I have been a Red Sox fan since 1982, a very rabid one since 1999, and a writer of a Red Sox Blog since 2006. And never ONCE, even with all the crazy permutations of this team in the past, been so flummoxed at what is going on with this team…
I don’t even know where [...]

..It was the 1st no-hitter at Fenway against the Sox since 1958 that would have been tougher to swallow…
Does anyone now the best place to send something to Dustin Pedroia? I wanted to send a fruit basket or something, since he saved the Sox bacon last night, breaking up John Lackey’s (John LACKEY!!!!) no-hitter 1 [...]

…From Daisuke was a BIT too much too much to ask for huh? After his very good start last week of I guess I was expecting that perhaps he had found the groove that eluded him.
Yeah, right, think again…
Last night’s line? 5+ (including FIVE BATTERS in the 6th–without getting an out…), throwing 91 pitches (59 [...]

Well, I was right when I said each team would win one–but as far as the Sox winning two of the 3–not so much. Although I do believe that the Sox had NO business losing the game on Friday night–there always seems to be at least ONE of those fricken games–a 1 run loss, or [...]

Waiting for the Sox and Skankee Series to start–you know the one they are billing as bigger that the 2004 and 2003 ALCS’s combined? Thought I would just muse on some stuff:
199 AL players were polled in the June 28 Sports Illustrated issue. The question? “Who will be MVP of your League?” And their answer?

While the box score and the pitching lines will not reflect it–this was a much more tense game than meets the eye. Clay Buchholtz, throwing 99 pitches (63 for strikes) and going only 5.1 innings and giving up 3 runs on 7 hits (including 2 homers), while walking 2 and striking out 7.
As always, the [...]

Fortunately, last night’s game was not one of those Daisuke appearances that has you chewing on your arm by the middle of the 4th inning…
Not that I was actually up by then, after staying up late the night before to watch Jon Lester pitch, I was sound asleep before the 4th inning…and its too bad, [...]

A game the Sox absolutely needed to win, especially since both the X-Rays and the Skanks won their games last night. This win kept things exactly as they were–while not the best case scenario–much better than then worst…
Thanks to Jon Lester’s STELLAR shut out performance (7.1 IP, throwing 103 pitches, 75 for strikes, giving up [...]

Holy Buckets! I am so glad I did not watch too much baseball this weekend….
I wanted to, I really did. I sat down at 10:00pm on Friday, all excited to be watching baseball for the 1st time since Sunday. And THAT excited and happy feeling soon faded as Clay Buchholtz gave up run…after…run…after…run–EIGHT in all. [...]

Well, meaningful baseball anyway. The Sox are on their day off today, traveling to the Left Coast so they might play some baseball in the middle of the night…
So, some VERY random thoughts as we wade though another day without the Red Sox: