Toeing the Rubber

Cyn | April 8, 2013

While I will admit to losing interest in the game after John Lackey had to come out, I will also admit to not even caring that the Red Sox dropped one to the Blue Jays this weekend. Didn’t like to see Lackey go down that way (and there is cause for hope both with his [...]

Category: 2013 | 6 Comments »
Tags: Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Fenway Park, John Lackey, Jose Iglesias, Opening Day 2013, R.A. Dickey, Toronto Blue Jays, Will Middlebrooks

Cyn | February 12, 2013

I feel like the last 16 months have been part of the longest off-season in the history of baseball. Last week I was forced to miss attending Truck Day for the first time in about five years and for a couple of days I really dwelled on how miserable that made me.  And it was [...]

Category: 2013 | 7 Comments »
Tags: Boston Red Sox, John Lackey, Mike Napoli, MLB, Spring Training 2013, Will Middlebrooks

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 [...]

Category: 2011 | 2 Comments »
Tags: 2011 Gold Gloves, Adrian Gonzalez, Ben Cherington, Boston Red Sox, Dale Sveum, Dustin Pedroia, Gold Glove, Jacoby Ellsbury, John Lackey, Pete Mackanin