Gordo at Fenway: It&#39;s slow-pitch softball with jacked-up fans
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First and foremost, the Red Sox can hit. They look like a slow-pitch softball team, with all that unruly hair, and they tee off on pitches like one.
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THERE will be a delicious moment of recompense in April, when the guiltless glee of schadenfreude will alight on Fenway Park as Boston unfurls its World Series banner in front of the Yankees in the Red Sox&#39; home opener.
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The Boston Red Sox manager worked as the bench coach for the Athletics last season, and still has many friends in the other clubhouse -- and during a September pennant race, he just can&#39;t deal with any personal distractions.
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BOSTON - The fans wanted it. For that matter the entire baseball world wanted it. Now it&#39;s here, and nobody is champing at the bit more than the Boston Red Sox.
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Locals questioned their guts because they were on a baseball field instead of a battlefield. Fans soured on them after their demands for more money held up a World Series game. And when the 1918 Boston Red Sox finally won the title, the feat was greeted with little more than mild enthusiasm.
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Take notice Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and Gary Sheffield: If you crowd the plate, you are going to hear a symphony of chin music. Or worse, you could get hit with a 90-mile-per-hour fastball in tonight's Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park.
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Spunk. A day after the Boston Red Sox had embarrassed themselves in front of their home fans in a rather important game, the fans arrived at the lyric little bandbox of a ballpark reasonably resigned to the inevitability of another Yankee pennant. Their demands were limited: &quot;Please, guys, don't roll over. Make those Sons of Darth Vader earn it. Show ...
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If the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees are evenly matched on the field, there&#39;s no comparison off it. The Yankees are a pretty conservative bunch; the clubhouse is always quiet and businesslike, and owner
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com. As Boston Red Sox first basemen Doug Mientkiewicz squeezed the ball in his glove for the final out of the 2004 World Series, you could almost hear a collective
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The Boston Red Sox arrived at Fenway Park at 4:20 am EST Thursday, but that didn&#39;t deter a number of elated fans from demonstrating their undying passion by meeting the team&#39;s bus on Yawkey Way.
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Pedro Martinez got a warm welcome from the Fenway Park fans &amp;#151; and a rude awakening from his former Boston teammates.
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Forget about the Curse and all that nonsense. The real ongoing issue with the Boston Red Sox is the fact that they are eternally held hostage by what we shall call &quot;Gilda's Law.&quot; (OK, Roseanne Roseannadanna's.)
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BOSTON It was as if David Ortiz wanted to give a gift to every fan at Fenway Park. They had made him a folk hero. His legend was about to grow.
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If a 15th Subway Series is nigh, it is time to study anew the passions of fans of New YorkÂs two playoff baseball teams.
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It&#39;s difficult to sit here in the heart of Red Sox Nation -- where people are buying every form of BoSox garb and memorabilia (Red Sox dog bones?
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Games between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox have, for at least the last half-century, attracted a media mob fascinated with every scrap of information about the famous rivalry.
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When the Red Sox return to Fenway Park next week, don&#39;t be surprised if &quot;MVP&quot; chants for Manny Ramirez start to become a fixture.