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A comeuppance is coming your way, pal. Oh, another one just happened to get away from you on Friday night, heading for Youk's head in the seventh inning. Oh, it just happened to get away from me, right? The bullshit "Roger Clemens excuse" when he went after Mike Piazza years ago. (I heard you were buddying up with the Texas Con Man when you joined the MFY last season. It all makes sense.) ...
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On Thursday night, August 7, the documentary featuring many of Professor Thom's regulars, "Blessed! Still We Believe 2," will have a special screening at Thom's at 8 PM that evening. Many of Thom's regulars, including myself, make appearances in the documentary. It has been well-received, and if you'd like more information about it, go here . I hope many of you can come out for this special ...
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David Ortiz returns to the Red Sox lineup tonight for the first time since his wrist injury of May 31. He was gone for 54 days, and the Boston Globe has an interesting breakdown of the Red Sox offensive numbers since he left. Believe it or not, the numbers actually improved: Batting average: .280 before; .279 after. Runs per game: 5 before; a hair over 5 after. Home runs per game: 1.05 ...
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David Ortiz
Manny Ramirez
My buddy Chris Wertz of Professor Thom's today announced that he is tossing his hat into the ring and running for the coveted position of "Governor of New York State" for Red Sox Nation. As many of you know, the Sox are having a governor for Red Sox Nation for each US state, and the election of one for New York is currently underway. Of course, I have a vested interest in this, as if Chris ...
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I think many of you may remember this: And this, later in the same game: And of course, this: Which led three months later to this: It was four years ago today that the Red Sox played one of the most memorable regular season games against the Yankees at Fenway Park, which many feel was the turning point of the 2004 season. Such enduring images: Slappy tastes a faceful of Tek's glove, ...
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Fenway Park
Mariano Rivera
It was a long and frustrating day in Seattle for the Red Sox in the finale of the series, as they left runners everywhere and had a game go to 12 innings. But the result was a good one, and the Sox swept the lowly Mariners to gain a split in the road trip, going 3-3, with the 6-3 win. Mike Lowell (pictured) was the hero, as he turned a terrific round-the-horn double play in the 11th, and ...
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Jose Vidro
Daisuke Matsuzaka gave the Red Sox a big shot in the arm last night, pitching seven shutout innings until faltering in the eighth, allowing two runs to end his scoreless string at 24 1/3 innings. Hideki Okajima showed flashes of what he did so consistently in 2007, getting the final two outs (getting away from his tightrope-walker act), and Jonathan Papelbon got his 30th save to give the Red ...
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Seattle Mariners
Daisuke Matsuzaka
David Ortiz
Hideki Okajima
Jonathan Papelbon
We had 13 teams in for Trivia on Tuesday night, a bit below the number of teams we normally have been getting every Tuesday night. Many of the regulars weren't in last night, and I can imagine they may have been away on vacation or had other events to go to. (Should I be worried? I hope not.) But we still had a very spirited contest. The reaction to the double points "Movie Villains Trivia" ...
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My friend Adam, who's a whiz with numbers and stats regarding the Red Sox, sent me an email yesterday about the Red Sox having reached the 100 game mark for 2008. He's mostly positive about where the Red Sox stand right now. I thought it was worth sharing with you, my audience. The Red Sox have played 100 games. They have a .570 WP, 3rd best in the AL--even though they have been abysmal ...
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Jon Lester (pictured) gave the Red Sox 7 1/3 solid innings last night in Seattle and picked up his 8th win of the season as the Red Sox ended a three-game losing skid with a 4-0 win over the Mariners. Lester was superb, and until the eighth inning, was never in trouble. He scattered eight hits, struck out six, and walked no one. His sinker was terrific all night. He loaded the bases in the ...
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This Tuesday night, the special category for Trivia Night will be "Movie Villains Trivia." It will be a category worth double the points, as not only will I ask you for the movie the villain was in, but I will also ask you for the name of the actor or actress who played said villain. So the category could be worth 14 points if you really know your stuff. BTW, that is a picture of Dr. No from ...
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On his great site today, The Joy of Sox put up a really cool thing that I had to put up on my site. It's called "Wordle," and what it does is that it can take some words from your web site and mix them up in one setting. So I decided to do the same thing with mine. I liked the one that came up for The Mighty Quinn Media Machine , but I also created one just for me. It's a lot of words from ...
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"I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.' " -- ...
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I guess I'm glad I missed Sunday night's game after all. I followed it on my cell phone as I played softball last night. And it was another night Tim Wakefield gave the Red Sox a quality start and he came away with nothing. The Angels rallied in the eighth against Wake and Manny Delcarmen for three runs and the Sox found themselves swept, 5-3. There's no shame in being swept by the team with ...
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It was 50 years ago today that Jim Bunning (pictured) tossed a no-hitter against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. It is significant in that it was the last time the Sox were no-hit on their home field. Bunning, now a Republican senator from Kentucky and a Hall of Famer in 1996, also went on to throw a perfect game against the Mets at Shea Stadium on Father's Day in 1964. It was the first of just ...
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Hideo Nomo
Shea Stadium
For six innings, Josh Beckett looked like the guy who struck fear in the hearts of his opponents last October. He scattered five hits, and left runners on third base with less than two outs on two separate occasions. He threw very few pitches, and looked like he'd go all the way in yesterday's game at Anaheim. He did go all the way: eight innings in a 4-2 loss to the Angels. Kevin Youkilis hit ...
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I was very surprised to learn earlier today that at this year's memorial at Ground Zero to remember the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, loved ones of the victims will be allowed to go down into the site, 70 feet below street level, and lay flowers and other memorials at the pit of the site. Last year it appeared that the sixth anniversary would be the final time any of us would be ...
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The Red Sox opened the second half with that sound, as Clay Buchholz had a similar start last night against the Angels to his previous one against the Orioles last Friday. He gave up three runs in the first to put the Sox in a hole, but settled down until he gave up a homer to Garret Anderson in the fourth. He put two on in the fifth with two out, but got what at first appeared to be an ...
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Clay Buchholz
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Today's Extra Bases blog at the Boston Globe web site has an interesting piece of news from Bob Lobel, the sports director from WBZ in Boston, who says that the Red Sox fined Manny Ramirez "a six-figure sum" for the altercation he had last month with traveling secretary Jack McCormick. And apparently, Ramirez was miffed enough about it, according to Lobel, that he gave the Red Sox brass "the ...
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This morning I read one of the most over-the-top "Voice of the People" letters to the New York Daily News I've ever seen. You've got to check this one out: Mammon vs. Mariano Manhattan: In the ninth inning, in the last All-Star Game ever at Yankee Stadium, Mariano Rivera was summoned to pitch. "Enter Sandman" starts to play over the speakers. Out of the bullpen comes the greatest closer in ...
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