Prayer For Big Papi
With the news about David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez also being on “the list” of players that tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003, I thought I’d show Big Papi our support by saying a prayer for him. Large Father, Who bats at Fenway, Hallowed be thy game. The Nation won, You’re still number [...]
Poll Results : The Boston Red Sox Need Another Bat
This months poll questions asked the fans whether or not the Boston Red Sox needed to add another hitter to their line-up before the trade deadline. The results are in and you have overwhelmingly decided that the Red Sox do in fact need that power hitter inserted into the line-up, moving forward. Even after acquiring [...]
Nothing Better Than A Piece Of Cheese
Whether you’re painting the outside corner or just coming straight in with a piece of cheese, Dennis Eckersley has been around baseball long enough to know the language. Eck pitched in the majors as a starter and closer for 24 seasons. In his great career, Dennis was named league MVP one time along with the [...]
Move Over Carlton Fisk
Yesterday, Jim “Ed” Rice was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York along with Rickey Henderson. First off, congratulations to both men on very impressive careers and your respective inductions to baseball immortality. Rice played all of his 16 years with the Boston Red Sox (8 All-Star appearances), winning the Most [...]
Pete Rose Eligible For The Hall Of Fame
Imagine a world where the all time leader in hits is actually a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Pete Rose had a final tally of 4,256 hits. Known as Charlie Hustle, Rose also holds the all time records for games played (3,562), at-bats (14, 053) and outs (10,328). Pete [...]
Boston Bruins And Red Sox Making Moves
Two things have happened since I woke up to go to work today. First, the Boston Bruins traded Aaron Ward to Carolina for Pat Eaves. The Bruins then released Eaves afterward. Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe made the point that there were multiple reasons for this to happen: By trading Ward the Bruins clear [...]
Are You Ready For Some Football
With teams ready to start the season, I got all inspirational again, providing you with Al Pacino giving his locker room speech from Any Given Sunday. Thanks to Jonathas Scott for the poster from Any Given Sunday.
Boston Red Sox Trade Two Minor Leaguers For Adam LaRoche
Yesterday afternoon, the Boston Red Sox made a deal for Adam LaRoche of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Boston Globe Newsletter reports that the deal sends Double-A Portland shortstop Argenis Diaz and Single-A Greenville pitcher Hunter Strickland to the Pirates for LaRoche. The value of a left-handed hitter has proven to be worth it at Fenway [...]
Michael Vick Awaiting Conditional Reinstatement
Michael Vick completed his sentence for dog fighting charges on Monday. Analysts are already all over Michael Vick signing with a team in the NFL. The two teams that have been mentioned that I strongly agree with are the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins. Reason being, personnel like Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick [...]
Matt Cassel Signs 6-Year, $63 M Deal
Last week, Matt Cassel got his pig payday from the Kansas City Chiefs under the management of former New England Patriots executive Scott Pioli. While acquiring Cassel, the Chiefs also got linebacker Mike Vrabel from the Pats for a second round pick. Does it surprise you that someone who left New England decides to scoop [...]
Don't Give Up. Don't Ever Give Up.
This weekend I got a chance to watch the ESPY Awards and was actually impressed with the ceremony itself, the fan voted awards and class of the athletes in attendance. The ESPY’s are a great way to reward an athlete for their spectacular performance on and off the field. The fact that the fan votes [...]
Boston Red Sox Player Profile : Clay Buchholz
Clay Buchholz is one of many Red Sox pitchers to develop through the Boston farm system from the beginning of their career. Clay began his major league career in 2005 with the Single-A Lowell Spinners. Buchholz has always been a gem for the Sox until last season when something just seemed terribly wrong as he [...]
9 Amazing Boston Sports Blogs
1. SOX & Dawgs – Ian Bethune started his blog with the Boston Red Sox and UCONN Huskies as his main focus. Sox & Dawgs then added the New England Patriots and Boston Celtics to their blog as well. Ian keeps me posted on the daily line-up and opponent of the Sox with information about [...]
'Roids Are All The Rage
I recently picked up Jose Canseco’s New York Times Bestseller, Juiced. In his first release on the Steroid Era in baseball, Canseco starts with his life story and works his way toward his major league career. The Cuban born Canseco went from a scrawny 220 pound Rookie of the Year in 1986 to a devastating [...]
