Year: 2009

ESPN reports the Celtics have shipped Sam Cassell to Sacramento:   The Celtics will send Sam Cassell and cash to…

Via the Herald (glad to see they're actually covering this story): “Our best chance to acquire someone might be after…

According to ESPN The New Orleans Hornets and Oklahoma City Thunder have completed a deal that sends center Tyson Chandler…

According to the Globe, TA is having surgery to repair those damaged ligaments in his thumb: Celtics president Danny Ainge…

Consider tonight a lesson learned for Jackets players and fans.  This team is not unbeatable, they are not perfect, and…

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Today’s poll comes from the Giants game, which most of us will remember as the day we learned how important…

Shameless self promotion! Anze Skywalker beats Dwayne ‘Death Star’ Roloson. More from the world of annoying on-screen graphics. Check out…

For the second time this season, UConn Huskies women’s basketball freshman guard Tiffany Hayes has been selected as the Big…

For the second straight week, UConn Huskies center Hasheem Thabeet has been chosen as the Big East Player of the…

There’s at least a couple (here and here) articles about Joe Kerrigan today, talking about how different he is from…

Now that the All-Star weekend is over, it’s time to look at the trade.  For Raptors fans, the All-Star weekend…

In the wake of the Pittsburgh Penguins firing their coach Michel Therrien, for some, there are more pressing employment issues…

Tanner’s boys begin the 2009 season on Saturday, Feb. 21 as the Gamecocks host a three-game series with Duquesne at…

For the past year I have corresponded with Jim Eichenhofer from Hornets.com, answering questions for the website before the Spurs…

Today, we continue our Twitter series here at BMR (one that will inevitably be forgotten about). It’s a look at…

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It’s game day for the No. 1/1 UConn Huskies men’s basketball team as the No. 4/4 Pittsburgh Panthers come to…

MPotD reacts to Mike Therrien getting the boot. These’ll fill you in: Penguins The Pensblog Faceoff Factor Empty Netters Puck…

Remember Beckett getting shelled in the ALCS followed by the press conference where everybody said he was fine? Nobody believed…

This was from Thursday. I for one do not believe this was a ‘clerical error.’ Rosenhaus is letting the world…

I’ve updated the Best Games in Indianapolis Colts History list.  It was obviously difficult to just pick one game this…

Ten games ago, Ken Hitchcock probably sat down his players in the locker room and talked about the importance of…

Twelve months ago, I was eagerly looking forward to today because it would be then that the logjam at the shortstop position in the low-minors could be resolved. There were five guys: Oscar Tejeda, Yamaico Navarro, Kris Negron, Will Middlebrooks, and Ryan Dent; that could potentially play the position down the road. Luckily, not all five guys were on the same team, but it sure was something to worry about had they all progressed at the same rate. There were certainly plenty of variables that typically unscrew these logjams, such as injuries, lack of production, etc. To quote Sox Director of Player Development Mike Hazen, “things like these will work themselves out, we just have to make sure to get everybody equal opportunity”.

Well, Mike was right. Oscar spent the first few weeks in Extended Spring Training with arm issues and is more suited for third base. Navarro played very well and is now a top ten prospect. Negron struggled to make consistent contact in Greenville before becoming a product of Clear Channel Stadium in Lancaster. Middlebrooks was never really given a shot at shortstop and is handling third base well. And finally, Dent has failed to make much contact and is more than likely going to switch to either second base or center field. That leaves Navarro as the only one who will be playing the majority of his time at the shortstop position.

Pedro – drgandy

On Friday, the Boston Globe ran down the worst breakups in Red Sox history going around the diamond by position. It’s a nice (and sobering) read.

It made me ask myself “who would be on my personal ‘favorite Red Sox’ team?” My list is here and includes famous names such as Pedro Martinez and obscure names such as Jeff Frye

From Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune: Btw, the Wolves gather from all points tomorrow evening in Washington, D.C. for their first practice…

 As a shock to the world, Detroit Pistons’ Allen Iverson recently cut off his signature cornrows. After 12 long years…

And who can blame him?

“I
think it’s only human nature (to be upset) when you’re given the choice
(to sign) in more than one place and you end up signing in a place
where you proclaim to enjoy the baseball and everything and you look
forward to being there for at least three more years,” said Lowell,
referring to the three-year, $37.5 million deal he inked with the Red
Sox after the 2007 season. “Then after one year, for there to be all
this talk … the writing was on the wall.



“I think Teixeira would have been fine, and I would have been the one
traded. And that’s the business of baseball,” he continued. “But it’s
only human nature, and the natural reaction is to feel hurt, and I
definitely was. But that doesn’t mean I’m not prepared to play, that
I’m not excited to be part of this team with the guys on the field I
see day to day. But that’s the totally normal reaction and that’s
definitely what I had.



“I think I always try to use anything I see as a negative as
motivation. Every negative I think should be turned into a positive.” (WEEI)

Thank you, Mike, for being willing to move forward. Other players would not be as kind.