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Red Sox Pull Off the Impossible

Red Sox Pull Off the Impossible

I’m going to state this clearly right at the outset: the Red Sox lost me last September with their heartless, uninspired play.  This season I’ve watched more Orioles baseball than Red Sox, and the little Red Sox I did watch sickened me. Since last year all we heard was that it would be impossible for the team to unload Beckett, Crawford, etc. due to their tainted image (in Crawford’s case, total lack of performance as well) and bloated salaries.  Not…

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Reflections of a Train Wreck

Reflections of a Train Wreck

Perhaps Mike Lupica summed up the last 30 days of Red Sox baseball best: “It was like Mookie’s hit took 30 days to roll between Buckner’s legs.” Any Red Sox fan with half a brain could not have been shocked by Wednesday’s epic failure.  With the exception of Ellsbury, Pedroia, Aceves and Scoutaro, this was a team that either gave up in early September, or flat out never really cared to begin with. I could get into the numbers, such…

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It’s Truck Day!

It’s Truck Day!

In honor of the Red Sox Truck Day, here is Truckin’, performed by the Grateful Dead, April 17, 1972 Koncertsal – Copenhagen, Denmark. Truck Day, for you non-baseball fans, is the day when they send the truck off to Florida from Fenway Park in Boston, loaded with all their gear, in preparation for the start of Spring Training.  It started out as an unofficial start to the baseball pre-season for fans, and has blossomed to the point that this year,…

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Red Sox Ticket Prices, StubHub and Ace Tickets

Red Sox Ticket Prices, StubHub and Ace Tickets

Back in the day, I used to go to Red Sox games…lots of Red Sox games, as many as 30 or so a year. In the past couple years, not a game.  In fact, I’ve never taken my two daughters.  Prices obviously enter into this – read this on the pricing thisyear from ESPN Following an across the board freeze of all ticket prices in 2009, approximately two-thirds of the tickets at Fenway Park will stay at 2009 levels or…

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Oh Foul Fate…

Oh Foul Fate…

My name is Mark and I’m a Red Sox fan… Not much can be said about yesterday, a truly epic failure that will leave Red Sox reliever Jonathan Papelbon firmly in the goat seat for the next year, for the most part undeservedly.  Let’s face it, without him, the Sox would have been playing golf last week, not tasting the joy and sorrow of post season ball. In early August I posted a simple message to the #redsox Twitter hashtag:…

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