2005 is about to officially become history (and, in some places, it already has). With that in mind, I wanted to take a quick look back at the past 365 days, from a Sox point of view, pointing out the major events of the last year in Red Sox Nation.

January

The Sox lose three additional […]

This article by Ryne Sandberg just cries out for justice. Normally, I’d leave such a task to the guys at Fire Joe Morgan, who are relentless… but with this, they kind of let it slide. So, without further ado:

Commissioner Bud Selig – Here’s hoping that the “steroid” issue is behind baseball. You have […]

Has any pitcher taken as much crap for having an average season than Matt Clement?

Probably, but I don’t care. I don’t care because of statements like this one:

My big question is why would the Orioles be interested in Clement at all? Seriously. If the Red Sox placed Clement on irrevocable waivers right now, would […]

A while back, on the old site, I posted this NPR-ish story about how my old car, Bret Saberhagen, got his name. I mentioned at the end of that story my “new” car, a 1996 Nissan Sentra that at the time of that writing remained nameless. No longer: I am pleased to announce […]

Bill Simmons’ latest article on Damon hits the exact right note about people who just can’t possibly believe that Damon would willingly just ’switch sides’ and play for the Yanks. These four paragraphs are probably the best and most dead-on ones he’s written in quite some time:

For instance, let’s say your buddy has spent […]

The Damon article I mentioned yesterday has gotten some attention.

Go here to read the article and discussion at Fire Brand. Go here to read a short refutation of it at Baseball Musings. Go here to read a bunch of people insult me. Go here to read stuff that has nothing to do with any of it. (Thanks to […]

The post below this one has a pretty vigorous and interesting conversation on Damon, which I highly recommend looking through. Damon seems to have been a pretty controversial player in terms of how much he’s valued by different fans; a lot of the arguments for either side come out in there.

In addition, I want […]

Johnny Damon is a Yankee.

Thank god.

Today at Fire Brand, I put up a list of my ten favorite Red Sox players of all-time: they were, understandably, all people who played while I watched. As much as I might appreciate Fisk or Williams or Pesky, it’s tough for me to say they could ever really grab me; I never watched […]

Tony Graffanino has accepted the Sox offer of arbitration, giving the Sox infield too many bodies at not enough positions: at current count, the Sox have 3 3B’s (Youkilis, Mike Lowell, and Andy Marte) and 3 2B’s (Cora, Graffanino, and Mark Loretta), but no one at either shortstop or first. Of course, it would […]