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Last night's rain-soaked game at Fenway Park might have made you wonder why the MLB doesn't play in the rain, at least until the Red Sox beat the Tigers, 1-0, to win their fifth straight game. The pitching dominated the night until the eighth inning when Carl Crawford scored from first base on a Jarrod Saltalamacchia wall double for the lone run of the game.
Bostonist has a confession. We wanted to see the Celtics play the Heat in the playoffs. It goes without saying that we hope/expect that the Celtics beat Miami, too. Rajon Rondo is quite possibly the key player in the series. As for Shaquille O'Neal, well, when Celtics president Danny Ainge says he can't go "12 minutes," how much can be expected?
Danny Ainge continues to remake the Boston Celtics by signing forward Troy Murphy to the veteran's minimum. He was bought out by the Golden State Warriors, after being traded by New Jersey there, and must clear waivers before he can officially sign. The new-look Bruins look good lately after a 1-0 shutout win over the Ottawa Senators last night. The Bruins swept through the league with a 6-0-0 record on a six-game trip.
A title this year seems unlikely at this point. We know we shouldn't judge anything based on last night's 89-75 loss to Denver. They were shorthanded as their new players hadn't arrived yet. They had nothing left to counter Denver's decisive 14-0 run. Paul Pierce scored 17 points. Kevin Garnett added 14 points and 13 rebounds. The Celtics managed just three offensive rebounds.
Danny Ainge strikes again with some unexpected trading of Celtics players. The biggest deal involved sending Kendrick Perkins and Nate Robinson to Oklahoma City for Jeff Green, Nenad Krstic and a first-round draft choice in 2012. Green was chosen with the pick traded to Seattle in the Ray Allen deal.
Danny Ainge liked what he saw from the guys in green in Thursday's 112-107 beating of the Heat. He told the Herald that the Celtics mood might be even more important. He said:
Bostonist has a new rule: Shaq is news. With that in mind...
Before the Red Sox even took the field against the San Francisco Giants, they managed to move up in the standings. Edwin Jackson and the Arizona Diamondbacks no-hit the Tampa Bay Rays, 1-0, which puts the Sox into the wild card spot for the first time since April 6. And then they went out and lost a game in San Francisco that they could have won and gained nothing. Actually, they could have lost a lot more than one interleague game as Dustin Pedroia left the game with a possible foot injury. Don't think about it.
The Celtics don't play Cleveland again until Friday night at the Garden. Essentially a four-day gap between games is ridiculous unless Boston wins, and then it's pure genius. We're bored until then.
Just a week ago, Glen "Big Baby" Davis was sounding like your stereotypical professional athlete. He publically declared he'd go to any team willing to pay him to play. Fortunately, a week later, Davis and his apparent affinity for greenbacks will keep green on his back after he re-signed with the Boston Celtics for two years and $6.3 million.
As Davis waited to sign a contract all summer, he said "I feel like I’ve grown up so much this whole summer - just being a professional and just being an adult." That's good because he grew up on the court in 2009 as he averaged 15.8 points and 5.6 rebounds in the playoffs as he replaced the injured Kevin Garnett. Danny Ainge basically said he wanted Davis back the whole time. "We like Glen more than anybody else likes Glen out there, and that’s ultimately what it boils down to." he said.
The C's also announced the signing of Shelden Williams.
Five of the six RBIs for the Red Sox came from David Ortiz and Jason Varitek? Is it 2003 already?!?
The last time the Red Sox played in Washington, D.C., Rogelio Moret got a complete game win on home runs by Joe Lahoud and Rico Petrocelli. A 32-year-old Carl Yastrzemski batted third and went 0-for-3. In other words, it was a long time ago.
Back in the nation's capital, the Sox took a little time to assert themselves, but that's what they did, unloading on the hapless Nationals bullpen to run away with an 11-3 drubbing of the worst team in baseball.
Six games does not a season make. Even though some easily-swayed souls seem to think so. But regardless, the Red Sox are indisputably 6-0 against the Yankees so far in this young season, everyone's happy, and last night's game was about as good as it gets.
Danny Ainge, President and General Manager of the Celtics, has suffered a "mild" heart attack. WCVB reported Ainge was resting comfortably at Mass. General Hospital.
If you're going to have a triumphant homecoming, it helps when you're playing the Timberwolves. That's the lesson from last night, as Kevin Garnett played his first game back in his old arena, and clearly illustrated the difference between NBA Champs and a miserable team, as the Celtics cruised to a 95-78 blowout.
