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By adamg - 10/8/24 - 11:09 am
WCVB reports the death of El Tiante, who played eight years with the Red Sox.
By adamg - 9/15/24 - 5:52 pm
The Red Sox announced the longtime radio voice of the Sox - and of summertime in New England - is retiring after more than 40 years.
By adamg - 9/6/24 - 9:21 am
Dan Secatore contrasts Globe and MassLive.com coverage of Devers's reaction to Yet Another Loss and finds the Globe published a good in-the-locker-room look at why Devers might have spent 40 minutes staring at his locker while MassLive published a pointless whine about the ballplayer who wouldn't talk to reporters.
By adamg - 8/13/24 - 11:37 am
Matt Gross makes the case that in hurling a homphobic expletive at a fan: Read more.
By adamg - 10/1/23 - 5:00 pm
City Hall lit in Sox colors tonight to honor Wakefield. Photo by Isabel Leon of the mayor's office.
The Red Sox announced pitching hero Tim Wakefield died today.
Wakefield, who pitched for two World Series-winning Sox teams, won 186 games for the team, third behind Cy Young and Roger Clemens.
He is survived by his wife Stacy, son Trevor and daughter Brianna.
By adamg - 9/29/23 - 10:30 pm
Josh Brogadir at WCVB said tonight the station learned a couple weeks ago about Tim Wakefield's battle with cancer but decided not to report it until Wakefield was ready to go public, out of common human decency. Curt Schilling, he continued, has no such decency.
This just adds to the list of despicable acts since he finished playing baseball.
By adamg - 9/28/23 - 3:48 pm
People sums up the story, includes Jason Varitek's wife telling Schilling what he can do with himself.
By adamg - 8/20/23 - 9:06 pm
On the occasion of the Sox sweeping the Yankees in New York, Jake Reiser rewrites the Sinatra classic.
By adamg - 6/18/23 - 6:47 pm
A dead trolley at Hynes means outbound Green Line service is facing at least 20 minute delays, just as people are relying on the Green Line to get to Kenmore for the Sox/Yankees game. Or as Michelle Greenberg reports:
Stuck on green line trying to get to Fenway. Train lost power all green line shut down
By adamg - 5/19/23 - 9:12 am
No, not New York. Seattle. Maura McGurk plumbs the depths of Marinerville's hatred for the Sox and, sometimes, all of New England:
One of Matt’s friends didn’t wish to be identified but said that the “transitive properties” of all of New England were to blame for the way Seattle feels about the Sox and their fans. Matt explained that “snotty” New England things like Harvard and the Hamptons were problematic for him.
By adamg - 3/29/23 - 11:17 pm
Boston Flyovers alerts us that four fighter jets will fly low and loud over Fenway Park - which means they'll also fly over other parts of the area - during Thursday's Red Sox opening-day ceremonies. The ceremonies start at 1:30 p.m. and run through just before first pitch, scheduled for 2:10 p.m.
By adamg - 12/8/22 - 8:56 am
ESPN reports. Or as Over the Monster puts it: Darkness. There is only darkness.
By adamg - 10/5/22 - 9:28 am
The Joy of Sox says farewell to Dennis Eckersley, retiring after today's final game of the Sox season.
By adamg - 9/2/22 - 9:21 pm
Robert Orthman captured the security guy tackling a streaker on the infield at Fenway tonight: Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/22 - 12:31 pm
Bob Osgood says farewell to Dennis Eckersley, retiring this fall as a Red Sox commentator.
By adamg - 7/22/22 - 11:05 pm
It's not just that the Blue Jays scored 28 runs at Fenway tonight (fans started chanting "Let's go Blue Jays!"), but the T reports an inbound Green Line trolley mistook itself for a Sox player and died at Fenway.
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