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Sunday Shakedown: "Distractions and...
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
3:50 minutes of my day were spent watching today's 18-10 win in Baltimore. The It was thrilling to see the Sox dominate the Orioles pitching and bullpen with 23, but between runs, there was also a lot of down time. This weeks Shakedown format might seem confusing to some, but to some extent, it parallels the theme of today's game: a few hits - then a few distractions. Starts off with with an overview of the Red Sox recent trades and transactions, then moves into the bulk of the piece. Enjoy :)
Tags: Josh Reddick AL East Trades
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STEROIDS: This Time It's Personal
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
Brazen efforts by the New York Times to revile the Boston Red Sox and their 2004 World Series accomplishments have sent shock waves through the media wire.
Breaking shortly before game time, Michael Schmidt of the New York Times released a groundbreaking news story highlighting the careers of David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez as being among few cited for testing positive to performance enhancing drugs in...
Tags: David Ortiz et al
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Power In Numbers
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
No one was talking about Josh Beckett yesterday in Boston. Talk of the inevitable doom-and-gloom and John Smoltz' career sat stale in the summer heat as temperatures reached 90 degrees. Everyone was sweating. Monstrous perspiration. How uncanny to think that a team, weeks removed from a flawless operation, is now physically feeling the pressure mounting...
Tags: Josh Beckett Adam LaRoche
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Monday Shakedown: "Health" - Part I
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
Hey SawxHeads Nation: What is healthy to you? A home cooked meal? A four-day weekend? A four-game lead on the New York Yankees in the East? Lamenting about John Smoltz and his no-so-rehabilitated labrum in his shoulder? Working countless ours on a video project because you think its JUST THAT special? Haha, well, since couldn't get this in to you all on Sunday - I'm temporarily changing making this the Monday Shakedown - one time deal. Same great fun, best enjoyed hot with your Monday morning...
Tags: John Smoltz Everything Red Sox
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Sex, Baseball, and Erin Andrews
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
As a woman in my young generation, I try to look beyond the black and white. I am a sports fanatic, an anomaly to some—being a female journalist with a handle on the world’s daily sports show tunes. It’s hard to distinguish myself amongst the rest. To really make it in this business, you need assertion, a steep bank of adjectives and stats, and a strong will to survive in an industry that is constantly trying to cut...
Tags: Erin Andrews
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Browsing for Options
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
I have run through plenty of resolution strategies to fix Boston's current crisis, but I'm pretty sure they've all been thought about once before. For starters: John Smoltz and the bullpen. No, I'm not talking about musical instruments and warm up time, I'm talking about a permenant sleepover out in center field. If he doesn’t start to perform or show consistency after his next start and/or before the trading...
Tags: John Smoltz Jacoby Ellsbury Dustin Pedroia Dale Sveum
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Yankees Smankees, Grab a Hanky
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
I don’t know how the Red Sox are handling their recent slump, so for now, I’ll just stick to the facts.
“You’re gonna hit tough patches in the road and you need always to motivate yourself and your team. You have to bring energy for the team… When I’m not seeing the ball well, I have to find a...
Tags: Beckett Jason Bay The New York Yankees
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Pedroia Inked in Authorship
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
Dustin Pedroia has lived life like the Karate Kid, and now he’s willing to talk about it.
Teaming up with well-respected college Professor Edward J Delaney created another winning combination for Pedroia, and he's ready to release his first autobiography “Born To Play: My Life in the Game” later this...
Tags: Dustin Pedroia Terry Francona
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In Defense of Cliches
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
Is Roy Halladay really the bee’s knees? The inner man is wound up tighter than an 8-day clock because he knows his time in Toronto is on the outs. He keeps high expectations of himself, which he maintains time and time again, exemplified perfectly by pitching his fourth complete game of the season, and a 3-1 win Sunday over the Red Sox at the Rogers Centre. ...
Tags: Roy Halladay
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Blue Jays, Maple Days, and Buchholz
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
There will be ten radio stations vibrating sound waves through New England tonight. The voices on the dial will be distinct, clocking inventory for the American League's most outstanding performers. The entire regimen will be a bona fide pleasure. The picturesque moment begins tomorrow night at the Rogers Centre in Ontario. Game 1 of Summer Session II will unite the northern allies with the good ole red-and-blue. Only in...
