Whoo Hooo! It’s been a while since the Sox made a July deadline move as good as this one. An established AL pitcher and CY Young Award winner with an 8-4 record with a 4.28 ERA for the 2013 campaign–and a career 128-97 pitcher with a 3.49 ERA. Add him to the current mix, and [...]

In more ways that 1.. With the Sox taking 2 out of 3 against those pesky Oreos this weekend, and Tampa bay losing to the Skanks (and for the record: I will Neva-EVA root for the Skanks–NEV-A) the Sox have claimed the tenuous 1/2 game lead in the AL East back from the Rays. Although, [...]

I’m not a good predictor of anything–my prognostication skills pretty much suck, which is a big part of the reason I am not a betting kind of a girl. However, I have been watching baseball long enough that I can usually get a feel for how things are going with a certain game or series. [...]

By Rich Bergeron The Tampa Bay Rays came into Monday night’s four-game series opener against the Boston Red Sox with an impressive 58-41 record, which would be good enough to lead virtually every other division in the Major Leagues. Only the Red Sox (60-40) and the St. Louis Cardinals (59-37) had better records than the [...]

Blech…. About the only thing that went right with this game was the fact that the Sox Won. There were too many errors, too many pitching mistakes, too many strikeouts,–just a bunch of crap from beginning to end… Thankfully, Mike Napoli saved the Sox bacon in the 11th with a solo home run to get [...]

Yeah Yeah, I know some people will count the All-Star game as a day of baseball–but for reasons I mentioned here and here, I don’t. So we have another 23 hours-ish until the unofficial 2nd half of the baseball season starts. And it starts with a team that is FUN TO WATCH, has players who [...]