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2018 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox: 25 Players, 1 Cab
And they loved their driver. Alex Cora led the Olde Towne Team not only to its best regular-season record ever, but also to its fourth 21st Century World Series Championship. A totally joyful ride. One discordant note: Steve Pearce’s MVP … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Cora, Boston Red Sox, David Price, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, Steve Pearce, World's Serious
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Made Yankee Fan in Boston: That Craig Kimbrel Spidey Thing
In the wake of the Red Sox hang-on-by-their-fingernails win in Game One of the ALDS over the New York Yankees, we gotta ask: What’s up with Craig Kimbrel’s Pitch of the Spider Man mound vogueing? Before every pitch? Seriously? That’s … Continue reading
A Jason Gay Ol’ Time (Red Sox/Yankees Rivalry Edition)
From our blessedly endless series Leave it to the redoubtable Wall Street Journal columnist (and Massachusetts native) Jason Gay to nail the New! Improved! Boston Red Sox/New York Yankees basebrawl rivalry. Gay’s latest piece begins in his usual leisurely style. … Continue reading
Ted Williams’ Former Florida Home Gone Fishin’ for a Buyer
The Splendid Splinter’s old fishing shack is back on the market. Well, maybe not shack. From Friday’s Wall Street Journal Mansion section: Ted Williams’s Florida Fishing Spot Goes on the Market In the Florida Keys, the onetime home of baseball … Continue reading
Benjamin Moore Paints the Olde Towne Boston Red
. . . and Green Monster, Boston Blue, Baseline White and Foul Pole Yellow. From MediaPost’s Out to Launch: NEW! Red Sox Fans, Rejoice. Benjamin Moore Launches Fenway Collection With Colors Like Boston Red Benjamin Moore is the official paint of the … Continue reading
Red Sox Slowly Studying Slow Baseball Games
The Boston Red Sox, a.k.a The Slowskys of Major League Baseball, are examining, well, themselves in a new MLB effort to speed up the national vastime. From the Weekend Wall Street Journal. Does Baseball Have to Be So Slow? As … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Red Sox, Bud Selig, MLB, national vastime, Sam Kennedy, The Slowskys, Weekend Wall Street Journal
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Baseball Players Are Not Heroes
The hardlywatching staff had the TV on in the background last night when we heard a local newscast refer to the Red Sox Home Opener “honoring the heroes on and off the field” – that is, commemorating 1) the 2013 … Continue reading
Globe Has Staggering Ad-vantage Over Herald
Once the Boston Red Sox – sorry, World Series Champion Red Sox – took Game 6, flooded the clubhouse with bubbly, painted the town Red for the rest of Wednesday night, and rode the duck boats into MLB history, it was all … Continue reading
