Subject: Boston Red Sox

• The Upside To Rudy's Pro-Sox Flip-Flop

  October 24, 2007

• Martin Scorsese Loves the Dropkick Murphys

  October 13, 2006

• What the Hex? The Continuing Saga of the "Sox Curse"

  April 14, 2008

• Damn Yankees! The Yankee-Red Sox Car Rundown

  May 6, 2008

• Is It Time To Bench the A-Rod Saga?

  July 9, 2008

• Back Page Bingo: "GOOD RIDDANCE" to Manny Ramirez

  August 1, 2008

• Developer Selling South Street Seaport

  December 19, 2008

• Jockbeat: Red Sox Cry Uncle After Yanks Spend Half a Billion

  For years, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have been locked in a bidding war for baseball's highest priced free agents. And now it appears that the Red Sox have finally blinked.According to the Associated Press and Business Week, Red Sox owner John Henry called -- for the second time -- for a salary cap. (The first time was when the Yankees beat out the Red Sox for Alex Rodriguez in 2004.) It's no coincidence that this follows in the wake of the Yankees' signing of C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Bu

  February 20, 2009

• Drinks of Our Lives

  Adam Pieniazek @ Flickr The New Yorker features a selection of recession-friendly cocktail recipes that are more allegorical than drinkable. Quench your financial woes with a Broke & Tan, Blackberry Sling or Trickle-down Punch. But The Boston Globe isn't being so coy with its timely tipple story. Apparently, Bonfire, a local bar, is poking fun at New York's fallen Yankees with the A-Roid: a shot of El Mejor tequila, neat, with a spicy "performance-enhancing" tomato juice chaser. It's part of th

  March 16, 2009

• Curses!

  October 26, 2004

• Baseball's New Pitch

  April 13, 1999

• Pedro's Masterpiece Burns the Rocket

  October 19, 1999

• Atlas Slugged

  August 22, 2006

• They're Still Your Idols

  October 21, 2003

• Home Away From Home

  July 6, 1999

• The Girls of Summer

  July 27, 1999

• Error, Comptroller

  October 19, 1999

• Sports

  November 2, 1999

• The End of an Ear-a

  May 2, 2000

• Sports

  July 25, 2000

• Sports

  August 22, 2000

• Sports

  May 1, 2001

• Hosiery History

  June 5, 2001

• Jock Lit

  July 10, 2001

• Sports

  December 4, 2001

• Sports

  July 2, 2002

• Dead Man Wearing

  August 6, 2002

• Sports

  August 12, 2003

• Sports

  September 9, 2003

• Classic Fall

  September 16, 2003

• Sports

  October 14, 2003

• Sports

  October 21, 2003

• Horoscope

  November 25, 2003

• Horoscope

  December 7, 2004

• A League of Their Own

  January 25, 2005

• Their Arsenal: The Farrelly brothers replace soccer with Sox

  April 5, 2005

• The Payoff Itch

  July 19, 2005

• Every Pitcher Tells a Story

  March 6, 2007

• EVIL EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

  July 2, 2008

• Yankee Stadium Staff Announce Rainout, Refuse Entry When Game Resumes

  Yankee fans who decided to cool their heels outside the House that Taxpayer Dollars Built during a long rain delay got an unpleasant surprise when they tried to get back in: the stadium personnel wouldn't let them. The park has a firm no-readmittance policy, but several ticket-holders claim they were told by stadium employees that the game had been rained out. Those lucky enough to try Gate 4 were able to avail a few minutes of confusion and gain reentry, but the others were shut out. Cops move

  May 5, 2009

• Capillary Action Win Best New Band in America, New York Division, from Ambitious, Freedom-Loving Boston Weekly Paper

  Argument-baiting alt-weekly the Boston Phoenix celebrates "Independents Day" (heh) for the second year in a row by publishing a "Best Band" omnibus broken down by the 50 states. Last July, the paper was ambitious enough to hand out such geographically divided distinctions as "All Time Best Band," "All-Time Best Solo Artist," and "Best New Band," naming New York's respective winners to be the Velvet Underground, Mary J. Blige, and Yeasayer. This reliably led to comment-section hijinks like, "Yo

  July 2, 2009

• Interview: MSNBC's Willie Geist on New York Baseball, His Jeter Love, His Desire to Drill Pedroia, and More

