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May 2007 (18)
- 30: No, the Red Sox did not pound me in to an euphoric stupor (And: thoughts on the Yankees) (10)
- 25: Memorial day reading: pitching prospects, offensive scuffles, Gold Glover Julio Lugo (and FTM) (3)
- 23: A-Rod is a gutless punk, no. 8261 (20)
- 18: Hinske’s highlight: the diving grab for anyone who missed it… (2)
- 18: Please, god…not Timlin (3)
- 18: Looking ahead, looking behind: the outfield’s noodle bats and the gold-dust sprinkled Sox (9)
- 17: Mathematical proof of what we’ve always known: the Sox really are the nicer team (3)
- 13: Odds and sods: Murray the moron; BP agrees with me (4)
- 11: Suck it, Jayson Stark (All praise the wobbley knuckler) (15)
- 09: Chat wrap (2)
- 07: Who needs Clemens? We’ve got Wake… (20)
- 06: Sick of me yet? Because now I’m on your breakfast table… (4)
- 06: Gordon Edes on evaluating the past (and predicting the future) (3)
- 06: Extra crispy… (0)
- 05: Bill James: Say hello to CC…this year’s AG? The secret of the Sox’s success… (12)
- 04: Tomorrow, they’ll get to sniff his perineum (1)
- 02: Torre, Theo, the RS bullpen, and the black plague (4)
- 02: I sympathize with his frustration…but come on (2)
April 2007 (28)
March 2007 (27)
- 30: Reminder: less than 72 hours to get in your contest entries… (1)
- 30: T-3 and counting… (8)
- 29: Deep in the heart of Texas: Anna Nicole, Houston Chronicle to compete in spelling be (7)
- 29: A rare moment of public advocacy (1)
- 28: All I can say is wow: ol’ Murray impresses once again (9)
- 28: The 2007 Pre-Season Contest: Win free books here! (61)
- 27: Opening Day, 2003: An FTM excerpt explaining one more reason why it makes sense to put Papelbon in the pen… (2)
- 26: Filling the void: How the Sox got their groove back (4)
- 23: Pap to the pen: A good move? (10)
- 22: It’s like the Colbert Report, except with me and Joe Posnanski (6)
- 22: Don’t cry for me: explaining the weird economics of the publishing industry (1)
- 21: You like me! You really, really like me! (2)
- 21: Manny and defense, part 4: The links (0)
- 21: The Mike Timlin Files: Told you so (5)
- 21: I reprint, you decide: the Times on Manny, pt. 2 (3)
- 21: In which I get the final word: Keeping score of Manny, pt. 3 (1)
- 19: NESN gives Boston fans reason to believe the Sox are just as selfishly stupid as they’ve always suspected (8)
- 18: Keeping Score: The Times weighs in with another boneheaded Sox story (6)
- 15: FTM post peek: A-Rod, the Sox, the now-infamous opt-out clause, the Theo ‘n’ Larry show, and the spending sprees of 2006. (Plus: Jon Lester!) (6)
- 15: A-Rod and Kobe: A peculiar form of foot and mouth disease (5)
- 12: Baseball…get your baseball here. (5)
- 12: Someone teach the Times how to use spellcheck before they strike again (5)
- 09: The Pulitzer Prizes, 2007 edition: Howell Raines pulls out the video of the ‘02 awards. (0)
- 09: A trick is something a whore does for money…or candy. (0)
- 08: This very well may be one more thing Curt Schilling can beat me at. (3)
- 08: Tony Romo: A singer in a smokey room (3)
- 06: The Times-Andersen files: You need to at least consider the possibility that they’re making some kind of postmodern comment on the porousness of the self. (4)
February 2007 (19)
- 28: The latest contender for worst free-agent signing of the offseason (2)
- 28: Sheffield backs players union’s right to drive that bus right off that cliff, dares Congress to step into the fray (6)
- 27: Murray Chass defends his right to be ignorant, uninformed (13)
- 26: And then, at 11:18, Dustin Pedroia took a piss (7)
- 24: Pet peeve #831 (10)
- 24: DJ, RIP (1)
- 24: Tipping the Monster (1)
- 22: Big Papi: The biggest bargain in the history of professional sports (2)
- 22: The grass is always greener (1)
- 22: What price consistency? (7)
- 19: Keith Foulke: Heading back home to patch his bones (9)
- 15: (Yawn! Stretch!) Did I miss anything? (10)
