Good early Sunday morning to all of you. I do hope you're reading this much later in the day than I'm writing it. It's not even 4:45am EDT and I just couldn't sleep. Too early to bed makes for very long mornings. I wanted to talk about Adrian Gonzales, a ...

There are 8 Red Sox who are Arbitration eligible. Who gets tendered and does not? Here's my guess: Jonathan Papelbon-- yes Ramon Ramirez-- yes Hideki Okajima-- yes Manny Delcarmen--yes Fernando Cabrera-- no Jeremy Hermida-- yes Brian Anderson--...

Just watched the documentary Harvard Beats Yale 29-29. Very nice job. I guess I never realized just how amazing the comeback was. My only complaint is that they didn't use Ken Coleman's call of the game....

I'm sure many of you have heard this before. For those of you who haven't, the movie star Nicholas Cage owes a staggering $6,000,000 to the IRS. A website on the Internet states that this isn't all the money he owes. In 2002, he owed $70,190, $179,783 in ...

Five-Star Prospects 1. Ryan Westmoreland, CF 2. Casey Kelly RHP/SS Four-Star Prospects 3. Josh Reddick, OF 4. Ryan Kalish, OF Three-Star Prospects 5. Anthony Rizzo, 1B 6. Jose Iglesias, SS 7. Junichi Tazawa, RHP 8. Michael Bowden, RHP 9. Lars A...

Belated congrats to future ex-Red Sox Jason Bay for winning his first Silver Slugger award. Congrats, also, to The Great Untanned's agent, who will no doubt be able to spin this into a couple more zeros. Or a boat....

Belated congrats to future ex-Red Sox Jason Bay for winning his first Silver Slugger award. Congrats, also, to The Great Untanned's agent, who will no doubt be able to spin this into a couple more zeros. Or a boat....

On June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis took the mound in San Diego while high on LSD.A video from No Mas and James Blagden.Ellis:I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I t...

College Scout looks at two good games in what is otherwise a fairly weak schedule this weekend. But 8 solid NFL prospects are profiled including our second and third juniors looked at this year. Georgia Tech at Duke (Noon ESPN2): The 5-4 Blue Devils have ...

I know there are some NBA fans on here, and was curious to get everyone's opinion. Who do you think LeBron signs with next year and why? I'm not familiar with the NBA's salary cap and all those mid level exceptions or something, so I'm not even sure if...

Good Saturday morning to you and yours. There are still a couple hours before the sun brightens the cloudy, rainy skies but I've already perused the Boston newspapers and come up with a little something from the Boston Herald. Boston is likely to be meeti...

I'm back from my vacation/travels/schoolnight-curfew. And, I brought LINKS. I'll have to dig through a whole pile of them that I built up while away, but this should hold y'all over till then. (My apologies if I link to something that's already been li...

I'm back from my vacation/travels/schoolnight-curfew. And, I brought LINKS. I'll have to dig through a whole pile of them that I built up while away, but this should hold y'all over till then. (My apologies if I link to something that's already been li...

This was the best article I ever read on the Yankees financial superiority. Read on...and enjoy. Quote: TAMPA, FL?New York Yankees team ownership revealed Tuesday that the phrase "Yankees suck," one of the most po...

Congratulations to Clay Buchholz for pulling off the most mismatched marriage since Salman Rushdie scored Padma Lakshmi. Clay and "Deal Or No Deal" briefcase opener Lindsay Clubine (right) will tie the knot in California later today. The event will inspi...

If the Yankees' plan is to get younger and compete for years on end, there are only two real blockbuster deals I would entertain. Trade for Felix Hernandez (who has often been mentioned with the Red Sox but never the Yankees) or trade for Curtis Granderso...

The Red Sox also spoke to CC Sabathia and had a meeting with A.J. Burnett's agents last winter, but it was more a case of Theo Epstein doing his due diligence on the free agent front. A major league... ...

Now we know how the Yankees have been able to spend so much money:New York Yankees team ownership revealed Tuesday that the phrase "Yankees suck," one of the most popular chants in sports, was trademarked by the 27-time World Series champions prior to the...

Dipre, this was a good thread in my opinion, which is why I re-posted it. Going forward, let's leave the personal attack out an merit the moves themselves and not he details we argued about. Let's be adults about this and go forward. Agreed? Ahh...the ...

It looks like a cold, winter-is-coming sort of weekend. This might cheer up your baseball heart a bit. Jose Iglesias was 2 for 4 with a double in the Arizona Fall League on Thursday. He's the 19-year-old Cuban shortstop the... ...