The Mets magic number is still 4 ( Read more... )

After spending the week in Houston (which I guess means the 'Bows didn't get their first choice of where to spend a week), UH played in the dry hotness that is Las Vegas. UNLV is in Conference Mountain West, which is better known as the Traitorous Eight because the conference was founded by former members of Hawaii's own WAC, including UNLV. They ( Read more... )

FenSheaParkway cares so little about tennis, I can't even muster much interest in its biggest annual events. It certainly doesn't help matters that 3/4ths of them happen at least 6 time zones away. Oh, there's tennis on at 9:00 in the morning? That's terrific. The only Grand Slam I want at that time in the day comes from Denny's ( Read more... )

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From the AP:

Middling relief pitcher discovers he owns a billion dollar rock quarry.Well, to say Matt White is an ex-Sox pitcher is sort of like saying I've been to Utah. It's technically true but honestly misleading. The story itself is hard to make sense of. Is it funny? Ironic? Just Human-Interest-y ( Read more... )

Julio Lugo's thoughts on joining the Red Sox:

"Bananas, man! We've got a good team."

Mike Lowell on Manny's routine:

"But he's inside the cage, does a lot of those visualization drills before the game. That's kind of an accelerated type thing. Most people don't really concentrate on the visual. He feels comfortable with that. So I mean, he ( Read more... )

Does today count as the official first day of Baseball? This has to be a bigger deal in cities that need to live vicariously through their team's spring training camp location. Do Devil Rays fans existed, would they care about Pitchers and Catchers reporting? Or the attention it gets is just a conspiracy by cold-weather local sports directors to ( Read more... )

It's the Sports Dead Zone, aka February, but that doesn't mean the pot can't still be stirred.

Albert Pujols is not only a new US citizen, but he got a suspiciously high score on his citizenship test. 100! (That's out of 100.)

"He even answered a bunch of additional questions and gave us more answers than we asked," said St. Louis Citizen and ( Read more... )

Why has this been taking so long? The Red Sox offseason preview, that is. I'm not going to lie to you, I've been putting it off on purpose to some extent. It's easier to think about the team that narrowly missed a shot in the World Series (and, if Detroit pitching had been as error-prone in that hypothetical series, would have won it too. damn ( Read more... )