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...despite their worst spring training in decades--one in which both Nomar Garciaparra and Manny Ramirez were injured and soft-spoken manager Jimy Williams managed to alienate even selfless knuckleballer Tim Wakefield--I stubbornly cling to my notion, renewed with the first pitch each spring, that this is the year...
...Olde Towne Team has the game's best pitcher in three-time Cy Young Award winner Martinez (18-6 with a 1.74 ERA in 2000). Despite Alex Rodriguez's gargantuan $252 million offseason contract with the Texas Rangers, the Sox have baseball's best shortstop in Nomar Garciaparra (.372 with 21 HRs and 96 RBIs last year). And due to some $20 million-per-year frivolity of their own, the Sox also have RBI king Ramirez (.351, 38, 122), as well as Everett (.300, 34, 108) and All-Star closer Derek Lowe (4-4, 2.56 ERA, 42 saves). They...
...hard Red Sox fans, Opening Day signals the start of another season of false hope, fleeting triumph and eventual, inevitable failure. It is a vengeful God indeed that has created a team with Pedro Martinez, Nomar Garciaparra and Manny Ramirez that will not win the World Series. But of course, we will still watch them. Indeed, we will root and pray for them. Because, after all, this could be the year...
...hard Red Sox fans, Opening Day signals the start of another season of false hope, fleeting triumph and eventual, inevitable failure. It is a vengeful God indeed that has created a team with Pedro Martinez, Nomar Garciaparra and Manny Ramirez that will not win the World Series. But of course, we will still watch them. Indeed, we will root and pray for them. Because, after all, this could be the year...
...Nomar Garciaparra just appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, fresh off back-to-back batting titles and an intensive workout regime. Enter Manny Ramirez, perhaps the best slugger in all of baseball. See Carl Everett, who managed to hit 34 homeruns last year for the Sox while simultaneously head-butting umpires and denouncing the existence of dinosaurs...