Not The Warmest of Welcomes For Gonzales
NUMBERGATE!Mike Cameron, the 16 year veteran, decided not to relinquish uniform number 23 to incoming perennial All-Star first baseman Adrian Gonzales. Gonzales has worn number 23 for the last 5 years, basically his entire career. No one would expect the older Cameron to give up his uniform number if he has had a long storied career with number 23 but that simply isn't the case. Cameron has
The Greatest Story Never Told
THE BOOKSTORE STORY A website states that Carl Crawford is set to open antique book store in Boston.With a new $142 million dollar contract with the Boston Red Sox, outfielder Carl Crawford can now pursue his decades-long dream of running an antiquarian bookstore. After being introduced by the Red Sox in Boston last week, Crawford immediately stepped into the car of his real estate agent,
Paps Rocking the Bottle Service
Jonathan Papelbon celebrates his 30th birthday at the Wynn in Vegas with Dustin Pedroia, and Jacoby Ellsbury. So much for the theory that Ellsbury is a cancer on the team if he is rocking off season with two clubhouse leaders. Full Story via boston.com
Red Sox Hire New Pitching Coach
Esteemed Sox pitching coach John Farrell failed up all the way to manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. What does this mean? Next year NESN cameras will have to find a new face to home in on every time Josh Beckett has a shaky inning. Whose face will that be? Curt Young. Curt Young's team ERA was far 3.58 compared to the Red Sox 4.2. Josh Beckett had the worst year of his mature career finishing
The Results Are In
Red Sox 2010 team RankingsAVGRHRERA .2688182114.2 East Division1st2nd2nd3rd American League 4th2nd2nd8th
You Know You Have Bad Pitching When...
"We believe in A.J. I know it's been a tough year for him at times this year, but we believe in A.J.''It's nearly a head-in-the-clouds statement, given that Burnett has been either unpredictable, if one is being charitable, or terrible, if one is not. He went 10-15 with a 5.26 ERA, one of the worst performances by a Yankee allowed to start for an entire season. Add to that the fact that Burnett
Closing Time
"It was really tough tonight. Considering I'm not only pitching against the hitter, I'm pitching against the umpire... I mean, when you've got to do that against this lineup, you'll never be successful. It just won't happen."- Jonathan Papelbon after blowing a save against the Yankees Full Story via ESPN
The End is Near
Even Big Papi Knows its Over... But He Says It Isn't Look, we still have 31 games left, and that's what I'm focusing on. You never know what can happen. We're going to have to keep on playing. The only thing we can do to change things this last month is to win as many as we can." . What's killed us is all these injuries. Youk, Pedey, Ellsbury -- those are three big pieces to take out of our
Hall Pass
Bill Hall PassHall hits two homers and knocks in four RBI as the Sox move to 3.5 back it the wildcard.
Better Late Than Never
Check out this funny video about Nick Swisher All Star campaign that beat out Youk.http://www.tauntr.com/content/vote-youk-campaign-video
No Power Shortage For Ortiz in Second Half
I laugh a little when I hear how the Home Run Derby can affect your season after that. That's not how it goes for me. You're tired the next day, but it's not like you're going to carry that to the rest of the season. You get tired from taking a lot of powerful swings, but it doesn't carry over."-- David Ortiz July 13 2010
The Sox at the All Star Break 2010
5 Games Out.Not exacly how the Sox wanted to go into the beeak but it could have been worse.
Ortiz Wanted Splash Down
I'll tell you one thing, too. I'm glad we're done with Interleague. I was able to hit a home run in that water on Sunday in San Francisco, and you know I wanted to hit that water bad. But it's not easy stepping in against a guy like Tim Lincecum after not playing for two days in a row." David Ortiz
The Amazing Pedroia
In the last 10 games Pedroia raised his average from .263 to .293.In late June that's amazing! I've been feeling good at the plate lately, been seeing the ball good, hitting the ball all over the place. When you feel good, the only thing is you've got to get a good pitch to hit. Tonight, I got good pitches to hit and I didn't miss them. I didn't see where it went. I just saw the left fielder
NY Pitches In
What a difference a month makes. May 22nd the Red Sox were 8.5 games out of first place in the AL east. A month later, thanks in part to a terrible start by A.J. Burnett Monday night, the Sox have moved to a half game back of the top spot.
John Henry on Manny's Return
We've never had a harder worker or a more entertaining player. He was a star who provided great, great moments on an almost regular basis.
THE RETURN OF THE LASER SHOW!
