A Cry for Help

12:03 - Is there anything better in sports fandom than watching Manny and Papelbon give interviews. Manny said “it’s like I always say, man, you play hard and see what happens.” What?! And Manny looks directly into the camera when he talks. It’s great. Then Good Paper starts yelling at Ken Rosenthal. Dude is insane. [...]

Clearly this post is looking bad now.
However, while I’m not happy with the sad state of affairs in Red Sox Nation this week, I think everyone needs to take a step back. The Sox are going to make the playoffs, unless they somehow lose every remaining game this season. It’s possible the Yankees will win [...]

Sick:
In his last three starts, Tim Wakefield is 3-0 with a streak of 22 scoreless innings. His 16 wins match Beckett for most in the majors. Since June 12, Wakefield has 11 wins, most in the majors, and has a decision in all 26 of his starts.
Sicker:
In his last nine appearances, Papelbon has pitched nine [...]

The Red Sox are in Chicago this weekend, and today someone asked me why the games are starting at the seemingly random time 8:11pm. Well, in the Central time zone those games are starting at 7:11, which might remind you of a certain convenience store chain. Yup, 7-11 paid the White Sox $500,000 to start [...]

I’ll probably regret this, but I’m feeling good tonight.
Since it’s still way to early, no one has put this out there yet, but the Red Sox’s magic number is now 32. For non-baseball fanatics, this means that the Sox need to win X games and the Yankees have to lose Y games, and if X [...]

Ah, nice to see the Sox in the win column. Pitching looked pretty freaking good (though I did miss some middle innings to watch Lost) and JD Drew is leading a nice bit of early season offense. Sweet.
The only thing that spoils a solid blowout win on the road is the morons who think that [...]

Knocking off an hour early from work to watch the Sox, free coffee from Main Street’s UN-pretentious coffee shop, homemade salsa and Red Hook’s spring beer waiting at home. It’s a good day.
And while I write this, Big Papi’s first RBI of 2007. A really good day, indeed.
UPDATE: ok, well the whole “good things” stuff [...]

I’m watching the Sox game, and it’s 1-1 going into the bottom of the ninth in Minnesota. What a game! I hope Boston wins, of course, but even if the Twins pull it out, this one was worth the price of admission. Johan Santana striking out 13! Curt Schilling matching him out for out. The [...]

Baseball is a weird sport. Remember when, only two or three years ago, the Sox couldn’t buy a win against the Baltiore Orioles? When, despite a terribly average team, the O’s would take three out of every four games we played against them? Man are those days over!
Even the suddenly terrible Curt Schilling couldn’t give [...]

The good news: normal bedtimes, lower blood pressure (once the rage subsides), less Tim McCarver, no more Kevin Millar, and being able to watch Lost without flipping channels.
The bad news: resurrection of the perception that 2004 was an outlier and ugh, Ozzie Guillen.
Oh well. It’s not like anything could have topped last year, so [...]

By the time anyone reads this, today’s game will probably be over, but I’m just bursting with excitement. I wondered if this year would be less invigorating, but I’m pretty giddy now as the defending World Champions take on Chicago.
If anyone’s looking for predictions, I’m guaranteeing the Sox win the series. You can bet on [...]

In case you haven’t heard, this is what makes baseball so great. Red Sox-Yankees, the bite in the air, the tightening of the chest, the exhilaration, the electricity. Fenway in October. A-Rod vs. Papi.
And tonight… wow. Timlin, huge. Wells, awesome. Tek! Clutch game all around. I think I bruised my hand while pumping my fist [...]