It will be a few weeks yet before balls start crashing into this backstop, but for the Red Sox, baseball and spring training are right around the corner.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

This is the biggest yet of the Red Sox-Yankees series in the three years that I've been here. Even bigger than Opening Day this year, when we had the ring ceremony.

I was really infuriated, ... I've been a Red Sox fan all my life and I don't even want to watch them now.

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.

The last reunion of the Red Sox was in 1978.