Defensive Indifference

I wrote a piece for AOL today about Curt Schilling’s Hall of Fame credentials, and though I deliberately tried to avoid comparing him directly to other pitchers up for election, the first two user comments on the story claimed that Schilling didn’t belong until Jack Morris was elected.
What is the fascination with Jack Morris as […]

An enthralling bench-clearing brawl in Boston this evening—which I’m sure will be all over Sportscenter tonight—saw Coco Crisp get plunked by James Shields, the former charge the mound and dodge a Shields haymaker (despite how the above picture appears, Shields totally whiffed), connect a left to Shields’ lower neck-shoulder area, get jumped by Dioner Navarro, […]

Up until tonight, Jacoby Ellsbury was having a quietly good season. He certainly wasn’t matching the fanfare he generated last year during Boston’s World Series run. So what does he go and do? Hit two home runs in another comeback win for the Red Sox and kind of spoils what I’m about to write.
Ellsbury has […]

If you watched tonight’s Red Sox-Angels game, you might have seen Jonathan Papelbon’s electric performance in the ninth inning, and you might also have seen that he hit 100 mph a couple of times on the NESN radar gun. You might also have discarded that velocity reading as juiced — if the camera adds 10 […]

Why yes it is New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. I realize it’s trite to say this, but Sunday night might have officially been the night the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry jumped the shark. Granted, we’ve been headed in this direction since the moment Boston completed its comeback in the 2004 ALCS, but tonight it […]

This red tailed hawk is quite protective of her beloved Red Sox.