I knew as soon as Nick Cafardo said “John Lackey” back in October that the Theo Epstein compensation “saga” was going to be an early front runner for most irritating story of the winter and of course it delivered in only the way these kinds of stories tend to do. Now that the Boston Red [...]
Archive for February, 2012
COMPENSATION FOR DIS INSULT: Theo Epstein gets us stuff
Posted in 2012 Red Sox offseason, Ben Cherington, Theo Epstein, tagged Ben Cherington, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chris Carpenter, John Lackey, Larry Lucchino, Nick Cafardo, Randy Wells, Theo Epstein on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Josh Beckett isn’t the one who should be apologizing
Posted in 2011-2012 Offseason, 2012 Red Sox offseason, 2012 Spring Training, Josh Beckett, tagged Boston Red Sox, Josh Beckett, Red Sox spring training on February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
If Josh Beckett should be apologizing to the media for not doing his job last season, then shouldn’t the media apologize for not doing theirs? The word accountability has been bandied about pretty freely this offseason, but the people who’ve been slinging it into the fan don’t seem to understand it’s meaning or even worse [...]
On Tim Wakefield and his retirement
Posted in Boston Red Sox, Tim Wakefield, tagged Boston Red Sox, Tim Wakefield, Tim Wakefield Retirement on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. -Richard Attenborough Congrats to Tim Wakefield on a wonderful career. He was a special player. He had great passion, an incredible will to compete and during the course of his career, carried himself with dignity [...]
A pre-Spring Training prance through the petunias
Posted in 2012 Red Sox offseason, 2012 Spring Training, tagged Dan Shaughnessy, David Ortiz, Red Sox, Roy Oswalt, Sean McAdam, The Wizard, Tony Massarotti on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Some random musings on the past few weeks… Just when you thought it was safe to order beer and chicken again… Spring Training is right around the corner, which means we in the New England baseball community get to brace ourselves for the inevitable tidal wave of unfounded hysteria and stupidity that is about to [...]
