"I'd like to thank my summer house butler, Bob Barker for everything he's done for me, and one of the original kings of comedy, Steve Harvey, whose lost episodes kept me going during the hard times... my first Boston cab driver, Patrick Johnson from Cambridge, who drove me from the airport the first time I landed at Logan, a special thanks to Chevy Richards, the doorman at the Four Seasons for being there when I needed to get inside for lunch, and thank you to Nancy Cambra, my flight attendant on KG's private plane last year..." -- 10.30.08, Celtics captain Paul Pierce, acknowledging the Phillies World Series win over the Rays
"Phillies fan and climatologist extraordinary Joe Bastardi had fired off an angry 6:30 p.m. update to his blog on AccuWeather's professional site under the headline: 'Cancel the Game Tonight.'
Bastardi wrote there was no way in hell or Sea World the rain would let up. Indeed, a rapidly developing coastal storm off the Mid-Atlantic States had slowed the progress of a massive upper low funneling cold air across the Great Lakes. Result: The worst weather fiasco in World Series history and another stain on the boobs who run the cash-obsessed national pastime."
-- 10.28.08, Bill Conlin, Philadelphia Inquirer
"I don't think I could ever compare myself to Hank Aaron in any way. I'll never see myself at that level. So to win this award, I'm a little humbled by it." -- Youk on winning the Hank Aaron Award
Boston Celebrates the 2008 Wild Card Champion Red Sox What a Difference a Year Makes, Eh Mike?
Mazz: "According to a club source, the Sox already have had internal discussions about Teixeira and would likely make room for him by trying to trade Lowell, who has two years and $25 million remaining on a three-year, $37.5 million contract he signed before last season." -- 10.23.08, Tony Massarotti, Boston.com
A Different World
(Jonathan Wiggs / Globe 1996 File Photo)
Still Not Over the Hill Lefty Goes in Philly Tonight Just How Old Is the Ageless Jamie Moyer? He Was a 10-Year Vet When the Sox Had Him in '96
The 7-1 Moyer Was a Difference-Maker for the Third Place Champion 1996 Red Sox And In One of the Worst Trades in the History of Baseball (Thanks Dan Duquette)... Moyer Was Moved to Seattle for the Immortal Darren Bragg
Beckett Was a Bust from the Gut-Go to Game 2 Mike Timlin's 11th Inning Farewell Stop Brought to You By Terry Francona Henry, Werner, Lucchino Mishandled Manny in the Spring, and Lost Badly in the Fall The Captain Was What They Said He'd Be by the 4th Year of That Contract Bad Contracts Galore: The Shape of Things Today Is Papi Inc. Has Become Too Big Stolen Summer: Manny Ramirez Quit and Spit on His Town and Team Your Turn: Who Do You Blame?
Eric Wilbur: "... Do you dare try to trade David Ortiz? Allow yourself to forget about the past, an inherent must in looking to the future. Put aside the memories, the plaque honoring him as the Greatest Clutch Hitter in Red Sox History. Forget about 2004, the 54-home run season, and the constant reflections of "He did it again," and rewind to your most recent memories of Ortiz, a 2008 season that was subpar by his lofty standards, indeed, and a postseason that gave a quick glimpse of his past in Game 5 of the ALCS, but little else." -- 10.22.08, Eric Wilbur, Boston Sports Blog
Mazz: "Prepare now for the spin control as this could get nasty. The Sox want him back, but on their terms. Meanwhile, despite the slip in production and Varitek's age -- he'll be 37 in April -- agent Scott Boras is likely to enter negotiations with unrealistic demands. If the Red Sox turn him loose, they need to find a replacement. But where?" -- 10.21.08, Tony Massarotti breaks down the Red Sox roster status and prognosis
