Red Sox Fans Can No Longer Complain about Money

The age old excuse used by Red Sox fans in that the Yankees buy their players with exorbitant amounts of money no longer applies.
With the offseason acquisitions of top free agents Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez, the Red Sox are now not so different than the Yankees. Crawford was signed to a huge deal of 7 years and $142 million. On April 15, Gonzalez was signed months after being traded to the Red Sox in December of 2010 in order to avoid paying the MLB's luxury tax. His deal was even bigger than Crawford's at a 7 year extension worth $154 million. Next season they'll have to pay the luxury tax. I know I'm a little late, but this has bothered me and other Yankees fans for a while.

Also, in 2011 the Red Sox have the third highest payroll being behind the Phillies and the Yankees up top. The thing is that Boston has been up towards the top of the list for a while, yet for the longest time, all I've heard is that the Yankees buy their players, which is why they win all the time. In 2010 the Red Sox were at #2, in 2009 they're 4th, in 2008 they're at 4th again, in 2007 they're 2nd. As far back as 2000, the Red Sox had the seventh highest, but every year after they were in the top 4 being at the 2 spot 6 times in the past 10 years.

It's funny how that's overlooked.

However, as shown notably by the Yankees and the Mets, money doesn't buy championships. Besides, most of the Yankees now 28 World Series titles came before they were known for paying the most for a player with only 5 coming in the past two decades, but with New York City being larger than life the goal is championship or bust. To be honest, the Yankees is a franchise that has been there and done that and all that matters now is championships. They expect to win it every year.

Eric Chavez Breaks His Foot

On Thursday while running out his RBI triple in the fourth inning, Eric Chavez broke his left foot in the Yankees' loss against the Detroit Tigers. He was filling in for Alex Rodriguez that game, which has given the aging slugger the chance to rest some days and also was a very competent replacement for that short stint Arod was injured.

Chavez will be fitted with a boot to wear for 2 weeks and then will be re-evaluated. He'll be out for 4-6 weeks, possibly longer.

Unfortunatley for the Yankees this injury means that Girardi can't give Rodriguez as many days off to keep him at 100%. Ramiro Pena, was called up from AAA to fill Chavez's roster spot, but probably won't get a lot of playing time. I expect to see some more of Eduardo Nunez.

New Caroline Doty Trick Shot Video

I just want to give a shout out to UConn's Caroline Doty for releasing her second basketball trick shot video. The first one was great and this new one is just as good.

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Jim Calhoun Finds New Assistant Coach

Glen Miller has been promoted to assistant coach by Jim Calhoun after the departure of Andre LaFleur to be head coach at Providence.

Miller, however has plenty of experience at the position. He previously served as an assistant coach for Calhoun from 1986-1993 before taking the head coaching job at Connecticut College. He then coached at Brown from 1999-2006 and Penn where he would claim the Ivy League Championship in the 2006-07 season. Then he was fired in the 2009-10 season at Penn.

He would come full circle after being hired the same year as director of basketball administration after the firing of Beau Archibald due to the NCAA violations.

UConn 2010-11 Recap

I just thought I'd share a video that sums up what a wonderful year it has been to be a Husky both academically and athletically. UConn isn't just your local public university.