With these manager openings popping up in the National League (in the last week Theo Epstein fired Mike Quade and Tony LaRussa retired), it shouldn’t surprise me that Terry Francona’s name is being bandied about…and it doesn’t surprise me, but…
Category: Toeing the Rubber
Red Sox interviewed Dale Sveum yesterday…
….and all I can think about is how when he was the third base coach with the Red Sox I had a crush on him and, due to where I usually sat at the games back in 2004 and 2005,…
Red Sox happenings
We have Gold Gloves! Jacoby Ellsbury won his first, Dustin Pedroia his second and Adrian Gonzalez his third. Â Let us rejoice in meaningless awards (with all due respect to our three winners who genuinely did good enough glove work to…
Random Baseball Stuff
I’ve spent most of today doing research for a longer piece I’m going to write when it hit me I didn’t write anything yesterday. I’m hoping to stop the alternate day posts and get back to posting every day…so here…