http://www.dirtywatah.com The daily Red Sox rants of Matt Levine...as read by Jon Miller Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:36:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the spirit of my previous post comparing the 2010 pitching staffs of the Red Sox and the Rays, what about adding in the New York Yankees? Let's jump right in with the rotations: (click for full-size image). If CC Sabathia wins the Cy Young this year, it will be a travesty ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/09/2010-in-review-sox-vs-yanks-pitching/ Hi all -- Matt has been kind enough to let me start posting some baseball- and Red Sox-related ruminations here on DW.com, so here's to hoping it's worth all our time. This may be the beginning of a Reverse Nate Silver for me (political blogging to baseball talk, rather than ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/09/a-2010-retrospective-where-did-the-sox-go-wrong/ Dice-K worked quickly, threw strikes and kept the ball down. Next up from the west coast, pigs fly. I'm clearly only meant to see either fantastic or awful games from Dice-K. In 2008 I saw him 3-hit the A's, in 2009 I saw him give up 5 runs in the ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/07/more-west-coast-injuries/ It's getting hard to come up with new explanations for the Sox's injury woes. The latest one I've come up with is that Bill Hall keeps drinking Jobu's rum. Why else would Youks now go down in a heap? Man, it doesn’t even sound right. You have nine guys on the ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/07/just-act-normal/ Congratulations to your 2010 All-Disabled-List team! When was the last time you heard of a team getting THREE players elected on the All Star team that are also on the DL? (I can't even imagine how to look this up, or I would.) Of their six all-stars from the Sox ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/07/all-star-disabled-list/ Here's the situation: you, the manager, have first base open, and really don't want your pitcher facing their batter. Instead of being a man, wiggling your four fingers, and telling your catcher to get up from his crouch to call for the intentional walk, you ask your pitcher to throw ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/06/the-unintentional-intentional-walk/ When Bud Selig saw this year's interleague play schedule he must have been drooling over two possible matchups: Strasburg vs Greinke and Lester vs Lincecum. Who knows, maybe he was a genius and was looking forward to Edwin Jackson vs. Jeff Niemann, but I kinda doubt it. If you listened to ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/06/3-2-1-splash-down/ There are a couple of ways to look at yesterday's game. On the one hand Buchholz pulled up lame in the 2nd inning and the Sox only had one baserunner after that. Considering that it was only a few hours earlier that we learned the true condition of Pedroia's foot, ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/06/who-needs-a-starter/ There's an old Mark Twain quote that says "The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco." You know what can make it colder though? Watching your best player fall down in a heap after fouling a ball off his left insole. Believe it or ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/06/enjoying-the-san-fran-summer-heat/ Note: I know this is a few days late, but Kim and I went on a tour of ballparks right after Sunday's game so I'm just getting to post this now. Pedroia's 3 HR laser show last night may have been more interesting though... Father's Day requires two things (besides a ... http://www.dirtywatah.com/2010/06/fathers-day-at-fenway/