As I listed to Curt Schilling on WEEI yesterday, something dawned on me. Schilling was talking to Michael Holly and telling him that sportswriters really don't know as much as they think they do.

They just have a media forum in which to express their thoughts about sports, which doesn't mean they know any more or less than fans out there.

An old boss once told me "Sap, remember, sports reporters are just glorified fans with a press pass."

That stuck with me and it was reinforced by Schilling saying the same thing. Sometimes I get carried away thinking "oh, I'm a sportswriter for MLB.com and one day I'll make it to the big time!"

But really, every day is a learning experience. I learn something new, mostly about sports history since I am only 23 and there's a lot of old school players I just wasn't around to watch.

Well just had to get that off my chest...more to come later!!

Oh, I know it's cliche, but my creative juices just aren't flowing yet so I couldn't come up with a more creative title.

Anyways, let's talk about this wonderful weekend and how good we looked (I know, it's faux pas to refer to the Red Sox as "we," or "us," but I really think I'm part of the team!).

Friday night, a 14-8 win was indicative of our explosive lineup.

Saturday, Schilling looked like the old Curt but then again it's only been two starts so let's not jump the gun..but then again, we're Sox fans and we love jumping on the "if the playoffs started today..." bandwagon.

Sunday, Josh Bard redeemed himself, at least until his next start that is. But Wake bounced back as we knew he would and now we wait wait wait for the 95th consecutive Opening Day at Fenway!!

I told you I'd be blogging more this season...more to come soon!!

Ok, tonight's the night we get to see Josh Beckett, or as I like to call him, Wonder Boy.

He looked good in Spring Training, but really, that means nothing so let's not even go there. Let's wait and see how his first start goes and if he can shut down what has always been a troubling Texas offense.

PS- For the record, Bronson Arroyo: 1 HR, Willy Mo Pena: 0 HR...enuf said!!

Ok, let's not hash into whether or not Doug Mirabelli is relishing Josh Bard's poor excuse of a game last night. Three passed balls in just four plus innings, two in the first inning, it was sad watching Bard try to adjust to a knuckler, which, let's face it, was just not dancing.

So let's throw out all the hype about how Bard and Wakefield were meant to be after their strong Spring Training debut and think about how many games this type of catching will have to go on.

When all else fails, we can always chaulk it up to Wake's troubling starts at Ameriquest Field, who now moves to 4-10 in the stadium with a 5.95 ERA.

Don't really know how confident I feel about Alex Cora starting at shortstop, well not that I'm all too confident about Alex Gonzalez either.

Tonight we see the debut of wonder-boy Josh Beckett. It should be interesting how this youngster fairs the relentless booing of Red Sox Nation the minute he has a bad night...oh, the joys of being a Sox pitcher.

But hey, we just boo them because we love 'em :)

Here we go, after a 9-20 spring training season, we're all buckled up and ready for the 2006 Red Sox roller coaster.

Spring training this year was pretty uneventful really, unless you want to consider a couple tantrum-filled days from David Wells and the Julian Tavarez mixup eventful.

12 new faces that I'm pretty confident about are here and we saw a little taste of defensive improvements during yesterday's season opener in Texas. Comparing Coco Crisp and Johnny Damon is, for lack of a better term, apples and oranges. One swings a better bat, arguably, and the other doesn't have an arm the size of a peashooter...I'll let you figure out who's who.

There's nothing nicer than Big Papi picking up right where he left off, and watching newest Gold Glover Jason Varitek have a solid day at the plate. Crisp's defensive play in the final inning was a plus for shadowing Foulke's somewhat shaky return to Ameriquest.

I'll be checking in more often and trying to post every day when I'm not writing for MLB.com, so keep the comments coming!!