ALCS Game 7 Box: Tampa Rays 3, Boston 1 Lester Was Good, Garza Was Beyond Great Aybar, Longoria Blast Rays into the Series Price Is Right: This Time, Drew Can't Come Through... Bats Go Silent at The Worst Possible Time Oh No, Coco Could Have Made It to Second Base in the Eighth Thousands of Sox Fans Went to Bed Early, Missed Potential Comeback This Just In: Eliot Tatelman Is Not Buying You a Bedroom Set, Suckahs Lasting Memory: The Nation Turned It's Lonely Eyes to Jed Lowrie Nothing Worked as Even Rick Melanson Had His Shirt Off for the Top of the Ninth The Sox Really Could Have Used the Big Bat of Man... err Nevermind Jason Varitek Gets Right Back to Looking Lost at the Plate Mr. Big: Pedro Ripped Into One in the First, Silenced St. Pete Why the Division Matters, Dummy: You at Home, You Win This One Are You Ready for Some Patriots Foot... err Nevermind We'd Rather Watch More Steve Harvey Re-runs Than Rays-Phillies
Captain Crunches One Out of the Trop, Sox Finish 6 on Top, 4-2
ALCS Game 6 Box Score: The World Champion Boston Red Sox 4, These Are Greg Vaughn's Devil Rays 2 Globe: Sox Set up a Winner-Take-All Game 7 V-Tek Just Kicked in Yo... Momentum Shift in High Gear Say Hi to the Hideki Okajima of 2007 As Always, You Can Climb on the Big Back of Kevin Youkilis When It Counts Tito Knows Best Once Again: Beckett Was Not a Bust Outlook Not So Oblique With Lester Letting It All Hang Out Tonight I'm Still Watching Their Faces, Sincerely David RBI-Guy Ortiz Big Lame James: Enough About This So-So Starter This Just In: Tom Dumps Jacoby, Signs Crisp to Launch Coco-water Masterson's Inning Makes Mike Timlin Nervous Papelbon Takes Forever to Throw, But It's Worth It
"There's nowhere to run." -- David Ortiz, 10.18.08
Onward and 7-Upward
(Jim Davis / Globe Staff)
"I said, 'We're so spoiled.' It's amazing. It's really amazing the games we play, and how much fun it's been. When we're all old and our children are all grown up, we'll sit around and meet up and talk about games like the game the other day. It's a wild ride, and we're very spoiled." -- 10.18.08, Kevin Youkilis
Are the Defending World Champs Gonna Raise the Roof at the Trop Tonight?
Fans Across the Nation Furious as TBS Cuts Out on Coverage of Steve's High School Hijinx for Some Baseball Game
Bud Selig Says 'Enough is Enough' with the Amateur Hour Coverage and Moves All MLB Playoff Games to Versus, Effective Immediately
If B.J. Upton Homers and No One on Planet Earth Sees It, Does It Count? Mass Confusion Across the Country as Viewers Were Expecting to See 'Hanging' with Mr. Cooper' Not 'The Steve Harvey Show' Wasn't There Another TV Show They Could Have Shown? Sincerely, Frank Caliendo I Thought Putting on Steve Harvey Was the Right Call. Sincerely, Ken Rosenthal Even Craig Sager's Sportcoat Was Blushing Francona Says Harvey Is Available to Work Out of the Bullpen for Game 7
The Boston Red Sox Are Still Alive After the Mother of All Comebacks in Game 5
Champs Rise from Six Feet Under in Seventh Take Rays and Series Back to Tampa
ALCS Game 5 Box: Defending World Champions 8, Stunned Maddonites 7 Globe: Sox Are Alive After Improbable Comeback Tonight Was the Night that Coco Crisp and J.D. Drew Became Red Soxes You Can Never Say Enough About Coco Crisp's 10-Pitch At-Bat I Can't Believe Coco Is Still with the Team. Sincerely, Ken Rosenthal Masterson... The Daisuke Matsuzaka of Relief Pitchers And They Helped: Lowrie, Pedroia, Youk Pulled the Comeback Train That's Just Tito Being Tito, the Most Underrated Manager in Baseball Welcome Back Se�or October... Not a Second to Soon Comeback Kids Kickin' It with Kotsay How You Drewin Tampa Bay?
(BDD Photo Illustration / Meir Weinberg)
"They had their way with us every way possible. And then this place came unglued, and we've seen that before. But because of the situation we're in, it just - that was pretty magical." -- 10.17.08, Terry Francona does it again
Joe the Dumber
(BDD Photo Illustration / Richard Goldrich)
When The Going Got Tough, He Got Fenway Going
(Steve Silva / Boston.com Photos)
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Cowbell And Who Needs Joe the Plumber to Save Our Campaign When We've Got Our Very Own Rick from Gardner
The Sox Have The Rays (Say It Together Now) ... 'Right Where They Want Them'
King Arthur Rays: [after Arthur's cut off both of the Black Knight's arms] Look, you stupid Bastard. You've got no arms left.
Black Knight Sox: Yes I have.
