(Photo from Yahoo! Sports) Yo. What's up, Boston. Kevin "The Big KY" Youkilis here. You may not know this but I'm doing pretty well for myself this season. Hittin' home runs, makin' some pretty sweet plays at first, you know, that kind of thing. Anyway, you're all talking about Papi's knee and Manny's home run chase and all that and, you know, that's awesome and all, totally cool. But, dudes, I'm the Big KY. I am CARRYING this team. Mike Lowell - oh, I'm sorry, WORLD SERIES MVP Mike Lowell - g...

(Photo from Yahoo! Sports) Or so we tell ourselves. But, I mean, really, Paps was just reverting to the norm laid out by Sox pitchers last night since giving up 18 hits isn’t really going to get anyone a win unless the opposing hitters start playing dizzy bat in the on-deck circle and running backwards around the bases. (Which could happen if they had Manny on their team, actually). And pretty much the only thing that could have stopped Placido Polanco was some sort of kidnapping maneuver whe...

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(Photo from Yahoo! Sports) So...what's the ruling on emailing my grandmother and giving her a hard time about the Sox turning around and sweeping the Rays? Does this fall under the "dishing it out and taking it" headline? ...

(Photo from Yahoo! Sports) This is the year, people. I really think this is the year that Tim Wakefield, fresh off a game like last night's where his teammates can't even scrounge up a single run for him - despite the fact that they managed to do it in dramatic fashion the previous two evenings - just takes off and goes running naked through Kenmore Square wearing a Gatorade cooler for a hat and swinging at random passerby with a Louisville Slugger, only to finally be tackled by Boston cops whi...

(Photo from Boston.com) Seriously, man, if I'm the Blue Jays, I'm wondering exactly what kind of black magic voodoo I have to pull out of my sleeve to win games like this considering how great my pitching has been. But they don't have Jason Varitek is what. And they don't have Jason Varitek deciding that he's just going to hit it to the same place as Brandon Moss before him because he's a gambling man by nature and he'd wager a bet that Vernon Wells isn't going to throw out the lead runner at ...

(Photo from Yahoo! Sports) You guys? Jon Lester likes his coffee. And he does not like paying for it. So he developed this great plan to 1-hit the Blue Jays and make with the free coffee today, no problem. But then the Blue Jays had to go and counter with Roy Halladay with his show-offy complete games and whatever and that really screwed up Lester’s plans. Except that Kevin Youkilis also likes free coffee. And, let’s face it, he probably likes sandwiches as well. So Kevin Youkilis decided h...

(Guess that tax refund came just in time) So yesterday marked the first annual "Kristen's 86-year-old grandmother and Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays fan sends her a taunting email about the first-place Rays." And, you know, that's fun. Ignoring for a second the fact that my grandmother shit talks me about baseball which is, frankly, kind of awesome, the whole notion of the Rays and their softball uniforms actually being good at baseball is a little upsetting and disturbing and I'd prefer not to think a...

(Photo from Boston.com) I'm sorry, but that picture up there looks like puppies and sunshine and puppies frolicking in the sunshine, maybe with adorable kittens holding tiny teddy bears saying "I love you beary much!" on their tummies or something. That is how adorable that picture is. Justin Masterson, ladies and gentlemen: Better than Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl. And seeing as how Dunkin' Donuts is still running their free coffee or tea promotion (with purchase, naturally) the day after the S...

(Photo, and lots more like it, from here) So that is apparently a picture of Craig Hansen accepting a check for taking second prize in the Professional Baseball Gamers League, er, tournament. Or something. The league in which Johnny Damon evidently serves as commissioner and players routinely square off against Snoop Dogg. I am so not kidding. (Check out the site for additional pictures). And yeah, absolutely none of that surprises me. Craig Hansen's waaay into video games? Sure. Craig Hansen w...

