Eck20and8

Varitek's C should be imprinted on the clubhouse toilet paper. Pokey Reese had more leadership skills.

I usually stay in Coolidge Corner or Harvard Sq for 250 a night, but this year looks more like 300 or so there. Little cheaper if you stay by a further out T stop like Riverside.

Glad both he and the GM who signed him are gone

except at Tropicana Field at game time still, hard to talk smack about the Rays, no one north of Ocala can name a Ray, there's no pink hat, blue hat, or any color hat fanbase, their prospects produce, they win with no $, their GM is much better than ours, they were smart enough to let Carl Crawford go...

The more money he's given, the worse Theo does. Does OK scouring around for undervalued guys or making trades, but the man is dangerous when allowed to write big checks.

I'm glad boy wonder has followed all the Sabermetric conventional wisdom in building this "defensive" team that can't hit s***.

might be better off paying Crawford $142 million to go back to the Rays

Theo likes following the fashionable saber-trends, and defense has replaced walks as the flavor of the month. What bothers me about Crawford is that his replacement in Tampa, Desmond Jennings, also has tremendous speed, but a lot more patience at the plate, and a strong .8 BB/K for his MiLB career.

after two seasons, still not into these strange road unis, too much like the boring 70-80s road jerseys, wish they'd bring back the red "Boston"

I think the point of this is that Shaughnessy's been writing provocative junk for decades.

like most of the players, except JD Drew team's a lot more likeable than 10 years ago when it was full of head cases

There are a ton of fans, including me, who come up from DC. We have a number of Red Sox bars.

he is, but also encouraging to see Ryan Kalish walking in Portland like he did last year in the Sally league - 15 BBs already with an OBP pushing .400