Ballgame’s Points

Well it stomped and it growled after rising from the dead, made a valiant last stand on wounded hind legs … but in the end the mighty beast succumbed… Four score minus one year ago, the Philadelphia Athletics erased an eight-run deficit to best the Cubs in the fourth game of the 1929 World Series. [Read More...]

I received a text from a friend the night before the trade deadline when it looked like Manny Ramirez was headed to South Florida to join the Marlins. The text read: “Worried yet?” My response: “They won’t do it. Not with a dynasty on the line.” (One of the great sports debates is what constitutes [Read More...]

Someone needs to pass Manny the memo. You know, the one that tells him how not every long fly ball he hits is going out of the park, ending a game, and moving the Red Sox one step closer to a World Series. Ever since his walk-off home run in Game 2 of the ALDS, [Read More...]

Spring Training has barely gotten under way for the world champs in Fort Myers and there are already many questions coming to the forefront. Among them… Coco vs. Ellsbury? Jacoby Ellsbury will be patrolling the Fenway triangle for the next ten years. You can take that to the bank. If the Sox brass ultimately [Read More...]

“If it doesn’t happen, so who cares? There’s always next year. It’s not like it’s the end of the world.” - Manny Ramirez, before Game 5 of the ALCS —————————————————————————————————————————- Three days after the Red Sox won their second title in four years, I found myself thinking one thing: this was Manny’s October. Of course, [Read More...]

The whys and hows associated with extraordinary happenings in sports can only be thoroughly assessed with the assistance of hindsight. That’s the beauty of The Moment: it rips you from reality, sweeps you up, and spits you out in a state of euphoria. Reflection is not possible when living The Moment. [Read More...]

One swing away from going up 2-0 and suddenly down 2-1. That’s October baseball. That’s the Red Sox 2007 ALCS summed up in a single statement. But there’s more, much more, inside why the Sox are now facing an uphill battle in the playoffs for the first time since 2004. (Note: For the purposes of this [Read More...]

It was just another pop foul, but Manny’s career must have flashed before his eyes. With the Red Sox trailing, 3-2, in Game 2 against the Angels, Manny was up with Dustin Pedroia representing the tying run ninety feet away. His partner in crime, David Ortiz (aka Senor Octubre), had been intentionally walked. The Angels [Read More...]

I just spent 10 days in Los Angeles, which should explain the recent void in posting. For that I apologize. However the time I passed in Southern California was more or less a marathon of sports and gaming, culminating with a mega-sports weekend back in Boston. Before I get into the Red [Read More...]

NL East The Mets have turned it on the last two weeks (9-4) and have all but sewn up a second consecutive NL East title. Carlos Beltran has been the catalyst of the recent Mets-surge (5 home runs, 19 RBIs). With Beltran back, the Mets lineup is at last starting [Read More...]