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Watching the Boston Red Sox, While They're Still Weird
Right now, the Red Sox are a dazzling offense yoked to a miserable pitching staff. They'll improve at the trade deadline, but let's savor the oddity until then.
Delightfully Eager Red Sox Fan Eats It While Diving For Big Papi's Ground-Rule Double
It was almost a souvenir for David Ortiz's close brush with hitting the cycle.
Rangers, Blue Jays, Red Sox, and the Different Kinds of Hitting: This Particular Week in Baseball
This particular week in baseball, a look at the baseball kind of hitting and the not baseball kind of hitting, the potent Red Sox, the sad Braves, and the surprising Orioles.
Padres Rule, Big Papi Crushes, and Snorting Coke-Cain: Dave Brown's Unscientific MLB Power Rankings
We took the math out of power rankings because math is hard. Instead, we have camo suits, Thor's home runs, and Bartolo's slow ass home run trot.
David Ortiz Has a Personalized Golf Cart for Final Home Spring Training Game
Fare the well, Spring Training David Ortiz. You were too good for this exhibition world.
The Cooperstown Case for David Ortiz and Designated Hitters
The Baseball Hall Of Fame is a fun place to visit, but pretty backwards in some important ways where history is concerned. David Ortiz could be a victim of that.
David Ortiz Is Going to Live Forever
Big Papi has announced that 2016 will be his last season. The legacy he built in Boston, and throughout baseball, guarantees that he's not going anywhere.
David Ortiz And The End
Last year, David Ortiz had one of the best seasons a 38-year-old has ever had. This year, he's been hopeless. He's looked finished before, but is this the end?
Consider the Lobster Roll: Straining for Meaning at Fenway Park and the Boston Marathon
What Fenway Park's infamous $29 lobster roll taught me about the commoditization of tragedy.
Enough With the Pace of Game Arguments
Baseball continues to look into changing the pace of games when its problems lie much deeper than that and are purely a matter of perception.
The Cuba Diaries: The Last Days of the Caribbean Derek Jeter, Carlos Tabares
Time is running out in the remarkable career of Havana Industriales outfielder Carlos Tabares, considered by many the Derek Jeter of Cuba.