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You Just Knew Bryce Harper’s 1st Trip to Fenway Would Yield Something Like This
The last three 19-year-old visitors to homer at Fenway Park: Robin Yount, Al Kaline and Mickey Mantle. The fourth was Bryce Harper. Strasburg and Harper were on display in Boston yesterday, helping the...
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The Return of King Felix
It’s a beautiful thing when something works out just the way you envisioned it to, even if it happens just once. I traded for King Felix about six weeks ago in fantasy baseball. Since then he has...
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Never Knew Pesky’s Pole Had So Much Grafiti on It
I figured that if the less famous distant cousin of the Green Monster is ever going to get a post on this blog, today had to be that day. Johnny Pesky was a Red Sox legend who hit .307 for his career,...
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YERRRRR FIRRRRRRRRRRRED!
Now that Red Sox season has officially been brought to it’s screeching halt, we have a parting gift for our old friend…… Have fun catching on with the Yakult Swallows over in Osaka or wherever the...
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2013 Boston Red Sox Team Preview
One of the iconic images in all of baseball lives in Boston. The Green Monster. Even just two years ago, I used to see this all the time when the Red Sox were playing on Sunday Night Baseball every...
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Joel Hanrahan Celebrates the longest sell-out streak in sports history by...
In case you didn’t hear, the longest sell-out streak in the history of sports ended tonight in Boston at 794 games. The streak was actually 820 games if you count the postseason. So how did the Red...
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Your Saturday Baseball Open Thread
After a tough and emotional week for this country, the game of baseball, the city of Boston, and America itself presses onward. All eyes are on the Boston Red Sox today, as they’re set to take on the...
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Big Papi is a wordsmith: Says what everyone in Boston was thinking
Today the Red Sox played the Kansas City Royals the day after the second brother of the Boston Marathin bombers was captured. There was a big celebration honoring all the first responders who aided...
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Yesterday in Boston was high drama
Yesterday’s Red Sox game at Fenway Park in the wake of tragedy provided some theater you can’t get with a Hollywood script. All day long the Red Sox were trying to come out of a hole against James...
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Francisco Liriano IcyHot Award: Jon Lester
The pained look on Lester’s face is shared by Red Sox nation right now. Jon Lester just isn’t the same guy anymore. After starting the year on a decent streak, he’s been nothing but terrible over the...
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Boston Red Sox 2014 Team Preview
As part of our season preview, we continue our trek through baseball’s 30 teams. Today’s team is the Boston Red Sox. For this preview I made a call to my old roommate – both in college and after...
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Replay FUBAR Leads to Morosi Idiocy
In its relative infancy, the replay system that Major League Baseball has employed, so far, has ran pretty smoothly. We aren’t getting as many meltdowns from managers, but the pace of the game isn’t...
View ArticleAnother really good baseball blog out there
I found another baseball blog I’ve ventured to several times in the past, but for the first time the other night I spent some significant time hunting around. It’s the Joy of Sox blog, and there’s a...
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Angels Survive 19 inning Marathon with Red Sox
[Box Score] [Boston Globe] [OC Register] This was a WILD one. I had the game on for much of it, and once again the Angels’ magical season rolls on through an improbable event. It was Albert Pujols’...
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The Moncada Butterfly Lands in Snowy Boston
Leave it to the Red Sox to jump in the act and make me look like a jackass. After I had told every Yankee fan I knew that Moncada was heading to the Bronx (Hank Steinbrenner made a strong bid), but...
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The Yankees Played 19 innings of Baseball tonight, And Lost
[Box Score] [Joy of Sox] This was the longest game in Yankees franchise history in terms of time – we actually had a friend at the game – for at least some of it. This game had a little bit of...
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Don’t Write off Josh Hamilton just yet
[Box Score] Remember when Josh Hamilton was written off, done for his career? Left for dead by his old team, the Anaheim Angels? It appears he doesn’t. Hamilton had a decent swing in his first at-bat...
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Mike Trout with some Friday Night Magic, is still the best player on the planet.
We did a podcast Friday afternoon with our buddy M.J. Lloyd, filling in for Mike Hllywa on the Monkeys With a Halo Podcast. During the gratuitous Mike Trout segment – a segment that has become...
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Jackie Bradley Jr. has hit in 27 straight
Jackie Bradley Jr. has hit in 27 straight ballgames for the Boston Red Sox. He did it by lacing a line drive single off Danny Salazar on Sunday. It’s now the fifth longest streak in Red Sox history...
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The count is 28 straight for Jackie Bradley Jr., Tying Wade Boggs
Jackie Bradley Jr. has hit in 28 straight games, smashing a ball off the monster in left off Jorge De La Rosa in what was about the most certain thing that was going to happen today. It’s not like De...
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