King Arthur Rays: *Look*!
Black Knight Sox: It's just a flesh wound. -- from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
This Just In ...
(Boston Globe Photo / BDD Illustration)
The Citgo Sign Is Back With An Ace Lift
Tonight It's All Systems Go, Real Fans Even Threaten to Show
This Just In: Francona Won't Be Outfoxed By Maddon Again Tito Plays Chess, While Maddon Plays Checkers
"With Joe throwing tonight, you won't be taxing the bullpen after just five innings like that one [Matsuzaka] over there." -- John
"It's not that I want to punish Joe's success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind him in that overtaxed bullpen that they've got a chance at success, too." -- Senator Government
Omen? Citgo Sign Burns in Small Fire Maybe It Was Caused By the Fire Tito Saw in Beckett's Eyes After the Fourth Inning Last Saturday? Or Those Rough-and-Tumble Tampa Bay Fans with Too Much Time on Their Hands?
Welcome to Mortuary Park America's Most Beloved Funeral Home
ALCS Game 4 Box: The Tampa Bay Rays 13, Some Shell of the Red Sox 4 Globe: Waking Nightmare | Shaughnessy: Hard to Find Ray of Hope First Things First: Wake Start Turns to Quick Funeral at Fenway Murder's Row Rays Rake Wake for 3 Left-Field Bombs I'm Still Watching Everybody�s Faces, Sincerely David Ortiz Keep Cashing In: Should the Slumping 'Tek Take Another Seat? Big Deal: Ortiz Breaks Out of His Horrific Slump with Garbage-Time Triple It's the Presence, Stupid: Jason Bay Just Can't ManRam Up Reports of Sean Casey's Demise... Are Still Spot On Delcarmen, Timlin The Least of Sox Worries Brilliant! J.D. Leadoff Backfires on Terry, Too The Game 4 Scene at Fenway
"I'm in the hospital, had seven hours of back surgery yesterday... the only difference between me and the Red Sox is that I had anesthesia." -- 10.15.08, Bob Lobel phones in from the hospital
Wake Up Red Sox Nation, It's Groundhog Day
(BDD Photo Illustration / Steve Garberg)
"Sitting through that wasn't a whole lot of fun." -- 10.14.08, Terry Francona, one more time
ALCS Game 4 Box: Tampa Rays 9, Guys Wearing Sox Uniforms 1 Globe: Deep Trouble Lesterrible, But Sox Offense Was Worse Pound for Pound, Sox Were No Match for Young and Hungry Rays Thanks for the Memories Jason Varitek, But It's Time It's Tim Wakefield and Kevin Cash to the Rescue! Jacoby Says Buy More 0-Water: AVG. .000, OBP .000, SLG .000 Byrd Wasn't the Answer, Or the Question Tito's Got 99 Problems But Just 72 Pieces of Gum No. 99 Problems: Papi Isn't Papi without Manny
"I think some people come to expect you to go out there every single day and be a robot and do it. Unfortunately, that's not the case." -- The fiery Jason Bay, rallying the troops and the fans yet again
Having Manny Ramirez in the Middle of Your Lineup Makes All the Difference in the World
Why Dodge the Questions? Is Not Having Manny Making Papi Look Old, Slow, and Heavy? Is the Sox Offense Just Average, Even with Jason Bay Leading the Way? Could the Sox Have Squeezed One More World Series Out of Ramirez? Why Can't We Get Guys Like That... and Matt Stairs!
If Dr. Charles Made Manny Wigs For Us, Everything Would Have Been All Right
(Reuters)
The Way They Were ...
(Harry How/Getty Images)
Doesn't Look Like Babs, Brolin, Frank, and Jamie Are Going to the World Series Either
"The Rays completely took the crowd out of the game. The Fenway unfaithful booed captain Varitek when he popped up to end the fourth, but for most of the night the ancient yard sounded like the quiet car on the Acela. In the ninth, Fenway looked like Gillette Stadium three weeks ago when the Dolphins went ahead, 38-13. Talk about your alternative universes." -- 10.13.08, Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe
There's No Shortage of Players to Throw Under the Bus
The Grady Hunch
(BDD Photo Illustration / Meir Weinberg)
Tito's Beckett and Timlin Moves in Game 2 Remain on the Red Sox Nation Radar as Sox Can't Start Up Again After Letting the Rays Off the Mat in St. Pete
Things Get Ugly Late Night in One of the Worst Postseason Losses in Red Sox History
It's a Game Two Nightmare as Mike 'No I Haven't Retired Yet' Timlin Takes the Tough Loss Gil Velasquez May Have Given the Sox a Cleaner Inning Is It Easier to Blame the Umps?
