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Red Sox Through the Month of March

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       The Boston Red Sox started off their 2025 regular season campaign on March 27th against the 2023 World Series Champion Texas Rangers. The Sox had lofty expectations headed into the Regular Season. Notable additions being super star left handed pitcher Garret Crochet, 2 time World Series champion Walker Buehler and Houston Astros super star 3rrd baseman Alex Bregman.     The Boston Red Sox put up a fantastic showing on opening day with a 5 inning performance from Garret Crochet giving up 2 earned and 5 hits. Not the strongest but with Garret Whitlock in the rotation the Red Sox were able to weather the Ranger offense until the dynamic duo of Kristian Campbell and Wilyer Abreu showed up and showed out. Kampbell in the late innings came up huge with competitive at bats leading to his first base hit and and set up walk. Abreu made the noise on opening night with a pair of homer runs including the game winner in the 8th inning.     While opening...
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Week 1 Pats/Bengals

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          The NFL season has kicked off with the New England Patriots heading into the Jungle, Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati Ohio. The Patriots started the week as the biggest underdog in the slate of NFL games this week. I am no gambler but to the loyal Foxboro faithful, congratulations on cashing in on a major upset. Yes the New England Patriots coming off a 4-13 season went into Paycor and upset the 2022 AFC Championship winner,     Honestly the absence of Mac Jones under center cannot be understated. Jacoby Brissett is not behind the best offensive line in the league. Most would argue that on paper they are one of if not THE worst unit in the league. Brissett under pressure made some clutch throws. Hanging in the pocket and making some big time throws to players such as Austin Hooper who led the team in receiving guards with 31 yards. Along with Tyquan Thornton and KJ Osborne who went for 27 and 21 yards respectively. The offense undoubtedly ha...
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The Biggest mismatch in the 2024 NBA Finals

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            Writing to you today on Wednesday June 10th 1 day after game 2 of the NBA Finals where Boston leads the series 2-0 taking both games in TD garden and are headed to Dallas to potentially sweep the Dallas Mavericks and take the Larry O'Brien Trophy as 2024 NBA Champions.       Biggest takeaways following game 2 of the NBA Finals are... the Celtics ability to get scoring contributions from all of their players. A very balanced scoring threat coming from Porzingis in a big way through game 1. Along with Holiday in game 2 with the game of his life giving the Celtics 26 points last night. The Celtics scoring is coming from all of their players there are 6 different players on the depth chart that can drop 20 points. If the team plays to  the open man it can become almost impossible to defend.       The second point is the Dallas Mavericks play the exact opposite style on offense. Jason Kidd's plan for ...
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The Stage is Set Boston VS Dallas

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            Concluding game 5 of the 2024 Western Conference final the Dallas Mavericks completed the gentleman sweep of the Minnesota Timberwolves with a final score of 124-103. Dallas advances to the NBA finals to face the Boston Celtics.      Boston had a 5 game series against the Miami Heat, a 5 game series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, followed by a 4 game sweep of the Indiana Pacers. The narrative surrounding Boston's Finals run is mediocre competition with injured stars. The Heat without Butler. The Cavs without Mitchell, and the Pacers without Haliburton. People will place this label on the finals run and in the same breath say the regular season doesn't matter.      The Boston Celtics were an absolute wagon during the regular season with a whopping 64-18 during the regular season, giving them the best record in the NBA the number 1 seed, homecourt through the whole playoffs and of course the weakest competition...
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The Patriots need a Quarterback

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            The NFL Draft is 21 days away! This has been the day that Patriots nation has been waiting for since likely week 5 of the 2024 NFL Season. Yes the Patriots have been out of it for a while and aside from young talents Christian Gonzales and Demario Douglas the New England Patriots have lacked the pure thoroughbred that will sell the fanbase on the future of the Franchise. The Patriots lack the Franchise player the Pat Mahomes and the Chiefs, Allen and the Bills, Burrow and the Bengals even Lawrence with the Jaguars. The Patriots have nobody and the fans have been starving for a long time following the eventual bust of 1st round selection QB Mac Jones.       The Patriots need a Quarterback... that is the reality of all the teams selecting at the top of the draft. The Bears are no doubt taking Caleb Williams at number 1 overall. Washington and New England get to decide who goes at 2 & 3 between Jayden Daniels from LSU, ...
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Full Throttle

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          On November 2nd, 2023 Red Sox Chairman, Tom Werner vowed the Red Sox would go full throttle in the offseason to improve the ball club for the 2024 season. The Sox have done anything but this during this offseason with cutting payroll to an already last place finishing team. The Red Sox signed Lucas Giolitto to a one year deal with an option in year 2. They traded Chris Sale to the Atlanta Braves for a 2nd base prospect Vaughn Grissom and have missed out on mega stars Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, along with of course, kicking the leader of the lockeroom Justin Turner to the curb after the amazing year he put up for the team last year.      The largest concerns to address in this off season was the Red Sox needed quality starting pitching and a right handed bat. Either through free agency or through trade these issues needed to be addressed. The Six had no pitching coming from Worcester along with losing...
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The (scape)Goat

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       On January 11th it was official, Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick had parted ways, after a crash course of a rebuild post Tom Brady, Belichick and the Patriots had made the playoffs in 2021, had an 8-9 season in 2022 followed by a dismal 4-13 season in 2023.     What it comes down to is the "optics" surrounding Robert Kraft and the New England Patriots post departure of Tom Brady. This article is not here to absolve complete blame from Bill Belichick. There were mistakes he made over the years. Rather to take a hard look at the owner Robert Kraft and what happens with owners who meddle with the operation and attempt to make the entire sequence all about them.      There was serious controversy regarding Tom Brady and his contract situation in 2019. The Kraft's  through revisionist history in an article to the Boston Herald, stated that they removed the franchise tag from Tom Brady and the structure of his deal in ord...
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