- 08: I speared some monkeys in my time too, you know (9)
- 07: Scott Boras lobbies to be the subject of Al Franken’s next book (7)
- 06: OK, fine, so I’m not adding anything here…but read the damn articles anyway (5)
- 06: Guess who’s back…back again (0)
- 02: But seriously, folks (7)
- 02: There’s some obvious joke here about great minds, etc etc (1)
- 01: Meet the new ace…same as the old ace: The big Schill pulls a Pedro (21)
January 2007 (31)
- 31: The chance to read this dreck in your daily paper? Um…priceless? (7)
- 29: And now for something completely…summarizing (7)
- 29: My mind is so messed up, goin’ round and round (9)
- 29: There’s blood in the streets…and Ben Stein is manning the barricades (4)
- 26: Our long national nightmare is over (7)
- 26: Process vs. results, part 4183 in a continuing series: the myth of the 3-0 double (5)
- 26: Guess who’s back? (3)
- 23: trot (13)
- 23: I can’t quit you. (3)
- 23: Since you’ve been gone (7)
- 18: No shit. (2)
- 18: Matsuzaka money (5)
- 18: More Murray Mail (and mucho Melendez) (4)
- 17: Woodward, Bernstein…and Chass? (3)
- 17: Stupidiest idea ever (10)
- 16: Roger and ‘roids. (Another ho-hum day at the office.) (7)
- 15: What we talk about when we don’t talk about race (4)
- 11: Meth freaks, take note: proof that speed actually causes your head to grow bigger (5)
- 10: Bridesmaid, revisited: John Henry, Dan Duquette, and the BBBWA dinner of 2002 (2)
- 10: Not to add to the J.D. Drew speculation… (0)
- 10: Tomorrow’s Hall of Famers, today (3)
- 10: An update on those unseemly obsessions (1)
- 09: Sorry, Jim Ed (4)
- 09: Who’s obsession is more unseemly? (9)
- 08: The man’s been through solid matter, for crying out loud. Who knows what’s happened to his brain? (3)
- 05: More news is…bad news? (12)
- 04: Don’t let old acquaintances be forgot (6)
- 04: Who’s more neurotic than Red Sox fans? (0)
- 03: I know I’m in the minority here… (13)
- 02: If being yourself means being a loser, then reading this blog will be a waste of time (1)
- 01: The (my) year in review (my head hurts) (4)
December 2006 (60)
- 30: Still no news to report on the J.D. Drew front (0)
- 30: In which I refuse to take a position on the whole Jim Ed in the Hall debate (6)
- 30: Big Mac, revisited: still not worth much more than a QP with cheese. (3)
- 29: And the last stupid contract of 2006 goes to… (10)
- 26: Let’s all join together and pray for Steinbrenner to start exerting his will…and quick (18)
- 22: Mailing it in, Dec. 22 2006 edition (11)
- 21: As the world turns… (3)
- 21: Dept. of self promotion (0)
- 21: Aural proof that Tony Iommi did more than just provide the looped riff for Rhymin’ and Stealin’ (3)
- 19: Can you imagine the attention this would be getting if Daisuke was back with the Lions? (8)
- 19: Wow. (1)
- 19: T-6 and counting (Third in an ongoing series) (0)
- 18: Murray Chass and the shaky ethics of the sports section (10)
- 16: If this blog had musical accompaniment, Paul Schaffer would be singing right now: Reader mail. (4)
- 15: Yeah, that’s right: Theo did (2)
- 15: Signed copies, get your signed copies here… (0)
- 15: Rise and shine: It’s Sethy* in the morning (1)
- 15: New revenue streams: that’s what I want. (0)
- 15: One in ESPN’s ongoing series in stating the really, really obvious (0)
- 15: Ah, yes: the complete absence of value added (3)
- 14: So who is it that won this game of chicken? (9)
- 14: Hello, I must be going (1)
- 14: What a bargain! (16)
- 13: It’s official! Sort of! Almost! (18)
- 13: For $18 (to $25) million, is all this sturm und drang worth it? (12)
- 13: Dicegate: T-38 hours and counting. Where’s George Mitchell when you need him? (2)
- 13: Go to sleep already (3)
- 12: Welcome back, Kotter (1)
- 12: “For Boras, when does this start being about his clients’ doing what they love in their work and playing baseball?” (7)
- 12: Yet more proof that Murray Chass just pulls this crap out of his ass (0)
- 12: This morning in the Middle East, er, the Matsuzaka negotiations (And: Is Scott Boras pulling a Fonzie?) (15)
