http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/ Readin'. Writin'. Red Sox. en Copyright 2011 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:33:36 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/eelogo.jpg Dear Chicago Cubs Fans, You are in for a treat with Theo Epstein signing a five-year deal with your club. One of the most outstanding general managers in the sport will be haunting the halls of 1060 West Addison soon, and I daresay that the ghosts of past doomed seasons http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/10/toppling_of_the_theocracy/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/10/toppling_of_the_theocracy/ September 2011 Game Comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:33:36 -0500 Since 2003 John W. Henry and his off-field team has remade Fenway Park. After the colossal collapse this September on-field management has been the next feature to be renovated. The latest shocker out of 4 Yawkey Way was the unjust canning of first base coach Ron Johnson. Johnson was with http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/10/overhaul_at_yawkey_way/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/10/overhaul_at_yawkey_way/ 2011 News Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:19:29 -0500 Of exultation in 2004 and 2007. Of frustration in 2006, 2008, and 2010. Of dolor in 2011. I’m watching Terry Francona’s press conference and I think that jettisoning him is a mistake. It’s an extreme overreaction to an admittedly colossal collapse. Bill Belichick wasn’t fired after Super Bowl XLII. Neither http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/tears_over_eight_years/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/tears_over_eight_years/ 2011 News Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:21:03 -0500 There’s nothing I could say here that hasn’t been stated in a manner infinitely more analytical, anguished, and eloquent elsewhere. Nate Silver neatly dissects the Red Sox’s epic collapse in September. He also concisely computes the dual, dueling improbabilities of the Yankees blowing a seven-run lead and the Red Sox http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/it_is_designed_to_break_your_heart/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/it_is_designed_to_break_your_heart/ September 2011 Game Comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:00:01 -0500 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8Schlemiel! Schlimazel!Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!We’re gonna do itGive us any chance we’ll take itGive us any rule we’ll break itWe’re gonna make our dreams come trueDoin’ it our way—“Making Our Dreams Come True,” Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox For once Robert Andino was the schlemiel, http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/lavarnway_and_shirley/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/lavarnway_and_shirley/ September 2011 Game Comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:21:03 -0500 Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot; Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. — Song by http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/go_and_catch_a_falling_star/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/go_and_catch_a_falling_star/ September 2011 Game Comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:07:07 -0500 It’s Jacoby Ellsbury’s world; we just live in it. A few hours after becoming the first Red Sox 30/30 man Ellsbury was one of the few offensive forces on either team in the 14-inning long game. Not only is the season a marathon but these last few games determining the http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/jacobean_era/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/jacobean_era/ September 2011 Game Comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:04:32 -0500 Jacoby Ellsbury became the first Red Sox player to have 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a season, joining 36 others in an elite list that includes all-time greats like Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonds, Barry Larkin, and Willie Mays. The list also has surprises such as http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/3030/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/3030/ September 2011 Game Comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:24:04 -0500 As annoying as the sound clip after the home team scores at Yankee Stadium is, it agitated me more that I didn’t know the origin of the song. I finally gloogled (Google + slog) enough permutations of the words yankee, score, run, and song without putting in the expletives I http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/wake_me_up_when_september_ends/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/wake_me_up_when_september_ends/ September 2011 Game Comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:22:33 -0500 When Mark Reynolds isn’t striking out he’s clearing the fences with circuit clouts. Reynolds drove in half of Baltimore’s runs last night but amazingly didn’t strike out once. Only Drew Stubbs’s 200 strikeouts outpaces Reynolds’s 183 whiffs. The Red Sox are 4-13 since September 5, the day that began their http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/reynolds_rapped/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/reynolds_rapped/ September 2011 Game Comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:54:06 -0500 The bullpen band’s mojo helped to break the 4-4 tie in the fourth, but the usually sound duo of Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papelbon struck a sour note in the eighth. Bard allowed singles to Matt Wieters and Mark Reynolds but whiffed Adam Jones. Papelbon relieved Bard and struck out http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/annoying_andino/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/annoying_andino/ September 2011 Game Comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:24:06 -0500 The Magic Snuggie didn’t work. That narrows it down to Red Sox Pimp Dude and his crimson-wigged companion. “I thought it was real,” Don Orsillo said of the scarlet postiche. This from the man who thought a solar eclipse meant the sun positioned itself between the earth and the moon. http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/straight_pimping/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/straight_pimping/ September 2011 Game Comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:35:07 -0500 The Red Sox choose the wrong sort of flight, fleeing the field with their collective tail between their legs with a loss against the cellar-dwelling Orioles. To be fair the local nine put up a bit of a fight in the fifth with Adrian Gonzalez’s RBI double and Dustin Pedroia’s http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/fight_or_flight/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/fight_or_flight/ September 2011 Game Comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:27:03 -0500 Mike Aviles has been one of the few players making any impact in the lineup of late. His home run in the second game of the series proved to be the game-winning run, and he kept his team in the game today (and in the series) with a three-run bomb http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/winning_came_at_a_price/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/winning_came_at_a_price/ September 2011 Game Comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:48:24 -0500 I guess Norman Chad, Lon McEachern, and Ali Nejad wrapped up all the plumb poker commentator jobs so Fox audiences were stuck with Matt Vasgersian and Tim McCarver for this game. Vasgersian is the most generic sport commentator on the planet. When broadcast companies want to start manufacturing play by http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/niemann_marked_us/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2011/09/niemann_marked_us/ September 2011 Game Comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:45:26 -0500