http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/07/03/redsox.iglesias/
Julio Lugo is no longer a factor, Nick Green has been better than anyone could have hoped for but not a long term anwser, and while I like Lowrie, I don't consider him a franchise Short Stop. Well, the rumors are saying the Sox are looking to sign a potential franchise guy for the future in 19 year old  Cuban defector Jose Iglesias. All the reports I have read describe him as an old school type of short stop who is quick and amazing at defense, but not an great hitter. Here is a picture of the dude: << MORE >>

Well that Sucked. Tonight's game was entertaining and featured the first home run by fellow first generation Greek George Kottaras and Nick Green almost hitting a Bucky Fucking Dentesque home run into the Monster seats, but it was not to be as Ramón Ramírez gave up 2 in the 11th. Ramirez has been very good all year so you can't get too pissed at him for giving up the runs tonight. Still, this is a game the Sox could have easily won and allowed those fuck heads 210 miles away from us to pull within 2. ...<< MORE >>

10. Rain by The Beatles
9. Blame It On The Rain by Millie Vanilli
8. I Can’t Stand The Rain by Missy Elliot
7. Who’ll Stop The Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival
6. Umbrella by Rihanna
5. Buckets of Rain by Bob Dylan
4. No Rain by Blind Mellon
3. Purple Rain
2. November Rain by Guns N Roses
1. Only Happy When It Rain by Garbage ...<< MORE >>

I Love the prospect of the Celtics getting Rasheed Wallace.
http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/extras/celtics_blog/2009/07/report_ainge_li.html
I did not get to watch it while at work, but it was great to find out the Sox turned the tables on Baltimore for the comeback win and Papelbon getting the Bob Stanley passing save. ...<< MORE >>

Right now the Sox are in a rain delay in the middle of the 5th while up 9-1. Hopefully, the rain stops (it looks like it should not last too long) so Smoltz can get back out there for the win. Lets just say for sake of argument that instead of a short storm there was a long storm coming that might cancel the rest of the game. Would it not make sense for a team that was in the lead to start throwing at bats and getting out on purpose in order to move the game along so they ...<< MORE >>

Lester has had an odd year. Looking at his game log or even just using memory, it seems that half the time he has brought average stuff and the other time ace stuff. Tonight was the latter. Sometimes I forget that Lester is a year younger than I am with 75 career starts so that type of somewhat inconsistency is expected. It seems of late though that he is bringing his ace stuff more than his average stuff which is a good sign down the stretch. ...<< MORE >>

It seems the past week that dead is the new pink; so here is a list of people who are not dead: Bob Barker, Henry Kissinger, Andy Rooney, Eric Carle, Chuck Berry, Bob Zupcic, and many more. ...<< MORE >>

The Sox have the second best record in baseball, but their mark is much more impressive than the Dodgers. The Sox have been doing it against much better competition. Lets look at the 7 teams with the most wins in baseball.
1. Dodgers 48
2. Red Sox 46
3. Yankees 42
4. Tigers 41
5. Blue Jays 41
6. Rays 41
7. Cardinals 41
As predicted at the start of the year, The A.L. East is by far the best division in baseball with 4 teams in the top 7. Furthermore, If I had to bet, I would say two A.L. east teams will be ...<< MORE >>

Here is a link to the video I shot the other night at The Paradise of Buffalo Tom doing "Tangerine." The sound quality is not perfect, but still decent so fans will enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XhU6Ipa9Pk ...<< MORE >>

There are famous people, there are superstars, and then there was Michael Jackson. He was bigger than everyone. Pretty much everyone within age range all across the globe grew up watching his videos myself included. He was an important historical figure in terms of music, videos, race, media, globalization and in so many other levels.  He was a deeply troubled and messed up man from a fucked up family who made terrible decisions. He was the King of Pop. May he rest in piece. ...<< MORE >>

1. Acclaimed director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin are going to do a movie based about the creation of Facebook. Since FB was started at Harvard, I am guessing they will be filming some it around here.
2. The film based off of Michael Lewis' classic Baseball book Moneyball has been taken out of the line up by Columbia pictures. There is still a chance a rival studio might pick it up. The movie was set to have real ball players star in it. Former Red Sox Scott Hatteberg  was on board, and I am ...<< MORE >>

