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As Jason Bay bashed his second home run out of the park last night, I couldn't help wondering about one of the young men the Red Sox gave up for him, Craig Hansen. Whilst Bay is growing on me, I always hoped Hansen would develop into something special with the Sox. So, how is he doing in Pittsburgh? Not bad at all, is the answer to that. In his last four outings he has only given up one run, ...
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Got a comment on a post last week that read a-little-something like this (actually, this is a direct quote) dude im a huge baseball fan and I have a question: 1) Is it hard to make the Irish National Baseball team?? I have Irish descent and im curious. Well, first off, I am saddened to hear that being part Irish is bringing you down! As to the question at hand, short answer, 'Yes, however ...
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Catch the picture of the Spanish men's Olympic basketball team making 'slanty eyes' in an official team portrait? There is plenty of debate going on about this insanely ridiculous picture, but really it is all noise. It should not matter that the Chinese have (so far) taken this in their stride and ignored it. It shouldn't matter that nobody in Spain, nobody on the Spanish basketball team ...
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Here's the 411. Over the next couple of months I am going to crudely single out all but four teams and label them audaciously as having zero chance of winning the 2008 World Series. What will this arrogance get me? Nothing bar a torrent of abuse in the event I get it wrong and one of the chosen gang of Chug Monkeys turns out to be the World Series champs. Let's start insulting people! ...
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David Price
I thought I would be over it at this stage. However, it still looks odd. If you are a Red Sox fan, if you suffered through those up and down early nineties teams (not to mention what came before), if Nomar signalled the start of something better for you and if Manny confirmed that new look, well, this just looks odd, doesn't it? 3rd M Ramirez homered to right center 9th N ...
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Manny Ramirez
Nomar Garciaparra
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Kind of surreal, no? 1st D Ortiz homered to right, J Drew and D Pedroia scored. 0 3 1st J Lowrie doubled to deep left, M Lowell and J Bay scored. 0 5 1st J Drew singled to right, J Lowrie scored, K Cash to third on throw. 0 6 1st D Pedroia reached on infield single to third, K Cash scored, J Drew to second. 0 7 1st D Ortiz homered to center, J Drew and ...
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Dustin Pedroia
Marlon Byrd
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J.D. Drew
Kevin Youkilis
Boston Red Sox
So, for the next two months, every time a team loses a player to injury, are we going to have to suffer 'what about Barry Bonds' stories? Pass me the Advil already. That egotistical, narcissistic cheat gives me a serious headache. Nice short piece on the continued friendship of Pedro and Papi here in the NY Times by Jack Curry About Last night... Break up White Sox perfect game? Check! Break ...
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Barry Bonds
Pedro Martinez
Adam Dunn
Just throwing this out there, if you don't like it, spin it right on back at me. You know me, I absolutely hate the panic-mongering that goes on amongst many a Red Sox fan in the sprawling network/fan base that is Red Sox Nation. Drives me nuts. However, having said that, is tonight a make or break night for the Red Stockings? I'll clarify. What I mean is, if the Sox lose tonight, will it ...
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Dublin Hurricanes 7 Blacksox 5 Hurricanes veteran Tom Kelley The Dublin Hurricanes battled the Blacksox to a extra innings 7-5 win today in Shanganah Park, Shankill, improving their record further to 7-3 in a game that was a superb advertisement for Irish baseball. Both teams played in impressive fashion with the veteran Hurricanes ball-club finding a way to win in the clutch. Andrew ...
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Looking at the next couple of weeks ahead, this could be the make or break section of the 2008 season for the Boston Red Sox, in terms of the AL East anyway. Worrying about the playoffs can come later, right now Boston has to worry about getting there at all, locked in a fierce AL East battle with the upstart Rays and the 'Dad's Army' Yankees. A few weeks ago in a post about not panicking , I ...
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Here's the 411. Over the next couple of months I am going to crudely single out all but four teams and label them audaciously as having zero chance of winning the 2008 World Series. What will this arrogance get me? Nothing bar a torrent of abuse in the event I get it wrong and one of the chosen gang of Chug Monkeys turns out to be the World Series champs. Let's start insulting people! This ...
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Atlanta Braves
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I have been taking broadsides from some chap from NY over the last few days, it started as a baseball discussion and fell slowly into a mud-throwing exercise which culminated in him telling me (and hundreds of other people on the online forum involved) about how he once urinated on the wall at Fenway park. That reminded me of a Yankee fan I met once who I shall never forget. Never even got his ...
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So first things first, I love this, type
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what comes up in the returned hits Good old A-Frog. Ah yes. So there I was watching the Yankees beat the Angels Saturday night and the Yanks had a cosy little 5-2 lead. With A-Fraud stepping up to the plate I thought to myself 'Bet he goes yard'. Sure enough, Kapow, long solo shot off an already stunned ...
Hurricanes 16 Indios 0 The Hurricanes got the second half of their Irish league season up and running with a crushing 16-0 win over the Indios at the O'Malley Field in Corcaigh Park. With only six games left in the regular season the sense of urgency showed as the Hurricanes blasted to an early lead and never looked back. Captain Steve Divito, CF Tommy Hernandez and 2B Eric Valkys all had ...
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Carolina Hurricanes
So have you caught Manny's latest comments? He made this in his first interaction with the overly sycophantic LA pres, who fawned over him like he was the second coming of Kirk Gibson. "I'm going to look like a baby now . . . They got some rules here. I don't want them to treat me different than the other guys." Well here's what Family Guy's Stewie Griffin has to say about that... ...
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Manny Ramirez
The LA Dodgers squad is starting to look distinctly Red Sox-y Manny Ramirez, Derek Lowe, Nomar Garciaparra all under the tutelage of one Joe Torre, how super fantastically oddball is that? Imagine if, in 2003, someone had said to you 'Hey one day Manny, Nomar and D-Lowe will be playing for Joe Torre, on the Dodgers!', you would have immediately slapped said person in the face, just to knock ...
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He's batting over .280 with 22 bombs and over 60 RBIs. He's only 29 and he runs hard to first base every play. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Jason Bay. ....wait a second, he's Canadian?! Jason Bay wikipedia page Jason Bay ESPN stats page ESPN break the trade story I for one, am looking forward to watching this guy slot right into the lineup. Let's get it on. .
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You know, the more I think about it, the angrier I get about this while Manny situation. He is obviously completely cut off from reality if he thinks he is going to get any sympathy from the public at all with comments akin to his ‘they don’t deserve me’ shocker. I would ask Manny, what about Joe Punter from Dorchester? Does he deserve this? Does Joe Punter deserve to spend $140 of his hard ...
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I have been one of 'those' guys for a couple of years. One of those guys that Dan Shaughnessy or Eric Wilbur of the Boston Globe would label, somewhat correctly, a 'Manny Apologist' . Ever since his first Fenway home-run, in his first Fenway swing, I have been viewing Manny Ramirez and his Red Sox tenure through rose-tinted glasses. No more. The comment that did it? Innocuous enough. Manny was ...
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Trot Nixon
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Ever hear of Joey Barton? Not a very nice guy. Professional soccer/football player who recently did a stint in jail for assault. Anyway, I couldn't resist bringing you his comments he made upon his release, thoroughly enjoyable! "The first day's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in, hand you your uniform and force you to pose for the photographer while loads of fat, tattooed, ...
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The Anti Clutch