A Black Eye for Baseball
Whenever there is doubt about a true champion in a sport, everyone suffers. Whether it be the victors themselves, the jilted runner-up’s, or the...
Alex and the asterisk
There it is, folks. The cat is out of the bag, the truth stands in all its stark nakedness. Manager Alex Cora is a...
Yankees Get Cole in Stocking to Fire Up Hot Stove
There are some things that, once learned, become involuntary, like riding a bike or hating the Yankees.
I’ll admit that these past few seasons I...
Say Hello to the Blah Sox
It was October of 2003, Game 7 of the ALCS. The Red Sox had a three-run lead in the eighth and were grinding it...
Yankees Look Wonderful Tonight While Sox are Nowhere to Be Seen
Here I am, watching postseason baseball, and I can’t help but feel like a forlorn teenage boy whose girlfriend dumped him, and now he's...
The Summer of Our Discontent
Part I: NESN vs. Netflix
It’s a Thursday night and the Red Sox are playing a potentially meaningful game against the Minnesota Twins at Fenway...
Mets Bet Could Have Gone Better
Few things inflict as much shame on a New England sport’s fan as being forced to don any New York sports team’s regalia. Anything...
Plenty of Shame to Go Around
Shame on the 2019 Boston Red Sox.
Shame on Head of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski, who built a team going into the season without a...
ESPN’s Buster Olney on Rivalries, Deadlines, and Runaway Cows
We’ve been here in the dog days of summers past, the stage set for a four-game series between baseball’s biggest rivals, and the stakes—for...
Time to scorch the earth
I’ll say it, although most Red Sox fans don’t want to hear it.
It’s time for Head of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski to blow up...
It’s toast and tea for MLB
When it comes to colossally stupid plans to seduce fans, Major League Baseball has cornered the market among the four major sports.
Let’s examine some...
Hangover Season Is Driving Us to Drink
Believe it or not, I had a few hangovers in my 44 years here on Planet Earth. As part of a fraternity in college...
The season of overreaction is upon us
Chalk it up.
Or, perhaps, launch that school supply in the garbage, along with your expectations for the 2019 baseball season.
As the world prepares to...
Who farted?
Here’s the thing about the 2019 Red Sox so far: I’ve seen Motley Crue videos with a more focused cast.
And it’s not that Alex...
Grandstanders: Busy Season in Boston Sports
Host Scott Kerman is joined by Uncle Joe McLaughlin and Tim Hoey at The Greatest Bar in Boston as the Red Sox season gets...
Happiness, serenity, and the birth of a new season
It’s October of 2003, the bottom of the 10th inning in the old Yankee Stadium. Grady Little already left Pedro Martinez in way too...