is being prepped as we speak… And the weirdest thing? From Boras: [...]
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February 22, 2008: Getting Stranger and Stranger…
2008-02-22 12:25:52
Truly…has anyone checked for pods in Manny’s basement? Or proof of a robot or something? First he decides he loves it in Boston and wants the spend the rest of his career here (the same place he spent the 1st 6+ years on his contract trying to get out of it…) THEN, he arrives on [...]
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February 21, 2008: Everyone is Present and Accounted for…
2008-02-21 11:07:41
Seeing as Manny is ecstatically happy (for the moment) to be with the Sox, his arriving on time isn’t too much of a shock–I am more shocked by the whole “I am happy to be in Boston and want to retire here” stuff.. Just 1 year ago, he was threatening to boycott Spring Training, if [...]
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February 20, 2008: Happy Remainder of the Sox Players Reporting Day!
2008-02-20 10:21:01
Now, the games can officially begin! David Ortiz was at camp yesterday, and spent some time in the best place for him–the batting cages…From the big man himself: “I feel good…Getting almost 100 percent…just keep doing my thing…We’ll see if we can win another World Series, that would be kind of fun.”
Still no word on [...]
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February 19, 2008: Disappointment Abounds…
2008-02-19 11:34:16
Ya know, it’s a very sad state of affairs when a situation like this happens like what is happening with Curt Schilling and the Sox with this whole injury thing…
Curt Schilling will always be an icon to Red Sox Nation for what he did in 2004–And you know damn well that Pedro Martinez, or any [...]
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Red Sox 4, Mets 3: Breaking a nasty losing streak…
2008-03-12 11:32:13
Finally! After losing 6 in a row (and having 1 tie) the Sox, helmed by Tim Wakefield, managed to squeak out a win against the Mets…Wake did pretty well (any outing where he doesn’t give up 6 runs in an inning is a pretty good outing) going 4 innings and giving up 2 runs on [...]
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Red Sox 1, Mets 1: This just keeps getting better and better…
2008-03-11 12:15:52
Two weeks today, the Sox will play their 1st game of the 2008 campaign–in Japan. Three weeks today, the Sox will play their 1st game that isn’t on at 6:00 in the morning–but in the middle of the night (10:05pm) has that ever happened before that the Sox play a nightNIGHT game in April? Heck [...]
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Red Sox 0, Dodgers 4: Not even waiting for the hand basket…
2008-03-10 11:47:04
What…the…*(&$#@&*#()*&@*() is going on? On Friday, all looked well. OK, the Sox had lost a couple of games, but hell, its only Spring Training, it doesn’t even count….
Now, on Monday morning, RSN wakes to find Josh Beckett tweaked his back and had to leave his game on Saturday, and now it’s not even known if [...]
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Red Sox 6, Dodgers 9: Happy now?
2008-03-07 11:26:00
Well, Jonathan Papelbon got what he wanted–he broke Mariano Rivera’s record of $750K that he got in 1998 (with the same amount of time in the bigs) by agreeing to a 1 year $775K deal with the Sox yesterday. He also will receive a $25K bonus if he makes the All-Star team…His contract is the [...]
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Red Sox 6, Reds 7 Tied up 3-3
2008-03-06 11:36:18
The current Red Sox
Grapefruit records, that is. Javier Lopez has a rough day, getting lit up for 5 runs (all unearned) in the 6th inning, walking 1 hitting 1 and giving up 4 hits. Alex Cora went 2 for 2, which means that Sir Julio the Useless is still out with the bad back. [...]
Red Sox 3, Tampa Bay 3–In 10 Innings: Well, He didn’t suck…
2008-03-14 11:45:36
Going two innings yesterday, Bartolo Colon hit 94 on the radar gun a coupe time and threw a total of 26 pitches (18 for strikes),and gave up 1 run on 2 hits. He also walked and struck out 1. From Theo: “I’ll be honest with you — he had more arm strength than we expected…He [...]
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This just in: Mirabelli is Toast…
2008-03-13 11:59:57
Holy Buckets! The Sox released Doug Mirabelli this morning, apparently thinking that Kevin Cash can do just as well catching Wake, is young, and is cheaper…
Mirabelli was supposed to start is today’s game, and catch Bartolo Colon, but he has been scratched after this morning’s workout and replaced with Dusty Brown…
No official announcement has been [...]
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Red Sox 12, Twins 5 And the Sox win the Mayor’s Cup!
2008-03-13 11:37:07
Yeah, I know, its not that big of a deal–especially the way the Twins
have been the last couple of years, but its a win nonetheless, and with all the drama and injuries in the last week, but its nice to win SOMETHING…
Clay Buchholz did better than he has been, throwing 3.2 innings, giving up [...]
