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Boston police rounded up 14 alleged drug dealers on Friday in a warrant sweep near the area of Bowdoin Street, Geneva Avenue, and Olney Street in Dorchester as part of "Operation Independence." An additional four suspects were arrested earlier in the week. Police were responding to a series of shootings in that area since the summer. Police said the suspects have prior records that include drug and gun charges. Eleven suspects were arraigned yesterday, one on a federal warrant. BPDnews.com lists the suspects names. Mayor Tom Menino said the BPD won't allow criminals to "terrorize our community." [Globe] more ›

September of 2011 will be one to remember for Red Sox fans. And after a gag-filled 5-16 month to date, that bad taste in your mouth won't make for a good memory. We've had errors, bad pitching and non-existent offense, at times, from a highly regarded and well paid team that should be better than they are. They might not be as good as the 20-6 July team, but, 5-16? Really? That brings us to today and the first of three games in New York against the Yankees, who just clinched the A.L. East. If these Red Sox can't find their best with three almost must-win games against those guys then they don't deserve a playoff spot. They're going to have to earn it this year as the Tampa Bay Rays are now two games back in the Wild Card. And the Angels are looming, too. Leave it all on the field, guys. Theo Epstein is doing that in the front office by almost trading for Mets pitcher and Springfield's Chris Capuano, apparently for one start. more ›

The family of 17 month old Gabriel Josh-Cazir Pierre, the child found dead in a daycare transport van on Mondsy on Floyd Street in Dorchester is grieving. His mother, Virginia Cazir, said she is "heartbroken" and is in an "unimaginable circumstance." [Boston Herald] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

Manny Ramirez was released from jail on a $2,500 bond after he was arrested on Monday for allegedly hitting his wife. He was charged with misdemeanor battery in the first degree after his wife said Ramirez "struck her in the left side of the face with an open hand causing her to hit her head against the headboard of the bed." Ramirez said he grabbed his wife by the shoulders and when he shook her her head hit the headboard. TMZ has posted the 911 call Juliana Ramirez made to report the incident. It's remarkably calm. Ramirez, 39, is barred from contacting her. more ›

Manny Ramirez was reportedly arrested tonight around 7 p.m. at his Weston, Florida home. TMZ reported he was arrested on domestic violence charges and removed from his home in handcuffs by the Broward County Sheriff's office. Witnesses allegedly said Ramirez had an altercation with his wife, Juliana. He was taken to Broward Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale. Ramirez was listed under arrest number 361100147. All charges alleged until proven under law. [TMZ] more ›

The Red Sox stopped a two-game losing streak with a powerful display and a 5-4 win over the Yankees. Clay Buchholz (4-3) showed off his 17-win, 2010 form by pitching seven innings and allowing just two runs on five hits. He had seven strikeouts. more ›

According to NESN and the Boston Globe, Manny Ramirez is retiring. Right now. Manny was 1-17 (0.59) in five games for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2011. Heidi Watney reported on NESN that Ramirez was informed of some drug-related issue recently by the MLB. more ›

The 2011 agrees with the Boston Celtics. The guys in green are 9-2 in January after taking their fifth straight win last night from the Utah Jazz, 110-86. more ›

Scoring two runs a day isn't any way for a team clinging by their fingernails to the pennant race to vault themselves back into the contention. Especially if it takes 18 innings to score them. The Red Sox lost 3-1 to the White Sox yesterday afternoon, then went back to work at night and lost 3-1 again. Even with Tampa Bay losing, the Sox still lost ground, and their tragic number is down to 20. more ›

Hurricane Earl has spoken. The Red Sox listened, and Friday's game with the White Sox was, literally, washed away. The reunion with Manny Ramirez is moved to Saturday in the form of a day-night doubleheader with games at 1:05 p.m. and 7:10 p.m. Friday's tickets are good for 1:05 p.m. more ›

Is September going to turn into one long Monty Python skit for the Red Sox? Is it going to be one long month of the fans/media/Rays/Yankees trying to claim they're dead, only to be met at every turn with "it's just a flesh wound" or "we're getting better"? Well, we love Monty Python, so bring it on. more ›

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You can go ahead and shave today after all, Sox fans. Johnny Damon "love[s] Detroit", and isn't taking a midnight train going anywhere. So says the once-beloved outfielder, who's off the waiver wire after rejecting the prospect of a deal that would have brought him to Fenway for the rest of 2010. Maybe it's better that our emotions aren't jerked around so much in an already-weird season. Now we just wait to see if there's a Manny Ramirez derby in the days to come... more ›

