Month: August 2008
Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks
MLBOakland at Red Sox – KICU/NESN, 7 p.m.Anaheim at New York Yankees – FSN West/WWOR, 7 p.m.Detroit at Tampa Bay…
Read more »Will Schilling Give Up #38 For Bay?
Jason Bay was number 38 in Pittsburgh and there is no word yet on what number he is going to…
Read more »HBO’s Hard Knocks Returns August 6
HBO SPORTS, NFL FILMS AND “AMERICA’S TEAM” JOIN FORCES FOR A NEW SEASON OF THE ULTIMATE REALITY SERIES WHEN HARD…
Read more »8/1: Baywatch
Prev. Gm: Oakland Athletics (53-54) @ Boston Red Sox (61-48) Justin Duchscherer (10-7, 2.37) @ Tim Wakefield (6-8, 3.94) 7:05…
Read more »Friday Megalinks
Updated:My apologies for not posting after my Thursday entry. I was called away to the home office which has only…
Read more »Hockey Players are mysteriously sexy.
Other Amy McCarthy pictures contained decidedly more nipple Pictured at left is Amy McCarthy, sister of Jenny McCarthy and wife…
Read more »Wolves Updates 8/1 Part 2
Lyndal Scranton/News-Herald on Blake Ahearn: Ahearn appeared in 12 games last season as a rookie with the injury-depleted Miami Heat,…
Read more »What a difference a year makes
This time one year ago, I had just moved into an apartment and was trying to get my cable set…
Read more »Final Thoughts On (Former) Pirate Jason Bay
Updated:In light of the recent Jason Bay/Manny Ramirez/prospects trade, my good friend Texas Gal decided to hit up some Pittsburgh…
Read more »Peter Gammons Gives Some Insight Into Manny Trade
Peter Gammons has a new blog post up where he shows that Red Sox executives believed Manny was done for…
Read more »Manny’s Sportscenter Commercial
Looks like ESPN has to call Manny back to change into a Dodger uniform for the commercial they made last…
Read more »Pepsi’s TRIVIA: Bay in the Bay
Updated:The last trivia question asked who leads all batters with home runs against the New York Yankees, and the answer…
Read more »The 2K Decade – How the Pac-10 Has Fared
There were some interesting comments to come out of our own Rooster’s picks from Monday. Misguided as some of them…
Read more »Mini Pony of the Day 8-1-08
Updated:Thanks to my sister Kate for the clutch find. I honestly have no clue as to what this is about,…
Read more »Rivals gives us the full college football rankings
Rivals has finally completed their rankings. I first spotted them last night during a particularly nasty bout of insomnia. But…
Read more »Posts that have no sports-based theme at all
Like this one…. Sorry, I had to do it. Too funny not to. But while I’m here, it’s down to…
Read more »Series Preview: Brewers (60-49) @ Braves (50-58)
The Crew heads out on the road, starting with three games in Atlanta against the Braves. Jeff Suppan, the only…
Read more »Bradshaw the jailbird
More ongoings at camp gmen. Just when you thought the Bradshaw situation was going to resolve itself and fade away…
Read more »Turn the Page
It’s hard to remember a longer week in recent Red Sox memory. It seems like ages since the Red Sox…
Read more »Time To Turn The Page, Up Next: Oakland
Baseball does not stop in mid-season, even for Manny so it is time to look at the road ahead for…
Read more »West Coast Tube Tied in August
Not a whole lot of Sox on national TV this month: Fri, 1 Aug v. OAK, KICU, 4:05 pmSat, 2…
Read more »Hansen and Moss are Gone, Who’s Up Next?
Quick look at who is lurking down in Pawtucket.Last week I wrote about knuckleballer Charlie Zink who is now 13-3,…
Read more »JR Giddens Is REALLY Happy To Be Here
JR Giddens hasn't even officially been signed yet… but he's thrilled to be part of the team. Not only that……
Read more »Pierce Not Backing Down
Updated:Paul Pierce created a firestorm of controversy earlier this week when he confidently stated that he was the best player…
Read more »Wolves Updates 8/1
From Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune: On the one-year anniversary of the blockbuster trade that sent Kevin Garnett to Boston and reshaped…
Read more »Who is Jason Bay?
I have always had a warm spot in my baseball heart for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first game I ever…
Read more »DL Shuffling, What it Really Means
We’re getting reports from camp that there are some defensive line shuffling, mainly between Jay Ratliff and Marcus Spears. If…
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