...or the things that impress me this morning. First of all, Abby ran the marathon. Like, the whole thing. All of it. And while that is certainly impressive enough on it's own, she did it while raising boatloads of money for Dana Farber which is obviously beyond awesome. And when Amy and I saw her around mile 23, she didn't even look like she was wishing for the earth to open up and swallow her whole which is really something. Between Abby and Katherine - who ran the Nike Women's Marathon in San...

(Photo from Yahoo! Sports) Let me get this straight. There's a robotic camera on the Red Sox bench AT ALL TIMES? And we didn't know this? It's apparently operated by some unseen and mysterious cameraperson who can move the focus all around - the better to capture Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz pelting it with sunflower seeds as during last night's game - but IT'S ALWAYS THERE? You mean to tell me that all this time we've been lamenting the fact that we don't have a dugout feed constantly running ...

(Photo from Boston.com) Several things happened yesterday to make it excellent. Stellar, even. Thing one: Manny Ramirez absolutely beating the crap out of Mike Mussina and stealing his lunch money. Just violating Yankee pitching, Manny is. It's a contract year and all that (which, I mean, it's Manny. Do you think he even knows that? Perhaps he's been clued in by his "agent" Alex Cora?) But what Ramirez is doing is just otherworldly. He is a FORCE. Thing two: Speaking of stealing lunch money, th...

(A rough approximate of Sean Casey last night) Look, there are some games where it's just better for you to go to bed. Like last night. Because you just knew that wasn't ending well. Two and a half hours into the game and it was still the fifth inning and oh my god, I'm not sure I have the stomach for that. But the way I figure it, that kind of crap is bound to happen. So we shake it off and we move on to today. And maybe we tell Clay not to wear so many necklaces next time. (We might also wan...

(The Bro and I at the Gahden) *Disclaimer* Primarily a hockey post coming. Those of you who don't know Milan Lucic from Milan Kundera can skip ahead to the end and the baseball bits. I think I finally understand the phrase, "Just happy to be here," in regards to the playoffs. You'd think I would have gotten it in 2001 with the Patriots but there has never been any kind of semblance of rationality about my football fandom. But with the Bruins, I'm a realist. So last night's Game 4 against the Mo...

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(Photo from Yahoo! Sports) I’ll be honest, when it got to be 11 o’clock last night and we were still in the fifth inning and I took my mental well-being, the length of the season and, you know, sanity into consideration, I decided to go to sleep. Doesn’t mean that when I woke up at 3 am, I didn’t check the final score. ‘Course, at the rate the game was plodding along, I wouldn’t have been at all surprised to find them still playing. But it appears that Matsuzaka did that thing he d...

(Photo from msnmedia.com) Sean Casey doesn't want you to worry about Mike Lowell. Sean Casey is gonna take care of things. He's gonna be getting hits and playing solid defense and worrying about the baseball end of things because he just wants you to have a good time. Because, after all, isn't baseball supposed to be fun? Sean Casey thinks so. Sean Casey also apparently hangs out at the Kowloon (thanks to Kim for the tip), which is AWESOME beyond words. I KNEW I picked the right Red Sox Boyfr...

(Photo from Yahoo! Sports) For once, I can sympathize with JD Drew. In that picture, he looks for all the world like someone has taken his puppy away and is simultaneously forcing him to eat lima beans and liver. Do. Not. Want. I believe is the correct phraseology. And really, while not a one of us wants the losing, what we really don’t want is the losing of our third baseman. Or should I say our WORLD SERIES MVP third baseman, Mike Lowell. Because, look, I love Sean Casey possibly more than...

(Photo from Boston.com) Okay, NOW baseball season has officially started. Unfortunately, due to work obligations, I was nowhere near either a computer or a TV yesterday so I've yet to see the entirety of the ring ceremony, not to mention the game. I was doing Harvard Centennial type things, one of which included listening to Robert and Jonathan Kraft speak and which I cannot write about because it was off the record. Suffice it to say that I want the Kraft family to adopt me. Like now. As for ...