Archive for the "The Second Cup" category

 

The Second Cup: Game over, good and bad

 

Let me get this straight: The Red Sox land Eric Gagne but miss on an equally huge trade, for Jermaine Dye. Curt Schilling starts in AAA, all on the undercard of the biggest trade in any sport over the past three years, sending Minnesota basketball superstar to … Boston. And then, of course there’s Patriots [...]

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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 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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The Second Cup: Bounce back Beantown

 

Now THAT’S what you call an offensive explosion!

The Coyote bit back last night in Cleveland. Throwing him a fastball? Bad call, amigos.

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
Sox hit ‘em with both barrels - Joe McDonald leads with the huge hits from … Wily Mo Pena. In fact, he hardly touches on Manny Ramirez’s two humongous shots. But he does [...]

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The Second Cup: Get the network sensors ready

 

Did anyone catch Josh Beckett’s post game comments? Oh yeah, that’s right, last night was a game at the Jake. So much for a potential sweep on the road, eh?

Another night, another loss without run support for Beckett.
BOSTON GLOBE
This duel doesn’t go Sox’ way - Amalie Benjamin’s game story leads with a clever tie-in from [...]

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The Second Cup: Reflections on a revelation

 

It’s always a beautiful morning the day after everything goes right in a game against a top AL rival. But it never hurts to have terrific weather to boot, does it?

Dice-K was dealing last night.
BOSTON HERALD
Dice-K drives in a run - Jeff Horrigan drops a Lindsay Lohan bombshell for a lead (he’ll be at the [...]

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The Second Cup: Suddenly, a real fifth starter

 

Well, I think all Sox fans can agree that Kason Gabbard has been a nice surprise, huh? Evidently, so can all the writers.
BOSTON HERALD

Eric Hinske had a nice day at the plate, but expects to soon have an even better one in a hospital delivery room.
Gabbard-led Red Sox burn Chicago to Crisp - While the [...]

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The Second Cup: Are you kidding me?

 

There’s no way anyone can actually say that they predicted the Sox would lose this series with Kansas City. That being said, they lost it. So, how did Boston drop two of three to the pereniall AL Central doormats … AT HOME? Here’s how the papers saw it:

Julian Tavarez may have plenty of time [...]

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The Second Cup: Wrong kind of Royal Flush

 

Let’s not talk about last night’s loss, shall we? How ’bout we just get to the headlines, and make the people who HAVE to talk about it for a living do it …
PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
Royals thump Sox, 9-3 - Steven Krasner leads his game story with the thought that was already on so many Sox fan’s [...]

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The Second Cup: A true Kason point

 

OK folks, hard to beat last night, huh? The other writers seemed to think so, too:
BOSTON HERALD

Kason had a lot to tip his cap about.
Kason point - The title says it all for Jeff Horrigan’s gamer. The main-man was spectacular, though Horrigan notes how impressive Brian Bannister was in spurts for the Royals. [...]

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