A ten-game losing streak. The worst in decades. A string of injuries as long as your sore arm. Still, it's too soon to panic. At least, that's what I keep telling myself. We’re still weeks away from my All Star game marker, when I traditionally worry when the Red Sox record is too good, setting us up …
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Bullpen cop not a picture-perfect image
Local writers (e.g., Dan Shaughnessy) have reveled in the image of Boston Police Officer Steve Horgan raising his arms in a celebratory pose as Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter fell over the bullpen wall chasing David Ortiz' grand-slam homer. It was certainly a joyous moment for all of us Red Sox fans in an extraordinary moment …
Nervous at All Star break
I'm a life-long Red Sox fan, though I have some fair weather tendencies. I even admit to some fair weather anxieties. The major one is that, if the Red Sox are in first place at the All Star break, I take it as a bad sign. It's the idea that the boys of summer simply …
At the heart of the Red Sox – a real estate play?
Today's Globe story that a deal is near for developer John Rosenthal's Fenway Center is good news for all concerned. The idea that this project would have a 99-year lease on air rights over the Turnpike between Beacon Street and Brookline Avenue near Kenmore must have Red Sox owners lusting even more to lock in the current low …
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Aahhhh!!! the Red Sox
The Red Sox opening day victory......what could be better? I posted the team's first-place standing on my refrigerator, thinking it might all be downhill from there. But I felt great. Never mind that the dreaded Yankees are broken old men. The Wall St. Journal's estimable sports writer Jason Gay called them "aging and atrophied .... creaky and getting …
Looking ahead to Red Sox 2013
Trudging up to Yawkey Way from the Kenmore Square T stop last Friday, I tasted bile in contemplating the horrors of the 2012 team, a performance that defies description by all but the Globe's Dan Shaughnessey. I consoled myself that it was a picture perfect summer night for a ballgame and, besides, I hadn't been to Fenway yet this season. A …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 