- 12: Do you feel like this doesn’t happen so much with other teams? Me too. (Why the Sox and Scott could be on a fatal collision course.) (11)
- 11: Yes, this will be an ongoing series: two more weeks until Christmas… (0)
- 11: Is yet another negotiation falling apart because Scott Boras insists on acting like an ass? (10)
- 11: What’s that saying about imitation and flattery again? (0)
- 10: You got to roll me (4)
- 10: The wonderful world of general managers, you can lead a horse to water edition (3)
- 10: Murray Being Murray (1)
- 10: If it’s December 10th… (4)
- 09: The cartel: at war with itself! (Even the Globe is shocked at Chass’s shoddy work) (3)
- 08: This makes me feel old. (1)
- 08: The impossible becomes real: Murray Chass reaches new lows (11)
- 07: Moneyball isn’t dead…it just has frosted tips and a porn-star goatee (6)
- 07: Today in Dice land: Scott Boras, less than completely honest? Get out. (5)
- 07: Other people report (on Andy Pettitte); you decide (4)
- 07: Reader mail: Did Larry railroad the team into the Beckett trade? (2)
- 06: For the last time: the final days of Johnny Jesus (17)
- 06: I love the image… (2)
- 06: Here we go again: In defense of (or at least an argument for) J.D. Drew (7)
- 05: Stupid GMs, the most overpaid $9 million player in history, and so much more… (2)
- 05: We interupt our reguarly scheduled programming (0)
- 04: It’s true — my head did just explode… (0)
- 04: Your one-stop holiday shopping (0)
- 03: Breaking News! No Kentucky Fried for Fenway (0)
- 02: Say your piece and get out (0)
- 02: You say yes, I say no: the ballad of Larry and Theo (4)
- 02: Look, I said it was just speculation (2)
- 02: Tom Glavine gets Times on board with his bogus pr campaign; city’s tabs show how it’s really done (0)
- 02: Don’t hold your breath for the Chicago Defender correction on this one (0)
- 01: Read tomorrow’s news today! (5)
November 2006 (38)
- 30: The return of the original Dirt Dog and more speculation that will likely be made irrelevant by tomorrow’s speculation (14)
- 29: “Eso no es problema,” dijo Ortiz (9)
- 28: Rahm Emanuel calls Hillary a dyke…or maybe just a nutjob* (5)
- 28: Grant Hill learns about the business side of sports, staying injury free from Feeding the Monster (4)
- 28: Today in Matsuzaka land: an offer has been made…but is it good that we know? (1)
- 28: The confusing saga of Manny and J.D. (11)
- 28: Big Mac: Worthy of the Hall? I think not…and here’s why (7)
- 27: Update: Details beats Times on rich versus superrich! (3)
- 27: Rich still pushing that boulder up the hill, according to the Times (0)
- 22: AL MVP yet another example of the stupidity of some sportswriters (9)
- 22: The 2004 Red Sox made me sit through an act of truly atrocious musical theater (2)
- 21: Black reporter attempts to prove he can be just as crazy stupid as Michael Richards; Kyra Phillips demonstrates why the Late Show may be a better source of news than CNN (3)
- 21: This year’s multi-part Times series: the difficulties of only being able to afford a single Ferrari (1)
- 20: More thoughts on Aramis’s and Alfonso’s pay day: Coco and Wily Mo, Matsuzaka and Drew (fine, those last two don’t rhyme) (6)
- 20: Not at all gold: Michael Richards discovers ethnic slurs actually remain shocking when used seriously (0)
- 20: Soriano offers justification for keeping Manny and that $51.1 posting fee for Matsuzaka (2)
- 20: So long, A-Gon — we hardly knew ye (1)
- 19: I just can’t quit you (6)
- 17: All you’ll ever need to know about Murray Chass: he thinks Kevin Millar is a good first baseman* (2)
- 17: Manny Manny Manny Manny (oh, and J.D. too) (11)
- 16: D-Mat in the house… (8)
- 16: $51.1 million: it boggles the mind (9)
- 14: Today in Matsuzaka land (11)
- 14: More food for thought: the Rookie of the Year Awards (4)
- 12: Murray Chass discovers a new way to be woefully wrong: by doing PR for Scott Boras (0)
