Snakes In My Pants

Seems as if the tea leaf readers at the baseball winter meetings believe that the Red Sox are the final team in the Johan Santana trade discussions, with the Yankees’ voluntary midnight Monday deadline having come and passed.  Reports have said that the Sox have swapped medical information on Jon Lester and Santana, perhaps signaling [...]

ESPN.com is reporting that while the Yankees continue to work the phones, the Red Sox also have engaged the Twins in discussions regarding Johan Santana. According to the report, the principles in the deal from Boston’s side would be CF Coco Crisp, LHP Jon Lester, SS Jed Lowrie, and RHP Michael Bowden.

The MLS Cup championship game was hosted at RFK Stadium today.  My friends who came down from New England got tickets, so I joined them in the New England Supporters’ section.  It was an action packed game, with a lot of exciting offense.  The Revolution took an early 1-0 lead, but the Houston Dynamos scored [...]

John Harper’s article in the NY Daily News shed’s some interesting light on the relationship that Alex Rodriguez and Scott Boras have had over the years and explains a bit perhaps why he’s allowed him to lead him down the path to where he’s at today:
The Torre saga, playing out as it did after the [...]

In the words of the noted philosopher Palpatine, everything is transpiring as I have foreseen it.

Inexplicably, MLB announced today that the morons that make up the BBWAA selected Cleveland’s C.C. Sabathia by a wide margin as the American League Cy Young award winner today over Boston’s Josh Beckett. Sabathia got 19 of 28 first-place votes and finished with 119 points, while Beckett only landed 8 first place votes and [...]

The PGA Show debuted in the Garden last night.  No, not Tiger Woods and Company.  I mean Pierce, Garnett, and Allen.
The Celtics began their quest for a record 17th championship with a opening night matchup against the Washington Wizards.  The new Big Three combined for 67 points and the Cs crushed the Wiz 103-83 before [...]

The new Reebok ad featuring the Red Sox, the Patriots, the Bruins the Celtics, a Heisman Trophy Winner, a Stanley Cup champ and the Boston College Eagles. (not sure we get style points for the mumbling mayor and Donnie Wahlberg), set to music by the Dropkick Murphys. Until NYU fields a 1-A football team [...]

Where does America’s most underachieving star athlete land?  Only time, and a LOT of money, will tell.  But here is my guess at the probabilities of every team:
Anaheim          25%
Chicago Cubs   20%
San Francisco    12%
Yankees            7%
Boston             6%
Mets, Philadelphia  4% each
White Sox, Detroit, Milwaukee 3% each
Cleveland, Florida, San Diego  2% each
Toronto, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, St. Louis, Arizona, Houston  [...]

When the Red Sox traded Hanley Ramirez and Anibal Sanchez to the Florida Marlins in the 2005 off-season for pitcher Josh Beckett, the Marlins required that Boston take the higher-paid 3B Mike Lowell in the deal as well.  At the time, many Red Sox fans (this one included) bemoaned the inclusion and wondered where we’d [...]