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Evan's Bio
Welcome to my Red Sox column, titled Fire Brand of the American League, Evan Brunell's analytical (and sometimes not so analytical) look at the Boston Red Sox.
Are you wondering what "The Fire Brand of the American League" means? In a nutshell, its origination is from a newspaper article published in March of 1919 in "Baseball Magazine," with the subject being the new owner of the Boston Red Sox, Harry Frazee. The article gives a glowing review of Harry Frazee, and is quite interesting. He sounds remarkably like John Henry. If you're wondering how you can read this article, you can buy the book - "Impossible Dreams," which was compiled by Glenn Stout. It also has other collections of newspaper articles from all of Red Sox history, including one of the sale of Babe Ruth. I actually posted a column about that article explaining what it says and my take on it, which ended up being Fire Brand's very first column (Dec. 31, 2003 in the archives).
The main reason I wanted this site to be named "The Fire Brand of the American League" is...well...doesn't it sound cool?
Born on the 37th anniversary of the the day Babe Ruth died (1985) which later became the day Jimy Williams was fired in 2001, I was too young to experience the pain 1986 brought, but a deep wound was sowed in 2003. 2004 covered that wound up, and more. I am a guardedly optimistic Red Sox fan. Red Sox fans are by nature, quite pessimistic, so I do my best to stay positive but there are times where I fall into the deep, black hole of being a Red Sox fan.
I have written on Fire Brand since December 31, 2003 and grabbed a partner in Zach Hayes in September of 2005. A few partners later, we have Ryne Crabb, Tim Daloisio and Shawn Medeiros rounding out the corps. My self-created motto is: The universe is the limit, not the sky.
Evan's Recent Articles
Evan Writes About
- MLB (307),
- Boston Red Sox (285),
- AL East (253),
- Los Angeles Sports (40),
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- Game Recap (31),
- Jon Lester (30)
- Evan Brunell wrote POLL: Did you make it to the end?
- Evan Brunell wrote LAA 5, BOS 4: Nothing but Napoli
- Evan Brunell wrote Sorry - Part 2
- Evan Brunell wrote Is tonight a must win game?
- Evan Brunell wrote Chat Wraps
- Evan Brunell wrote POLL: Destination ALCS or Anaheim?
- Evan Brunell wrote BOS 3, LAA 2: Lowrie, Sox headed to ALCS
- Evan Brunell wrote How ‘Bout Dem New Sox?
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The Short List facts and information about Evan Brunell
Favorite Athletes
Tim Wakefield, Jonathan Papelbon, David Ortiz, Junior Seau, Tom Brady, Kevin Garnett, Rajon Rondo, Big Baby Glen Davis
Favorite Sports Teams
Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, New England Patriots
All Time Sports Moment
The Steal - Dave Roberts
Most Memorable Game Attended
The Steal - Dave Roberts
Most Unbreakable Sports Record
Cy Young's over 500 wins
Ruth or Mays?
Mays
Unitas or Montana?
Montana
Pele or Maradona?
Pele
Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?
None
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10 articles
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2 articles
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7 articles
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Bulletin Board (5) Post a note »
about 1 month ago
Stop false tagging your articles please. Your articles are good, but they are not about the Cincinnati Reds, WWE, NL Central, Jason Isringhausen, or MVP. It's about the AL East and Red Sox only.
So, please stop false tagging.
2 months ago
hey Evan I just wanted to formally introduce myself, I am the new Red Sox community leader and love the stuff you put forth everyday. I am here to ask that you keep up the good work! and continue to write intelligent, thought-provoking columns about our SAWX.
Let me know if you need anything, and if you want to do a round-table back and forth as the trading deadline nears about Red Sox prospects I would think that would be great.
3 months ago
Hey Evan! I saw that you are a huge Red Sox fan. So am I. I live in Massachusetts, but I will be moving down to Florida next month and I am going to try to spread the nation to the folks down there. If you want to endorse me, you can by going here: http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/fan_forum/rsn_gov_support_form.jsp and put Mike DiMauro for name, Florida for state and mikedimauro31784@aol.com for e-mail address.
7 months ago
Hollering at Evan....good to see you here. I just joined myself. Should be fun.
7 months ago
Hey Evan,
I just wanted to let you know that Bleacher Report has launched out of beta with an updated look and feel and some great new features. Check out the "Game On" link in the header to find out more.
Next week we'll be launching the site to the world with some public announcements—and it'd be great to get a contribution from you between now and Tuesday to make Bleacher Report's launch a success.
Let me know if you need any help with ideas or have questions. Have a great weekend Evan!
Zander