Boras and John Henry discuss the newest contract negotiation technique. Tell-all book threats!

Barack Obama is the second coming of government. So how long will it be until he needs to save the soul of the national pastime? Okay, maybe baseball is a business, and therefore doesn’t have a soul. Kidding! (we love winning at any price) …but the salaries, ticket prices and conspicuous finances of the MLB look an awful lot like the former financial structures of many Wall Street institutions. Can it be, only a matter of time, until trickle-down Recessionomics catches up with the business of Scott Boras et. all?

The new Million-dollar Mad Men have Leigh Teixeira to thank…

Hockey, basketball & to a lesser extent football, are sloppy sports. The game of baseball is clear. The ball is pitched to a batter, the batter hits it to a fielder, and the crowd watches to see if the runner can beat the throw to first base. Now that’s trust and verify. The sport of hockey and basketball are back and forth, never-ending, free-for-all scrums dominated by brute athletic ability. Fouls are constantly committed, and occasionally called if only to halt the chaos. The line of scrimmage in football is a blur of first and second degree assault techniques. Yet winning is fun, so the Bruins and Celtics have the full attention of Red Sox Nation, at least until Spring Training starts.

The West Coast co-owner of the Red Sox talks to Heidi about the premiere of NESN’s newest reality-TV show, “Dirty Water”.

Ebonically speaking, Jim Ed Rice was a very black man in a very white town. Still is! He was not particularly articulate, or quick with a quip, in the nuanced way that many pesky white Boston sportswriters are. But he spoke from the heart, and he played the game right, and so he was deservedly proud, and guarded. That pride caused a fifteen year big chill with most sportswriters, who finally came around and gave him his due, with an assist from Red Sox Nation. Wonderful irony that today he is a broadcaster on NESN, and now, the man who still dresses on Monday’s like its Saturday Night, circa 1978, can finally come to rest in the Hall of Fame, courtesy of 412 sportswriters.

Boston’s favorite agent discusses the typo-negotiation strategy used by Red Sox owner John Henry.

Winning breeds a certain kind of losing. The Red Sox, Patriots and to a lesser extent the Celtics are all grapling with the insidious departure of players and coaches that try to cash in on their team’s success. For reasons largely of money and ego, many of Boston’s most cherished sports stars and coaches will depart for richer pastures. But not so fast in the case of Boston College. How refreshing it is for Hub sports fans to hear that Jeff Jagodzinski will be fired if he even interviews with the Jets. Scott Pioli and Josh McDaniels of the Patriots should take a page from Boston native Jay Leno, who recently accepted a lesser role at NBC and put his own considerable ego behind the importance of being on a “winning team”.