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Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The legend continues Happy Tuesday. The League Championship Series has begun the AL and the NL. The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets (aka Decoy and Grimace) are tied at one game apiece. The Cleveland Guardians humiliated themselves and lost game one of their series with the Yankees. While the NL teams fly from Los Angeles to NYC … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 10/15: Papi Power

Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images They must lose! But exactly how they get cooked also matters. If you were to poll most Red Sox fans about their preference of the remaining choices to win the World Series, I assume the vast majority would have some variation of Cleveland and the Mets at one and two, the Dodgers largely in the third slot, a few solar systems of space … [Read more...] about For Red Sox Fans, What’s The Best Way For The Yankees To Lose This Postseason?

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images News and notes from around Red Sox Nation. The Red Sox aren’t in the postseason, but plenty of Red Sox-adjacent personalities are. This includes not only Mookie Betts, who hit a three-run double to put last night’s NLCS game between the Dodgers and Mets on ice, and David Ortiz, who is pulling analyst duty, but someone … [Read more...] about Red Sox News & Links: Max Fried to the Sox?

Photo by MLB via Getty Images El Tiante was my El Gigante. I am not a baseball card collector by any means, but I have acquired a couple of cards here and there. I only look at three of them with any regularity. My best-looking Jim Rice card has been a fixture in my office for years. I recently added two to my bookshelf; they were gifts and I look at them every day. One … [Read more...] about Goodbye to Luis Tiant

Photo by Mary DeCicco/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images And the Yankees won. Booooooooo. Happy Friday! The Yankees are in the ALCS. Tied at two games each, the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians are battling to face them. They play the fifth and final game of their series Saturday at 8:08 PM ET on TBS. The final NLDS game is tonight at 8:08 PM ET on FOX. The San … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 10/11-1/13: Team Japan in the Spotlight

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images (ducks) Happy Thursday. The Philadelphia Phillies were eliminated by Grimace and the New York Mets. The Detroit Tigers took a 2-1 lead in their series with the Cleveland Guardians. Ditto the Yankees over the Royals. Dodgers vs Padres is tied at two games apiece. With a travel day for the remaining NLDS it’s all AL … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 10/10: Win Dance Repeat

Let him cook! | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images The Chief Baseball Officer plainly does not call the shots. Well, it’s been five years, and here we are. The Red Sox, watching October baseball once again, are finally ready to compete again, right? The good news is that yes, that’s what Craig Breslow, the Chief Baseball Officer of the Boston Red Sox, is hearing. The bad … [Read more...] about Craig Breslow Is Not In Charge

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images But can it keep going? When I was a kid, my mom brought me home a small, black and white coffee table book about the greatest rivalries in American sports (though the actual title eschewed the “American” qualifier and just called them the greatest rivalries in all of sports, because back in the 90s we didn’t know about other … [Read more...] about Dodgers-Padres Is the Rivalry Baseball Needs

Photo by Brandon Sumrall/UFL/Getty Images Dodger, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodger Happy Wednesday. For real this time. The New York Mets and San Diego Padres defeated the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers, respectively, to take 2-1 leads in their NLDS matchups. The ALDS matchups resume today after an off day for travel. It’s a four game day today! Cleveland … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 10/9: Four Games Today!