Tags: Clay Buchholz
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All In the Family
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
For Dustin Pedroia, family has always been his number one priority. Growing up in Woodlands, CA with Guy and Debbie, parental love was never in short supply. He was a rambunctious kid with a heart of gold and a lifetime commitment to hard work. ‘Dustin Being Dustin’ wasn’t always so quiet and well behaved, but his family kept him in line. Older brother Brett is five years his senior, and...
Tags: Dustin Pedroia Terry Francona
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Playing the Field: Taking the...
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
There were a few things missing from last night’s All-Star Game. Since the only thing combustible in baseball these days seems to be a Manny Ramirez temper flare on par with Bob Knight and Lou Piniella, certainly Bud Selig and Co. were content with the fun loving nature of the 80th All-Star Game and celebrations in St. Louis, Missouri.
Tags: All-Star Game
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Not Enough Tickets to Sell Halladay...
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
Where do trade rumors actually start? Take a look at the Toronto Blue Jays. Underachieving team in a powerful division? Check. Perennial all-star being dragged down by the second-rate, rather, third-rate success of his team? Check. Big time contract dwindling down to its last few threads? Looming trade deadline with greedy rivals licking their chops and anxiously waiting in the wings? Check, check. I should add one last thing to that paragraph: Distinct economical rebound permitting MLB...
Tags: Roy Halladay
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Stealing Headlines: Nomar Returns to...
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
You’ll hear the din of hands collectively clapping, as the man with the 11-letter surname struts into the batters box. You’ll recognize those subtle heal-to-toe taps, idiosyncratic tics that made just about every little leaguer superstitious ten years ago. When 16-bars of “O Fortuna” ring through the nestles and nooks of Fenway Park tonight, the classical latin composer Carl Orff...
Tags: Nomar Garciaparra
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Sunday Shakedown: "R&R"
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SawxFawx wrote this 7 months ago on |
I needed a little overtime on this one because I was enjoying my "rest and relaxation" a little too much... But, I think I'm just as good as Julio Lugo in extra innings - he's batting 800 in OT whereas the rest of the team is batting .203. Haha, well if you watch the video - you can (hopefully not that bad) tell that I took a mini intermission because I had to make sure this one was UNDER 10. Which it is. Here's the ABCs of Red Sox baseball as of Sunday July 5th... ending at R - can you fill...
Tags: The All-Star Boys Takashi Saito NOMAH
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Jeopardy Justice: It Ain't Easy
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SawxFawx wrote this 8 months ago on |
First and foremost, great win by the Sox tonight. Lester was phenomenal tonight pitching seven scoreless, fanning 8, and not issuing a walk or hit batsman. Some might have believed that his 7th win of the season was a gimme, seeing as though he was 7-0 against the Orioles, 2-0 at...
Tags: Jon Lester Jonathan Papelbon Curt Schilling
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Still Brave: Smoltz' Outing Very...
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SawxFawx wrote this 8 months ago on |
I wrote this article about John Smoltz last week that never got posted to the mainstream SawxHeads site. I was out of town for the weekend, and beforehand I did some research on the Braves/Red Sox series in Boston, coming across a rather interesting “outsiders” perspective of John Smoltz. Jeff Schultz, sports journalist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution is someone who really knows...
Tags: John Smoltz
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Father's Day Reverence
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SawxFawx wrote this 8 months ago on |
| Hey all, SawxFawx here. So I know some of you might have expected a Sunday Shakedown this evening, but unfortunately, I was spending time with my family this weekend for my oldest brother Derek's wedding, and kind of ran out of gas. Sorry to disappoint, but I think that times like these deserve a moment away from ourselves,...
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Kabuki Red Sox Kick It Again
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SawxFawx wrote this 8 months ago on |
| Happy hour is half off between the hours of four and six, amateurs welcome. It's certainly amateur hour here on SawxFawx mobile - where I'm taking refuge on the side of the information superhighway "blogosphere," taking Molly the Trolley to Fenway tonight when I really...
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Knuckleball Knockout
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SawxFawx wrote this 8 months ago on |
Mr. Versatility is back at it again.
Seeking his 187th win tonight, five shy of the Red Sox career win total held by Cy Young and Roger Clemens, Tim Wakefield is riding high with his knuckledusters and brawn.
He does the job that no one else wants to do,...
