Toeing the Rubber

Cyn | May 22, 2012

I know it means nothing, especially given the two teams have identical records and the only reason they aren’t listed in last place is because B comes before N in the alphabet, but there is something psychologically soothing about seeing “Boston” above “NY Yankees” instead of anchoring the American League East in last place.  I’ll [...]

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Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Coco Crisp, Daniel Cabrera, Dustin Pedroia, MLB, Will Middlebrooks

Cyn | April 10, 2012

On Easter Sunday I got to watch much more of the game than I expected I would. After watching the team come back a couple of times only to eventually lose, the two people I was watching the game with both mentioned how they felt terrible for Alfredo Aceves and they wondered if, to protect [...]

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Tags: Alfredo Aceves, Boston Red Sox, Dustin Pedroia, Felix Doubront, Scott Atchison, Toronto Blue Jays

Cyn | November 2, 2011

We have Gold Gloves! Jacoby Ellsbury won his first, Dustin Pedroia his second and Adrian Gonzalez his third.  Let us rejoice in meaningless awards (with all due respect to our three winners who genuinely did good enough glove work to win the award…the fact that Derek Jeter has five of them including, inexplicably, last year [...]

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Tags: 2011 Gold Gloves, Adrian Gonzalez, Ben Cherington, Boston Red Sox, Dale Sveum, Dustin Pedroia, Gold Glove, Jacoby Ellsbury, John Lackey, Pete Mackanin