| Finally, the marathon of opening days is over. And what a way to cap them off. A great ceremony - or so I hear as I was stuck earning some suit in a corner office a nice bonus to spend on his "other... | |
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| I've always felt that if you're world champs, you should get to open the next season at home. No questions asked. You just sit there with your scepter and plates of meat, and the other teams travel... | |
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| Swept out of the Rogers Center like an expansion team. The ace and expected Cy Young candidate can't get out of the fifth inning. Three errors by Julio Lugo. A one-pitch disaster by the other Manny.... | |
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| The minute that ball left Delcarmen's hand, I calmly placed my beer on the floor, headed into the kitchen, found a corkscrew, and briefly considered removing my own spleen. But then I realized that... | |
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| After two miserable losses in the Great White North, we turn to our stopper. Josh. El Beckko. Commander Kick Ass of the F@#k Yeah Brigade. Not that Doc Halladay's any sort of push-over, but with... | |
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| The 50,000-plus who visited the Rogers Center last night were in for a treat. Alex Rios signed a fat long-term deal, Roberto Alomar threw out the first pitch - bygones apparently being bygones and... | |
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| The road trip continues. Tonight, it's the Great White North. Tim Wakefield enters Thunderdome to take on the "if they stay healthy" Blue Jays. The Globe's Eric Wilbur shares my doubts about the... | |
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| Here's the thing. This fairly sweet grove of trees in the Fenway area was my grandfather's home. Then one day in 1911, these f@#king guys show up with hammers and axes and a couple locomotives filled... | |
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| A spectacular quote from The Large Father on the Globe's Extra Bases blog, regarding the futile attempts of such alleged "Papi Neutralizers" as Mike Myers to contain his unstoppable awesomeness:... | |
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| Two stellar, back-to-back pitching performances from Matsuzaka and Lester. Hits and home runs from Ortiz and Tek. The first official Manny "let me pull up a chair and watch that thing sail out and... | |
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