By now, if you care, you know that the Reds’ Joey Votto and the Yankees’ Nick Swisher were voted to the All-Star teams and the final man. I couldn’t be happier for them both, remember Swisher was born in Ohio and went to Ohio State, and of course Votto is a Red.
But what is interesting [...]

OK, that headline isn’t quite accurate.  Really, Felix Doubront took the mound last night for the Boston Red Sox and pitched to the guy that had been his single-A Manager, Gabe Kapler.  If you don’t remember, Kapler had retired a few years back to become a minor league manager for the Boston Red Sox.  After [...]

Broadcasters have been muttering this for weeks now, but really the idea that 2010 in some ways is showing a return in dominant pitching throughout baseball is starting to really come true. Pitchers are always ahead of hitters at the start of spring training and often the start of the season too.  Weather has an [...]

Well, Manny was cheered and he was booed this weekend in his return to Fenway.  It happens to everyone at some point, but this much anticipated return might have left those tuning in just for that a little disappointed.  Still, it sounds like Manny has turned over a bit of a new leaf.  Though he [...]

In the off-season we had a fun game going over on the message board where we picked two players and tried to decide which one would your really want to build your team around.  Well, Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe got one of those going this morning, with Jayson Werth and Carl Crawford and [...]

Didn’t see this game yesterday- I am becoming like Chris Russo who calls himself a sports talk expert but never watches a game- but it sounds like the Red Sox got screwed by some lousy umpiring.  There will be more on this story, because now there is just too much information out there.  Tony Lee [...]