B is for Bobby

Brand Tyler

Steven Tyler's solo tour got off to a rocking start last night at Fenway Park.

Tell Me When It's Over

J D Drew Rap Remix

New version of Bob Ryan/JD Drew rap featuring Game 5 heroics
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Pete's Bits

RED SOX vs. RAYS PREVIEW

The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Sox

Elvis Costello Orpheum Boston October 1986
Listen carefully to the intro

The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Sox

What's The Fascination With JD Drew

Only Theo Knew
Bob Ryan Rap (from Pete's Bits)

Quote Of The Week

I’ll take a guy hitting .500 that’s miserable as opposed to a guy handing out bouquets of roses to his teammates and he’s hitting .145
-Red Sox manager Terry Francona

He's Out!

The timing of Manny Ramirez' latest injury has the Boston Herald's Steve Buckley up in arms

read Buckley's column
read Dan Shaughnessy

Thanks For Flying Beckett Airlines

Champagne Jam

It's time to celebrate.
Not because the Red Sox just swept the Angels
Because the ALCS is on FOX.
That means we can watch it in modern HD TV.
The NLCS is on TBS.
Good luck with that.

The Definition Of Low

Here's a big F**K YOU to MLB, TBS, TNT, and Charter Cable.
I just watched the entire 162 game Red Sox regular season in High Definition on NESN. Now the playoffs are on TBS and TBS HD is not carried by my local cable provider. Even worse the beginning of tonight's Sox game began on TNT HD then switched to non-HD TBS when the Indians - Yankees game ended. It's obvious that TNT could carry the game but they want to force Charter to carry TBS HD at their price. And why is Charter always last major cable company to carry the new stations? As they fight over price the viewers get screwed. Some of the blame must also go to Major League Baseball for giving the contract to a non HD ready network. Watching the game in standard definition on an HD TV is like going back to UHF. The picture nearly as bad as Craig Sager's jacket.

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Joy Division

A solid pitching performance by Daisuke Matsuzaka combined with an unbelievable come from behind win by the Orioles over the Yankees last night gave the Sox their first division title since 1995.
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Who's Got The 2 1/2 ?

The Red Sox AL East division lead, which at one time was 14+ games. is now down to 2 1/2.

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Who Listens To The Radio?

(a little more sports talk while we're on the subject)
The only radio I listen to is "sports radio", WEEI specifically. I lost interest in "music" radio a long time ago. People keep telling me I NEED satellite radio but from what I hear it's just more of the same. Someone telling me what to listen to. The internet is my music source now. This is what I love about sports and sports radio:
Forty year old Curt Schilling ,of bloody sock fame, comes as close to a no-hitter as possible (two outs in the ninth) and all the callers on WEEI can talk about is how Julio Lugo and J.D. Drew can't hit and are a total waste of Red Sox money. Later that night Lugo hits a leadoff homer and Drew adds not one, but two three-run homers. And while the callers aren't completely wrong it seems like he and Julio get the last laugh.
who listens to the radio - the sports
curt blogs about his one-hitter

(editor's note: Who Listens To The Radio could be confused with On Your Radio by Joe Jackson who should not be confused with "Shoeless" Joe Jackson)

Slice-K

Patriot's Day At Fenway Park
"as American as baseball and pizza pie"