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Curt Shilling has a lot of things going for him. The bloody sock has been auctioned off, he's tossing down in Fort Myers and seems to be ready for another season in good health. He's crusading for support of a cure for ALS and working with his wife Shonda and her SHADE foundation – but all work is not charity. Of course he's still a star pitcher for the Olde Towne Team but he's also out for some endorsements. The latest endorsement deal we've heard of is a partnership with TomTom the GPS navigation device. Number 38 is providing a voice behind the directions to augment your collection of friendly Brits, NYC cabbies, "the don," and a host of regular American spoken people that can be your new best friend while trying to get from point A to point B in the car. Curt joins the cast available for a $12.95 download to personalize your navigation device.

More standing room "seats" at Fenway are a fitting addition after the 2006 season. In 2004 the curse was broken. The oldest and smallest MLB park was outfitted with a new drainage system. In 2005 when the boys failed to repeat the 2004 feat the season was followed by a overhaul of the .406 club creating the open air posh seating now called the EMC club for a corporate sponsor (rather than to honor Ted...

Believe it or not, its hot stove time, and that means time to start talking about the 2007 iteration of the Olde Towne Team.

It's only a couple games before the Red Sox 2006 season wraps up. Unfortunately the playoffs aren't in the cards for the Olde Towne Team this year. We're taking a trip not so far down memory lane just a few years ago when our friends at Fenway overcame. A number of late night, long on inning games finally vindicated 86 years of believing. We believe.

Tonight the Boston Landmarks Orchestra takes stage at the Boston Common Parkman Bandstand to present Lifting the Curse: A Story of the Red Sox composed by Josh Wachner and story by Bill Littlefield. Littlefield hosts the nationally syndicated, locally produced, show Only A Game on NPR and offers regular limericks during 'BUR pledge drives. The performance of the piece is another composition inspired by the lifting of the 86-year curse on the Olde Towne Team. Today's video presents a slideshow montage set to a tune based on the Hurricane Smith song Oh Babe, What Would You Say? focused on the source of the curse. It's Monday. Listen up.

The Red Sox continue to steal our hearts and build our confidence. Last night's 12 inning win over the Phillies rounded out a sweep of the series and extended the winning streak to nine. Tonight the Olde Towne Team faces the Mets for more inter-league play. In the overall standings the Sox go into the competition one game back from the Mets – who follow only the Tigers and the White Sox in the overall...

Sunday the Red Sox saw the turnstiles click past 1 million so far this season. The pace is record setting for crowds at Fenway. This year capacity rests slightly above last years number, allowing for the fastest millionth fan to visit Fenway in years past. It was their 28th home bout, just after a walk-off Ortiz home-run to end their 27th. By some sketchy math attendance looks to be about 36,250 per game. Recently bloggers and professional sports writers have opined for the days when the average Joe Boston could a) get tickets to Fenway Park to see the Sox play and b) pay a reasonable price for said tickets. There are certainly some expensive seats, and it's unlikely that they'll be declining anytime in the near future. Business savvy of owner John Henry won't allow for it.

Tonight the Red Sox are back home at Fenway for a three game series against the Yankees. They're ahead of the Yanks by a game and a half in the division. When playing the team you're on top of we all know it’s a good chance to lose ground fast or break away in a hurry. But we're riding high until the first pitch tonight. The Olde Towne Team will still be on top of the leader board out in left field for the rest of the day, guaranteed. And, we still feel like we've got the world champs, even if it's been a whole season. In order to take tonight's game and the next few in the series without a severe (and crippling) strut we're going to look back at Game 6. Yes the infamous Game 6 – played in it's entirety on RBI-Baseball for the NES. Sure it's when we fell to the Mets, but it'll help keep our ego in check as we watch the Red Sox take the field against the Yankees.

Yesterday the employees of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum were steps away from the Red Sox and Fenway Park when the first pitch was thrown at home for the Sox’s 2006 season. Long noted as a rather eccentric, er, crazy woman Isabella Stewart Gardner did have one thing right – a passion for the Olde Towne Team. After sporting a white headband with the words “Oh you Red Sox” written in red lettering to a BSO concert at Symphony Hall (audacity in 1912, today we seem to see folks with Red Sox hats pretty much every time we go to Symphony Hall – so much for fancy dress) Town Topics had this to say:

It looks as if the woman had gone crazy. With this band bound like a fillet around her auburn hair, she appeared in her conspicuous seat at a recent Saturday night Symphony Concert, almost causing a panic among those in the audience who discovered the ornamentation, and even for a moment upsetting Dr. Muck's men so that their startled eyes wandered from their music stands.

For our friends in Florida it will be the first time that Red Sox fans get to broadcast sounds of discontent as they “boo” when Johnny Damon takes the outfield with his clean-shaven, closely shorn, new look in a Yankee uniform. We’re sure it will be a lot louder when the Yanks come to Fenway in May. We’re showing our solidarity with the Olde Towne Team today as they face the Yankees in a spring training game that really doesn’t matter – at least that’s what we’ll be saying if they lose, if they win we might take more of the “we showed them” attitude. For now we’re just enjoying this video of a Yankees hat aflame on the grill.

But, if Bostonist is a true Sox fan, you had to be wondering last night and this morning if Mr. Ramirez was going to show his smiling mug today at Spring Training. On the T, this Bostonist hadn't seen a newspaper or the Internet, so there was a bit of pondering as whether or not Manny was going to be more of a pain in the crack than usual, but alas, here he is, laughing it up, joking with teammates, and pointing at people already and everything.

Theo Epstein, the "Once and Future King" of the Red Sox front office, is now officially back on board with the team in a full-time role to be determined. Bostonist doesn't care if he's part of the clubhouse cleaning crew; it’s good to have Theo Epstein, the man that built three straight playoff appearances and the 2004 World Series win, back in a full capacity helping the Red Sox become a better squad and getting the boys of summer ready for 2006.

The Olde Towne Team has yet ANOTHER problem... and this one is big! The Sox are now going into litigation in order to keep the baseball that was used to get the final out of the 2004 World Series when Edgar Renteria (yep, that Edgar Renteria), then of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit a chopper up the middle that was snagged by Keith Foulke, and flipped to first baseman Doug Meintkiewicz to give the...

The Olde Towne Team, which in recent months has been in GM hell, has finally begun wheeling and dealing this off-season in preparations for the 2006 campaign.

On the eve of Rivalry Weekend, a Bostonist favorite, the tilt and the rest of college football, the Sox have announced some RIVETING news to their legions of fandom. Al Nipper, old Sox pitcher known best for his headbutt he gave Roger Clemens a couple hours after the Olde Towne Team clinched the AL East in '86, will serve as bullpen coach to the Sox in the 2006 season. Al Nipper is "...very excited,...

As of this morning, the Boston Red Sox and their prodigy General Manager Theo Epstein still had not yet agreed on a contract extension for the 31-year old baseball prodigy.

Nomar Garciaparra, former sox shortstop and local sports icon, was reported to have saved two women from drowning after they fell into Boston Harbor late last week. Without bringing an entourage with him for the rescue (like some people we know) the story is only breaking now, thank you Inside Track ladies.

If you're a moderate to die-hard Red Sox fan you no doubt visit BostonDirtDogs.com on a regular basis. If you've been paying attention to the site through this still-young spring training you've read the comment from Nomar Garciaparra, after being asked about the championship ring he would getting for his participation last season, supposedly said "I don't want it. They can keep it." Ouch, Nomah! It gets a little more messy — the folks...