Red Sox May Be Poised to Repeat History in the Worst Possible Way

Last week, I finished reading Alex Speier’s book Homegrown: How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up, … More

Red Sox Close out Historic Season in Style

They did it. Win after win, after win, the Boston Red Sox were the best team in Major League Baseball … More

Terry Francona’s Managerial Tree Is on Full Display, and Still Growing

Alex Cora’s Boston Red Sox and Dave Roberts’s Los Angeles Dodgers are currently playing each other in the World Series. … More

Red Sox Take Care of Business in the Bronx

After a season of anticipation, and fourteen years of hard and bitter peace in baseball’s most storied rivalry, the Boston … More

The Marathon Is Over, and So Begins the Sprint

After 162 games (or 163 games for the Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, and Los Angeles Dodgers), the 2018 … More

‘Moneyball’ Is Baseball’s ‘Rocky’, If Rocky Never Wins

Two of the best sports movies this decade are Moneyball and Creed (I personally rank Creed at #1 and Moneyball … More

The Cubs Did an Excellent Impression of the Red Sox

It’s easy to compare the Chicago Cubs to the Boston Red Sox. It’s almost too easy because of how long … More

White Sox Misery Is Underrated

After much anticipation, Michael Kopech got called up to the Majors. Kopech was one of the key assets that came … More

As Good as It Gets for Boston, As Bad as It Gets for Baltimore

In the spring of 2017, I started writing a blog post that I (thankfully) never ended up publishing about how … More

Jacob deGrom Is As Good As the Rest of the Mets Are Bad

For all it’s mainstream appeal–a game and an institution synonymous with and ingrained in American culture–baseball is a profoundly weird … More