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Posted 10 months ago

Must-Have Sox Tech: The Boston Herald Red Sox App

Anyone who knows my work outside of the Sox Mobster project are probably aware of my animosity toward the Boston Herald, where I was formerly employed as a freelance music writer.

While I’m still friendly with many people over there, I have nothing but disdain for most of their columnists - particularly that sentimental douche Joe Fitzgerald and the impossible dickhead Howie Carr.

All that said, their sports coverage is, in my know-nothing opinion, quite outstanding. That shouldn’t impress me; as a news reporter, I’m supposed to be offended by their having three times more hacks at every home game than they do at the Statehouse.

This Herald Sox app, though - which is available on iPhone and Android - is undeniably awesome. It’s incredibly functional, and kicks ass for news, info, and opinions from not just the Sox, but from across the league.

I highly recommend. And if you’re a grey-haired Cambridge bohemian with canvas shoes who is loathe to support the evil Herald, just consider how ironic it is that your intellectual ass is a baseball fan to begin with. 

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Posted 1 year ago

Potential Herald Headlines For Tomorrow

After today and yesterday’s vitriol, it’s hard for me, as a relative newcomer, to imagine how devastating the sentiments will look like after this massacre. I’m thinking that the Herald will run with something like DEFEAT IN THE HEART OF TEXAS, TOAST IN TEXAS, or FUCK YOU NOLAN RYAN!

As I mentioned yesterday, I’ll be applying statistical and hysterical analysis to the fickle Boston Sports Media in an attempt to graph their frenetic posturing. No doubt tomorrow will see a huge spike in the “I knew this was going to happen when everyone else was strapping on their party hats” column. Looking forward to it.

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Posted 1 year ago

I Missed You Bi-Polar Boston Sports Media

I’m well aware of the reality that sports writers have to react to what happens, and to the sad and sorry truth that the Red Sox got smoked last night. But when I think all the way back to two days ago, and envision all the management and player semen dripping off the lips of commentators, today’s hella pessimistic tone cracks me right up.

All this season I’ll be graphing the frenetic sentiments in the Boston sports media, by the way, so stay tuned for that as well as many-a-polluted Fenway adventures.

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Posted 2 years ago

Possible Fact: I’m The Youngest Reporter To Ever Be Completely Fucking Sick And Tired Of Stat-Based Sports Reporting

Am I the only person who finds it incredibly annoying that sports writers and commentators find it necessary to identify every odd and arcane factoid about every player in every situation?

Case in point from today’s Boston Herald: “Wakefield became the oldest AL pitcher to throw eight scoreless innings in a game since Charlie Hough did it for the White Sox on July 20, 1992.”

Really? Who gives a fuck? Who’s the oldest AL player to throw seven scoreless innings? Who’s the youngest to do it with a toothbrush in his asshole? How about the oldest to be an obnoxious faux-populist shithead (as seen above)? I could go on and on - there’s no end…

While I don’t know much - or anything at all, really - about the history of sports journalism, I would imagine that this has only gotten much, much worse with the advent of multimedia miracles. Dang internets!

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Posted 2 years ago

It’s Official! The Globe Has Run Out Of Things To Say About Baseball.

Though I’ve been having a nut-buster-of-a-time going to games and writing about all things Sox-related, I admit that I dread having to finger through the Globe and Herald sports sections.

I’ve only been at this for a month or so, and I feel like I’ve already read every article there is to write about the Sox: David Ortiz sucks; Sox pitching blows; Derek Jeter is a titanic jerkoff (but he’s one hell of a baseball player); etc.

This story that I caught in the Globe last week may be proof that there is nothing left to say about the Sox, and perhaps even baseball. Really - it’s about how some game-goers hang outside on Yawkey and go into the game in the third inning. Mind-blowing stuff.

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Posted 2 years ago

You Would Think Boston Herald Readers Know About “Bunting”

I covered hip-hop for the Boston Herald for years, and I would always get pissed when they made me explain everything rap-related as if boom bap was some new fad (i.e. - Eminem and Benzino had “beef” - not as in filet mignon, but as in they wanted to murder one another.)

But I guess I should have lightened up. My old buddy O’Ryan Johnson has an article in today’s paper about how much the Red Sox hate to bunt, and I found the explanation in the lead (or lede, as we say in the biz) to be a bit unnecessary. I mean - even I know what bunting means, which leads me to believe that a lot of non-rap readers didn’t need me to explain “chickenheads” and “running trains.”

Around the league, the Red Sox [team stats] are known as a team that hates bunting - dribbling a baseball down the line and wasting an at-bat just to move a baserunner ahead.

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