Archive for the "Editorials" category

 

From No-no to No-go: Not Clay’s day

 

Crap.
Red Sox fans had to know that Theo Epstein’s build from within program was eventually going to creep back around and affect the team’s success one season. The team has developed such strict pitch/inning counts on young pitchers, that it was inevitable eventually one young gun would make an impact, then be held back despite [...]

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Sometimes our best friends are the ones we hate

 

It’s almost impossible to get your head around, I know. But try anyway. Here it goes:
Today, the Yankees helped the Red Sox.

How great would it be to see that far left flag in red for the entire postseason? Pretty great, we think.
That’s right, thanks to a 4-1 Toronto win at Yankee Stadium, the Yanks [...]

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Should Sox fans be happy about a Wild Card consolation prize?

 

The Detroit Tigers lost this afternoon. They got blown away by the Cleveland Indians, the third time in as many days that happened. As a result, they’re officially cooked in the playoff races. Hope you like game meat, there’s plenty of tiger to go around.

Oh Jim Leyland. We can’t figure out whether to send you [...]

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Owwww

 

That one hurt.

If it had only been this SSS (Schilling Solo Shot), the Sox would have been alright. If only.
Ok, so it would have been one thing for the Sox to lose. But to lose for the second time in three days, in uber-dramatic fashion? They really could have cut their fans a little [...]

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Now THAT’S what we’re talking about!

 

There are big wins, and then there are games like yesterday’s rout of the Yankees. The Red Sox might have won the division without it, but it sure as hell would have been a hell of a lot harder to.

Beckett was dealing in the Fenway shade, just as the Sox needed him to.
Naturally, a [...]

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A shift in pitching direction?

 

It seems safe to say that Daisuke Matsuzaka’s year has undergone a drastic shift in direction.

Dice-K has struggled the last couple of weeks, and there’s plenty of speculation that his season may be out of sorts.
A month and a half ago, Dice-K was being called a first-year phenom. After an occasionally rocky start, the Japanese [...]

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Dateline Fens: Jays at Sox

 

As we prepare for the latest incursion by the senior blowhard of the Red Sox staff (cough, cough Curt Schilling, cough), with the latest Baseball-Reference preview, it’s hard not to turn the spotlight to one of his younger - much younger - teammates.

So far, Jacoby Ellsbury has been a hit with teammates and fans.
Jacoby [...]

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The inevitable surge?

 

Here comes the inevitable surge, right?

Josh has come up big most of the year, but his performance down the stretch may win or lose him the Cy Young.
With the Yankees embroiled in a sudden minor downslide, 2 straight losses, one of which came in a crucial game against fellow AL Wild Card contender Seattle, the [...]

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In Clay we trust?

 

Well, even Wakefield can’t get a decision every time, right? Maybe Clay Buchholz can.
Tonight the Sox had better hope he can, or else the losers of four straight will become losers of five straight. Rosters couldn’t expand fast enough, and now that they have the young phenom will get his second start of the [...]

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Dragnet Home sweet home: Orioles at Red Sox

 

If ever there was a blueprint for bouncing back from a sweep, this would be it, wouldn’t it?

Is this what you thought a Radhames Liz would look like? Well, it should be. And just think, if you reversed his first and last name, you might get a fashion designer!

The Red Sox return home to [...]

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