The feud between Red Sox ownership and Hank "Spaulding Smails" Steinbrenner is escalating. After Hank moaned, "Red Sox Nation? What a bunch of [expletive] that is.", John Henry responded by sending Hank an honorary RSN membership card. While we've taken our shots at the bloated "Red Sox Nation" phenomenon before - it's jumped the shark the way "Sweet Caroline" did, and Gino is in the process of doing - we recognize the need to circle......

We could go into all sorts of philosophical and historical stories to draw some sort of analogy between the Red Sox and the Braves – from Thanksgiving to the Trail of Tear, but we won't go there. It's Monday and it's warm. The Sox won the last three games, all of them that they played against the Braves on their home turf in Hot-lanta. After falling to the Twins in Minnesota we'll take them –......

Well, don't you all feel better? The centerfield and shortstop holes have been filled, and the Olde Towne Team is shaping up. After an arduous and sketchy month or so, the Sox finally came to terms with the Cleveland Indians, acquiring highly touted Coco Crisp, relief pitcher David Riske, and backup Catcher Josh Bard. The Sox sent the Indians 3rd base prospect Andy Marte, catcher Kelly Shoppach, relief pitcher Guillermo Mota, a player to......

It’s been an eventful week for the Sox at baseball’s winter meetings. Already, 2 deals have been made by the Sox as the 2006 squad starts to shape up. Earlier in the week, the Sox sent backup catcher and fan favorite Doug "The Belly" Mirabelli to the San Diego Padres in exchange for second baseman and former All-Star Mark Loretta. Loretta is a career .301 hitter over 11 major league seasons and is expected to......

No doubt glad to be back home, at least for a little while, the Red Sox licked their collective wounds and returned to Boston last night after a pretty abysmal performance by Grimace, errr ... David Wells, after his stint on the DL. Two innings, 7 runs? Sure, not a problem! Today armchair managers across New England put on their 20/20 "hindsight goggles" and wondered whether or not Boomer should have taken the mound in......