The Nest

We’ve all seen it.
A game where there was a close play and instant replay showed that the umpire got it wrong? Whether you saw it on TV or live at the game, it seems more prevalant nowadays than ever. Maybe because we’re paying closer attention. In the past week alone, I’ve seen 2 homeruns called [...]

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I’m all for a player spending his entire career with a team and am sometimes shocked at the players who’ve moved on. (Johnny Damon comes to mind) But with all due respect to Mrs. Wakefield, both his wife and his Mom, the Red Sox are doing no one any favors by holding onto the knuckleballer. [...]

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It appears that whether or not Roger Clemens has used steroids will be shrouded in mystery, at least for now. With accusations but no real proof on either side. But his reputation has suffered mightily, perhaps because his difficult behavior in the past earned him a reputaion, and now it’s suffering again: the devoted husband, [...]

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Is Roger Clemens’ place in baseball history tainted?
Once, not long ago, Roger Clemens stood in a position to become a baseball legend. In only 2006, he was voted the greatest living pitcher by a panel of ESPN analysts. He had already won 7 Cy Young awards, and had joined the exclusive club of pitchers with [...]

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While I’m not a big fan of his hot-dogging, I did find it very entertaining yesterday when Manny not only caught up to a fly ball that no one thought he could reach, but made the completely outstretched, over the shoulder catch. For an encore, while his momentum carried him into the left field padded [...]

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Julio Lugo has to be looking over his shoulder…
With every game he comes a little closer to sitting out a dance or two. Francona has to be at least considering it. I personally like Lugo – I thinks he tries hard…too hard maybe. But it seems he’s getting worse. Maybe Francona has more patience than [...]

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We knew (we hoped) the Sox could bounce back from last night’s kick in the pants and with Beckett on the mound, our chances were pretty good. The Tigers have struggled and would have been swept had it not been for the dumb luck and miscues of yesterday.
Indeed, from the second inning on, Beckett had [...]

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It started harmlessly enough. An excuse me swing from Matt Joyce, a recent Triple A callup, on a scary splitter from Papplebon and it dribbles into no-mans land. Ok, so we can recover from that. But it turns out that was part of the problem. Renteria spits out a little league grounder to short and [...]

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I saw where Jordan’s Furniture is extending their Monster Sweep another week. Yeah, it was really cool…right there, during the Jordan’s commercial, Jerry Remy himself called Elliot and requested he extend it another week! How nice was that?
I don’t know for sure but I’m guessing maybe the promotion isn’t going as well as they thought [...]

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Manny’s creeping closer to the 500 mark – only 3 more to go…

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