Really not long to go now before the big trip begins.
Finally finished a detailed itinerary (which I’ll post on the site first chance I get).
Nerves are getting the better of me a little, especially with all the recent airport terrorist activity. Plus my mate Paul (a seasoned world traveller and currently shitting himself in Jordan) […]

To be honest… this season is over. As Sox fans go I’m one of the few real optimists. Down five in the ninth it’s not really over while we still have one out remaining and the season wont end for us until the players are bathing on a beach somewhere and the Yanks and Mets […]

And just like that the Sox lose two to the Yankees.
I say just like that but these were long games, and as a day night doubleheader god alone knows how the teams survive. Poor pitching lost us the first game but Hinske impressed on his debut with three doubles. I caught most of the game […]

… I got out the old viewing chair and settled in for Detroit vs Boston part 2. Now, you see the mistake I made?
A tight game in the end but only because King Curt (back to something like form) kept them off the board.
The offence was once again woeful and if they don’t start firing […]

It seems that the torments of a stress related illness never ends.
After a few days of clicking jaws, I managed to pop the right side out of kilter yesterday and have been in agony ever since. I can’t open my mouth too far which makes eating rather problematic.
Did a little self diagnosis on the net […]

After turning around some disastrous performances with a sweep against Baltimore, the Sox returned to losing ways with a defeat in the 3 game opener against Detroit.
Beckett was the most hit and miss I’ve seen him all season giving up 5 runs in the first three innings and a deficit the Sox could never make […]

After a terrible road trip, the Red Sox return to Boston, the green of Fenway, and the Faithful. And all three were rewarded with an unrecogniseable performance by the home town team.
Having lost 5 in a row against weak opposition, the Sox finally stuck another digit in the win column behind a much improved David […]

It is starting to look like fate is planning either a nasty or nice surprise for me. For those that read these posts you’ll know that I head to Boston in a little over a month to catch 3 Red Sox games against the Twins. The hope was that by that stage of the season […]

Thanks to our Muslim cousins the UK air business is thrown into chaos as all flights in and out of Heathrow are grounded following numerous terrorist arrests in regards to a bomb plot.
Apparently plans were afoot to smuggle liquid explosives onto 10 planes destined from the UK to the USA and to blow them up […]

I have finally (after months of vascillating) begun my hand bookbinding adventure. Bought some very snazzy (and may I say very expensive) paper from the stationers today and am busy printing out the first signature as I type.
It took a day of slaving and wasted paper to get to grips with printing the text but […]

It is all going… (see above).
Tampa Bay pulled a ‘Boston’ with a walk off win at the death and the Sox fall 2 behind the Yanks and a 1/2 game back in the Wild Card. I am feeling a growing sense of pessimism…

Well the season is certainly getting down to the nitty gritty now and the Sox find themselves a game back in second place (still holding a half game lead in the wild card but it’s bitten fingernails time).
Two tight games and a 50/50 split. A 7 to 6 loss to the Indians at Fenway and […]

Another day, another trip to the well. Ortiz smacks another walkoff homer and wins the game against the Tribe. Back to winning ways and back to a game up on the Yanks. Hoorah.

The Sox returned to Five the other night and I had the dubious honour of watching King Curt implode on a decent telly. Taken out after five things didn’t get much better for the relievers as the Sox fell 10 to 4 to the Angel’s. After his heroics of the night before, all eyes were […]