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Has Bill Buckner been replaced as the Boston Buckler? posted on 02/04/2008

I know this isn't a baseball post, but I know all you Yankee faithfuls love to see any home town team beat your nemesis town to the south, Boston. In 1986, Bill Buckner fudged the easiest groundout of his career and prolonged his team's dreaded "curse of the babe" a further eighteen years. Many felt happy for Buckner in 2004 when Boston won it's first title in 86 years. Sunday, the New England Patriots were 35 seconds from a perfect season. They had rival Peyton Manning's little brother, Eli, back against the ropes on third down. Ellis Hobbs was then juked by Plaxico Burress, who scored the game winning touchdown. Hobbs, like Buckner, was known for his spectacular defense. Does this seem too coincidental? I guess only if you live in Boston.

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Rockets Aren't Made To Be Thrown Under Buses posted on 01/30/2008
Nevermind the fact that Senator George Mitchell’s
report named absolutely zero Boston Red Sox players.
Nevermind the fact that Roger Clemens has emphatically
offered to take a polygraph test to attest to the fact
he has never taken performance enhancing drugs.
Nevermind the fact that the American League’s all-time
strikeout king is willing to go to whichever lengths
necessary to disprove his accusatory former trainer,
Brian McNamee. I guess the question is “Does baseball
even want Roger Clemens to enter the hall of fame?” I
mean after all, Dan Duquette threw Roger under the bus
after the 1996 season, despite 192 major league wins,
3 Cy Young Awards, 2 record-setting 20K games, and,
lest we forget, a league MVP. That’s enough reason to

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