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Red Sox Vets Sticking Around: Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek Will Return for 2010

So it looks like a couple of long, long-time teammates will be teammates at least a little longer still. The Red Sox didn't just pick up Tim Wakefield's option for 2010, (which would have ...

Written by FenWest about 24 days ago 215 reads 4 comments
Yankees Win, But National Public Radio Strikes Back

After a World Series like this last one, we Red Sox fans take a lot of consoling. It's never been fun watching one's sworn enemies' jubilation. Where, oh where, can a Boston loyalist turn for some trace of comfort? Try National Public Radio...

Written by FenWest about 25 days ago 271 reads 2 comments
Red Sox Fans Say: "Onward and Upward, Phils!"

Last year, the season ended tragically, but I found solace in my brief tenure as a Phillies fan. This year, I'm taking it to a new level...

Written by FenWest about about 1 month ago 150 reads 9 comments
Look Homeward, Red Sox: The View From Two Games Back

I'm still an optimist, you know. True, for the second night running the Red Sox were held to just four hits. This time they did at least manage to get a run across...

Written by FenWest about about 1 month ago 38 reads 0 comments
The Ghost of Buchholz Past?

First inning: Valbuena homers for Cleveland on the third pitch of the game, but the next three batters are knocked out in quick succession. Boston brings around three runs of its own for an early lead...

Written by FenWest about 2 months ago 130 reads 1 comments
Yankees Go Home: Notes from a Boston Red Sox Fan Abroad

It’s mid-July. I stand in a field, just beside the eucalyptus-lined road, and stare up at a night sky more star-filled than I could ever see in the states...

Written by FenWest about 2 months ago 91 reads 2 comments
Papi Lives! Bring on the Second Half

I started writing this one about two weeks ago, shortly after home run number four. Somewhere in my head, a little voice cried out, “After so long a slump, it's too soon! Don't write that Big Papi is back to stay...

Written by FenWest about 5 months ago 55 reads 6 comments
What's Up with Papelbon? The Entirely (Un)True Story of the '09 Sox

A third of the season is past, and the Boston Red Sox are still first in the AL East. This despite their impenetrable, unshakable pitching staff started the year looking like the Washington Nationals, instead of the Red Sox...

Written by FenWest about 5 months ago 168 reads 17 comments
Tetchy Tichenor Kicked Out Four and a Good Time Was Had by All

An umpire’s job is a stressful one. If he does his job properly, no one remembers him. If he screws things up royally, it’s only then that his name makes the headlines...

Written by FenWest about 6 months ago 70 reads 0 comments
Mets 5, Red Sox 3: It's Only Technically a Loss

Some might call last night’s game a loss. The box scores, for one, and the standings. But a few months from now, looking back, it just might feel like a win. Daisuke Matsuzaka didn’t come away with a W for his tally...

Written by FenWest about 6 months ago 111 reads 0 comments
Big Papi, Little Faith? Ortiz Homers and the Nation Exhales

Dennis Eckersley said it on NESN: every last fan in Fenway was blowing on that ball, willing it past the wall and into the camera well...

Written by FenWest about 6 months ago 92 reads 0 comments
Up from the Cellar: Why Wakefield's Triumph Was More Than Just a Win

A win is a win. We all know a win in April counts the same as in October, and that the most exciting tight game counts the same as a blow-out in the standings...

Written by FenWest about 7 months ago 92 reads 5 comments
Red Sox Rain Delay Musings (Or, "It's Opening Day! It's Openi... Oh. Drat.")

Eternal Spring. It’s a phrase that gets hauled out in the very purplest of purple prose to describe mild, temperate places, green little Edens for thin-blooded folk...

Written by FenWest about 8 months ago 117 reads 6 comments
Dirt Doggerel II: The Boston Red Sox Offseason in Review

In honor of Opening Day—less then one week away—and because such things make baseball fans giddy (even giddy enough to rehash the whole of the long, cold winter wait in rhymed couplets)...

Written by FenWest about 8 months ago 77 reads 8 comments
Theo Epstein's Super-Secret World Championship Strategy

It’s one day before the season opener, 2009. High above the streets of Boston, in a dimly lit office late at night, Theo Epstein sits alone at his desk...

Written by FenWest about 8 months ago 233 reads 2 comments
Division Debate: Will the Red Sox or the Rays Rule the Mound in '09? (Sox Side)

Spring Training is back. A fresh, new regular season is so close we can taste it, and Grapefruit League games whet the appetite like nothing else...