Paul Pierce has been here through it all. He slipped to #10 in the draft, becoming such an obvious pick that even Rick Pitino couldn't screw it up. He survived a stabbing. He and Antoine Walker mad-bombed their way into an improbable Eastern Finals appearance. He played through the agony and misery of the dismal mid-00's, always giving it all, always wearing his heart on his sleeve, always waiting for the day to come when all the pain would be worth it.
Guess it was too much to expect for James Posey to be a Celtic for life. The C's didn't want to commit to a fourth year, the Hornets did, and Posey's on his way to New Orleans. We'll miss you, BGJ (Big Game James). You were a fantastic sixth man and a defensive killer, you sparked some of the most critical rallies of the playoffs, and you were an integral part of the soul of this year's team. Who's going to provide the pregame hug/pep talk for all the starters, is what we want to know. Scalabrine?
Paul Pierce proved you can get stabbed early in life, then come back and win an NBA title, as long as you're commited to playing good defense. Maybe that crossed Danny Ainge's mind as he used the 30th pick in the NBA draft to pick J.R. Giddens of New Mexico.
So we were driving home from a party Saturday night, and heard on the radio that BC lost. Almost reflexively, we went, "Figures; as soon as we start paying attention to BC, they start losi....". Then we stopped and thought for a minute. Being reflexively negative and miserable just doesn't cut it when four of the five pro teams in town are either undefeated, in the championship game, or current World Champs. We know we're...
We hate to throw around the term "must-win" game. Game 4-7 of the 2004 ALCS; now those were must-win games. An August game against a non-divisional foe, when you're winning your own division, shouldn't qualify for the term. But last night sure felt like it. The Sox had dropped two straight to the Angels and the Yankees have been getting closer and closer in the rearview mirror. Furthermore, the Sox were taking the field sans...
Green Kool-Aid is our favorite flavor. (Yes, Green is a flavor.) We've been chugging the semi-sour variety of it for three years now, as Danny Ainge has told us that we'd been assembling key parts for a magical youth movement that would lead the Celtics back to glory. And we've sipped the ultra-sour variety for a month, trying to figure out what kind of a youth movement features a creaky 32-year-old shooter. But today, the...
As fans, we can afford to be capricious. That's why the Kevin Garnett-to-the-Celtics rumors, which seemed way too expensive back in June when we thought we were building for the future, have us a little giddier now. ESPN is reporting that the trade talks are starting to swirl around again; the deal would still involve Al Jefferson, Theo Ratliff (who is the Celtics MVP based on how much everyone lusts after his expiring contract), and...
We have a confession to make: we didn't pay a lot of attention to last night's Home Run Derby. Our tolerance for Chris Berman yelling "back back back" is low. Our desire to see kayakers crashing into each other in San Francisco Bay was present, but not overwhelming. And without Papi, what's the point? So congratulations to Anaheim's Vlad Guerrero, who won the Derby, despite the fact that no home runs landed in the huge...
Weren't we told that losing the Lottery wasn't a big deal? Since this was the most loaded draft in years, the story went, the Celtics would happily grab a good player with the #5 pick that would complement Paul Pierce and the burgeoning youth movement, and join in on the team that would compete soon and for years to come. Yeah; not so much. Like a rube on a carnival midway, Danny Ainge fell for...
The nailbiting, the pacing, the swearing, the chainsmoking - they all end tonight. Except maybe at Tommy Heinsohn's house. Tonight, we find out the next step in the Celtics' drive back to relevance. Will Danny Ainge swing one of the deals we've heard about? Will we be welcoming Kevin Garnett (no way), Shawn Marion (probably not), Dikembe Mutombo (possible) or Bill Telfair? Or will Danny stand pat and actually use his #5 pick to draft...
Harry Doyle and the Friends of the Feathered are breathing a sigh of relief this morning. After two losses at Fenway, Chief Wahoo's Tribe turned on the juice Wednesday night, pounding out a season-high 18 hits and smacking the Sox 8-4. Boston gave Daisuke a 2-0 lead after four innings, but Dice had been living dangerously all along, and Cleveland finally started to make him pay. And pay and pay. The Indians score two in...
So, the Celtics have been drooling over Kevin Durant, but, if they play badly enough, they might have another juicy prospect option - Glen "Big Baby" Davis of LSU is foregoing his senior year to join the pros. "Big Baby" is big indeed and sends visions of Shaq dancing in coaches heads. Danny Ainge may have put himself under house arrest to make sure he doesn't get too close to Davis' mother. Danny Ainge also...