THE RETURN OF THE LASER SHOW!Physically, I'm feeling better, which is a good thing. Seeing the ball better. Working hard, just translating into the game now, which is when it gets fun. I'll be fine." --Dustin Pedroia on his knee pain and recent struggles
And now a message from Greater Boston Tickets about Roger Waters
Roger Waters The Wall Tour 2010 Roger Waters solo world tour in 2007-2008 Was a huge success and he is following it up with The Wall 2010 - 2011 tour. Roger Waters management has confirmed that "Roger is touring The Wall in its entirety in 2010 and 2011". The official announcement took place on Monday April 12th at 2pm est. "Thirty years ago when I was kind of an angry and not very young
A Salty Dog
Ortiz: I was mad. I was totally mad!...You gotta believe with your players. Period You choose to have me on your roster, since day one. You gotta ride with me. Buckley: So you are saying Terry Francona on the day didn't believe in you?Ortiz: You say it.Buckley: Well no he must of said it because he sent up a hitter for you. Ortiz: Why you bring the case up? I turned the page already.Buckley:
The Ortiz Hustle
The Ortiz Hustle I don't think my (hitting) was worse than last year at this time. Not even close. So I don't know. I just had lousy luck at the beginning of the season. Things weren't coming through, but I was missing pitches with good swings. Bad luck. Nothing I can do about that." -- David Ortiz GOOD SWINGS? PLEASE
Yankees Suck! At Drinking Too
Male Mets fans were 43% more likely than Yankees fans to drink beer. They also drink more in general: the percentage of male Yankees fans who said they don't drink was almost double that of their Mets counterparts (30% to 16%).Via WSJ
THE BIG PAPI LASER SHOW
Yet Another Reason to Love Dustin PedroiaDavid’s fine. He’s one of our teammates. It could have been me who hit into a double play. It happens to everybody. He’s had 60 at-bats. A couple of years ago I had 60 at-bats and I was hitting .170 and everybody was ready to kill me too. What happened? Laser show." --Dustin Pedroia 05/04/10After David Ortiz went 0-4 and lowered his average to the team low
OH WHAT A NIGHTmare
The day started off well with a Bruins playoff win, but the Celtics and Red Sox ended the day in Roethlisberger fashion.
Jason Bay Hits Like A Girl
It looks like Rotowire is giving Jason Bay the the Terry Glen treatment with some bad grammar to boot.
McDonald I'm Loving It!
IT IS ABOUT TIMETO HAZE THE ROOKIEDarnell McDonald gets pummeled by his new Red Sox teammates
Hey Joe Blow
"It's not like I can call up Joe Blow from 2003 and say, 'Hey, when your wife died how did you go about it?' This is all new to me."--Scott Schoeneweis Schoeneweis's wife was found dead in their house last year from an apparent drug over dose.
Your 2010 Improvements to Fenway Park
Per a "Red Sox" press release1. Left Field 1934 Seating Bowl Concrete Repair, Waterproofing and New Seats The concrete in the Lower Left Field Seating Bowl, originally constructed in 1933-34, has been repaired and waterproofed. As part of this project, the Dugout Seats, and Field Box Seats have been replaced with new seats that now contain cup-holders and cushioned seats to pad your
Papelbon Pitches on DRUGS!
He took his [DRUGS] and thought he was going to be fine and really wanted to get his work in, but you could tell just watching him out there he wasn't himself." -- Terry Francona Tito spoke yesterday on why a weary Paps got rocked out on the mound after giving up 6 runs on 5 hits. Apparently Papelbon had a migraine prior to the game and took his migraine medication to deal with the symptoms.
Jason Bay and JD Drew Talk
"Hey JD, thanks for all those tips on making sure the media and the fans will never feel connected to me."
Nomar: $60,000,000 or $37 and a Hot Dog? You decide.
A very interesting read about Nomar's odd choices and ever odder end to his career written up by Rob Borges of the Boston Herald. The full story of Garciaparra's sad end may never be known, but his friends will tell you he never really rejected that $60 million deal. He was at a barbecue when his agent called to say it was on the table but perhaps they could get more. Garciaparra supposedly
Big Changes for Jacoby Ellsbury in 2010
ELLSBURY DROPS HIS NUMBER AND MOVESBefore entering his third full major league season the Sox and Jacoby Ellsbury have decided to fix what wasn't broken. According the redsox.com' s depth chart Ellsbury has moved to left field and Mike Cameron is the starting center fielder. Also after two pretty good years of wearing the uniform number 46 Ellsbury has decided (or is now allowed) to wear the
Papelbon's Workout Video!
Papelbon's workout video:I got a copy of it. I get it in my weight room at home and pop it in, use it as motivation. Every time I'm in the gym struggling, feeling like [expletive], I look up at the TV, and it gives me a kick." --Jonathan Papelbon on watching his 2009 post season ending blown saveVIA Gordon Edes on ESPNBoston.com
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