This post is not exactly related to the Sox. But I can’t let this go without a mention. There’s a debate raging on Boston.com about the merits of WEEI. Me? I don’t listen to WEEI. I haven’t since before the Pats lost the Super Bowl last year. I just couldn’t bring myself to tune in [...]
Entries from February 26th, 2009
Pond’d be good for you
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Boston.com, Caddyshack, WEEI
Tags: Boston.com·Caddyshack·WEEI
I’ll take some SPF 50, please
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Mike Lowell
From sunny Ft. Myers, the Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy talks about Mike Lowell. If there’s any player I’m pulling for on the 2009 Sox, it’s Mikey. A mere add-on in the acquisition of Beckett, and trade-bait in the ill-considered quest for Teixeira, Lowell has been a stellar performer every season–until late last year. Oh, and happy [...]
Get used to it
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Jason Varitek, Tito
It’s only spring training, right? But there’s a telling omission in tomorrow’s lineup. No Tek. We probably should get used to it. “We didn’t want to catch him back-to-back on the first two days,” Francona said today, as reported by Boston.com. Hmmm. If they want to hold him back this early, it does make you [...]
First in the tag cloud, last in your heart
February 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Jim Rice, Red Sox
I had planned to write a lengthy piece (you lucky readers, you) looking at how the media had fawned over the cheaters. Then I was looking at our tag cloud (it’s that doohickey off to the right with all the words in it) and saw that a certain Yankee third baseman was (and is) much, [...]
Thinning of the Herd?
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · NESN, Red Sox
I was fairly surprised by a stat which appeared in Tony Masseroti’s piece in the Globe today on the wane in interest in all thing Red Sox, namely this: NESN viewership dropped by nearly 20 percent last year. I was not expecting such a sharp decline in interest in the team following Modern Era Championship [...]
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The end of the beginning?
February 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · A-Roid, Alex Rodriguez
A-Roid thinks it’s over. He doesn’t get it. No one but A-Roid and his cuz know the full truth here. But he isn’t talking about it anymore. Is this the end? I think not. Not until we see that cousin (Yuri Sucart of Miami) on ESPN spilling his guts. Then it may be over. But [...]
“I want to clarify that, and by ‘clarify,’ I mean I want to confuse the issue.”
February 17th, 2009 · No Comments · A-Roid, Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees
Here’s some video of the A-Roid presser, covered so well by Derek earlier:
A-Rod Leaves Credibility In The Rearview Mirror
February 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · A-Roid, Alex Rodriguez, MLB, New York Yankees
Ground rules of the press conference: no follow-up questions. Translation: A-Rod may deflect your questions with whatever variant of “that’s not relevant”, “I’m not here to talk about the past”, “I don’t remember”, or I haven’t really thought about that.” The last of those was his reply to question #1, namely: “Had you not been [...]
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Big Papi speaks
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Big Papi, David Ortiz
The sound on this is awful, but it’s good to see Papi.
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Gestural slips, unilateral contempt and microfear
February 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · A-Roid, Alex Rodriguez, MLB, New York Yankees
Why they’re looking at Alex Rodriguez talking with Katie Couric and not the Gammons interview, I don’t know. Nonetheless, the NYT talks with a psychologist who is an expert on lying. Interesting piece. But, the thing is, we already know he’s lying. So, why not take a look at the Gammons interview for us, NYT? [...]
Tags: Alex Rodriguez·Baseball·Joe Torre·Katie Couric·MLB·New York Times·New York Yankees·Peter Gammons·Steroids