Bengie Molina, who is the catcher for the Texas Rangers, is in a very unique situation going into the World Series this week. Earlier in the year, he was playing for the San Francisco Giants and was subsequently traded to the Texas Rangers. Because of this, he is eligible to earn a World Series ring [...]
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Bing Crosby and The Kid
Over the weekend, there were two great vintage baseball stories in the NY Times. The first was a profile of John Updike’s seminal baseball essay The Hub Bids Kid Adieu. The essay documented the famous last game that Ted Williams played for the Red Sox, when he hit a home run in his final at [...]
Buddy, Can You Spare A Room?
Great article about how the Tampa Bay Rays had to scramble to find hotel rooms because the World Series has been put on hold due to the terrible weather in the Philadelphia area The puddles did it. As soon as Jeff Ziegler, the director of team travel for the Tampa Bay Rays, saw water covering [...]
Opening Day
Well, here we are on the eve of another opening day of the baseball season. The off season has been quite active, with all the free agent signings, the capital of our country finally getting a baseball team (Go Nationals! For the record, I very much preferred naming the team the Senators than the Nationals. [...]
Red Sox World Series Champs
I never thought I would see the day.
Boston Globe Front Page
Here is the front page of the Boston Globe from Thursday 10/21 after the Red Sox beat the Yankees. You can already order reprints of the front page, which I very well may do, if….
Its Sinking In
The significance of the Red Sox come back victory over the Yankees this week is slowly sinking in. The past two days at work have been fairly unproductive because I have been in such a state of delerious bliss. I have printouts of various photos, images, and web site pages taped all over my desk [...]
Letterman, The Sports Guy
Curt Schilling was on the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday evening and he read a really funny Top 10 List. #1 is absolutely hysterical. Here is just a fantastic article from Bill Simmons (aka The Sports Guy) of ESPN that again sums up the state of being a Red Sox fan during this [...]
The Series
Tonight begins another chapter in the Yankees versus Red Sox series. While there is great anamosity between the franchises and the players, I refrain from calling it a rivalry because as we all know, the results have been pretty lopsided since the Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees back in 1918. Over the past [...]
Go Marlins!!
How ’bout them Florida Marlins!. I am not as much happy that the Marlins won as I am thrilled that the Yankees lost. After my Red Sox lost to the Yankees the way they did, I think all of Red Sox Nation was pulling for the Marlins.
