June 2008
In 2006, the Red Sox racked up the best interleague record in history. They steamrolled through the NL East, winning all but two games in a stunning stretch in which their divisional lead grew to its largest of the season....
Continue reading "It's Not Interleague 2006. That's Not a Bad Thing." »
It was interesting week in the pitching camp of Red Sox world. Daisuke Matsuzaka made his official return, though you could hardly tell. Justin Masterson proved human, or at least had a human outing at home. Curt Schilling now officially...
Continue reading "Shifting Rotational Forces: Arms Races" »
The question is not whether he wants to or not. The question is whether he physically can. That's the epistemological direction charted forward by Curt Schilling this morning during his weekly appearance on WEEI. By all accounts, most significantly the...
Continue reading "Schilling Serves Notice" »
New Red Sox, say hello to the old Red Sox.OK, there isn't that much crossover between the front offices of Arizona and Boston, but there is a lot. After all, Theo's Epstein's former go-to guy is the man responsible for...
Continue reading "Dragnet Old Friends: Red Sox vs. D'Backs" »
The weekend turned out to look a lot more like option B, than A, with Wakefield providing a shaky outing on Friday and Daisuke Matsuzaka returning with the shortest, and ugliest, outing of his brief MLB career. In fact, it...
Continue reading "Walkoff Glory Eases Painful Weekend" »
While Fenway Park makes final green preparations for tonight's game honoring the world champion Celtics, and while WMYM tries to digest the possibility of a Curt Schilling-less future -- there's a sad development for media hype-heads everywhere -- there is...
Continue reading "Dragnet Deja Vu: Red Sox vs. Cardinals" »
While we wait for J.D. Drew to duck more batteries in the outfield, WMYM thought it might be a good idea to bring out some actual, legitimate letter grades for the rotation over the last week. With that in mind,...
Continue reading "Report Cards: Road Grading the Rotation" »
The Red Sox took two of three games in Cincinnati, which is more than they could say back in 1975. Still, as much as that could be considered a good sign -- the Reds are improved, though they're still the...
Continue reading "Making Masterson's Case" »
In Wednesday night's Red Sox win over the Orioles, the biggest blast came from a fairly unlikely source; catcher Jason Varitek.In most years, Varitek's first inning homer, which gave Boston a 5-0 lead, would be a truly stunning development. In...
Continue reading "The Long (Ball) and Short (at-bats) of Varitek" »
The Red Sox moved up the time of last night's loss to the Orioles to clear up conflicts with the start of Game 3 of the NBA Finals out in L.A. The Celtics then proceeded to double the loss total...
Continue reading "It's Not Easy Being Green" »
- Dragnet Deja Vu: Red Sox vs. Cardinals [Posted on June 20, 2008 at 6:45 PM]
- Report Cards: Road Grading the Rotation [Posted on June 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM]
- Making Masterson's Case [Posted on June 15, 2008 at 11:14 PM]
- The Long (Ball) and Short (at-bats) of Varitek [Posted on June 12, 2008 at 6:56 PM]
- It's Not Easy Being Green [Posted on June 11, 2008 at 12:52 AM]
- Manny Happy Returns ... and Knuckleballs [Posted on June 8, 2008 at 1:12 AM]
- Manny's Hammy Improves, to Mariners' Chagrin [Posted on June 7, 2008 at 3:17 PM]
- Cuckoo for Coco Fights! [Posted on June 7, 2008 at 1:26 AM]
- Manny and Meager Streaks [Posted on June 2, 2008 at 5:38 PM]
