Lenny DiNardo

On behalf of Boston Red Thoughts, and from all of us at NEPABlogs, may your holiday be filled with peace, love, happiness, and light… Happy Hannukah Merry Solstice Blessed Yule Merry Christmas Happy Boxing Day and Happy Qwanzaa May the Red Sox 2010 campaign be filled with wonderful pitching, great defense, big bats, and a 3rd World Series Ring…:-D Enjoy your holiday! Be well…. Christine [...]  

Whispers wandered around the web earlier this week that the New York Yankees had called the Chicago Cubs to inquire about the availability of the Cubs' ace, Carlos Zambrano. A lot has been written already about that potential marriage, so I won't waste a lot of space on it other than to mention it as a foundation for the discussion I'm about to begin. Who hates the Yankees? Okay, everyone outside of New York. But the hatred is especially deep...  

DiamondView: 2009 Boston Red Sox - Beyond the Box Score From one of the best blogs in the SB Nation family comes DiamondView Composite. If you haven't seen this yet, go now. Go. Tommy from Beyond the Box Score breaks down the Red Sox's starters -- graphically! -- in four areas: power, on base, fielding and base running. The results are pretty interesting. (And yes, Jason Varitek is quite bad.)  

added link for BU ← Previous revision Revision as of 15:27, 22 December 2009 Line 23: Line 23: '''Fenway Park''' is a [[baseball park]] near [[Kenmore Square (Boston)|Kenmore Square]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the [[Boston Red Sox]] [[baseball]] club since it opened in 1912, and is the oldest [[Major League Baseball]] [[stadium...  

Hundreds of Marines will be visiting Boston in May, and at least some of them will likely appear at a big Red Sox-Yankees series at Fenway Park. APA welcome sight: David Ortiz homers against the Yankees at Fenway Park. It isn't everyday that my two professional worlds collide, but man, they sure do this time. Marine Corps sources at the Pentagon that I interviewed for my day job at Military Times tell me that they plan to have...  

My thanks go out to OVER THE MONSTER. They are great guys and great news gathering members of Red Sox Nation. In my last post I mentioned this...how could the Boston Red Sox NOT know about the right thumb injury to Mike Lowell? Well, it turns out they did and maybe were trying to pull a fast one over the Texas Rangers. Here's Mikey..."I was in constant and open communication about my thumb situation from the moment it happened to every week...  

After scalpers scooped up scores of free tickets Saturday to skate at Fenway Park, effectively ruining the opportunity for a long waiting list of families, the city vowed yesterday to block as many illegal sales as possible of the complimentary passes.  

Boston Red Sox captain Jason Varitek took a couple laps around Fenway Park's ice rink with Bobby Orr. Believe me, he's much more at home with a glove on his left hand than skates on his feet, but he made it and answered some questions from the gathered media. He was asked about his new captain's role for the Red Sox...“Just seeing it in a different role and seeing how my body adapts to maybe the less pounding, the less physical grind, that...  

If you’ve ever gone to see your local minor league team, you know what a great sport ice hockey is to watch in person. Now imagine watching an NHL game, but instead of the heat blowing from the rafters, you’re sitting outside in Boston in January. Sounds like paradise, right? Well, that’s what many fans are looking forward to as they welcome 2010 in Fenway Park at the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on January 1. For the last few years...  

Captain Zdeno Chara grew up in rural Trencin, Slovakia playing outdoor hockey on the Vah River. For Chara, those are cherished memories that he expects to come flooding back through his heart and mind when he steps on the ice at Fenway Park for the ...  

More photos » by Lenny Ignelzi - AP about 1 month ago: Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher John Lackey throws against the New York Yankees during the first inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship baseball series Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi...  

Via the Boston Herald – Fenway Park has lost its grip on first place to Yankee Stadium, according to a new survey. Readers of SportsBusiness Journal gave top honors to the Bronx Bombers’ $1.5 billion baseball stadium that opened in April. Friendly Fenway finished second, followed by the Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field, Philadelphia Phillies’ Citizens Bank [...]  

It was a rather busy and important December Thursday for the Boston Red Sox. They signed shortstop Marco Scutaro to a two year deal with an option for a third, negating the need for Dustin "Pedey" Pedroia to move to his left and handle that position. The deal is pending a physical. In 2009 he hit .282 with 12 homers, 60 RBIs, 100 runs scored and 35 doubles, all career highs. Here's Marco talking about his late season plantar fasciitis foot...  

Now that the Cubs' first choice, Mike Cameron, has been signed by the Boston Red Sox, it appears that former Ranger Marlon Byrd is the target of choice for GM Jim Hendry in his ongoing search for a center fielder. The caveat, of course, is that Hendry has to move Milton Bradley before he can add payroll, so signing Byrd is no sure thing. By the time some team agrees to pay even $2 million of the $21 million owed Bradley, Byrd may be gone. Or...  

Last week, I wrote about the Boston Red Sox’s offseason needs. One of the main areas covered was the shortstop position, which has been a revolving door for the Red Sox since Nomar Garciaparra was traded to the Chicago Cubs back in 2004. When I wrote the article, it seemed likely that the club would bring [...]