There is little hope of an actual new album from The Wu Tang Clan or Outkast, so by slight default The Clipse are the best hip hop group going right now. In addition, there has been a derth of decent rap in 09 so a new Clipse album is Kinda Like A Big Deal. (see what I did there, thats the name of the single, I can even do corny puns in posts about hip hop) First off, I love the beat to the song. It has an old school feel at some points but not like a ...<< MORE >>

Beckett was back to his ace form tonight.
On a side note, they played Letters To Cleo during a Dunkin Donuts montage on the broadcast tonight which a dude from Soxanddawgs was cool enough to put up.
http://soxanddawgs.com/2009/06/20/dunkin-donuts-montage-featuring-letters-to-cleo/
On a double side note, the fans gave D-Lowe the love he deserved tonight. ...<< MORE >>

Despite having around 7,000 songs on my ipod, I am one of the ever increasingly rare type of person that stills listens to the radio now and then. Though, I find myself doing it less and less and only turn it on because of force of habit from my youth or morbid curiosity. This morning, I put on Jam'n 94.5  and found it funny that they kept promoting that they are giving away tickets to the Rock The Bells Tour  which they said has a great line up; indeed the tour's line up is great, partly ...<< MORE >>

There has been plenty of great music that has come out this year from Metric to Neko Case; however, there is not a song that so far has song of the summer potential and usually by this point there are potentials. I think it is part of the reason that the northeast seems like it can't crack 70 despite it being mid-June. Part of the problem is that music has turned into so many smaller and smaller niches that it is hard for a song to break out and become the song of the summer. (a song of the summer ...<< MORE >>

Cy Young one 20 games when he was 41 which is the oldest someone has won 20 games in the A.L.  Warren Spahn won 20 games when he was 42 which the oldest anyone has won 20 in either league. Tim Wakefield won his 9th game tonight and will be 43 on August 2nd. The Sox have played 64 games this year which means that Wakefield is on pace to win 20 games. I know being on pace for stuff like this almost never works out and Wakefield usually gets into those slumps where he does not pitch great for ...<< MORE >>

People love to trivialize things like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, text messaging and such as wastes of time that make  the youth of today dumber. What those people fail to realize is that these are the greatest weapons that people without a lot of power have against the powerful; just look at what is happening in Iran: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.28f15ccf6415fb715cc41b255a013138.c11&show_article=1
The only way corrupt governments can survive is if they control information. That is getting harder and harder to do with an army of regular people with Cell Phones and Laptops that can communicate. Corrupt governments can do their best to try to ...<< MORE >>

The Sox continued to roll last night winning 5 straight against 2 teams that are World Series Contenders. (NYY and Philly) The bad news is that Dice-K had another bad night. You could try to excuse him by saying the rain delay messed him up, but that does not explain the rest of his starts this year. I think something is physically wrong with Dice-K. He even kind of hinted at that to reporters last night. I know some in Red Sox nation have always hated Dice-K's high pitch count style but it has never bothered me that ...<< MORE >>

If my team is not in the finals, then this is how my rooting interest usually go: I root for teams with former players that I like or I root against a team that I hate (i.e. Yankees, Lakers). If there is no team I hate in the match up and no former players I care that much about  (like this Cup Final, {sorry Hal Gill, but I did not get choked up watching you hold the cup }) , I just root for a good entertaining series and that what the Penguins and Red Wings provided everyone. Tonight's game ...<< MORE >>

So Many positives to list from tonights win:

1. Papi hit had 2 hits included another HR. This one was especially positive since he went over the Monster.


2. Penny pitched his best game of the year. 6 shut out innings against the Yankees and he was clocked at 98MPH on a few pitches. His trade value keeps going up. I know some say keep him, but just like a stock I think we need to take our winnings and sell high on him. What we don't need is to have him on our roster if he gets hurt and right ...<< MORE >>