Written by FenWest about 9 months ago 121 reads 10 comments
Last Minute Red Sox Musings: aTek of the Bad Puns

With just a few hours left, MLB.com offered us a reminder of one more hugely important reason for the Red Sox to re-sign the Captain, Jason Varitek:We need the puns...

Written by FenWest about 10 months ago 165 reads 2 comments
The Once and Future Captain? Analyzing Jason Varitek's Meeting with John Henry

It’s almost cliché by now: the Red Sox still need a catcher, and their catcher-captain is still out there, eager to return...

Written by FenWest about 10 months ago 677 reads 6 comments
'Tek Notes (A Disgruntled Fan Disposes)

"Wars have been won quicker than the Red Sox are dealing with the Jason Varitek situation." -- Bill Reynolds, Providence Journal Days pass, and I'm starting to wonder: will word ever come about ...

Written by FenWest about 10 months ago 392 reads 14 comments
Josh Bard Is Heading to Boston; Is 'Tek the Next Step in the Long Range Plan?

Reports that Boston is signing Josh Bard have bumped past the rumor phase. The Red Sox, it seems, have a catcher. Thing is, what we've got is a backup catcher. There's more work to be done...

Written by FenWest about 11 months ago 350 reads 2 comments
Some Red Sox Holiday Dirt-Doggerel

In the spirit of Holiday Cheesiness, which always seems so fitting this time of year, my contribution: The Hot Stove continues, and Sox fansAre waiting to hear Theo’s big plansTo put ...

Written by FenWest about 11 months ago 87 reads 1 comments
Diary of the Hot Stove Blues

So the regular season is just memory now, and pitchers and catchers don’t report for three months. The confetti has settled in Philly. The last of the champagne-soaked jerseys have dried, and the flipped cars have all been righted...

Written by FenWest about about 1 year ago 411 reads 4 comments
My Vote for Jason Varitek: It's a Good Kind of Bias

“It’s good to have people love you all over the world, but it boils down to ‘Can you play?’” – Willie Mays Offseason is here once more, with any number of ...

Written by FenWest about about 1 year ago 337 reads 4 comments
Phenway Phaithful Phinds the Phillies a Phavorite

I’m rooting for the Phillies now, and I am a Red Sox fan. Don’t call me bitter. I really am rooting for the Phillies, not against the Rays. After what I just watched the Rays do, I can’t help but respect them...

Written by FenWest about about 1 year ago 530 reads 6 comments
Hear Ye, O Boston! (Hope for the Olde Towne Team)

Hear o Boston, mourn not for thy team who have passed from October play to greener golf courses. Verily I say unto thee, thou hast seen the dead made to live again, and didst rejoice...

Written by FenWest about about 1 year ago 378 reads 0 comments

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FenWest Article Archive

Red Sox Vets Sticking Around: Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek Will Return for 2010

Yankees Win, But National Public Radio Strikes Back

Red Sox Fans Say: "Onward and Upward, Phils!"

Look Homeward, Red Sox: The View From Two Games Back

The Ghost of Buchholz Past?

Yankees Go Home: Notes from a Boston Red Sox Fan Abroad

Papi Lives! Bring on the Second Half

What's Up with Papelbon? The Entirely (Un)True Story of the '09 Sox

Tetchy Tichenor Kicked Out Four and a Good Time Was Had by All

Mets 5, Red Sox 3: It's Only Technically a Loss

Big Papi, Little Faith? Ortiz Homers and the Nation Exhales

Up from the Cellar: Why Wakefield's Triumph Was More Than Just a Win

Red Sox Rain Delay Musings (Or, "It's Opening Day! It's Openi... Oh. Drat.")

Dirt Doggerel II: The Boston Red Sox Offseason in Review

Theo Epstein's Super-Secret World Championship Strategy

Division Debate: Will the Red Sox or the Rays Rule the Mound in '09? (Sox Side)

Last Minute Red Sox Musings: aTek of the Bad Puns

The Once and Future Captain? Analyzing Jason Varitek's Meeting with John Henry

'Tek Notes (A Disgruntled Fan Disposes)

Josh Bard Is Heading to Boston; Is 'Tek the Next Step in the Long Range Plan?

Some Red Sox Holiday Dirt-Doggerel

Diary of the Hot Stove Blues

My Vote for Jason Varitek: It's a Good Kind of Bias

Phenway Phaithful Phinds the Phillies a Phavorite

Hear Ye, O Boston! (Hope for the Olde Towne Team)

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