What are the chances that the Red Sox just realized people actually would be watching last night so they gave us a performance worth watching? Or, maybe we simply needed to see a team from Los Angeles lose because of, well, you saw it Thursday. Perhaps it was Manny Ramirez finally coming to see us. It really makes no difference to us because Friday's 10-6 (it wasn't that close) rout gave us a lot to discuss, like... more ›

-- A day's worth of St. Paddy's Day tweets: "Lost track of number of drinks. Going to secondary measurements of facial numbness." [Happy Wakko’s World] more ›

Scott Brown may love kids' movies, but Manny Ramirez has more manly interests: selling poosie. The baseball star is reportedly endorsing an energy drink called Sum Poosie (kinda NSFW). Besides being rather offensively named and marketed (seriously, don't look at that website unless you want to be grossed out), it is also not a certified supplement. It apparently tastes like cherry cream soda, and each bottle features a special "bottle model" (yes, you too can apply to be a bottle model). But does it come with an iPad? [Deadspin] more ›

-- The Kells is closing, and someone made a valid argument to keep it open: "I'd rather have a place like the kells there to keep everyone who wants to go to a place like that in one spot." [lemmingtrail] more ›

Before ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons became one of these most popular sports columnist in the country he was simply known as “The Boston Sports Guy” writing for Digital City Boston (what Bill has described as “AOL’s digital newspaper”). More than a decade later, the Holy Cross/Boston University alum has ventured beyond the sports column and into television; as a former writer for "Jimmy Kimmel Live", documentaries; as executive producer of ESPN’s 30 For 30 series and books; his latest The Book of Basketball just hit shelves this week. more ›

Manny vs. Pedro. Two guys we loved while they were here (well, maybe not the last month or two or eighteen of Manny, your mileage may vary), who helped us out a lot in 2004, and stuck around long enough to pose for some goofy pictures. more ›

It's exactly what we didn't want to hear: The New York Times says that two of the names on that mysterious 2003 list of baseball players who tested positive for PEDs were our big sluggers, Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. We know, of course, that Manny just served a 50-game suspension in L.A. for being caught with something; we'd never heard anything about Ortiz other than blanket suspicion and whispers. This isn't good, though. more ›

In 1991, Phillies outfielder Lenny Dykstra was told that his team had just traded Von Hayes to the Angels. "Great trade," said Dykstra. "Who did we get?" Well, the answer to the 2009 Red Sox version of that is Chris Duncan, the former Cardinals outfielder who now will be thought of, whatever happens, as the Lowe/Varitek to Julio Lugo's Heathcliff Slocumb. Lugo is going to St. Louis, which we like to think of as payback for the Cardinals' foisting Edgar Renteria on us (via free agency, admittedly) and starting the downward spiral of Fenway shortstopdom. more ›

It's been about three months since the All-Star game, right? And about 12 years since the Royals left Fenway. Time stretches out endlessly when there are no Red Sox games. Tonight, see how many Sox players you still remember when they face the Blue Jays to begin the second half of the season. Clay Buchholz will get the start and the opportunity to impress Terry Francona (another no-hitter might not be a bad idea) and force himself into the discussion of how the Sox will arrange their rotation the rest of the way. more ›

Wakefield's been pitching out of his mind. Penny and Lester have been good, for the most part, but not great. Smoltz is still a giant question mark. Dice-K seems to have been rightly sent on the "Julio Lugo Not-Really-Injured Tour Of The World". The one constant, with apologies to Terence Mann, is Josh Beckett. more ›

The Sox are home, everyone's pumped for the Fourth of July, the weather is finally something not to be suicidal about...everything's great. Except that the Sox can't seem to beat Seattle. more ›

The Red Sox staff had no answers for the bottom of Seattle's order as Rob Johnson and Ronny Cedeno combined to go 5-10 with five RBI in a 7-6 Sox loss in 11 innings. Johnson's two-run double in the 11th inning was the deciding hit in the game. Ramon Ramirez took the loss. more ›

• DCist was shocked when a local newscaster threatened a gay blogger on live TV while they were discussing Kirby Dick's new film, Outrage, a documentary about outing closeted politicians who fight against marriage equality legislation.
• Shanghaiist knocked-off that super pretentious piece on bike culture by the New York Times by showing its own counterfeit bike style.
• Seattlest, staring at a week full of rain, started hunting for cheap flights to LA.

We're not going to talk too much more about yesterday's big news. Bill Simmons gets really sad, and Dan Shaughnessy must be trapped under something; it's the only explanation why he's not on Page One and all over this. The Red Sox react. Other than that, let's move on until the news breaks that Manny actually was trying to get pregnant. more ›

Yes, it certainly is "odd day": 5/7/09 is one of only six days this century that will have three consecutive odd numbers in the date. Most of the rest of the world has to wait until July 5 to be super excited. Meanwhile, steroids charges against another odd number are just making this day even more strange. more ›