Giants Idol: Barry Bonds Impersonates Paula Abdul
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Barry Bonds wowed a small gathering of fans and teammates Tuesday by dressing up as American Idol judge Paula Abdul to judge the San Francisco Giants fund-raiser spin-off entitled “Giants Idol”.
Bonds wore a strapless dress and a blonde wig as he exited the Giants clubhouse… surprising everyone watching the mock contest. Giants [...]
Roger Buzzes Koby
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006I watched ESPN SportsCenter for one reason last night… to see if they had film of Koby Clemens hitting a home run off his old man. And there it was… the announcer proclaiming that on the first pitch of a simulated game, son Koby took father Roger deep over the left field fence. [...]
Fantasy Baseball Studs - AL Relief Pitchers - Top Ten
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Another in a series of articles designed to help fantasy baseball fanatics prepare for the upcoming season. Today: AL Relief Pitchers.
1. Mariano Rivera, NYY. The KING. The best there ever was. And this praise comes from a Red Sox fan who believes there is nothing worse a professional ballplayer can do [...]
David Ortiz Getting In The Swing of Things
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006David Ortiz smashed several home runs deep into the trees beyond the ballpark during Sunday’s batting practice. But as is typical of Ortiz, he wasn’t happy with his own performance — in spite of the awe expressed by many of the onlookers in the crowd: “My swing is a mess right now,” said [...]
Would You Want Rafael Soriano Playing 2B for the Red Sox?
Monday, February 27th, 2006On “Planet Mikey” tonite, WEEI’s Mike Adams appeared to be lobbying the Red Sox to ship Matt Clement and Tony Graffanino to the Washington Nationals in exchange for Alfonso Soriano… who appears to have worn out his welcome with the Nationals before ever donning the team uniform due to the fact that he will not [...]
Will Lawrence Injury Open Door to Trading Clement?
Monday, February 27th, 2006The Washington Post reports that the Washington Nationals are interested in acquiring either Matt Clement or Bronson Arroyo from the Red Sox, but they have already been rebuffed in their offer of Alfonso Soriano, who would hit plenty of homers in Fenway but whose defense at 2B is atrocious.
“The Nationals, whose farm system and [...]
Photo Day Developments in Fort Myers
Monday, February 27th, 2006David Wells wants to be elsewhere on Opening Day. So when the in-house photographers and baseball card photographers came calling yesterday at the Red Sox complex in Fort Myers, Wells declined to participate in Photo Day with his “teammates”. How better to underscore his demand to be traded? After all, [...]
Fantasy Baseball Studs - AL Starting Pitchers - Top Twenty (Today’s Installment: 11-20)
Monday, February 27th, 2006Another in a series of articles designed to help fantasy baseball fanatics prepare for the upcoming season. Today: AL Starting Pitchers… 11-20.
11. John Lackey, LAA. Lackey made an adjustment to his delivery prior to last season… an adjustment that dramatically improved his change-up… and dramatically improved his performance. He now has a third [...]
FOXSports.com Predicts Red Sox to Win AL East
Sunday, February 26th, 2006Dayn Perry, writing for FOXSports.com, has issued the first of six installments of his prediction for each of baseball’s divisional winners. In the AL East he has given the nod to the Red Sox, followed by the Yankees (wild card winner), Blue Jays, Orioles and Rays.
He writes as follows:
Boston last season had the best [...]
On “Baseball Notes”
Sunday, February 26th, 2006If you are linking to my site through the Boston.com website, you almost assuredly know about the Boston Globe’s Sunday column entitled “Baseball Notes” … but if you are not reading this through such a link, then it is possible that you do not know about “Baseball Notes”.
The first of its kind in [...]
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