Sox Can't Close the Deal in an Extra Frames Fiasco Mike Timlin, the Mother of All Gas Cans, Got the Ball J.D. Drew Makes the Best Underhand Throw to Home Ever Why is Byrd Getting the Sean Casey Treatment?
"And you're wondering why Beckett is still in this game. And it ties it up at six. The two starters stayed in too long." -- 10.12.08, Dennis Eckersley on TBS
Beckett: 3-HR's, 3 Lost Leads, Banged Around Early and Often Tito Simply Didn't Stop the Bleeding Soon Enough It's Timlin Time Again. Mike In the Game... Over
Game 2 Box: Tampa Rays 9, Boston 8 | Extra Bases Recap Josh Beckett and His 16.62 ERA Just Didn't Execute a Few Pitches... El Caballitoh! Pedro Breaks Out for a Big Night on the Bases It Was the Okajima of the Good Old Days Wild Pitch Wheeler: Dan Is the Embedded Red Sox Dome Run Derby: Sox Crack Four Big Popup, Ellsbury Getting Nothing Done in St. Pete R-Bay-I Machine: Jason Got the Sox Off and Running Coco, 3 Hits, Nothing to Show for the Effort The Youk Remains on Fire, 3 Hits Again
"What was Francona thinking bring Beckett back in the 5th, he set up damn near every batter with hitters counts thru 4 innings, Tampa could have had 4 more runs before the 5th. Beckett has been mediocre all year, the move was stupid!" -- 10.11.08, 10:51 p.m., reader Robert Stilwell on behalf of Red Sox Nation
"The Sox fired Grady little for leaving Martinez in to long. Francona should be fired for leaving Beckett in too long. what made him think that Beckett could get Longoria out Beckett should have been taken out in the third inning, bonehead decision by Francona." -- 10.11.08, 10:42 p.m., reader J Donovan on behalf of Red Sox Nation
(BDD Photo Illustration / Steve Garberg)
1. Thank Tito Again for Bringing Me Back for the 5th 2. Get Ready for the #%&@! Postgame Press Conference 3. Give Up Another Home Run Ball, and Another Lead 4. Throw Another Straight Fastball Right Down the Middle 5. RSVP for 'Greatest Postseason Pitcher Award' Ceremony 6. Go Straight to Arizona and Join API On Nov. 1
Dice-K's Gem Bottom-Line Brilliant, Masterson Just-in Time
ALCS Game 1: Big Bad Boston 2, Cinderella 0 Globe: Sweet Nothings | Photos, Video, and More The Dice Is Right: Tito Makes the Correct Call for Game 1, May Soon Get Respect Of Dice and Men: Matsuzaka Walked the Walk, Defending Champs Played Like It The Escape Artist: Again, Matsuzaka Wiggles His Way Out of Jams Hide the Women and Children, It's Jonny Gomes 0-for-5 Water: Jacoby's Got Nothing Going On Base Kevin Youkilis Carries a Big Stick into the ALCS Hold On: Okajima Didn't Implode, Pena Eager To Get Big Out Someday David Ortiz Will Return Feel the Heat... of a Thousand Suns on the Rays Tonight That's Carl Crawford Doing His Best Manny Ramirez Impersonation in Left A Jed Lowrie RBI That Would Make Squeeze Scioscia Proud Bay, Kotsay Get the Party Started for Lowrie Pap Props: Record 20 2/3 Scoreless Innings Streak J.D.'s Revenge Coming
"I'm the kind of guy that I watch everybody's faces. I've got the opportunity because I don't have to go out there and play defense. I'm telling you, I saw faces tonight different than what I see in the regular season. I don't blame nobody. It's a lot of pressure out there right now in this game because you have to win; otherwise, you go home." -- 10.10.08, Big Papi sees the young Rays starting to fade
"When you're not hurt, you play.... I don't see any word that better describes the situation (as despicable), that Manny had in Boston that last week. No, I'm fine with it (using despicable). I was fine with it when I said it."
