Boys will be boys...

Lots of antics over the weekend at Fenway Park... Clip one is Lester harrassing the robotic dugout camera. You know you're in trouble when your young pitcher is trying to emulate your bad boy ace and your rookie pitcher, in turn, emulates your young pitcher. Luckily, Lester has better aim with a baseball than with sunflower seeds.

And Jerry Remy was in fine form when he got a new cellphone from NESN.

And Julio Lugo wound up in left field!
And somehow, through it all, the Sox have found themselves back on top...

Beckett Demands to be Traded

According to the Boston Herald, the Sox Ace demands to be dealt unless the players' ice cream machine is returned

Curse This, Big Papi!

Big Papi came out of his slump with a slam:

The infamous jersey

The one unearthed from Yankee Stadium is on ebay for a mere $33,100. Bid now!

I heart Sean Casey

The best thing the Sox did in the off-season was acquiring Sean Casey to play backup...Not only is he awesome, but he's hella funny, too...

Crazy in the clutch: BOS 5 - CLE 3

Well, Jason Varitek pinch hit the go-ahead run and just about won baseball boyfriend of the day, but at the very last second Jacoby Ellsbury made this crazy foul ball catch in the stands. It looks even crazier in the replay as you can see his legs flailing about. The best is he comes up all attitude like he's bad-ass. Silly rookie ;) I love him!

Ortiz jersey unearthed and so is his bat....

David Ortiz has never been in a bigger slump than he has so far this season. So on Sunday, Ortiz sat on the bench while his team played the Yankees and his jersey was dug of the new Yankee Stadium. On Monday, Ortiz and his jersery were back in the lineup and Big Papi got TWO hits! Coincidence? I think not! The curse of the jersey wasn't on the Yankees but on Ortiz. Now, with the curse lifted, we can look forward to many homeruns to come!

Whose line is it, anyway?

IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2.2	2 0	0	0	0	4	0

Can you guess whose line that is? Oki? MannyD? Nope!! It belongs to this nutcase:

And his partner in crime hit a game winning homerun, they are definitely my collective player of the game...

The come-from-behind 9th inning was phenomenal. It had it all -- great base running, bunting, Ortiz hitting!!!, and Manny's homerun. I couldn't pick a clip of the day so here's the whole half inning (up until the pitching change)...

And Manny actually spoke to the press about it. Well, "spoke to the press about it" might be an exaggeration. But he did stand in front of the mic looking just slightly less annoyed than Josh Beckett. His answers are, of course, unintentionally hilarious.

Yankees not taking any chances

In an attempt to curse the New York Yankees, a Red Sox fan on the construction crew of the new Yankee Stadium buried an Ortiz jersey in the concrete of the new stadium. At first the Yankee management thought it was a joke, but upon realizing it was true, promptly dug it up. It took laborers 5 hours of overtime to collect the jersey. And I thought only Red Sox fans believed in curses.

Closer Competition

I had heard the rumblings. I heard that the Sox might try to make Manny DelCarmen a closer -- just for those days that Papelbon is off, of course. Well, Manny D proved he's got the goods, as he earned a save against the New York Yankees on Sunday night. Watch out, Pap! You've got competition....

Random Clip of The Day

I don't have cable. Yesterday I thanked that baseball gods that I have MLB.tv because otherwise I would have missed the 9th inning of the Yankees game. I was excited to watch a game on FOX but I don't have FX! Today, I'm blacked out on MLB.tv and I don't have ESPN. So I'm cursing the baseball gods and MLB.tv. I decided to occupy myself with a game from last August, back when David Ortiz could hit. For some reason, the boys at Rays TV showed the Coco Crisp gets run over by a moose clip. It was a really good video of the incident, so I uploaded it for your viewing pleasure. That is, if you're not otherwise occupied by a certain Yankees game!

Manny rolls through a stop sign

"F@#% Inner Peace"

Jimmy Kimmel sent his crew to totally disrupt a Mysore class...

The Fenway Hawk Conspiracy

Apparently a hawk has taken up residence in Fenway Park and it's not too happy about all the commotion in it's backyard. In fact, it attacked a young girl on a tour of the Park last week.

So you might wonder why this hawk hasn't been moved to a new home...

Well, watch the hawk's appearance in the Sox home opener against the Detroit Tigers as he appears to attempt to drop a mouse in the visitors' dugout. Maybe there is a reason that the Sox are keeping their new friend around...

Photos courtesy of boston.com. Video courtesy of NESN

Opening Day Highlights

No not the ring ceremony -- that was boring as crap and made me miss Dougie... The highlight of the 5-0 win over the Detroit Tigers was Manny's homerun -- I mean, triple, well, actually probably a double and an error, unless he ran right out of the box and then maybe a triple.. definitely a triple if he Coco Crisp. But for Manny, it was a homerun, of sorts. For the scorebooks, I believe, it was a triple and an error. But nonetheless, Manny rules!

Lords of the Rings

Before the game today, the Red Sox got their World Series Pennant:
And their rings:
And in case the size of the ring isn't apparent when they are side by side, check it in comparison to a normal ring. Holy heck!

btw, manny d doesn't suck either

just because he gave up a grandslam on one pitch, doesn't mean MannyD's off to a bad year. When Big Papi hits a grandslam, it never even enters our minds that the pitcher stinks. We know that Papi can hit in the clutch. And so can Frank Thomas. MannyD is in better shape than 2007 and has a year of experience behind him. He will have a fantastic year, and so far he has, if you can just erase that one pitch from your memory. Poor guy. I'm sure that's his nightmare -- called in with bases loaded and Frank Thomas at bat... if it didn't give him nightmares, it certainly will now!

On the bright side...

In an effort to erase the last 3 games from my memory, I watched a game from last August against the (Devil) Rays. Nothing like the Rays to make me think the Sox don't actually suck ;) So the worst is true. The boys are jet-lagged. Francona said that Mills called him at 1:30 in the AFTERNOON on a gameday to make sure he was still alive. Francona was still sound asleep. That's not normal. So when Ellsbury is jetlagged balls don't stay in his glove. So when Lugo is jetlagged, he can't, well, do anything. So when big Casey is jetlagged, he shouldn't get the nod at first. When little Dustin Pedroia is jetlagged, he can only make reasonable plays. And when Kevin Youkilis is jetlagged, he can't scoop up anything and make Lugo et al. look good. Now we know... Now we know what happens when our boys are jetlagged. The good news is that JD Drew will have a fantastic year and will prove that not only doesn't he suck, but he deserves his paycheck. The good news is that Manny Ramirez is not going to wait until May to hit, but he will also prove he deserves his paycheck. And the good news is that we still have Coco Crisp, just in case Ellsbury isn't exactly all that we hope he is, just yet..... And the best news -- this one took a late 2007 game to remember. This was was shoved to the back of my mind, trying to repress the agony -- but it is by far the most inspirational and motivating piece of good news that there can be -- let us not forget, ERIC GAGNE' IS NO LONGER ON THE BOSTON RED SOX. Oh YEAH! It is 2008! The boys are back in town and sleeping in their own beds (for 24 hours straight). Good times to come -- starting Tuesday at 2pm....

Manny Being Coco

With that and a third loss to the Blue Jays, the Red Sox are finally headed home for a well deserved day off....

In Tek We Trust...

In what was a disaster of a game (TOR 10 BOS 2), there was a highlight -- watch Clay strike out the batter and Tek throw out the runner all in one play