The Dog Days of August

1 year ago, I was horribly horribly wrong. I raved about Theo’s most recent trade acquisition, Eric Gagne. I told you how it made us the best bullpen in the majors (with the at the time unbeatable Okajima, and Papelbon.) I told you how it was a godsend that he didn’t wind up in pinstripes. [...]

So… much… pitching…

I love it!
The Red Sox have pitched their way into the #1 record in the MLB.
Starting with Daisuke and his shutout 6 2/3 innings last weekend, and finishing off with Lester’s no-no, Masterson’s first win and a promising start from and old Cy-Young winner, we have now rattled off 6 in a row.
Let’s not forget [...]

April baseball brings… May Baseball!

April is over kiddies. It was a fun month. In recent years I’ve realized how much April really doesn’t matter. April is like pre-season games that actually wind up on your W-L record. Nobody is “out” yet, even if your team is struggling. Let’s look at what happened in April, good points, bad points, and [...]

Offseason Updates

I apologize to those who have been checking for updates and haven’t seen any in a while. I have been following everything in baseball, I just have not had time to write about it. In any event, I thought I’d do a little catching up. Mitchell Report I’d like to start by expressing my huge excitement that nothing in [...]

2007 Baseball Awards

It’s over ladies and gentlemen. 2007 was a great baseball season filled with records, magic, underdogs, and juggernauts. Now it’s time to take a look back and pick my Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, and MVP awards. These are my picks, not the actual winners, though I’m hoping they closely align.
 AL [...]

Boston Red Sox: 2007 World Series Champions

There are no questions now, the 2007 Red Sox are the best team in Major League Baseball. With the best record in the regular season, the Sox proved what they are made of, winning 7 straight postseason games to win the fall classic, one game less than their ‘04 winning streak.
Congratulations to the Boston Red [...]

Red Sox 2 – Rockies 0: The Sox Can’t be Stopped

Ubaldo Jimenez? Really? As someone who generally follows the American League much closer than the National League, I was awfully surprised to hear Ubaldo Jimenez was pitching game 2. I’m just so used to seeing bigger names in postseason play. I didn’t know much about this guy, just that he threw hard.
 And throw hard he [...]

World Series: Red Sox – Rockies

The Red Sox have done it again. After spectacular pitching performances by Schilling, Beckett, and Matsuzaka, as well as the offence waking up a little, the Sox climbed out of a 3-1 hole against what I think is a lesser team in the Indians.
 Yes, I put Matsuzaka in that category. I know he only went [...]

Postseason ‘07

October. I love it. This is what baseball fans wait all year for. This year has a completely different look to it. Last year was a year where the Red Sox collapsed due to injury, the Tigers were the young guns proving they belong. Only the Yankees and Padres were in the playoffs last year [...]

Beckett for Cy Young

Josh Beckett just pitched himself a Cy Young award.
Beckett just became the first 20 game winner of 2007, and as ESPN keeps pointing out, the first since 2005. I think the “first 20 game winner since 2005″ statement is being
overplayed. It was only one year, last year, that there wasn’t a 20
game winner, and Wang had 19. I [...]