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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: The Red Sox are finally ready to contend again

Brendan Galvin February 18, 2025
With their offseason additions and prospects ready to make the jump to the Majors, the Red Sox are poised for a deep playoff run.
Fans at Fenway Park on the Red Sox Opening Day in April. The Student 9s program, a special discount offered to college students looking to attend Red Sox games, reduces the ticket price to $9 for any student registered with the program. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Red Sox offer low-cost tickets through ‘Student 9’ promotion

Brendan Galvin June 2, 2024
At first glance, a trip to Fenway Park with a group of friends can be expensive. The cheapest ticket for a game in June 2024 sits at $18, but when searching for three or four seats together, prices jump to almost twice as much per ticket.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: Early reactions from the 2024 MLB season

Brendan Galvin April 18, 2024
It has now been three weeks since the 2024 MLB campaign started, and there’s been no shortage of storylines from the diamond. Here are four early reactions — or overreactions — from the early action on the young MLB season.
Jersey Street is flooded with baseball fans on opening day for the Red Sox at Fenway Park on Tuesday. Despite ending the 2023 season last place in the AL East, Red Sox fans packed the stadium for the home opener against the Baltimore Orioles. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Opening Day at Fenway Park celebrates Red Sox history, traditions and fan culture

Chloe Cramutola April 11, 2024
Red Sox Opening Day at Fenway Park took place Tuesday, hosting the first baseball game in the stadium since late September. Fans pouring into the ballpark were greeted with the 2004 Red Sox championship team to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their World Series win.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: MLB’s dilemma and the shadow of sports gambling

Brendan Galvin March 25, 2024
Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres kicked off the 2024 MLB season with the annual Seoul Series, a two-game series that should have been a time to celebrate a new season. Instead, the series was overtaken by the news of the firing of Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: Predicting MLB’s award winners

Brendan Galvin March 19, 2024
The 2024-2025 MLB season kicks off with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres squaring off in the first-ever MLB Seoul Series. While the other 28 MLB teams won’t start their regular season until next week, the two-game series between NL West rivals will be a sign of things to come ahead of a new baseball season.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: Predicting winners of each MLB division

Brendan Galvin March 6, 2024
With MLB Opening Day coming up in about three weeks, there’s no better time to give my predictions on who will win each of the six divisions, along with the three Wild Card teams on each side that will advance to the playoffs come October.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: Everything wrong with MLB’s new jerseys

Brendan Galvin February 27, 2024
This season, Major League Baseball partnered with Nike and Fanatics to manufacture uniforms for all 30 teams. To say the uniforms are a disappointment would be an understatement.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: An offseason to forget for the Red Sox

Brendan Galvin February 20, 2024
Boston residents, being from a city with a rich sports culture and history, know the sights and sounds of the ballpark are right around the corner. But to me, this year feels different already — in a bad way.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: Three all-time greats headline newest Hall of Fame class

Brendan Galvin January 31, 2024
Three players were named on the most recent installment of Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame ballot. Last Monday, Adrián Beltré, Joe Mauer and Todd Helton passed the 75% voting threshold needed to be inducted into Cooperstown, enshrining their names in baseball forever.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: Dodgers’ spending spree highlights salary issue in MLB

Brendan Galvin January 24, 2024
Oftentimes, in an MLB offseason, there are multiple “winners” and “losers.” Usually, whether your team “won” or “lost,” its offseason is based on the front office's activity or lack thereof. Teams make noteworthy trades or sign big-name players to bolster their lineup or pitching rotation — or they don’t.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: Contrasting celebrations from the MLB MVPs

Brendan Galvin November 28, 2023
The 2023 MLB offseason is thoroughly underway, and the reigning MVPs — Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña Jr. — are still making headlines.
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