Yesterday I was complaining on Twitter that NESN was shoving Johnny Damon down our throats. During the week preceding the Cleveland Indians coming to Fenway, every commercial for the weekend series promoted “the return of Johnny Damon” and ever game in the four-game series brought clips of Damon as a Red Sox player and...
Milwaukee Brewers closer John Axford had a sweet saves streak going, 49 consecutive saves to be exact, going into Friday’s game against the Chicago Cubs. While the Brewers ended up beating the Cubs in 13 innings, it happened at the expense of the streak,...
In August of 2008, the father of a 24 year-old Major League Baseball player died four months into the player’s first full season in the bigs. MLB offers their players seven days of bereavement leave, which this player took and then he went back...
Meet Paige Sultzbach. Because of her, high school baseball team Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Phoenix, Arizona, didn’t play in the state championship game and her team, Mesa...
To pretend things aren’t terrible now for the Red Sox and their fans is disingenuous. I know this. I know how genuinely awful things are right now. You don’t...
By now everyone has heard or read the terrible news about Red Sox PA announcer Carl Beane dying in a car accident yesterday. The news spread quickly online and...
I have long since come to terms with the fact that I’m odd. I’ve always been a little different than most folks and that hasn’t bothered me in quite...
So I went to Fenway on Friday night with Kelly O’Connor. She sent me a message the night before that read “… we have good seats tomorrow, which means...
I could live the rest of my life extremely happy if I never saw Aaron Cook’s sliced up knee ever again. So please, please stop sending me the link...
My first reaction to the news that Mariano Rivera was carted off the field in Kansas City after hurting himself while shagging foul balls in batting practice was “Why...
Back in February of 2009 I wrote a post about Will Middlebrooks basically crowning him my favorite minor leaguer. I was fortunate to get to see him in a...
(Man, this ended up longer than I planned. Be warned, I’m talkative today!) If you go to a ball game and stay long enough to see the attendance boasted...
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