  ​ We're pleased to see that our Morning Joe favorite Willie Geist has finally been given his own TV show. Way Too Early With Willie Geist now leads off MSNBC's morning schedule, airing (if one "airs" on cable) at 5:30 a.m. (That's 2:30 a.m. Pacific time, where the show is no doubt known as Way Too Late With Willie Geist.) Among other highlights, Brian Williams, Maureen Dowd, and Donald Trump have all phoned in from their beds to chat with Willie. Rod Blagojevich is scheduled to call on Mo

  July 31, 2009

• Jockbeat: Lupica's Precious Sox Juicing? He Blames the Union, Naturally

  ​Since Selena Roberts's February 7 Sports Illustrated story broke the news that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003, we've maintained that there's no mystery as to how and why these names are being revealed:  the federal agents who seized the 2003 test samples and the results have the information, so they must be the ones who are leaking it.Why are they doing it? To give some credibility to their nearly seven-year investigation into the use of performance enhancing drugs i

  August 2, 2009

• Jockbeat: Yanks With Best MLB Record, So They're The Best Team in Baseball, Right?

  ​After sweeping the big four-game series with the Red Sox, are the Yankees now favorites to win the AL East -- and to go on and win the World Series?  You betcha, but let's not print those World Series tickets yet. Though New York has the best record in the AL -- heck, they've got the best record in either league - there are some problems, the principal one being their difficulty beating good teams.

  August 10, 2009

• Ted Williams' Head Even More Banged Up Than We Thought

  ​Even the most die-hard of Yankees fans might feel a little pity for their Red Sox counterparts today. The Daily News reports that legendary Red Sox slugger Ted Williams' frozen head was used in batting practice at the Alcor Life Extension clinic. Williams' legacy took a different kind of hit earlier this summer, when Derek Jeter surpassed him on the MLB all-time hit list. But even in the afterlife, there seems to be no end to the indignities William's frozen head must receive every few ye

  October 2, 2009

• Crazy Yankee Chick: I just like it when the Sox lose, that's all.

  ​Thanks to our friends over at WeeklyDig for spot-on scouting predictions: I suspect that Lackey will have a decent game tonight notwithstanding, but I also expect to see Torii "Dogface" Hunter come up short when it counts - like he always does. John "Cursing Maniac" Lackey and Jared "Remember My Brother?" Weaver just can't stack up to Jon "Your Line Drive Means Nothing Compared to Cancer" Lester and Josh "I Beat NYC in NYC after 9/11" Beckett. Hey, we've all been there. Thursday's

  October 9, 2009

• Crazy Yankee Chick: PAP SMEAR

  ​Karma's a cruel mistress. A bitch, even. There is something to be said for honoring the Code of War. Hnoor among thieves, etc. As much as I wanted to, I refrained from texting asinine comments to my Sox fan buddies. I doubt they would show me the same courtesy. Actually, I know they wouldn't. But that's what makes us Yankee fans and them Sux fans. Well, that, and the fact that we're still playing baseball for at least the next few days.

  October 11, 2009

• Crazy Yankee Chick: Where the Wild Things Are Not

  ​Maybe I was just oblivious to it all the other years, but for some reason, it seemed like whenever booth announcers were short on talking points, they defaulted to the current Wild Card playoff system. Everyone had an idea on how to best construct the postseason process so as to best preserve fairness for all parties involved. I've touched on the subject before, but to be clear, I hate the Wild Card. I liken it to studying for weeks for a test, only to have someone who crammed the night

  October 12, 2009

• Crazy Yankee Chick: Blowout win puts Yankees on the brink...!

  ​I think I might have been just as happy with the score as I was with the fact that the Yankees won last night. I don't know if my heart could have handled another extra innings monument to high anxiety. A pitchers' duel would have sent me into seizure fits. (Of course, an Angels' hit parade would have, for all intents and purposes, ended me.) But CC Sabathia, the 300-pound monster on the mound, delivered Yankee fans from all of that. And he did it on short rest. Hours before the game

  October 21, 2009

• Jockbeat: Some Jocklit to Tide You Over Until Game Six

  ​The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants and the Cast of Players, Pugs and Politicos Who Re-Invented the World Series in 1912 By Mike Vaccaro Doubleday, 290 pages, $26.95 Game Six -- Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime By Mark Frost Hyperion, 416 pages, $26.99 Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher and a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk About How The Game Is Played By Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson with Lonnie Wheeler Doubleday, 288 page

  November 3, 2009