- 12: The gyroball: be afraid. Be very, very afraid. (But not for the reasons you’d think) (0)
- 11: Clearly, it was a bad weekend to go out of town. (11)
- 10: Shoot, I’d pay $40 mil for the right to negotiate with Scott Boras, too (8)
- 10: It’s like that moment in the Wizard of Oz. Kind of. But it’s much cooler. (0)
- 09: The Yankees might not want Sheffield, but reporters sure don’t want him to leave town (6)
- 09: The bids are in, and I’m out… (4)
- 08: Race! Sex! And, um, succession battles at The New York Times! (0)
- 08: How’s this for some hot stove excitement: the Red Sox name a bunch of new scouts (0)
- 06: Reflections from (three-quarters of) a week on the road (0)
- 04: Baseball: one sport where it definitely pays off to make it look really hard when you do something really easy (6)
- 04: One thing god definitely wants is for him to cash that $52 million check (2)
- 02: Breaking news: good things actually happened in 2006 (and why you’re not likely to hear much about it in the media) (10)
- 01: Natural born easy (1)
October 2006 (61)
- 31: Fiddling while Rome burns (3)
- 30: America proves it has some taste (5)
- 30: For those of you who think I’m a shill for the Sox front office… (9)
- 30: Introducing the world’s best columnist (4)
- 28: On the plus side, Tony La Russa’s still is under .500 in World Series games (5)
- 28: It was either that or run a bed and breakfast (0)
- 26: She sure as hell blew her cover on that one (2)
- 26: And you wonder why Gary Sheffield’s on his sixth major league team (10)
- 26: Jack Shafer has a point. To a point. (0)
- 26: Breaking News: Derek Jeter likes to win, doesn’t kill puppies in his spare time (3)
- 26: How Green is my Apple (1)
- 25: As sure a sign as any that Barack Obama will be elected president (1)
- 25: Today in baseball: Everybody’s talking at me (0)
- 25: Today in music history: Light up or leave me alone (1)
- 24: The people have spoken, and they want to discuss a very short man (2)
- 24: Speaking of Eminem; calling all copyeditors (2)
- 23: If you had one shot, would you capture it (and if you did, would anbody bother tuning in?) (0)
- 23: Witness the media’s self-correcting mechanism in action (1)
- 23: My cousin (in-law) the pessimist (0)
- 23: We’ll keep this brief: Monday’s Murray watch (0)
- 23: Jayson Stark’s found a controversy that could rival steroids! (3)
- 21: Dan, Dan, he’s our man, if he can’t do it, no one can! (7)
- 20: The battle of who could care less (0)
- 19: Don’t you dare ever say again that nobody pays attention to bloggers (1)
- 19: A heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack (0)
- 18: For those of you who didn’t have a free two hours in the middle of your day… (2)
- 18: Today at one: watch as the author gets heckled (0)
- 18: “History,” managers, money, and Murray (1)
- 16: Questions from our loyal readers (4)
- 16: A $500,000 marketing campaign doesn’t buy what it used to (2)
- 16: Coming through in the clutch to the tune of a 7.94 ERA (0)
- 16: Why you knew the A’s weren’t going to be the second team to come back from 0-3. (0)
- 16: You can’t always get what you want (0)
- 16: This is how sportswriters make the offseason seem exciting (0)
- 15: Stay classy, New York: That didn’t take long (0)
- 13: Remember, this is Peter Gammons talking (3)
- 12: My playoff wish-list picks, based on nothing other than pure emotion (4)
- 11: If this is true, I pray that the NYC tabs put any puns on their frontpages (3)
- 11: Wolf Blitzer desperately wants an actual situation for his room (0)
- 11: CNN’s Richard Roth proves he’s fit to broadcast baseball games (1)
- 11: Look, ma, I’m on TV! (0)
- 11: No, I have not forsaken baseball (1)
- 11: I hear this YouTube thing has some cool shit (0)
- 11: First in an occasional series: Slate’s “Scott Pilgrim’s Progress” (0)
- 10: Times really dumb and really smart…all at the same time! (3)
- 09: It’s scary to think of where this kid will be in ten years (1)
