2012 will always be remembered by Boston Red Sox fans for all the wrong reasons.  It started in the worst possible way, with an endless search for a manager who didn’t want to take up the job of fixing the most fractured clubhouse in recent memory.  It continued with high-priced drama, player coddling, and a […]

–Dan Rubin– The New York Yankees finished the 2012 regular season with a 95-67 record; the Boston Red Sox finished 69-93.  New York won the American League East; Boston will draft 6th in the First-Year Player Draft next June.  New York’s manager has a World Series victory and multiple postseason berths; Boston will attempt to […]

–Dan Rubin– The last series of the baseball season always represents something special.  It’s like the antithesis of Opening Day, the end of the marathon for the die-hard and true fan.  It’s a time to sit back and enjoy nine innings of a game without any pressure for the most part.  It’s rare that a […]

Maybe the media really did catch David Ortiz on a “bad day.” Maybe the Boston Red Sox really are feeling the effects of all the negativity surrounding them this year. Maybe there is clubhouse dissent, an inept manager, and a front office assembling a team from the island of misfit toys, incapable of winning. But […]

–Dan Rubin– In 2004, I distinctly remember where I was when I found out the Boston Red Sox traded Nomar Garciaparra.  I was at work at a CVS on Cape Cod, thinking more about the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox, en route to their then-first championship since 1990.  I remember talking about the local college guys who […]