Jon Couture
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Now: @bostonglobe.com, @boston.com, Seamans Media. Then: @bostonherald.bsky.social, SouthCoast Today. Terrier. May one day start to take myself seriously, but I doubt it.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
No wonder they're leading the division.
August 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
No wonder they're leading the division.
The nature of the last seven seasons of Red Sox baseball makes it well nigh impossible to trust anything about this run they're on.
Increasingly, though, I think it's important to try. Because something's happening, and that might be most (if not all) that matters.
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Increasingly, though, I think it's important to try. Because something's happening, and that might be most (if not all) that matters.
www.boston.com/sports/bosto...
The Red Sox are taking us on another ride. While we're on it, let's savor the view.
The team is winning, much of the future core is locked up, and, for now, all is well with the Boston Red Sox.
www.boston.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The nature of the last seven seasons of Red Sox baseball makes it well nigh impossible to trust anything about this run they're on.
Increasingly, though, I think it's important to try. Because something's happening, and that might be most (if not all) that matters.
www.boston.com/sports/bosto...
Increasingly, though, I think it's important to try. Because something's happening, and that might be most (if not all) that matters.
www.boston.com/sports/bosto...
Yeesh. That escalated quickly.
Hunter Dobbins tore his right ACL, the Red Sox announced.
He is on the IL.
Richard Fitts is called back up from Worcester.
He is on the IL.
Richard Fitts is called back up from Worcester.
July 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Yeesh. That escalated quickly.
Was missing where Steer's homer landed a "NESN Celebrates 1975" thing, or just general crapulence?
(Also, shout out graphics people who, if they're anything like me, deeply enjoyed making a 70s style scorebug when scorebugs were two decades off in 1975. I see you better than I see the scorebug.)
(Also, shout out graphics people who, if they're anything like me, deeply enjoyed making a 70s style scorebug when scorebugs were two decades off in 1975. I see you better than I see the scorebug.)
July 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Was missing where Steer's homer landed a "NESN Celebrates 1975" thing, or just general crapulence?
(Also, shout out graphics people who, if they're anything like me, deeply enjoyed making a 70s style scorebug when scorebugs were two decades off in 1975. I see you better than I see the scorebug.)
(Also, shout out graphics people who, if they're anything like me, deeply enjoyed making a 70s style scorebug when scorebugs were two decades off in 1975. I see you better than I see the scorebug.)
It was a good run, Matt Turner.
June 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It was a good run, Matt Turner.
Imagine how bad it would be if they left that cursed Ortiz jersey in the foundation.
At the risk of sounding like An Old, my fucking word is Yankee Stadium just a nonstop barrage of canned noise. There’s a damn bumper between every pitch, this ballpark does not let the game breathe a goddamn bit. And of course the concessions are bottom tier. Do better.
June 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Imagine how bad it would be if they left that cursed Ortiz jersey in the foundation.
In 2007, I got pulled with a few other reporters to do a segment about Daisuke Matsuzaka. It involved being asked some questions, holding up a little sign with a happy/sad type thing on it, then answering.
Remember thinking, "Wow, this feels very goofy Japanese TV."
NESN now does it every night.
Remember thinking, "Wow, this feels very goofy Japanese TV."
NESN now does it every night.
June 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
In 2007, I got pulled with a few other reporters to do a segment about Daisuke Matsuzaka. It involved being asked some questions, holding up a little sign with a happy/sad type thing on it, then answering.
Remember thinking, "Wow, this feels very goofy Japanese TV."
NESN now does it every night.
Remember thinking, "Wow, this feels very goofy Japanese TV."
NESN now does it every night.
Always the danger of hyperbolizing in the moment, but Sunday feels like an organizational failure to top them all.
Blame? Everywhere. Fallout? The season that was supposed to be the end of the struggle had its legs taken out at a point that felt like the spark toward a fun summer.
Gross.
Blame? Everywhere. Fallout? The season that was supposed to be the end of the struggle had its legs taken out at a point that felt like the spark toward a fun summer.
Gross.
Forget Mookie Betts. Rafael Devers is an organization failure to trump them all.
Losing Rafael Devers via trade, in this fashion, is an issue with fault up and down the Red Sox organization.
www.boston.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Always the danger of hyperbolizing in the moment, but Sunday feels like an organizational failure to top them all.
Blame? Everywhere. Fallout? The season that was supposed to be the end of the struggle had its legs taken out at a point that felt like the spark toward a fun summer.
Gross.
Blame? Everywhere. Fallout? The season that was supposed to be the end of the struggle had its legs taken out at a point that felt like the spark toward a fun summer.
Gross.
Spare a thought for the people in the Red Sox ticket office this morning, who two weeks ago were already in the "two free hot dogs with every ticket purchase" portion of their Rolodex.
June 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Spare a thought for the people in the Red Sox ticket office this morning, who two weeks ago were already in the "two free hot dogs with every ticket purchase" portion of their Rolodex.
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Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community.
Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
![Clayton Kershaw sucks
It was Pride Night at Dodger Stadium on Friday evening. As is usually the case on Pride Night, the home team wore a rainbow version of their logo on their cap. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw donned the rainbow cap but he made an addition to it: [insert photo of Clayton Kershaw with a Pride cap with a bible verse citation next to it].
