Anybody who watches Red Sox games on NESN is familar with the box at the top of the screen that shows all the game information. However for some reason this season they are only showing the information when they use the center field camera. As soon as the ball is put into play the score box vanishes. Are they insane?The other night I was clicking back and forth between the Red Sox and Celtics game and because of this change I had to wait 20 seconds to find out the score.A have talked to a couple...

Friday night we saw Jonathan Papelbon unravel in the 9th inning against the Twins. 2 nights earlier he blew a save in Detroit. Red Sox Nation is aghast.......what is wrong??????????? The answer is obvious...........Papelbon needs Boston Police detective Billy Dunn to greet him on road games. Officer Dunn is a fixture in the Red Sox bullpen and has developed a friendship with Red Sox pitchers. So how can it be arranged that Officer Dunn is available for road games???? During college football we r...

Dan Pompei who covers the NFL for the Chicago Tribune on Friday just blasted the Boston Herald on their role in the Bill Belichick "Spygate" fiasco. He did not mince words Forget Spygate, remember how good Bill Belichick is On the day before the most recent Super Bowl, the Boston Herald ran a story stating a member of the team's video department taped the Rams' final walk-through on the day before the 2002 Super Bowl. (later in article) The Herald meanwhile, bit on a story that more responsible...

I haven't blogged for awhile simply because I was in the hospital for 10 days. On April 17th I drove up to Montreal with 3 friends for Game 5 of the Bruins-Montreal playoffs. The Bruins played their best game of the series and stayed alive to force a Game 6 in Boston 2 days later...a game I never got to see. After the game we went to a well known Montreal bar which is in the heart of 'centre-ville' called the Peel Pub. The Montreal fans were in a bad mood because their team had lost but little d...

BostonNOW bites the dust. Today was the last issue. Statement from publisher This healthy, growing 119,000-circulation daily is suddenly compelled to halt operations due to rapidly deteriorating economic conditions in Iceland where interest rates reached 15.5% Thursday, the krona, their currency, has declined over 20% against the dollar since January, and inflation is now at 8.7%.“The death of any newspaper is a sad thing,” stated CEO Russel Pergament, “but the death of a vibrant, flourish...

Megabus is now accepting orders for their new service to New York and if you hurry the first week of trips is FREEFirst date is listed as Friday May 30th ...

First at a little after 2 PM tomorrow if you see 4 F-16's zooming in formation over Cambridge heading for the Back Bay don't worry....it just means the Boston Symphony is near the end of the national anthem at Fenway Park. The boys are back in town. A friend of mine just moved to Boston and found a nice apartment in the 1100 block of Boylston and she asked me if being that close to the ballpark is going to cause her problems parking. That was 2 days ago and I am still laughing. She is going to ...

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The Bruins play their biggest game of the season on Friday night but if you have Verizon FIOS you will not see it. NESN has moved the game to other channels in the area On Comcast it will be on CN8 which is actually channel 3 which begs the question why isn't it CN3. Click here for a list of where the Bruins will be on tonight.....sorry FIOS customers The reason for the switch is the Red Sox (oh them) who finally play a game in the Eastern time zone that normal people can watch tonight. It appe...

It was announced yesterday that 30 year sports anchor and WBZ-TV will be parting ways and it is the end of an era. Steve Buckley in the Herald gives Lobel a nice sendoff.Bob almost got fired on his first night when he ran this brawl during a Bruins game and the Bruins back then said a station could not show fights. I miss his old Sports Spotlight days which used to run every Thursday night on the 11 PM newscast. He will be missed.Also shown the door was Joyce Kulhawik the long time entertainmen...

I pity any visitor to the Commonwealth whose first impression is the Lee Service Plaza on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Located 8 miles from the New York border heading eastbound it is supposed to offer full services 24 hours a day. Not exactly. Last night a group of us went out to Albany for the NCAA College Hockey playoffs. When we left Elliot Spitzer's former residence behind us there was a blinding snowstorm and we saw the aftermath of an accident on I-90 crossing the Hudson that involved at l...

We true Bostonians do not want to admit this but there is a reason the New York Post can be found at almost every newsstand in the city. We love it.I know that it's often poorly written, hypocritical, and flat-out racist, but the Post is complete fun in the morning. I can't live without it. The NY Post has now published a book that contains what they consider their best headlines. What else could they choose for a title but the most infamous headline of all The paper is also having an online v...

Yesterday I questioned the wisdom of this baseball farce that will take place Saturday night in Los Angeles involving the Red Sox. I thought I was alone in wondering if this was a good idea but turns out I was only a day early. Eric Wilbur unloaded today on Boston.com It's difficult to imagine that the Red Sox could find themselves in a land more foreign than the one they just vacated, but that will be the reality Saturday night when they (or perhaps a minor league lineup wearing Sox uniforms) t...

If you have ever spent time at the Beacon Hill Pub, The Tam, Sullivan's at North Station, Our House West in Allston or the immortal Mary Ann's at Cleveland Circle you may have come face to face with Boston's worst beer. BRUBAKER While most dive bars in the city have adopted Papst Blue Ribbon as the swill of choice the bars metioned above and a handful of others carry Brubaker. It comes from the Lion Brewery in Wilkes Barre, PA and nobody buys it because it tastes good. It is cheap and comes in...

The Red Sox now return to Spring Training mode until they resume the season on Tuesday in Oakland. The Red Sox will play 3 games in Los Angeles over the weekend but Saturday night promises to be as strange if not stranger than Toyko. They will play the Dodgers at the stadium that Los Angeles played in when they moved from Brooklyn 50 years ago. The largest crowd ever to see a baseball game is expected as over 115,000 tickets have been sold.This game is the brainchild of Dr. Charles Steinberg, ...

I wound up trying to watch the Red Sox opener at a small bar in Cambridge known as the Cellar at 991 Mass Avenue. The owners who I have known for years even promised a book signing by a local author. Wound up watching the DirecTV logo bouncing on the TV and hearing the game on radio. Even the author was smart enough to avoid the place.......... ...

Eliot Tatelman is at it again. Jordan's Furniture will bring back the free furniture promotion that they had last season but it gets a little harder this time. Now the Red Sox have to not only win the World Series...they have to SWEEP. For 2008, free furniture requires a sweep No problem... Jordan's owner can afford it...one Warren Buffet ...

Looks like Jerry Remy is in rare form The Globe has a bar updateSome bars to open early for Fenway faithfulSome Red Sox supporters will be getting up before sunrise tomorrow to watch the Sox open their season more than a dozen time zones away. (Boston Globe, 11:53 a.m.) ...

It appears now that a number of bars will be open on Tuesday morning for the Red Sox opener in Japan starting at 6 AM. Bars that we now know to be open include Game On at 82 Lansdowne St at 5:30 AM Daisy Buchanan’s at 240 Newbury at 6 AM Anchovies at 433 Columbus Avenue at 6 AM Pour House at 907 Boylston St at 8:00 AM (staff revolted) The Avenue at 1249 Commonwealth, Allston at 6 AM Cask’n Flagon at 62 Brookline Avenue at 5:30 AM Pug's Bar and Grille at 635 Cambridge St, Cambridge at 7:30 ...