Showing posts with label 2009 World Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009 World Series. Show all posts

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Sox are out of sync... but haven't we heard this song before?

A big market team was coming off a season where they improbably missed the playoffs. They spent big on players in the off season, shockingly signing one free agent that seemed to be heading to a different playoff bound team.People started bitching and moaning how it wasn’t fair that they signed all of these great players but made the team the prohibitive pick going into the season.Then things

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Brian Cashman is having a hell of an off season

On December 3rd of this year, Brian Cashman rappelled off of a 350 foot building in Stamford Connecticut. He did NOT fall to his death.And that is probably the one positive thing that has happened to Cashman this off season.As of this writing, Cashman's improvements to the team have been NOT losing two Yankee legends, signing a non tendered catcher from the Dodgers, an adequate lefty reliever

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Will Cliff Lee's free agency be like the end of Superman 2?

There's a great scene in Superman 2 that I will spoil here.If you haven't seen the movie... it came out nearly 30 years ago. Take your time.In the scene, the evil Kryptonians led by General Zod have been obsessing over one thing: Capturing and defeating Superman.And when they cornered him in the Fortress of Solitude, Superman was forced to go into that chamber that takes all of his powers away.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Good Luck Manny Delcarmen

Another member of a World Champion Red Sox team is gone.And if I could salute Julio Lugo then I can damn sure salute Manny Delcarmen, who got traded to the Colorado Rockies (ironically the team he helped beat in the 2007 World Series.)It may not have ended well in Boston, let's not forget what a wonderful Red Sox story his is.He is a native Bostonian and "The Pride of Hyde Park" pitched at West

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Bad Luck Hamels

There were many story lines to last night's wild Phillies/Astros opus.Jimmy Rollins game tying 9th inning homer? Clutch.Ryan Howard getting called out on a check swing in extra innings? Borderline.Some umpire named Scott Barry trying to prove to the world how tough he is by tossing Ryan Howard? Bush League.Roy Oswalt playing left field? Little league.Roy Oswalt coming to the plate as the