NESN Red Sox Podcast: Machado To The Padres; 2019 Spring Training Begins

On the first NESN Red Sox Podcast of 2019, Ricky Doyle and Dakota Randall discuss Manny Machado's move to the San Diego Padres and pick out top players to watch during Boston Red Sox 2019 Spring Training. Follow all NESN Podcasts at https://itunes.apple.c

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Who Is The Best Hang On The 2023 Red Sox?

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/ Plus, who will have a bigger impact on the upcoming season: Richard Bleier or Adalberto Mondesi? If you could hang out with one member of the 2023 Red Sox, who would it be, and what would you do? Would you take Corey Kluber to Vegas to see if his poker face can translate to winnings at an actual poker table? How about hopping on the ferry to Provincetown for a day of bacchanalia on the beach with Kiké Hernandez? What about a road trip up to Bill Lee’s farm in Vermont with Triston Casas, where you’d spend the weekend talking...

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Truck Day Is Here! Let’s Roll.

Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via And it’s unofficially the start of spring (training) It’s a cold day in February so why are we thinking about baseball? Because it’s Truck Day! Every year the Red Sox load up an 18 wheeler with everything they need to take to Spring Training from their summer home of Fenway Park and, well, truck it down to Fort Myers, Florida. Mike Carlucci The Red Sox equipment truck being loaded Every spring since 2003 the Red Sox have made it a ritual. A show, of sorts. A public event to hype up the...

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Pod On Lansdowne Opens the Baseball Twitter Hall of Fame

Photo by MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Immortal online posts, Richard Bleier, and Vegas win total lines are discussed on the latest episode. The Red Sox show from out of left field is proud to announce the opening of the Baseball Twitter Hall of Fame on their latest episode. Fitz, Jake, Liam, and special guest @doinkpatrol each inducted specific tweets, legendary posters, unforgettable moments, and Bob Nightengale-specific examples of each of the latter categories. It was hard to narrow it down to an inagural class, but this is the work we do for our...

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OTM Open Thread 2/3: It is Friday

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/ Welcome to Hoth Happy Friday! It’s bitterly cold in Boston today and getting colder. Watch out for those wind chills. But the equipment truck is leaving for Florida this afternoon so all that loot will be in the warmth of the Fenway South soon enough. With any luck, so will all the Red Sox players. And they’ll be healthy. Talk about what you want, stay warm, and be good to one another.

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Truck Yeah: What I’d Bring To Spring Training

Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Truck Day is here—make sure you packed everything. Truck Day: it’s the most wonderful tease of the year for Red Sox Nation. The smell of the infield grass, the feel of a glove’s leather, the sound of the bat on ball—all of those things are still a handful of weeks away, but at least we get to watch a bunch of dudes throw all that equipment into an 18-wheeler before it sets course for Fenway South in Fort Myers, Florida. Truck Day in Boston for some is just another distraction before the serious business gets underway,...