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so…I’ve got a big problem with the way baseball deals with the statistical idea of “consecutive.”
After yesterday’s Oakland A’s batting practice — I’d call it a Red Sox game, but the word game implies competition, and the Sox haven’t been competing since August started — they we’re talking about the fact that Curt Schilling has […]

This was taken moments before yesterday’s Red Sox vs. Yankees game — the first of the season, and first of Samson’s life. He didn’t stay awake for the festivities, but he did pass some gas in Johnny Damon’s direction when he was announced. Ahhh, they learn so young.

Today is the annual Patriot’s Day Red Sox game. Gotta love morning baseball — nothing like beer and sausage at 11am!
It’s the 13th game of the Red Sox season, and probably the 9th that Samson has taken in on TV — okay, okay, “taken in” might mean “slept through” but babies absorb things as they […]

so…Samson and I have started an early morning ritual: we come downstairs and watch the 6am SportsCenter over some coffee and fortifide breastmilk (not always at the same time or mixed together).
I’m positive that his first words are going to come from this list:
“winner, winner, chicken dinner”
“that’s levitation, holmes”
“say hello to my little friend!”

What’s going on here?
“Really, Joe, I don’t care how you do it in your family, but we don’t kiss each other where I’m from. Just shake my hand. Hell, pat my ass! Just stop looking into my eyes like that!!”
OR
“I know it was you Randy. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!”

I love a good, close baseball game, but this shit is ridiculous! I swear, next year I’m going start a stress-training program in August just to get the ol’ ticker used to the constant ups and downs of the pre-playoffs!

Tonight we kick off the final regular season against the Spankees…and it’s do or die…or something […]

What is Brian O’Nora doing to Tony Graffanino? Stretch a single into a double and get called out…and get a spanking?

At least it looks like Tony is enjoying it…

so…I’ve gotten myself in a little bit of a pickle: I need one more person for our Fantasy Football league.
The real pickle is that the draft is at 5PM EST today — it is a live, online draft, but you could just let the system auto-pick for you.
so…we have either 1 or 3 open positions […]

Let me tell you a little story? I once knew a guy who could have been a great golfer, could have gone pro, all he needed was a little time and practice. Decided to go to college instead. Went for four years, did pretty well. At the end of his four years, his last semester […]

This is just too easy! Rafael Palmeiro gets a 10-day suspension for testing positive for steroids, months after telling Congress that he’s never done steroids. Mr. I-just-reached-3000-hits has some explaining to do, and the best his lawyers can come up with seems to be a combination of the following:

I am here to make it very […]