-- 10.8.08, Tim McCarver, who needs to hammer his Manny message home tonight on Fox
This Just In From the Rumor Mill: McCarver Mulling Red Sox Nation Presidential Run in '09
They're Thick as Thieves: Ramirez When Cornered, Steals a Page from Mark McGwire's Book:
"I don't want to talk about the past."-- 10.8.08, Manny Ramirez won't address McCarver's charges
"I'm not here to talk about the past."-- 3.17.05, Mark McGwire didn't address direct questions either... how'd that work out for him?
"I mean, talk about wearing out your welcome in a town, and it was a long welcome with the Red Sox. But some of the things he did were simply despicable, despicable - like not playing, refusing to play. Forgetting what knee to limp on. And now it's washed, it's gone." -- 10.9.08, Tim McCarver drills the 'despicable' Manny Ramirez
"I've got my boy David Ortiz and [Mike] Lowell and all those guys. I'm pulling for them... That was a good trade. I think it was the right move. [Jason Bay] can run, play the outfield. He's got six tools. I've got five." -- Manny Ramirez, MLB.com
And a BDD Reader Chimes In with Lowrie Lyrics, Hillbillies-Style, Too...
"Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed A poor minor leaguer, barely kept his family fed, Then one day he was swingin at a pitch, And laced a single to right, that clutch son of a bitch!
RBI that is, playoff gold, Red Sox Nation glee.
Well the first thing you know ol Jed's a millionaire, Kinfolk said
"Jed move away from there"
Said "Fenway Park is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.
Massachusetts, that is. Yuppies, dinks.
Well now its time to say goodbye to Jed and all his friends.
And they would like to thank you folks fer comin to the Fens.
You're all invited back a gain to this locality To watch the Sox crush Tampa Bay in totality
AL pennant that is. Set a spell, Take your shoes off.
"So there's a Hooters here, I went to Hooters the other day in Beijing. I've been to probably 250 Hooters across the country and world. It's the only Hooters I've ever been to that didn't have any Bud Light or blonds. I was very disappointed." -- 8.11.08, Craig Sager, in the DCSportsBlog
(John Bohn / Boston Globe Staff | Jim Rogash / Getty Images )
Can You Bay-lieve It? Sox Are Movin' On, Will Play Rays for Pennant
Monday Night ALDS Clinch Box: Boston 3, California 2 Globe: Halo, Goodbye... Sox Walk Off with the Series Sox Advance to ALCS for the 4th Time in 6 Years Jason Lives! What a Difference a Bay Makes A Man of the Hour Named Jed Drove in the Walkoff Winner Heaven for 7: Blame This Win on the Left Arm of Jon Lester Tito May Have Run Out of Town for Not Running Out Lester in the 8th Lost and Found in the Rundown: 'Tek Makes Up for Masterson's Passed Ball Breaking News: Justin Masterson Needs a Bailout Plan from Congress, Too Tito Definitely Should Have Left Lester In. Sincerely, Grady Little Rally Donkey: Suicide Squeeze Sinks Scioscia El Caballito Is Back in the Saddle Again That's What You Get When Troy O'Leary Throws Out the First Pitch For the Last Time, Jon Lester Asked Out of the Game. Sincerely, John McNamara
"The only thing I'm thinking is, 'Get a good jump and don't fall down around third'. I can't imagine that it'll get more intense than this, but it will." -- 10.6.08, Jason Bay came through in the clutch
It's Napoli Time for Beckett and Nap Time for Red Sox Nation Sox Are Sweepless But There's More Baseball in Boston Tonight
The 5-Hour, 19-Minute Box Score: Monkeys 5, Boston 4 Shaughnessy: Loss Spoils the Party | Ryan: Game a Real Drag Put This One Squarely on the Right Arm of Josh Beckett Manny Who? Surely Would Have Made a Difference in This One Tito Must Really Hate That Goofy Sean Casey Video Blog October Surprise: David Really Does Seem to Struggle Without No. 24's Big Bat Mike Lowell Looks Like the Best Player in an Old Timer's Game 0 Bay Bay... Jason Doesn't Bring His West Coast Game Back East A Man Named Jed Would Not Be a Monday Morning Hero About Last Night: 'The Air Was Crisp, The Baseball Was Not' Congrats to Jacoby: The First 3-Run Pop-Up in Postseason History There's No K in Kotsay... Hey, Wait a Minute This Just In... Mike Scioscia predicts: 'We're Getting Eliminated Tonight' 'I'm Not Going Back to Anaheim,' Sincerely, Amy Winehouse 'That's Just Beckett Being Dice-K,' Sincerely Manny Ramirez
The Scene at Fenway: Pink Hat Champagne on Ice
"You've got to win three. You've got five games to win three. The series wasn't over in Anaheim. We had just won two." -- 10.6.08, Alex Cora does the math... now we understand
Reverse the Curse!
