AP Photo
It’s 15 minutes into Bobby Valentine’s first official workout as the Boston Red Sox’s manager, and I’m already exhausted.
Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington walks toward me, snaps his fingers and says, “Got to pick it up!”
I’m not a player, of course. I’m not a writer trying to simulate a player. I’m just a writer following Valentine’s every move, and Bobby V. is kicking my rear.
At age 61, he is relishing his first major-league spring training since 2002, walking rapidly from field to field, talking to players in English, Spanish and Japanese, watching, listening, exhorting, cajoling, moving, always moving.
“For a guy his age to still do all that is pretty cool,” Red Sox third...
Baseball and the Red Sox have occupied a meaningful place in my life for about as long as I can remember, and it's out of tradition and habit that a season's pending end comes with a tinge of melancholy. No matter whether the... more »
Once this season ends, the Red Sox need to make a quick decision on whether to keep or fire Bobby Valentine, and if the answer is that he’s gone, they need to make an equally quick decision on who replaces him. The team can... more »
After 14 years of losing, you knew it wasn't going to be easy. The Orioles wanted their playoff-clinching party to begin at Camden Yards on Sunday. And they did their part with a 6-3 win over the Boston Red Sox and their... more »
On a day honoring arguably the greatest third baseman of all time — legendary Orioles Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson — the rookie phenom now patrolling the hot corner for Baltimore showed what he could do.Twenty-year-old... more »
This season was the throwback. To hell with all the "ghosts" and all the fanciful guff about curses, this year — actually, this season plus the final third of the 2011 campaign — was when, out of nowhere, all the old hell... more »
Email
Print
Share