Jon Lester put in another good day of work, throwing 5.1 innings, allowing 3 runs on 5 hits (including a homer to Kaz Matsui) while walking none and striking out 7. He threw 75 pitches, 54 for strikes…Okajima, Ramon S and Daniel Bard all did well too, with only Okajima giving up a run. Then [...]

Hold Buckets! Nomar is retiring–OK, not so big news–But Nomar is retiring as a member of the Boston Red Sox! Yep. The Sox held a new conference this morning, and signed Nomar to a 1-Day, minor league Deal (Couldn’t they at least made it a major league deal? For one day?) Immediately after, Nomar retired…You [...]

This has to be the WORST part of the year. Not only is it about 17 degrees out, there is buptkus as far as anything going on in the baseball world. Every morning and evening, I do the round of sports pages, to see if anything interesting is going on. And Guess what? Zero, zilch, [...]

Holy Buckets! In what was one of (if not THE) worst starts by Bad Penny! with the Red Sox, there was one…bright…shining…thing: DH Mike Lowell had a 5-RBI night (2 for 3 with a walk, and a 3-run homer), which means he was responsible 83.33% of the scoring the Sox did last night…So if the [...]

Finally! The pictures from from my trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame last weekend…or a small portion at least–probbaly coudl have done at least another post of shots that didn’t make this cut, But since my blog writing software is the DEVIL, and it took me 2 days to get them [...]

Nomar and his magnificent return was about the best thing I could say about the contest last night. Sure, their rookie left hander, Brett Anderson threw a complete game shut out–but when you are on the receiving end of that, it’s not as impressive…
But I will admit that when Nomar walked on the field in [...]