QB Tuggle To Start For BC

"It’s all but official. Justin Tuggle, a redshirt freshman, will be the starting quarterback for Boston College in Saturday’s opener against Northeastern. But 25-year-old David Shinskie, who spent the past seven years playing minor league baseball, will almost certainly get some playing time as well (Boston.com)."

Shinskie suffered a cracked rib, and only has a couple of practices under his belt, so BC is going to turn to the redshirt Freshman. Shinskie hasn't played football in years after a failed attempt at the MLB. Either way I think BC is fucked this year, and it could be awhile before they are relevant again...

Daily Red Sox Spring Training Update

The Sox played two games yesterday. Here are some notes from those games...

Red Sox 7 BC 1

- Beckett pitched two scoreless innings, had two strikeouts, while throwing 15 of his 22 pitches for strikes. Coaches said he looked strong and relaxed.

- DP's boy Junichi Tazawa also pitched against BC, and actually earned the win in this game. He threw a total of 4 pitches, all for strikes, as he recorded 3 outs in the 5th inning.

- Clay Buchholz also pitched a scoreless inning. All the news from Red Sox camp is that whatever problems he had last year they are behind him, and he looks filthy.

- Boston was actually losing this game before scoring 6 runs in the 5th.

Game 2: Boston 2 Twins 5

- Dustin Pedroia doubled in his first at-bat of the night. I still don't know why he is so good, but he gets it done every night.

- Tim Wakefield has a tough first start giving up three runs on five hits and walked two during his two innings. Bard caught him, and did not seem to have a lot of problems. This was also the case last time Bard caught Wakefield, until the regular season started...

- Justin Masterson, Manny Delcarmen, Javier Lopez, and Ramon Ramirez combined to throw 5 scoreless innings. Billy Traber let up 2 runs on 3 hits in one inning.

Dice-K did not play in either game, because he is over in Japan getting ready for the WBC. He did pitch in a game in Japan, and did not fair well allowing five hits and two runs in 1 2/3 innings. A lot of times pitchers will struggle in spring training, because they are trying new pitches, and also trying not to over work themselves.

Boston plays again today at 1:05pm against the Pirates. The game should be on NESN.

BC fires Jagodzinski

The idoit BC AD (Gene DeFilippo) fired Jagodzinski today, here is the video...

-BMack

BC Lost and I'm Glad

Once again, I have had to hear about how BC was about to break through, and finally make a meaningful bowl. Once again, I let myself be roped in to watching the game, and ya once again I know why I hate watching this team. For one they are choke artists. They do this every year, they are good enough to tease you, and then blow it so they can't go to a good bowl game. What bothers me even more is the fan base. I watched the game, and there was no one from BC there. No one travels with this team. I go to some BC games, and I hear about how "die hard" their fans are. Really? Because I have never seen it, all I have seen is a bunch of people who don't know anything about their team, and will not go out of their way to support them. So, can I please stop hearing how I HAVE to watch this stupid team???

VT 30 BC 12

-BMack

BC vs UNC

For those that don’t know, I work for the Patriots as an usher. We also do events at Boston College, BU, and Harvard. Yesterday afternoon was one of the biggest events of the year as #2 North Carolina came to Chestnut Hill to play the BC Eagles.

I had one of the best posts available: guarding UNC’s locker room. I don’t get to see much of the game at this position, but I do get closer to the team than anyone else. How many people can say they gave Roy Williams directions, or said “What’s up” to Tyler Hansbrough? Not too many.

I did get to see some of the game, and it was a classic. Probably the best game I’ve seen at BC all year. The crowd was raucous, and about 40% of them wore powder blue. Tyrese Rice was a beast. It was the greatest individual effort by an athlete I’ve witnessed since LV Whitworth of Catholic Memorial rushed for 350 yards and 4 TDs against Xaverian.

Rice had 34 points in the 1st half, and wound up with 46 in the game. But it wasn’t enough. No other Eagle had more than 8 points, and BC fell 90-80. At one point, early in the 2nd half, the Eagles had an 18 point lead. But UNC was simply too strong, too consistent, and too poised to give BC the upset.

Oh, and one of the UNC players, I think it was Alex Stepheson, had a Pirates of the Caribbean backpack.

-The Captain

BC vs. Harvard Bean Pot Final

Ok, so I figured that I would give a little overview of the Bean Pot finals which took place Monday night. A little background with these two teams: To start off…Harvard “the underdogs” beat Northeastern (who didn’t show up to play.) Harvard has some smart players, I mean anyone that plays hockey at Harvard I’m going to assume gets in the 1500 range on their SAT’s and fuck it, if hockey doesn’t bring them to the NHL, well they can make millions somewhere else. Anyway, Harvard’s defense came to play in this tournament and their effort was there from the moment they stepped on the ice. Let me also say, Harvard has not won a Bean Pot since 93’, yea that’s a long time. As for the Eagles, they started this tourney going into OT with the BU losers, who I just hate for no reason what so ever, I suppose I’m just a BC hockey fan. The BC/BU game went into overtime and BC picked up the trash in front of the goal to head to the final ring versus the Crimson. BC has some great underclassmen that always step up for this tourney. In the finals, BC went up real quick against the smart kids, but Harvard fought back netting 5 goals against BC, who let me remind you went to the National championship game last year. The game ended quickly when BC got a scrappy goal off a rebound in front of a wide open net. BC won this game because they simply wanted it more. They controlled the puck throughout the OT and proved they were the better team. BC’s captain Ben Ferriero has had some magic up his sleeve over the season thus far with 10 goals, 29 points in 27 games, damn good if u ask me. Of coarse now we need to see who takes home the national championship because that’s all that really matters.

Lanen