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Red Sox 4, Skanks 8: And how exactly was this a good idea?
2008-03-18 11:33:12
Yeah, OK, he did not suck in his 1st outing, but yesterday’s (against the SKANKS no less) was pretty horrendous. Of course, he thought he was stronger than ever–just had some control issues. Well, ya know what buddy? Not really feeling the love here…I KNOW the Sox need a 5th starter–but holy buckets, does it [...]
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Red Sox 3, Pirates 6: On the Mend…
2008-03-17 11:31:06
While Josh Beckett will not be joining his teammates in Japan (17 hours flight–each way does not equal good things for a bad back) he is certainly on the mend, throwing from 60 and 75 feet on flat ground yesterday without incident. Barring an unforeseen, he will throw from 90 feet today, then his normal [...]
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Red Sox 3, Blue Jays 4: Leaving on a Jet Plane…
2008-03-20 11:42:37
Did anyone, for a SECOND actually believe that MLB would let the Sox actually mess with their cake and boycott the HUGE money making deal that is the Japan trip–over less than $1 million dollars?? Me either
But it was a nice gesture on part of the players to actually CARE about someone other than themselves: [...]
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March 19, 2008 Road Trip!
2008-03-19 12:43:30
After today’s game, the Sox will get on a plane for a ridiculously long time to travel to Japan for the 4 games (2 exhibition against Japanese teams, and 2 against Oakland, which will kick off the 2008 campaign) They will then travel to LA fro 3 exhibition games, before kicking off the US portion [...]
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Red Sox 6, Oakland 5: In 10 innings… Happy Opening Day!
2008-03-25 11:40:07
How WEIRD is it that the Sox are finished with today’s baseball–even with extra innings
–before 10:00am…strange….At least they won…not that it was a pretty win…Daisuke was not super, going 5 throwing 95 pitches–only 51 for strikes, and giving up 2 runs on 2 hits (including 1 homers) while walking 5 and striking out 6…Could have [...]
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Red Sox 9, Yomiuri Giants 2: Less than 24 hours…
2008-03-24 12:57:16
To Opening Day! Whooo Hoo! Too bad the game is on at 6:00am tomorrow morning… UGH…But I have EPSN2 all of TiVo ‘ed up and ready to go…Since I really don’t like to watch games after they have happened, I am not sure how much of it I will actually watch…But the fact that relevant [...]
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March 27, 2008: Red Sox on a Plane…
2008-03-27 11:40:50
Fortunately, the trip from LA from Japan is a bit shorter time frame than from Florida to Japan, as they will probably get non-stop flight from Japan and LA…When I ran a simulation, it took a little under 12 hours, and that was stopping in Portland for less than an hour…
So hopefully the jetlag will [...]
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Red Sox 1, Oakland 5: And that is a Sayonara from Japan…
2008-03-26 12:53:07
Another crack of dawn–another game–although ESPN 2 will be televising it at 1:00pm for those of us who cannot get NESN–not that it matters–I’ll still be at work then…So I guess it will have to wait until next Tuesday nightNIGHT before I get to see any actual live baseball…CRAP…
But then again, after the abysmal game [...]
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Week #1: And the Winner Is…
2008-03-29 09:47:12
The Winner of Boston Red Thought’s 1st Giveaway–Week #1 is Ted D, fellow Crazy Red Sox Fan and blogger extraordinaire of Red Sox Dad.
Ted is the winner of the hottest new video game, PS3’s MLB08 The Show. Because Ted has an earlier version of Play Station, I will be donating his copy of the PS3 [...]
March 28, 2008: 4 More Days…
2008-03-28 10:55:12
Honestly! Didn’t we already do this countdown things? It would have been better to wait and started the season with everyone else next week (I am sure the Sox and Oakland would agree with me on that.) It’s worse to have 2 games (although I did not see a minute of either–Thanks Direct TV…) and [...]
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Baseball Handicapping: The Inside Track?
2008-04-01 19:11:15
While I do not normally bet on sports (being part of a Super Bowl pool amongst friends is about as far as I go) I have to admit that I knew very little about sports books or handicapping or any of the million and one ways people try to make the best choices (to, of [...]
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April 1, 2008: Happy Opening Day!…er…Again…
2008-04-01 09:46:39
In less than 12 hours the Sox will continue their quest for a 2nd World Series in as many years. While I think their chances are pretty good, I am not as confident as I was when Curt Schilling’s arm wasn’t about to fall off, or before Josh Beckett threw his back out, or Jon [...]
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