(BDD Photo Illustration / Trish Rojcewicz)
Pony Up! Pedr0-for-Series So Far
""It's a tough loss, obviously. It's my fault, man. I've got to get on [expletive] base. That's it. I've got to help our team win. I didn't do that, haven't done that all series. So I blame this one on me. Everyone else is battling, I am too, but no results." -- 10.6.08, Dustin Pedroia, killing us softly with his bat
"Right now this is the place to be! We're going to the second round... I did it before, I'll do it again. When you're relaxed and you're in a place you really like, this is what happens." -- 10.4.08, Manny reminding us he's more relaxed in LA again
J.D. Thunder Sticks LA Fakers Champs Up 2-0 on Late-Night, Late-Inning Tie-Buster Off K-Fraud
(Stephen Dunn / Getty Images)
Friday Night ALDS Box: Boston 7, Orange County Angels of Anaheim 5 Globe: Drew's Back in the Swing, 2-Run Shot Really Hurts Angels You Hendu It: Sox Turn It Up to 11 Straight Over the Hapless Halos in October New Record for Most Consecutive Postseason Wins by One Team Over Another Tito Escapes the Second Guess of the Century: Sending Out Masterson in the 8th More of the Same: Names Change, But They're Still the Collapsible California Angels Million Dollar Smirk: Scott Boras Looked Mighty Impressed with Matsuzaka's Usual 5 This Just In the Picture: Boras Wants to Renegotiate Drew's Contract Immediately Aybar None: It Was a Walk in Park for Masterson in the Shaky 7th Face It Figgins, It's Over: J.D. HR = ALCS Here We Come Rest the Weary: Kotsay, Cora Fill-In Just Fine Big Papi Showed Warning Track Power in 9th Life At the End of Day, Paps Vultures West Coast Roadkill We're With You Leather: Youk Is a Fielder of Dreams The West Is No Test: F-Rod Kisses His $75M Contract Goodbye Bay-sball Been Berry, Berry Good to Us in October Thanks Buck MAR-tin-ez: The Curse of El Caballito Is Killing Pedroia Game 2 Photos Here
(BDD Photo Illustration / David Nickerson)
"The big bombs killed us today. Bay man, that's the new Manny I guess. He's out there swinging the bat like crazy. And J.D. Drew came through with a big home run at the end and it's kind of deflating." -- 10.3.08, Torri 'get the dog in you' Hunter on the Sox biting back
That's Just J-Bay Being Manny Bay Bomb Gives Boston the Lead Josh Who? Lesterrific in Game 1
Game 1 Box: Boston 4, Anaheim 1, 10 Straight Over LAA in Oct. There's a New Sheriff in Town: Jon Lester Was Locked and Loaded High Five: Ellsbury Picks Up Where He Left Off Last October Youk Saves the Day with a Great Big Play in the 8th Baddy Guerrero on the Bases: Mr. June Has His Typical Postseason Swoon Big Pop-up Is Struggling Big Time Without LA Ram, Until the 9th Jason Bay Looked Completely Lost Against Lackey... Then Bang! Jacoby How's the Grass Taste? Nice Catch in the 8th The World Is Against Us, But L'il Wayne Loves the Sox Justin Masterson Is the Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth Dustin, The Little Pony, El Caballito... You Hear It All The Time, Got Nothing Done Downside: TBS' Buck 'David OR-tiz' Martinez, Ernie Johnson, Frank TV, and Boras Being Boorish Behind the Plate
"It's huge (the win). I'm just glad a lot of people got to see Jon Lester and what he's about." -- 10.1.08, Jason Bay made his own mark in Boston tonight
"When you find kids with that kind of talent, that kind of drive and focus - and there are only a few, I was involved with Josh Beckett with the Marlins - those kids are focused and do everything they can to get better. And that's Jon Lester." -- 10.1.08, Former Red Sox scouting director
The "Curt�s Pitch
for ALS" program is a joint effort by Curt and Shonda Schilling and The
ALS Association Mass Chapter to strike out Amyotrophic Lateral
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