July 2008
Someone needs to copyright that phrase pronto. Who knows if Jason Bay will hit as well as he could at Fenway, but if he does, a blind and deaf salesman could still peddle 800 of those shirts on Yawkey Way...
Continue reading "Bay State Games" »
It's actually going to happen, so brace for it Boston. You've seen Manny Ramirez play his last game in a Red Sox uniform.If that's the case -- and the more these three-way rumors with the Pirates and Marlins heat up,...
Continue reading "Hasta Luego, Manny. Good Luck in Miami" »
Strike One: Dropping two of three to the Yankees in a series that had both Josh Beckett and Jon Lester on the mound. Strike Two: A devastating, televised meltdown by Daisuke Matsuzaka in the sixth inning of Monday night's loss...
Continue reading "After Strike Three, Sweep Could be Crusher" »
OK, everyone who had Jon Lester as the Red Sox' big game stopper in the preseason prospectus raise your hand. Phew. Well, WMYM is glad we're not the only ones who missed the boat on that one. Amazingly, Jon Lester...
Continue reading "Jon Lester is ... The Stopper" »
Well, there's the disaster scenario Sox fans had to be worried about. Josh Beckett is brilliant, but still loses. Joba Chamberlain looks like a world beater in Fenway Park. The pitching shines, again, but the Yankees -- thanks to Mariano...
Continue reading "F*$k!!!!!!" »
Hmmm. Get swept, sweep. Nice trend.Oh wait, no it's not.In case anyone was lost in the blue, the Red Sox and Yankees face off again tonight, the latest adventure in the tet-a-tet warfare that has decided the fate of the...
Continue reading "Hold On To Your Hats, Here We Go" »
This is the part of the season called keeping pace. Thus, in the interest of putting one foot in front of the next, we bring you Game 2 of the I-90 bookend series: Seattle vs. Boston.Last night's Red Sox win,...
Continue reading "Best Foot Forward" »
Well, that wasn't the best way to start the season's second half. After a strong closing sprint up to the All-Star break, the Red Sox dropped all three of a west-coast set against the Angels, a team they've dominated in...
Continue reading "Not an Ideal Second-Half Start" »
So, we're part of a semi-annual Red Sox blogger roundtable over at Red Sox Monster, which is chock full of some great Boston bloggers and Sox talk. Still, we thought we'd give you the WMYM take a night early, before...
Continue reading "Red Sox Monster Roundtable: Midseason Report" »
If the Red Sox have had a significant problem this year -- and one could argue they definitely have -- it's undoubtedly been in the bullpen. Unlike 2007, when the team evolved defined roles out of the pen and limited...
Continue reading "First Half Fixation: Bullpen Blunders" »
- Hold On To Your Hats, Here We Go [Posted on July 25, 2008 at 5:04 PM]
- Best Foot Forward [Posted on July 22, 2008 at 9:07 PM]
- Not an Ideal Second-Half Start [Posted on July 21, 2008 at 4:33 PM]
- Red Sox Monster Roundtable: Midseason Report [Posted on July 16, 2008 at 8:39 PM]
- First Half Fixation: Bullpen Blunders [Posted on July 15, 2008 at 4:54 PM]
- First Half Fixation: Starting Grades [Posted on July 14, 2008 at 4:59 PM]
- Dragnet Picking (Rotation) Spots: Orioles at Sox [Posted on July 11, 2008 at 8:32 PM]
- A Breakout Win [Posted on July 9, 2008 at 8:33 PM]
- Big Wins Come in 8s [Posted on July 9, 2008 at 2:22 AM]
- Home Sweet Home ... Barely [Posted on July 8, 2008 at 2:30 AM]
- Two Out of Three Aint Bad ... Three Out of Four is Huge [Posted on July 6, 2008 at 7:28 PM]
