Archive for the "Jonathan Papelbon" category

 

Who you gonna call? Tim Wakefield!

 

When you’re feeling bad, and you can’t beat O’s. Who you gonna call? Tim Wakefield!
Allright, just admit it. If the Red Sox had lost to Tampa last night, you would have been calling up Dan Aykroyd to figure out what kind of curse the ghost of George Steinbrenner put on the Boston bullpen, anyway.
Wakefield’s [...]

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Down the stretch they come?!?

 

Can we call it a race now?

Hideki Okajima has been spectacular, but he and his bullpen mates have been some of the only bright spots of late.
Boston currently leads New York by six games. Only six games. That’ll still be true tonight when the Red Sox roll into Camden Yards (for the epic “Take [...]

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The Morning After: The highs and Lo-hans

 

Thank God that West coast trip is over. You know that’s what the entire Red Sox roster was thinking on the flight back home last night.

There’s nothing low about Lohan on the beach.
While the sox are taking the afternoon off today, fans had a chance to ponder three sloppy games, two of which ended [...]

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The Second Cup: Seattle salvation

 

Finally! A Sox win in Seattle! I can’t use enough exclamation points here!! Allright, never mind. That got old fast. Luckily, the best writing about the team today didn’t.

Dice-K was looking good much of the first seven innings last night, as he was here dealing to Ichiro.
BOSTON HERALD
For once, bats life Dice-K- It [...]

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The Morning After: A Smart win

 

Need to start today’s TMA with an admission: I’m a huge Amy Smart fan. Huge.

If Amy Smart doesn’t make you excited, you should check your pulse.
That being said, how can last night’s win be called anything but smart? Dice-K tossed a solid, stingy game; one run through six, solo shot in the seventh. And with [...]

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The Second Cup: Best of a nice Sox night

 

Hi everyone. Sorry for this morning’s delay, but the fabulous Sox Nest admin site was getting some cosmetic surgery last night, but kept us from a TMA (The Morning After) post this morning. Crushing I know. But have no fear, we’ll work the Sharon Stone photos in some other evening (you know that was a [...]

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Got Gagne, but no Dye-ing Sox … yet

 

Got ‘em.
That has to be the feeling among Sox brass this afternoon, who surreptitiously swept down and snatched up Eric Gagne from the Rangers before the deadline, stealing him away from the Yankees and Mets, both of which were in hot pursuit, among others.

Someone start getting a hat dirty, Eric Gagne is coming to Beantown.
The [...]

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The Second Cup: Home sweet dome

 

OK, let me get this straight. When it looks to easy to be true it is. But then when it looks like a disaster it isn’t? Only in Tampa Bay, where there really are natural disasters in October. Or, for that matter, throughout the baseball season.

6 2/3 with four runs? Yeah, we’ll take that Jon [...]

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The Morning After: Oops, they did it again

 

Phew!
That was the collective sigh of relief from Red Sox Nation you just felt crossing the country like a cool breeze. It’s not every night you can watch Jonathan Papelbon blow a save by hanging a meatball across the plate, and still find a team incompetent enough to let you come back and steal the [...]

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The Second Cup: Right at home

 

Interesting notes in a lot of the papers, though it’s not a surprise given the fan reactions across the country in recent seasons. But it did feel like yesterday’s win was a huge, transplanted Boston home game, didn’t it? That’s gotta piss a home team off.

Get … outta … town. Or at least the [...]

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