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The Commander Will See You Now

Red — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:00:17 +0000

We all hate the White Sox, but one man at least has a good reason. Guest writer Red reports from Boston. [More]

Better Dead Than Red

Andrew Reilly — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:19:48 +0000

In which your editor pontificates on why not to get upset over the endless, cold assault happening to our favorite team during their big trip to Boston. Hint: It rhymes with “always been fliserable.” Bonus Hint: It also rhymes with “not that schmood.” [Mouthpiece Sports]

The Lesser of Two Sox

Andrew Reilly — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:23:12 +0000

True death at the hands of a superior team. What is everyone so worked up about? [More]

In Search of the Last Clean Champions

Andrew Reilly — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:28:58 +0000

David Ortiz' failed steroid test ought to bring the Red Sox' World Series titles down a peg, except they'd already been cheapened long ago. Then again, so had everyone else's. [More]

. . . Just for One Day

Andrew Reilly — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:06:10 +0000

Rickey and Roger & me. [More]

A Tale of Three Empires

Andrew Reilly — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:27:40 +0000

How one sports team carried out what the two mightiest media companies in the nation could not. [More]

Curses!

Andrew Reilly — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:56:40 +0000

Cover your eyes, fans: the Boston Red Sox may be on the verge of murdering baseball itself. [More]

Cheering for the Other Guys

Andrew Reilly — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:58:18 +0000

So the Sox are out. Now what? Now we rebound.

National League Championship Series, Dodgers vs. Phillies: Phillies fans, as we all know, are insane. And hateful. And spiteful. And mean. And their players carp a lot to the press. Also, Joe Torre and Manny Ramirez don’t need any more glorification in the sports press. Sox/35th endorses: Phillies.

American League Championship Series, Red Sox vs. Rays: Simply put, the Red Sox are a sports franchise of pure evil on par with the most rotten of them. Also, the Rays crushed a certain team we were all pulling for in the first place. Sox/35th endorses: Rays.

Astute reader Brian in Vernon Hills pointed out that an ideal, most gleefully schadenfreudian outcome would be a Rays sweep of the Dodgers, since the basic mathematical logic would deduce R > D and D > CHC, therefore R > CHC. If wins(R) = D + 4, and wins(CWS) = 1 while wins(CHC) = 0, the Sox are therefore the mightiest team in Chicago while the other one is, in all honesty, a loser echoing through the ages.

But we already knew that. Go Rays. Or anyone, really.

Bold Predictions: A Non-Vote of Confidence

Andrew Reilly — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:55:17 +0000

What we talk about when we talk about Non-Sox playoff series:

Cubs/Dodgers: If the Sox win (more on that tomorrow), may the Cubs win as well; if not, well, it will at least be kind of fun to watch Carlos Zambrano murder one (or many!) of his teammates on national television. Whatever. Prediction: Cubs in 4 OR Dodgers in 5.

Red Sox/Angels: Under no circumstances should any person not from New England ever pull for the Red Sox. Not today, not tomorrow, not when they were supposedly victims of those big bad Yankees and certainly not when they can trade away arguably the best hitter in the American League and actually be better off for it. Prediction: Red Sox can go straight to Hell.

Phillies/Brewers: Brewers fans and the city of Milwaukee are great, even if their team really isn’t. Philadelphia sports fans throw batteries at opposing players and the best song written about their city is also the most depressing song ever written about any city. Ever. Not sure how to feel about this series. Prediction: Tie.

We’ll have more (much more) playoff talk later today. Until then, let’s hear it for. . . whoever.

Let That Devil Out

Andrew Reilly — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:50:58 +0000

The myth of "Perfect attendance" infiltrates the American League East. [More]