http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/ Readin'. Writin'. Red Sox. en Copyright 2010 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:55:07 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/eelogo.jpg He doesn’t have calm eyes or a signature throw, but he’s no Lugo, either. His name will infest your brain with the chorus “Sussudio,” but he has filled the role of leadoff hitter in Jacoby Ellsbury’s absence admirably. Scu, scu, Scutaro! Whoa oh! The Red Sox shortstop tied the game http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/09/marco_scutaro/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/09/marco_scutaro/ September 2010 Game Comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:55:07 -0500 Theo Epstein got into the spirit of the election year and gave some serious spin to the trading of Manny Delcarmen to the Rockies for minor league pitcher Chris Balcom-Miller. The Red Sox general manager said the move wasn’t a white flag of surrender, like how the furor over the http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/09/white_flag/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/09/white_flag/ August 2010 Game Comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:05:59 -0500 To distract myself from the dismal series loss against the Rays I watched “Last Day of the Dinosaurs,” a light-hearted romp through the end of the Cretaceous most likely precipitated by the Chicxulub Asteroid pummeling the Yucatan Peninsula. When the six-mile long bolide impacted Earth, dinosaurs were broiled alive by http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/extinction_event/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/extinction_event/ August 2010 Game Comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:54 -0500 It’s not that our team doesn’t have smarts, it’s just that our team’s smarts are inconsistently used. Mike Lowell is widely regarded as particularly wily, so he knew that keeping Carlos Pena pegged at first with the bottom of the order coming wasn’t a priority. But Clay Buchholz is the http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/a_heartbreaking_work_of_staggering_stupidity/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/a_heartbreaking_work_of_staggering_stupidity/ August 2010 Game Comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:22:41 -0500 It was like the old days in the Trop last night: Red Sox fans were louder than the Rays supporters and the visiting team came away with the victory. The irony is that Boston devotees are indirectly supporting the Rays. This is because the revenue-sharing scheme in MLB has luxury http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/over_priced/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/over_priced/ August 2009 Game Comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:54:33 -0500 Even they find nuts. But who knew they officiated MLB games? The Ameeker Pitch zone showed that all three of Felix Hernandez’s pitches to Adrian Beltre in the second inning were strikes, but Beltre stood in the box in disbelief. Rookie umpire Dan Bellino, who was filling in for Rob http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/blind_squirrels/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/blind_squirrels/ August 2010 Game Comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:50:23 -0500 Mariners manager Daren Brown decided to give third baseman Matt Tuiasosopo a break for the day game, thus giving Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy a brief reprieve from saying that name. I listened to part of the WEEI broadcast from the series opener to check that at least one Red http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/afternoon_boon/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/afternoon_boon/ August 2010 Game Comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:17:22 -0500 When Johnny comes marching home again Hurrah! Hurrah! We’ll give him a hearty welcome then Hurrah! Hurrah! The men will cheer and the boys will shout The ladies they will all turn out And we’ll all feel gay Not that there’s anything wrong with that. If I were as clever http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/when_johnny_comes_marching_home/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/when_johnny_comes_marching_home/ August 2010 Game Comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:04:02 -0500 The day may have been a murky day marred by two rain delays but Clay Buchholz’s supreme skill outshone the showers. “Buch-nasty” (as he was dubbed by Mike Cameron) pitched only six innings but that was with a 1 hour, 44 minute delay of first pitch and a 59-minute rain http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/dazzler_in_the_downpour/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/dazzler_in_the_downpour/ August 2010 Game Comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:30:11 -0500 Daisuke Matsuzaka and Victor Martinez seemed to be working together much better than they did during Matsuzaka’s streak of troubles. The battery fought through the Blue Jays’ three-run rally in the sixth to turn in two shutout, 1-2-3 innings, keeping the score knotted 4-4. Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papelbon combined http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/these_go_to_eleven/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/these_go_to_eleven/ August 2010 Game Comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:40:29 -0500 The Blue Jays certainly had their Wheaties, or, as they call it in Canada, Wheaties. The exchange rate for runs was far in favor with our northern neighbors. The bludgeoning by the Blue Jays was made worse with visits to the booth by Bill O’Reilly and Mitt Romney. They were http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/blue_hot_and_red/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/blue_hot_and_red/ August 2010 Game Comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:02:37 -0500 Dustin Pedroia’s absence from this game was a harbinger of his return to the disabled list. His stint with the team was as short as he was. In the two games he played he experienced pain that wouldn’t subside, so he went back on the disabled list rather than worsen http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/2b_or_not_2b/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/2b_or_not_2b/ August 2010 Game Comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:47:19 -0500 The Red Sox jury rigged an seventh-inning comeback with hits by Victor Martinez and David Ortiz and a walk by Mike Lowell. Kevin Jepsen helped Boston with the repair job by uncorking a wild pitch to J.D. Drew that plated Martinez for the tie and plunking Daniel Nava to force http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/seventh_heaven/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/seventh_heaven/ August 2010 Game Comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:23:04 -0500 Who knew Darnell McDonald picked his jersey number 54 as a mnemonic for his favorite windshield repair company Giant Glass? The outfielder’s third-inning home run cleared the left field wall and shattered the rear window of a Toyota Camry with Rhode Island tags parked in the lot next to Gold’s http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/1-800-54-giant/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/1-800-54-giant/ August 2010 Game Comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:08:19 -0500 I’m like Bryce Harper over here, waiting until the last minute to get the deal done. Except when I finally write about Sunday’s disappointing loss I won’t get a five-year, $9.9 million deal. Instead of rolling in dough I get to savor the impressive strikeout total for Daisuke Matsuzaka (just http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/procrastination_nation/ http://www.empyrealenvirons.com/2010/08/procrastination_nation/ August 2010 Game Comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:19:04 -0500