Given this team’s offensive struggles of late, clearly the only thing to do was bat Alex Cora second. That should spice things up, nice move Tito.

This blog has sucked lately. Maybe I’ll post something exciting next week.

It’s been a little bit since I put up a post; this isn’t because I have nothing to say, but because it’s been a pretty busy few days, both at work and outside it. I’ll have something real up soon enough.

Until then, I wanted to open up a question for discussion: in […]

Tim Wakefield was solid again tonight, allowing 2 earned runs (3 total) over 8 innings, but was once again left hanging by the offense, which managed just one run and 4 hits off Tampa Bay’s talented young LHP Scott Kazmir. Kazmir was brilliant tonight, walking only one while striking out 7 over 5 2/3 […]

Sure enough, Adam Stern was demoted to AAA Pawtucket today in favor of utilityman Willie Harris. While I can’t admit to fully understanding the move - with Crisp out, and our only other CF options being Wily Mo and Mohr, Stern was clearly the best defensive choice and a decent enough hitter - it […]

I’m off to Fenway in a few minutes, but I wanted to share this fascinating link with everyone, from Maury Brown’s The Baseball Journals. Maury is a well-known baseball historian and analyst, the editor of Businessofbaseball.com, a prominent member of the Society of American Baseball Research, and a writer at The Hardball Times. […]

I just walked past Mike Lowell.

I’m making some minor changes to the site layout, chief among them the spiffy new automatically-updating standings list to the right, courtesy of MLB.com. So, things may be shifting around a bit, and the banner will be changing very slightly to elimnate those ugly white gaps on either side. Bear with me, and […]

Congratulations to Mark Loretta on his first homerun as a member of the Boston Red Sox, a walk off, 2 run jack over everything in left to give the Sox the W in the game of the year to this point. Let it be said that Loretta has become - in just 13 games […]

After my little warning about the offense, the club goes out and plates 7 in a stunning, walk-off win against the Seattle Mariners. The Sox clubbed 3 homers and 3 doubles, the final game-winning homer coming off the bat of 2B Mark Loretta. Loretta’s shot - with two down, Youk on, and the […]

I realize that this season is less than 15 games old, but I wanted to point out a couple quick things. Last year, much was made of the Sox’ dependence on offense, to go along with some remarkably bad pitching (11th worst team ERA in the AL). This year, at least early, it […]