Pedro Martinez Signs With Phillies
Yesterday, Pedro Martinez signed a 1 year/$1 M deal with the Philadelphia Phillies. With incentives, Martinez could earn an extra $1.5 M on top of his contract. Pedro was immediately placed on the 15-Day DL by the team and there is no time table as to when he will appear with the major league club. [...]
Manny Shouldn't Have Been An All-Star
On June 1st, we asked you if you thought Manny Ramirez should be allowed to play in the 2009 All-Star Game. The results are final and the fans spoke loud and clear. Manny shouldn’t have been allowed to play in the all-star game. The best part about this, he dropped in the voting and wasn’t [...]
Do The Red Sox Really Need Another Bat?
The Boston Red Sox are a game ahead of the New York Yankees in the AL East race. I can remember over the years past the leads the Sox have had going into the All-Star break and watching them quickly disappear after the return to regular season play. With multiple players on the DL, maybe [...]
It's Gino Time!
With the newly acquired Rasheed Wallace, the Celtics are very excited for next season. Not only are the fans and the team excited, but so is this guy. Thanks to Eric Kilby for the picture of Gino on the big screen at The Garden.
Happy Birthday SportsFanGirl
Today is the SportsFanGirl’s birthday! You’re great enough to come by and check my blog everyday just to make me happy. I figured I’d surprise you and hopefully put a smile on your face while you’re at work. I hope you have a great day, you’re the best, sorry I couldn’t get today off as [...]
Boston, A Retirement Home For Championships
The Boston Red Sox preformed a miracle when they won the World Series in 2004 after coming back to beat the Yankees in the ALCS after being down three games to none. All around town we were being told over and over again, “it’s never been done before”, “no one’s ever come back after losing [...]
Boston Red Sox Player Profile : Aaron Bates
Aaron Bates is ranked #20 overall for the Boston Red Sox top prospects this season. Aaron was drafted in the 3rd round (83rd overall) of the MLB draft by the Red Sox in 2006 at only 22 years of age. The young outfielder/first basemen lingered in single-A and double-A ball since he was drafted and [...]
Record Setting Six Red Sox Named To All-Star Team
The Boston Red Sox are sending a major league high six players to the 2009 All-Star Game in St. Louis. Dustin Pedroia (2nd ASG) and Jason Bay (3) have been named all-star starters with Kevin Youkilis (2), Josh Beckett (2), Tim Wakefield (1) and Jonathan Papelbon (4) all taking the trip to compete for home [...]
Rasheed Wallace Signs With Celtics
The big news for the Celtics this off-season has finally landed. Boston signed Rasheed Wallace, former Detroit Piston, to a two year deal at the mid-level exception ($5.6 M – $5.8 M). The mid-level exception is used for teams that are already over the salary cap. Here is a very nice definition of the mid-level [...]
Nomar Garciaparra's Return To Fenway Park
In his first at bat in the confines of friendly Fenway since July 24, 2005, Nomar Garciaparra got a one minute standing ovation that put the game on hold. Nomar looked like he didn’t want the time to end. As Nomar looked around, raising his hand, helmet and applauding the crowd, you could see the [...]
Manny Back In The Swing Of Things
Manny Ramirez returned from his 50 game suspension for the use of performance enhancing drugs on July 3. Manny’s suspension began on May 7, 2009 after he tested positive for hCG (Human chorionic gonadotropin). Learning from Manny’s suspension that hCG is a female fertility drug sometimes used when cycling off steroids, I looked for more [...]
Steve "Air" McNair Killed?
With the Internet these days you never know what could and couldn’t be true. Going through my daily routines of checking e-mail, twitter, google reader (for the other blogs I keep up with), fantasy baseball and the works. The first Tweet I read was from @soxanddawgs: RT @BreakingNews is working to confirm Nashville media reports [...]
Tim Wakefield; All-Star Caliber
This season, Tim Wakefield is 10-3 with 4.18 ERA and a WHIP of 1.36 in 15 starts. In his 94.2 innings pitched, Wakefield has given up six home runs and allowed 36 walks, ringing up 50 batters. In all of his games started, Tim has a strikeout to walk ratio of 1.39. Wake is on [...]
