Articles by Alan Draper (246303)
A Follow Up to Francona’s Managing Style
Over at Sons of Sam Horn, there is a perpetual discussion about Terry Francona. In it, a poster named Eric…
Read more Big Thursday
On Thursday September 1st, as the crowds gather to celebrate a new season of gamecock football and to welcome our…
Read more An Encouraging Schilling Outing and September Call-Ups
Six earned runs in five innings. On the face of it, it wasn’t a good outing for Curt Schilling, but…
Read more Itunes, RSS Feed working again
We’ve been having a few problems with our podcast in the iTunes Music store. All of our podcast entries were…
Read more Curt Schilling (5-5, 6.43) @ Jose Lima (4-12, 6.47)
The Battle of the 6 ERAs is underway tonight! After this game, the longest road trip of the season (10…
Read more Hello from the SD! Plus, I LIKE BRINK (see why below)
I’m here in sunny San Diego, man what a beautiful place! I was lucky enough to walk up with a…
Read more Who Are These People!?
Kevin Millar has bashed a home-run so far and Edgar Renteria continues his climb to .300. Mike Mussina was torched…
Read more A Press Pass to the PawSox: Interviewing Machado, Meredith, and Pedroia
Yesterday, on the 22nd, I had the opportunity to attend a Pawtucket Red Sox game on a press pass, using…
Read more Response to Lawson – 8/23
1) THIS IS THE WORST HANDLING OF A QB SITUATION SINCE GARCIA V. BLEDSOE V. WHOMEVER…JUST AWFUL. That said, I…
Read more Many new updates 8/22
Ok, lots to get to, not much time to do it. I spoke to our incredibly well-informed “source” who had…
Read more Has Terry Francona Helped or Hurt The Red Sox?
Even though we are 70-51, in first place, and three games up on the Yankees, all is not right in…
Read more Red Sox Listening to Fire Brand?
Two pitches before Trot Nixon lined a ball that hit Foulke in the pitching elbow during the closer’s first simulated…
Read more Mark Bellhorn DFA
It’s official. Mark Bellhorn has been Designated for Assignment. He may be back, who knows. He just wasn’t producing this…
Read more It Is Time. No More Excuses.
I think I’ve held out pretty long without crying for drastic changes, but I think the loss last night really…
Read more Spokesman-Review Blog – D-line preview and more
Check it out: http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/wsu/ Good read on the D-line. Man they are SO FRIGGIN’ VITAL to how that defense plays…
Read more Why is the DH Undervalued?
The August 8th edition of Sports Illustrated had this blurb about the decline of the Designated Hitter: A new low…
Read more Breaking News
ESPN has declined to match OLN’s bid for the NHL. This means OLN which had been known as the network…
Read more 8/16 scrimmage – QB’s even…or are they?? Plus Cougs land a 6-4 shooting guard
From the media reports, statistically speaking, both QB’s looked OK (better, not great) in last night’s scrimmage. HOWEVER, here’s one…
Read more Sox Win A Birthday Game
What a long day. It was my birthday, but you wouldn’t know it because I worked all day. I took…
Read more S.Review – WSU corners under the spotlight
First, before I get the WSU story up, HOW ABOUT FELIX!?!? 8 IP (again)99 pitches (2nd start in a row…
Read more 08/15 – Lawson response
Lawson says: You know, I am just going to take a few chill pills on this whole Swogger thing. Bottom…
Read more Who in ’06?
Today, Rotoworld came out with a look at the free agent hitting class and also predicted where they would end…
Read more MANY many updates!
Tons of stuff going on. Read below for:1) Scrimmage stuff2) Andy Mattingly commits3) Taylor Mays from O’Dea to USC (sorry…
Read more The Junk #3
Originally posted on “Is It Sports?” by Ryan. You can again see Ryan’s frustration with me for not posting stuff…
Read more Quick Comparison of Current and Former Red Sox Second Basemen
Mark Bellhorn, 2005: .216/.328/.360 Mark Bellhorn, Pawtucket Red Sox: “He went 0 for 5 last night in a 10-6 loss…
Read more Buehrle (13-4, 2.79) @ Wells (9-5, 4.45)
Since July 1st, Wells is 3-1 with a 3.38 ERA, numbers he will need to replicate tonight to have any…
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