In a starttling move (at least it was startlying to me) Gabe Kapler announced his retirement from baseball yesterday–at least the playing part. The 31-year old, after playing only 9 major leason seasons, opted to begin his managerial career–with the Red Sox Single-A team in Greenville, S.C, the Drive of the South Atlantic League. [...]

The Red Sox Brass, pretty much sick and tired of the BS that is Scott Boras, have arrived on his doorstep to pretty much force a negotiation… To me, a negotiation is where two sides offer and counter offer, making compromises, until a deal is reached. I guess Satan didn’t get that memo–if this shocks [...]

With less than 4 days left to the get the deal done for Daisuke Matsuzaka, its not looking good–AT ALL…would not be surprised in the least if Satan has some diabolical plan to turn this around and sell him to someone who will pay $14-15+ million a year… I am glad that Theo appears to [...]

Well, its not looking good in the never-ending saga to get the best starting rotations in the majors. Satan has pretty much shut down all talks between he and the Sox for the services of Matsuzaka. He was supposed to be coming to Boston, but now, according to Boras, he would only be going [...]

With a little more than a week left in the Daisuke Matsuzaka sweepstakes, the odds of signing the right hander are quickly dropping…Asking an arm, a leg and Theo’s first three children, Satan (in his “human” disguise as Scott Boras) is throwing completely unreasonable demands at the Sox–and he won’t budge from them… a quick [...]

Well, so much for the thought that perhaps there was a TINY bit of sanity left in the front office of the Boston Red Sox….Nope!
It’s confirmed: $ 70 Million/5 years for J.D. Drew to bat 5th and replace Trot in right AND Julio Lugo will play shortstop–with a $36 million/4 year contract…The most notable quote [...]

The current rumor around town is that Jon Lester’s latest scans have been clean and that his cancer appears to be in remission. Lester was diagnosed in late August with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, known anaplastic large cell lymphoma, and began treatment in September in Boston but returned home to Seattle to continue [...]

Friday night, midnight, was the deadline for the Sox to offer arbitration to their free agents: Loretta, Trot, Foulke, Gabe Kapler, Doug Mirabelli, and A-Gon.
Even tho A-Gon has already signed with the Reds, the Sox offered him arbitration so they would get a supplemental draft choice as compensation. And, since Foulke has already turned down [...]