Tossing batting practice while wondering just how much Evan Longoria paid John Henry to own the Red Sox for the remainder of his career….

Watching Dwight Howard, must be like watching Wilt Chamberlain when he first came onto the scene, and the NBA had no rule for goaltending. Because it sure seems like said rule is not applied one bit in this series.
Well I saw it called finally once on a Rondo layup. It looked like Howard had the Lebron/Kobe look on his; all that was missing was the Moe Green soundbite “Do you know who I am?”

How come there wasn’t a Major League Baseball representative standing at home plate with an empty plastic cup after A-Roid hit his homer?

Is Jason Bay Canadian for Pedro Cerano? Straight ball he hit very much, but Bay no like curveball.
Regardless if the rest of the American League is going to keep throwing it to him, I will enjoy watching it.

My only thought on Manny is this; the revelation taints nothing as far as I’m concerned. If anyone really thought they were totally clean they’re just stupid.
If I wanted to put my blinders totally on I could buy the idea that he only started taking them after he had a sub par 2007 and knew he’d

When Steve Levy asked what has gotten into Johnny Damon on sportscenter the other day I couldn’t help but wonder either, A-rod’s or Pettite’s training regimen.

Hats off to Aubrey Huff for the hilarious fistpump after homering off of Joba the other day. And I am than ok with someone doing it to Papelbon in the future.

Speaking of the future I'm excited for the Sidd Finch era, er rather Daniel Bard. It should be fun to just watch someone throw it 100 miles an hour over and over again.

I have welcomed the Bruins back into my life as the regular season ended and the playoffs began, but like a family member welcoming home a child from rehab, I wasn’t totally sold. I’ve heard plenty of times, that things were going to be different this time and they had a new outlook and well here we watching them make the same spectacular failures of teams past.

As I watched the first period Friday night I saw the B’s come out flying, controlling play, but they hit a post, failed on a power play, and then gave up a crushing shorthanded goal. It was then I remembered I had seen this movie before, about 100 times during my childhood when I was a budding hockey star, and the B’s were a close second to the Sox in my allegiance.
But much like my childhood, I eventually got sick of watching Home Alone, and the Sandlot on a regular basis so I quickly turned my attention to the Caps/Pens game instead.

The Caps/Pens series has been phenomenal. It seems every time I change the channel and then come back someone has scored, it’s like watching the hockey equivalent of the Phoenix Suns playing each other. Fast break hockey with an edge, this is why I fell in love with the sport as a kid. It’s too bad the strike, lockout, and neutral zone trap destroyed the sport’s popularity.
It doesn’t help that ESPN is no longer covering it, leaving the worldwide leader was the dumbest business decision they could have ever made.

It was kind of funny to see a Bruins highlight from the late 90s that included a goal from Anson Carter. Whatever happened to him? On a side note I heard Mike Grier is still on an NHL roster this year. I think David Ortiz needs to get on his aging plan.

Is this the 2005 season? Because Anthony Johnson is dominating the Celtics like Gary Payton and Marcus Banks were manning the point.
In perusing basketball reference to look at the 2005 Celtics, I discovered that Rick Fox was the seventh highest paid player on the team that year, despite having not played an NBA game in two years, or played for the C’s in eight years.
The NBA where payment for services not rendered happens.

Stan Van Gundy says a lot of stupid things but when he admonished a reporter for using a war analogy to describe his team’s game recently I applauded him.
It’s sports journalism 101 never, compare a game to war, particularly if a war is going on, and while we all do it in our casual conversation reporters should know better, and deserve to be called to the carpet when it happens.
I’ve done it, and if someone called me out I’d sit there and take it. I’ve been frustrated when coaches have said that to me, and I always cut that quote even if it meant having a story with no quotes.
Today’s journalism rant is now complete.

Alas I refuse to believe the Celtics could lose a playoff series to a team who once coached UMass-Lowell and Castleton St.

B’s and C’s tonight in must wins for each. Even though the Celtics aren’t facing elimination the team that wins game 5 is like an 87 percent winner for the series, so I say it’s must win at home. They’ve displayed the heart of a champion when they’ve had to this postseason, and I expect nothing less tonight.
The building should be rocking, but they need Ray Allen to step up a little bit more, and get another big effort from Rondo, who has stood around on the perimeter too much the last couple games just dribbling around to the end of the shot clock.
As for the Bruins, as I said earlier I've seen this movie too many times to get sucked in right away, besides it's more their MO to sucker us in during the third period or overtime before destroying us.
I welcome them home from rehab, but I'm locking all my valuables and perhaps asking them to pea in a cup before I let them near my children (or in this case my heart).