Sometimes it's only after someone is gone, and taken suddenly, that you can fully take stock of all they gave us. We were so lucky to have Rob Reiner. time.com/7340905/rob-...

A former MLB general manager is now an agent — to coaches and execs, who have fewer options www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...

Sonny Gray lifetime at Fenway Park: 0-4, 6.84. 49 baserunners in 26.1 IP.

I don't mind alternate jerseys in general -- I liked the yellow City Connects and the Celtics old-school cursive gold city editions -- but these are dumb.

It's Contract Projection Day: www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...

They say baseball breaks your heart, and the Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame what if team, now. So what does it mean to watch your team lose the World Series in one of the greatest games ever played? It means you got to feel something; you just didn’t get to choose what. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

Mookie has now played almost as many total games for the Dodgers (807) as he did for the Red Sox (815). And he's played way more playoff games for LA (70-21). Unless he suddenly retires to join the pro bowling tour, it's gonna be clear by career's end which hat he will have on his HoF plaque. ☹️

Over an hour later and I still can't believe the Rojas double clutch and Pages steamroller came on consecutive do-or-die plays.

Why are the FOX guest mics so terrible? No other network sounds like this. We now know what Mookie hears in his own head when he talks with cotton in his ears.

Man, how do you get doubled off on that ball? Kike caught it at eye level.

Evan Drellich always delivers the goods, but this is next-level. Turncoat agent served as MLB mole during Covid negotiations.

Mack Hollins would know. He played for the Bills last year and became an important part of that team and that passing offense. When I asked him if he saw the similarities, the veteran pass catcher nodded. More on the 'everyone eats' offense thriving in NE www.bostonsportsjournal.com/2025/10/31/-...

You'd think Fox could spring for a stereo mic for Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci. They sound like they're under water.

Drake Maye for MVP? Drake Maye for MVP. That's not something I expected to be writing here on October 20th. In fact, I'm a little reluctant to give something so grand weight after just seven weeks however... www.bostonsportsjournal.com/2025/10/20/g...

Babe Ruth career high for home runs in a game: 3 (both losses) Babe Ruth career high for strikeouts in a game: 11 (he allowed 7 runs)

If you read one Diane Keaton tribute today, make it this one. "... though many people associate her mostly with the brainy doodle of a performance she gave in Annie Hall—a brilliant one—she was astonishingly versatile. She was great without ever trying to *be* great..."

Exclusive: Yoan Moncada wins $7M judgment against his former agent @nypostsports.bsky.social nypost.com/2025/10/09/s...

How many batters in tonight's Red Sox lineup will be part of their next playoff series victory? This is a day-game-after-extra-innings-night-game-on-getaway-day kind of lineup.

The analytics revolution focuses on tunnels and launch angles and induced vertical break, but sometimes it's as simple as who catches the ball. For the last two nights, that team has been the Yankees.

As Red Sox players poured into the clubhouse, goggles on their heads and beer cans in their hands, the plastic was still being hung on lockers with little care. It was time to party. Inside the Red Sox playoff clinching celebration: www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...

This is insane. What Tom Shales was to Larry Sanders, Alan Sepinwall is to The Simpsons--a critic worthy of a name drop. If he's not the greatest TV writer of all-time, he's top three. On the bright side, I suspect he's about to discover just how big his (paying) audience is. I'll be signing up.

Jesus. Now the audio is ahead of the action. Annoying.

Remember the Rafael Devers trade the Red Sox won so soundly? After Patrick Bailey's walkoff grand slam last night, the Giants are only a half game out of the playoffs. Since Aug. 23, they're 14-4.

Pop Douglas in WEEI booth, says he quit baseball in middle school after getting hit by a pitch. @lennydinardo.bsky.social asked Patriots receiver if a ball hits harder than a human. Douglas: "I can dodge a human." Good stuff.

If you got a contract extension from the previous regime, Mike Vrabel has you in his crosshairs. The latest player told to hit the bricks is safety Jabril Peppers. www.bostonsportsjournal.com/2025/08/29/g...

It was always incredibly stupid to think Bill Chisholm would drop $6B on the Celtics and then leave Wyc in charge. Wishful thinking. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/s...

The Red Sox have won 10 straight and now seven straight just a few weeks apart, they just signed one of the best young players in baseball long-term, and they have as good a shot as anybody to come out of the American League. Maybe the trade deadline didn't kill them after all.

Federal funding is gone. But we're not going anywhere.

AI features might be distracting, inaccurate and annoying but at least they make everything slower

OPINION: ICE deported my husband. Our everything is gone, and we are unraveling. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/30/o...

“I need to own that I could have done better.” Twenty months into his tenure, Craig Breslow takes stock of the culture of the Red Sox front office: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/26/s...

Caught with NBC Sports Boston’s Trenni Casey, who is running a long, long way next month for a great and personal cause. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/21/s...

just stop here and let me out

My advice to Craig Breslow as the Red Sox address organizational communication issues: talk like a normal person. We all know how smart he is, but he's obsessed with sounding the part. Learn from Theo Epstein, who's brilliant but conversational. Breslow was engaging as a player, so it's in there.

Amazingly, Raffy said he will play anywhere in San Francisco. Just a slight attitude change!

Don't underestimate the impact of Devers' continued recalcitrance *after* John Henry's visit. When the owner puts himself out there and your behavior doesn't change, suddenly Breslow doesn't have to sell the idea of a trade so vigorously.

There's little doubt the plan is to redistribute Devers' money to Anthony, Mayer, et al... Devers had proven beyond a doubt that he wasn't a franchise player in any way except with the bat. (which isn't nothing, but still) He was never going to be Big Papi. Too introverted and immature.

If I had a Substack, my headline would be, "Why I love the Devers trade," just to get you to click, followed by a more balanced take that I love getting out from under the contract and ridding the clubhouse of a selfish player, but wish the return wasn't so meager. Whatever. Still a fan of the deal.

A reminder on Walker Buehler's "great" postseason: it consisted of 3 starts and 1 save. In the first, he got shelled for 6 runs. Then he threw 4 shutout innings in blowout of Mets, 5 shutout innings vs. Yankees in WS, and then clinching save. Why did that outweigh his 5.38 ERA during season?

Other Red Sox I can think of to hit their first career homers against the Yankees: David Murphy (2006) and of course Xander Bogaerts (2013).

And they didn't even get to play the Celtics.

Hey, I wrote something! If you caught any Wemby highlights this year, you heard silky smooth Spurs broadcaster Jacob Tobey, a Suffolk grad and Sandwich native who's a self-made success story if ever there was one. Read his story in the spring edition of Suffolk Mag. www.suffolk.edu/news-feature...

The Red Sox are the definition of feast or famine. Only the Cubs (12) and Yankees (10) have scored 10 runs more often the Red Sox (7), but the Sox are in danger of being held below three runs for the 19th time, eighth-most in baseball.

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

Goddammit. I surrender.

Watching the Pacers push the tempo highlights one of the aspects of the Celtics offense I low-key hate: how they barely beat the 8-second call walking the ball upcourt on half their possessions.

Braves started 0-7 and 5-13. If they close this one out, they'll be 24-23. This is how winning organizations respond to adversity. Red Sox have talent to make a similar run, but do they have the makeup?

This is excellent, illuminating, and pretty damn sobering.

In addition to being craven, there's something kind of sadistic about MLB's Pete Rose ruling. It's like, "If you want to be eligible for immortality, hurry up and die."