- 08: Reality bites: The Times ain’t gonna let no stinkin’ facts get in the way of a story (4)
- 07: For the sixth year in a row, the Yankees are the most expensive team in history not to win a World Series. (6)
- 07: Damon: There must be a wormhole around here somewhere (0)
- 06: Truckin…up to Brattleboro (1)
- 06: Guitar solos and tour riders, oh my! (All praise Iggy and the Dragonforces) (0)
- 05: Here’s a headline that should surprise exactly no one (3)
- 05: Woof woof (1)
- 05: The Big Papi Prediction Contest: You all lose (2)
- 04: Damn you, Jon Friedman! (Or: man, do I need to figure out a better way to spend my days.) (3)
- 04: OK, Gammons, enough cribbing off my blog (The Derek Lowe Year-End Wrap-Up) (6)
- 04: Whatever else you do tonight, watch Friday Night Lights (2)
- 04: Tommy Lasorda is actually funny (0)
- 03: Year-end wrap-ups: Dodging a bullet with Pedro (6)
- 02: My gut is telling me no…but my gut is also very hungry. (0)
- 01: The press is shocked, shocked! Roger Clemens named in Grimsley steroid affidavit (8)
September 2006 (45)
- 29: In other news… (5)
- 29: Manny. (Duck!) (0)
- 28: Secret Service confirms that Dan Brown is a non-truth teller (2)
- 28: Cutting off your nose to spite your blogger (5)
- 27: It’s about time: Josh Beckett finally takes my advice (2)
- 27: Back on the grid… (3)
- 23: I’ll be back before you know it… (0)
- 23: Reflections from a (half) week on the road (0)
- 23: Cats and dogs, living together (4)
- 22: Boston City Councilor also swears off Cuban sandwiches, Chinese electronics (1)
- 22: Framing the debate (3)
- 22: The wonder of it all (2)
- 21: All hail El Papi Grande. (And: The best Trupiano could come up with is “The Foxx hunt is over?”) (3)
- 21: Yes, I’m the kid who… (1)
- 21: The ongoing saga of The Da Vinci Code (Or: the Bob Loblaw Law Blog) (1)
- 20: I’ve traveled every road in this here land (4)
- 20: Not to be a smart-ass, but hasn’t he learned his lesson? (3)
- 20: Gammons back at Fenway, with mic in hand (0)
- 20: In which I resist the temptation to pun off a Dylan song: the much-discussed radio show, now for free (0)
- 19: Murray Chass: Facts are not my friends. (2)
- 18: Strike two: the vicious circle that is David Ortiz at the plate (5)
- 17: That’s Times, spelled T-I-M-E-S (2)
- 15: ESPN figures out how to fix the Sox’s problems (3)
- 15: About last night; Globe refuses to write about Mike Timlin’s high-wire act; Nomar! Nomar! Nomar! (5)
- 15: Sex, blood, violence, Scarlet Johansson and a naked, bisexual Hillary Swank made boring at a theater near you (4)
- 14: Tonight: Rare opportunity to drown your sorrows in drink while listening to the dulcet tones of my voice (0)
- 14: I could have told them that was a good pairing three years ago (0)
- 14: Don’t tell me nothing about nothing (4)
- 10: Rewind: The day of the sale; the free agent class of 2000 (1)
- 10: The rest of the Times takes a cue from Murray, tells sources they’d better talk (0)
- 08: Fine. I was wrong. I’ll admit it. (Sweet, sweet, yummy crow.) (4)
- 08: Hi. My name’s Murray. I’m addicted to writing about the Red Sox. (3)
- 07: Are Chadd, Garcia, Eljaua, and Moore (not Cabrera, Damon, Lowe, and Martinez) the departures that have really hurt the Sox? (11)
- 06: The lack of good mullets makes for a heavy heart (5)
- 06: Feeding the Lust for Happy Endings: How a Hot Rammer Jammer Took America into Mania (0)
- 05: Kansas City: Lots and lots of beef (The 48-hour report, now with more adjectives, adverbs) (3)
- 05: For fans of DP (0)
- 05: Dave Zinczenko on his ripped abs, ability to make two ‘Today’ show appearances in the course of six paragraphs (1)
- 05: Murray Chass admits he hates apple pie, full seasons of baseball (1)
- 05: Great moments in radio: The kind of thing you’re excited about waking up for (0)
- 05: The sounds of not talking (0)
- 02: Today’s game set for 1:05 pm; ML tryouts set for 4 (3)
- 01: And don’t forget to tip your waitresses (2)
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