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Christopher Benvie was born in the "City of Champions" Brockton, Massachusetts. As a lifelong baseball fan, his exposure to the greatest game came at a young age and a love affair was born.

I started my career on the Bleacher Report in December 2011 as a Featured Columnist for the Boston Red Sox. In an effort to balance out the fine baseball coverage the site has to offer, I decided to cover the Los Angeles Dodgers starting in April 2012.

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby

Follow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/#!/THEChrisBenvie

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Rocky Marciano, Bo Jackson, Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez, Dustin Pedroia, Michael Jordan, David Robinson, Dennis Eckersley, Barry Bonds to name a few.

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, Boston Celtics

  • Favorite Coaches

    Red Auerbach

  • All Time Sports Moment

    2004 ALCS, "The Steal" by Dave Roberts.

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak.

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Mays

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana, until Brady brings home ring #4.

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Russell

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Orr

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  • Jackson Mattox posted 2 days ago

    Jackson Mattox

    Chris, I have submitted a few applications to write for B/R and have gotten declined. I love baseball and want to write for a living, that being said I'm obviously doing something wrong, and seeing as your work is good I was wondering if you could help me out a little. If you have the time/desire you can e-mail me at thejacksonmattox@gmail.com, if not it's all good, no pressure.

  • David Kase posted 10 days ago

    David  Kase

    I'm glad that I could be of help. BTW: Very compelling piece. Phillies Fan here, but It's killing me to think that Clemens might have lied. I grew up watching him play.

  • Benjamin Klein posted 10 days ago

    Benjamin Klein

    Sounds to me. See ya there.

  • Benjamin Klein posted 10 days ago

    Benjamin Klein

    You're giving me some trouble this month on the Red Sox leaderboard haha. Are you going to the Boston meetup next month?

  • Brian Barker posted 92 days ago

    Brian  Barker

    No way Beckett puts up the kind of numbers you predicted this year. He has never strung two good years together in his career and has always alternated good and bad. But more importantly than that, Jason Varitek won't be catching him this year. Last year his era was like 2.48 when Varitek was catching and 7.36 when it was someone else. Also over the course of his entire career in boston, his era when varitek catches is close to 3.50 and when it's someone else it's close to 5.50

  • Benjamin laufer posted 126 days ago

    Benjamin laufer

    Thanks for writing me back I like to hear from people who truly care about their audiences.

    Yes you are right Boston is not much worse then Tampa Bay that was an overstatement but still I believe they are going to have a better season.

    Frankly the boston hitting is much better but they are asking for repeat performances from Gonzalez and Ellsberry and i think they are due for regression and it is hard to count upon a 36 year old David Ortiz.

    That being said the pitching staffs are headed in very different directions. The Rays have star young pitchers and a lot of it so if one does badly or gets injured they can survive. the Red Sox have two good starters and one of them is actually my pick for the Al Cy Young Jon Lester. After that they have the one year wonder(Clay Buckholz) and god knows who.

    Anyway I'm actually an Oriole fan who thinks it's funny that a 30 million dollar payroll team is better then a 160 million payroll team.

    Thanks for replying your writings are good I just dont like the Red sox so i might not agree with them.
    Good Luck!

  • Brett Gormley posted 127 days ago

    Brett Gormley

    Chipper if your gonna be a dick use your real name....have a sack

  • Benjamin laufer posted 129 days ago

    Benjamin laufer

    Boston is much worse then Tampa Bay!

  • Chipper Jones posted 129 days ago

    Chipper  Jones

    Boston sucks too!!!!! They blew it badly!!!!!! With an overpaid team!!!!!

  • Bryce Rojas posted 143 days ago

    Bryce Rojas

    Thanks for the article on Barry Bonds. I just wanted to remind you that he stole 514 bases. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure he is the only 500-500 member. I think that should be taken into consideration too when you look at his HoF credentials.

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