Tags: Tim Wakefield
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Sunday Shakedown: "Honor" pt I
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SawxFawx wrote this 8 months ago on |
This week's rendition of the Sunday Shakedown is a reflection of the past three games in Philadelphia, where the Red Sox took 2 of 3 from the reigning World Champs. Since I don't care much for Los Angeles Lakers basketball, and I assume neither do any of you, I spent my night putting this lovely episode together and I think it came out pretty well. It's a little long but it covers a lot of ground. Enjoy :)
Here's part I: giving "thumbs UP to honor" ... those who deserve worthy recognition...
Tags: Rocco Baldelli Jason Bay Mike Lowell Terry Francona Dustin Pedroia
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Sawxie Snickers Speakology
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SawxFawx wrote this 8 months ago on |
There’s only one-way to describe last night’s 7-0 Yankee shlack: dominant. Or would you call it, ‘satisfellect,’ satisfyingly excellent? If the pitchers mound were a Snickers bar, ace Josh Beckett would have been the ‘Master P-Nut.’ After giving up a slow roller beside the second base path in the fourth, Beckett...
Tags: Josh Beckett David Ortiz Nick Green
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Comcast Diagnostics
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SawxFawx wrote this 8 months ago on |
My HD cable connection has been tile-ing and I’m blaming Comcast. I have very mixed feelings about their services. When I was at school, my wireless Internet service was shotty, and the cable connection never lived up to the price I paid every month. That being said, the customer service was always great and there’s obviously a good reason why the company does so much business.
Their motto is “Connect Your Business†as they so aptly publicized on the home plate...
Tags: Tim Wakefield Dustin Pedroia Jacoby Ellsbury Justin Masterson
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Here Comes the Sun: Sox and Rays...
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SawxFawx wrote this 10 months ago on |
The Boston Red Sox are looking to take two out of three against the Tampa Bay Rays today when Daisuke Matsuzaka makes his first start of the season, taking the mound today against Matt Garza at 1:35. Spring hits Lansdowne for the first time this season, as the two ball clubs aim to capitalize on a 1-1 season start, and continue anew the successes of old.
As they always say - carpe diem boys! - because tomorrow, the traveling kids will be on their way West to play a weekend set with the Los...
Tags: Daisuke Matsuzaka Matt Garza
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First Pitch Flop: Sox Postponed until...
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SawxFawx wrote this 10 months ago on |
And the first pitch is... a flop into the mud slightly underneath the mound.
Yes folks, our anticipation will remain until tomorrow, due to a low-pressure system moving through the East Coast which has everyone's Opening Day on hold.
Down in Baltimore, the Orioles and Yankees are ready to kick off their season under dismal skies, but will apparently play on schedule.
As of now, the Sox rescheduled a 2:05 start for tomorrow, Tuesday April 7th at Fenway Park against...
Tags: Josh Beckett Jon Lester Daisuke Matzusaka
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Sorting Victoriously
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SawxFawx wrote this 11 months ago on |
| How's your fantasy draft starting line up lookin for Sunday? Haven't given it much thought yet? Well, start doing your research because for some of us, virtual insanity has already begun. I got a great opportunity to join a fantasy league today and seized the moment. I don't know how good this video blog came out, or if anyone will be able to see it, but check out my "Two Hot Minutes of Baseball" entry - Fantasy Baseball edition.
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Wednesday Headlines: Best of the AL East
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SawxFawx wrote this 11 months ago on |
| With 11 days left in pre-season play, the world is ready for Opening Day. NCAA Brackets may be breaking, but one things for sure: the Red Sox are the hottest team on the baseball circuit. Without making many off season moves, our team has quietly moved to the forefront the latest MLB predictions. This notion is also confirmed by Baseball Almanac, an issue I picked at my internship today.
The magazine is great and boasts many columns and articles,...
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38 Pitches and 42 Hot Dogs
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SawxFawx wrote this 11 months ago on |
The time is right to buy. Sometimes, you just have to strike while the iron’s hot – and I’m certainly buying Curt Schilling's retirement, announced today on WEEI.com and confirmed later on the Dale and Holley show early this morning.
Today’s Dow Jones shot up 500 points, the SawxFawx got a new computer, and it seems like we’re all ready for some new beginnings.
I was still home in Boston at the time of the announcement, where the buzz was ubiquitous,...
Tags: Curt Schilling
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