Going round the horn, (or the bend, depending on who you ask)with some random goings on during this first full week of Spring Training. I was talking to my friend, Paul from Boston this week, and we both pretty much agree that we want the goal for this year’s campaign to be that the games [...]

Yep, the “official” indicator that spring training is imminent–The Truck left Fenway Park around noon today, filled to the brim with all manner and variety of Red Sox stuff–both baseball and personal, and will arrive in Fort Meyers sometime on Friday… I don’t know what it is, but this offseason has FLOWN by–it didn’t feel [...]

Random Thoughts at less than 3 weeks to Pitches and Catchers… Avascular Necrosis. Sounds tasty, doesn’t it? That is the hip thing that cost Mike Napoli 2 years and $34 million dollars. And the weirdest thing is that he said he has no idea that he had the condition until the Sox found it during [...]

Baseball and music stars descended on the Boston area last weekend for the 14th Annual Hot Stove Cool Music Event, celebrating music, baseball and giving back by raising over $200,000 for Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein’s Foundation To Be Named Later. The annual Hot Stove Roundtable kicked off this winter’s Hot Stove [...]

So, for the first time in 17 years, the BBWAA failed to elect any of the 37 candidates (13 returning, and 24 newbies) to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The person who got the closest was first timer Craig Biggio, who at 68.2% was 39 votes shy of the 75% needed to [...]

Some random Red Thoughts, as I try to wrap my head around the fact that the Sox could have had Cody Ross (who signed a 3-year $26 million deal with the Diamondbacks) for 2/3′s  of what paid for Shane Victorino… Speaking of my beloved Cody Ross, interesting info on Bobby Valentine: “When Bobby came in [...]