Jason Bay

Where were all those TV pediatricians telling us how to explain this crisis to young children?

adamg — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:31:21 +0000

Kat found herself wondering today how to explain to her fiance's four-year-old cousin that his favorite player, Jason Bay, isn't on the Red Sox anymore:

... Was I supposed to be the one to have the “free agency” talk with Favorite Four-Year-Old, or was this a talk that his father or grandfather needed to have with him? This was an important talk in the life of a young sports fan, and I felt that it needed to come from a close relative, and not just little ol’ me.

I looked around, trying to find Favorite Four-Year-Old's father. He was busy in another room eating. His grandfather was no where in my sightline either. Favorite Four-Year-Old didn't seem to sense the turmoil within me. ...

Our favorite Canadian-American leaves for New York

adamg — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:02:14 +0000

Bye-bye Bay.

What Jason Bay needs at Fenway

adamg — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:52:01 +0000

Kristen: A death metal version of 'O' Canada' as his at-bat music.

Center Field: Stop mentioning what's his name already.

Dan Tobin, meanwhile, wonders if he should be more concerned about swine flu or David Ortiz's hitting.

That's MISTER Bay to you

adamg — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:47:15 +0000

Bay, Bay, Bay!

One up

adamg — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:07:41 +0000

That's what some Sox fans were this morning and what the Sox are today.

Dan Miller: This is why they invented coffee. Vickie shows us the dark smudges under her eyes.

Red: Substitute Ass Kicker Kicks Ass.

Peter on Lester: WOW!

Watching Jon Lester wriggle out of early inning mini-jams and then getting stronger and stronger as the game rolled by made me say just that after his brilliant outing was finished. ...

Rob notes last night was a good one for Sox players whose first names begin with J.

Singapore Sox Fan: Ah, that Jason Bay homer was so good.

My favorite play was Ellsbury's catch: First he races all the way in to slide for the ball, then he just pops it up with his gloved hand and catches it with the other, like, "Hey, that was pretty damn cool, wasn't it?!?"

Adam Hart liveblogged the game.

Dispatches from the state of Boston fandom

adamg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:13:48 +0000

Beth: It's not the same as Oct. 17, 2003, but these past couple days, for at least a minute or two, some people have had a faraway look in their eyes.

Adam Pieniazek will not be deterred; predicts the Patriots will win the Super Bowl.

Lewis Forman explains how the Fenway sold-out record has come at the cost of a piece of the soul of Sox fandom:

... It's less of a game and more a destination. It becomes classic blue hats vs. pink hats instead of right handed relief vs. left handed relief. Clam Chowder vs. gourmet pizza instead of a hot dog vs. a box of popcorn. People watching vs. GAME watching.

Papel-blog comes back from an extended blogging break:

The Red Sox are engaged in a three-game set to determine who will emerge in first place in the AL East, and I can't spend the duration of the series making jokes about Derek Jeter's sexual orientation in order to cope. And judging from what went down in Foxboro on Sunday, football is not going to be the stress-reducing distraction from the pennant race that it has been in previous years.

Kristen writes:

I would like to personally thank the Red Sox for at least temporarily, lifting the spirits of a grieving region. Jason Bay would not want us to cry, people. Jason Bay would want us to be happy. And Jonathan Papelbon would probably make some obscene sock puppets to get us laughing again if he thought that'd work. ...

And, of course, no matter what, we'll always have Debbie CHB Downer to tell us what to think:

Dan likes to portray New England fans as little more than infantile sycophants with a lack of perspective. ...

Indeed, harrumphs Soxaholix:

... Let me get this straight, the same fans who endured 86 years of Red Sox futility *and* years of the Patriots as also rans "are lost boys and lost girls"? ...

Oh, Bay-bee: The last word in Jason Bay puns

adamg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:14:41 +0000

Samara Pearlstein posts "six terrible Jason Bay puns" - as cartoons; concludes:

Now let us never speak of this again.

So guess who scored both runs last night?

adamg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:39:34 +0000

Yay! Now, enough with the puns.

Capn Ho: It was a great (and badly needed) win, and a good way to wash the taste of the events of the last week out of our collective mouths.

But Remy? You're on notice.

And CHB? Stalking does not become you.

Meet our new leftfielder

adamg — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:29:05 +0000

Jason Bay, as Manny goes to Dodgers in three-team deal that doesn't involve the Marlins, Sports Illustrated reports.

The Globe reports Brandon Moss and Craig Hansen head to Pittsburgh as part of the deal.