That’s right CACers! It is almost that time of year for the cold weather to take over the Northeast and the time for the (now) 10 playoff teams to make a run for a World Series title. Yes, the NFL is the league that many people pay attention to once September rolls around, but MLB […]
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Can Bobby Valentine Revive “The Dirt Dawgs”
Originally Posted 2011-12-02 Two months, six Patriots wins, a ten game Bruins win streak and three weeks of college basketball after the Red Sox ruined everything I had finally forgotten how mad I was at them. This week was a nice reminder that the baseball team I used to be proud to call my favorite […]
Papelbon Is Gone, But Life Goes On
Originally Posted 2011-11-16 The solution is closer than you think We saw this before with Johnny Damon and Pedro Martinez. Eccentric and dominant Red Sox players reaching free agency and walking. Friday it happened for the third time in the post-curse era when Jonathan Papelbon reached a four year deal today with the Phillies worth $50 million. It’s funny how […]
LIVE BLOG! Red Sox vs Orioles, game 162!!
Originally Posted 2011-09-28 Playoffs start tonight! 7:02 – Well, here we go. Game # 162, Red Sox vs Orioles, and the Rays are hosting the Yankees. A Red Sox win gives them their first back to back wins in the month of September. Combine that with a Rays loss and the Sox are in the […]
The Jeter Ball: Do “The Right Thing” Or Make $250K?
Originally Posted 2011-07-11 What Would You Do? On Saturday afternoon, Yankee captain Derek Jeter added to his legacy when he hit a home run to become the 28th player and 1st Yankee ever to amass 3,000 hits in a Major League Career. 23 year old Highland Mills, NY native Christian Lopez was one of 48,103 packed into […]
Deep Thoughts
Originally Posted 2011-04-05 Another slow day at the office -Sadly the NCAA hoops season came to an end last night. The game was horrible to watch regardless of your rooting affiliation, and I hate UConn, but thank God CBS ditched the Jennifer Hudson One Shining Moment rendition and went back to Luther Vandross. If it […]
Allow Me to Re-Introduce Nomar
A Take Down of FHF Or rather, let me remind you of a few things that Five Hard Fouls left out of his latest blog post. I’m sorry I just have to take umbrage with that alphabet soup that was posted last night. I don’t necessarily disagree with what the author is trying to say, […]
Baseball, We’re Talking Baseball?!?
As I sit here on my couch, mix drink in hand, box o’ wine in front of me, just in case, it’s time to address the ridiculousness of the ’09 Red Sox Postseason. Way too many people that I’ve talked to this post season are just not that jacked up about the Sox prospect this […]
Poor Rich Athletes
Please read the following article from espn.com as it affects us all- http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3683448 DANA POINT, Calif. — Some baseball agents already are thinking about trying to beat a possible tax increase for their well-paid clients under an Obama administration. President-elect Barack Obama has proposed increasing the top federal income tax rate from 35 percent […]
A SLAP IN THE FACE
I have to hand it to Tampa. Way to wake the sleeping giant. You want a chip on your shoulder you can order it in any size (http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3318239&cp=1452368.1452911) You have got to be kidding me with these right? This is right up there with Corey wearing the ìCAC Championshipî T Shirt before we (I) lost to the […]