That writing is a citation to Genesis 9:12-16, which is a passage in the Bible which is commonly used by homophobic Christians who are part of what they call the "Take Back the Rainbow" movement. They claim that the LGBTQ+ community stole the rainbow symbol from God and they view it as their mission to "rescue" gay people from what they consider to be a sinister movement.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vevk6lgrt6o4wncrbp7joij3/bafkreiec3waq53w54fnqqcv6ud5n4ga2res4lxyfhs475atlyew27mwgeu@jpeg)
June 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community.
Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Good morning. Today is the day a Yalie and Sam Kennedy will explain the Rafael Devers trade.
There are Mondays, and then there are Mondays.
There are Mondays, and then there are Mondays.
June 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Good morning. Today is the day a Yalie and Sam Kennedy will explain the Rafael Devers trade.
There are Mondays, and then there are Mondays.
There are Mondays, and then there are Mondays.
Five out of six against the Yankees. By the Red Sox team that, last time I wrote, I compared to a colonoscopy.
Baseball seasons are long, stupid things.
Baseball seasons are long, stupid things.
June 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Five out of six against the Yankees. By the Red Sox team that, last time I wrote, I compared to a colonoscopy.
Baseball seasons are long, stupid things.
Baseball seasons are long, stupid things.
The "11" on Devers' Fenway Greens uniform is absolutely squashed together and looks terrible. Front and back.
I don't want the kerning people fired, but I want them reprimanded.
I don't want the kerning people fired, but I want them reprimanded.
June 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The "11" on Devers' Fenway Greens uniform is absolutely squashed together and looks terrible. Front and back.
I don't want the kerning people fired, but I want them reprimanded.
I don't want the kerning people fired, but I want them reprimanded.
Trevor Story's home run would have only cleared two MLB fences: Yankee Stadium and Steinbrenner Field.
I feel like we need a specific term for this type of home run. Pinstripe Poke is terrible, but it can get us started.
I feel like we need a specific term for this type of home run. Pinstripe Poke is terrible, but it can get us started.
June 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Trevor Story's home run would have only cleared two MLB fences: Yankee Stadium and Steinbrenner Field.
I feel like we need a specific term for this type of home run. Pinstripe Poke is terrible, but it can get us started.
I feel like we need a specific term for this type of home run. Pinstripe Poke is terrible, but it can get us started.
We watch tens of thousands of hours of sports because, a handful of times in our lives, we get a Sinner-Alcaraz.
I mean, it's that or go outside.
I mean, it's that or go outside.
June 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We watch tens of thousands of hours of sports because, a handful of times in our lives, we get a Sinner-Alcaraz.
I mean, it's that or go outside.
I mean, it's that or go outside.
Joe Davis, after Aroldis Chapman trips at first: "Red Sox are saying, 'Can't we just have a nice thing? Can we have anything good?'"
Joe Davis doesn't miss.
Joe Davis doesn't miss.
June 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Joe Davis, after Aroldis Chapman trips at first: "Red Sox are saying, 'Can't we just have a nice thing? Can we have anything good?'"
Joe Davis doesn't miss.
Joe Davis doesn't miss.
On Fox tonight, there's going to be a muddy, sloppy, gambling-laden mess of a competition that might make you feel a little bit queasy.
And before the Red Sox game, the Belmont Stakes is on.
And before the Red Sox game, the Belmont Stakes is on.
June 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
On Fox tonight, there's going to be a muddy, sloppy, gambling-laden mess of a competition that might make you feel a little bit queasy.
And before the Red Sox game, the Belmont Stakes is on.
And before the Red Sox game, the Belmont Stakes is on.
Based on his last appearance there, Walker Buehler may think the best way to beat the Yankees is to fall five runs behind them.
June 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Based on his last appearance there, Walker Buehler may think the best way to beat the Yankees is to fall five runs behind them.
Welcome to the new generation about to learn that "Sturm Face" was a meme before we really called them that.
Much like I just learned searching that yields a different German's line of anti-aging creams.
Much like I just learned searching that yields a different German's line of anti-aging creams.
June 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Welcome to the new generation about to learn that "Sturm Face" was a meme before we really called them that.
Much like I just learned searching that yields a different German's line of anti-aging creams.
Much like I just learned searching that yields a different German's line of anti-aging creams.
"That’s the overarching surprise of this season, isn’t it? Not the mediocrity — which . . . existed before the loss of two Opening Day starters in much the same way it did after it. The joylessness of it all."
Mediocrity is one thing, but the joylessness of watching the Red Sox is the real surprise
We are well on our way to Alex Cora's 2025 Red Sox team once again being a fundamental disaster in the field.
www.boston.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"That’s the overarching surprise of this season, isn’t it? Not the mediocrity — which . . . existed before the loss of two Opening Day starters in much the same way it did after it. The joylessness of it all."
Red Sox score when Rafaela saw a wild pitch and instinctively ran toward it.
May 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Red Sox score when Rafaela saw a wild pitch and instinctively ran toward it.
I would be a lot more negative on these if the Red Sox hadn't gone so far off the page with the Marathon City Connects. That was a gamble. (And it worked, no arguments allowed.) This is exactly what you would have expected they'd do with the assignment.
They're fine. Which is fine.
They're fine. Which is fine.
May 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I would be a lot more negative on these if the Red Sox hadn't gone so far off the page with the Marathon City Connects. That was a gamble. (And it worked, no arguments allowed.) This is exactly what you would have expected they'd do with the assignment.
They're fine. Which is fine.
They're fine. Which is fine.