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Red Sox 2009 Season: Short-Term Failure, Long-Term Success

I criticize Theo Epstein, not due to my insane upbringing as a Boston sports fan or my paternal demeanor towards the teams, but due to the misaligned perception our GM has been receiving since he has been running the Red Sox.
When we win, he could do no wrong. When we lose, he still could do [...]

Red Sox, 2009, Jason Bay/Manny Saga On The Brink

I’m sorry, but the argument last year was that neither the Red Sox nor Manny Ramirez made it to the World Series. And in the 2009 campaign for the trophy, much of Red Sox Nation felt that we could win it without the dreads in the outfield.
Now, in the time when the Sox most needed [...]

John Lester’s Got the Cy Young in the Bag

Are you kidding me! Yes, latter sentence has to end with an exclamation point. I am freakin’ psyched!
In the last 48 and 2/3 innings, Jon Lester has given up only 35 hits and eight earned runs.  If it wasn’t for his somewhat sluggish game against the Natinals, he would already have Gammons and Phillips giving [...]

Why Do People Love Manny Ramirez?

I guess I talked about this a little in my other post, butI answer this question a little bit:
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Wallace Matthews: Another Manny Whiner

I am going to start posting up “Manny Whiners”. These are people ( or groups of people, Hello WEEI ) who cannot stop bitching about Manny Ramirez. These people fail to realize that this guy got caught, he admitted he used shit, disappeared, came back, and even made fun of himself:
“He came into the (Mets) [...]

And To Coco Crisp, I Bid You Adieu!

U n t i l   N e x t   T i m e   O l d   F r i e n d . . .

It was to come to pass. Coco Crisp, having the gold glove talent with two slow-pokes on each side of a big outfield, having the pesky bat to get key base [...]

Is Manny Worth $20 Million?

“Ramirez hit .396 with 17 homers, 53 RBIs, 36 runs scored, 74 hits and 35 walks in 53 regular-season games with Los Angeles, leading the Dodgers to the NL West title.
He was even more potent in the postseason, hitting .520 with four homers, 10 RBIs, nine runs scored and 11 walks in eight playoff games.”
-ESPN [...]

Francona and His Red Sox Legacy