Wait a minute… I thought the Rays were supposed to suck this year.

Remember how unfair this off season was?How Soriano, Crawford, Bartlett, Pena, Wheeler, Garza and everyone including Evan Longoria’s hat have left Tampa Bay and it was all that was wrong with baseball?How they had a nice team that the unjust baseball economics destroyed while the Yankees and Red Sox got stronger?Well here we are about 25% of the way through the season, the Red Sox can’t put a

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

Hot Carl

April is mercifully over.If there was one Red Sox player who wanted it all done it was Carl Crawford who was miserable and the symbol of the futile first month.Well the calendar page has turned and the Red Sox are 1-0 this month and Carl Crawford already has a 2 out 9th inning game winning hit.A sign of things to come?Oh let's hope so.And let's update the tally.DODGED BULLET GAMES - 6April 8 - 9-

What if Dice-K is good again?

Seriously, was ANY Red Sox fan counting on Dice K for squat this year?Wasn't the consensus that the Daisuke Matsuzaka era in Boston was grinding down to a whimper?And yeah he had a great game on Monday. But that was a Patriots Day game and most visiting batters' timing tends to be off with the early Patriots Day start.So I guess it was easy to dismiss 7 innings of 1 hit ball.But is it so easy to

Sox look good... their hats don't

OK, there were a lot of things that were odd and could have cost the Red Sox the game. Lester was great but only lasted 6 innings. Saltalamacchia couldn't find a baseball in a little league play that cost the Red Sox a run. Hey Jarrod, it's BEHIND YOU!The Sox won, and no matter how low Carl Crawford's average plummets, that's all that matters. Inching closer to .500... and oh yeah Dan Haren lost

Crawford is leading off?

This is the 6th game and Carl Crawford's 4th position in the batting order.Somehow Francona will be able to find a way to have him bat in 10 different spots.

Red Sox get Carl Crawford! Two can play this evil game!

It's starting to feel a lot like 2003, 2004 and 2005 in here. And your pal Sully couldn't be happier.As I wrote back in 2007, the Red Sox are an evil empire as well. And MAN it is fun to root for the bad guys!The Red Sox picked up the best two left handed bats available and didn't have to give up Jose Inglesias,, Ryan Kalish or Daniel Bard.They've gone from having a rotation of Darnell McDonald,

Come to Fenway, Carl

It's a little better than the Trop.There is the Green Monster in left rather than those stupid rings in the Trop that you could hit with a flyball.And oh yeah, they don't have to literally GIVE tickets away to fill up the place.I think you'll like it.I know trying to sign Crawford away from Tampa, which the Red Sox are evidently trying to do, makes my team as greedy and as vulture like as the