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And with how many laptops and open browser windows?
It's a wonder Dan Tobin was able to keep his hands from shaking long enough to take this photo.
OK, so Curt Schilling was just boasting he went to the gym, rather than signaling a return to pro ball. Red digs up some other tweets:
@TerryFrancona: "Had that dream again where Julian Tavarez, dressed as a pilgrim, chases me through the woods. Might be time to cut back on the pre-bedtime Bigelow."
Derek Wilmot posts a photo of himself with Kevin Youkilis and Doug Flutie at the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation's Flutie Bowl at Lucky Strike Lanes.
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Daigo Fujiwara posts a translation of his interview with a Japanese magazine.
I know the coin of the Web realm is the hyperlink, but no, I refuse to link to Dan Shaughnessy's slap upside the head of Patriots fans today. It's just too annoying. For some reason, Globe editors felt it important to use valuable space on the front page to let Shanko tell us to stop acting like spoiled brats and get over our hope the Patriots win today. Bonus points for a stupid Woodstock reference (yes, Dan, we get it, you're old enough to remember Woodstock, even if you were too busy at clown school to go). If you really want to replicate the sound of a mosquito endlessly buzzing around your head at night, you can figure out how to get to his column. But don't say you weren't warned.
Peter Abraham reports everybody's favorite tightly wrappped Japanese pitcher is now admitting he injured himself before last spring's WBC - but refused to tell anybody on the Red Sox out of a sense of honor or something.
Which came in response to this video from Baltimore.
George analyzes a Red Sox defense with Beltre at third and Jacoby in left; likes what he sees.
Dan Shaughnessy writes about the matchup, but Dan Shaughnessy Watch concludes:
If you were expecting Shank's standard half-hearted mail-in column, you won't be disappointed. ...
Lorianne DiSabato took in the Legends Classic hockey match at Fenway Park yesterday.
Posted under this Creative Commons license. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
Kat found herself wondering today how to explain to her fiance's four-year-old cousin that his favorite player, Jason Bay, isn't on the Red Sox anymore:
... Was I supposed to be the one to have the “free agency” talk with Favorite Four-Year-Old, or was this a talk that his father or grandfather needed to have with him? This was an important talk in the life of a young sports fan, and I felt that it needed to come from a close relative, and not just little ol’ me.
I looked around, trying to find Favorite Four-Year-Old's father. He was busy in another room eating. His grandfather was no where in my sightline either. Favorite Four-Year-Old didn't seem to sense the turmoil within me. ...
Red ponders Mike Lowell's thumb:
... My question is, how does something like this get uncovered by another team's medical staff? Did Scenic know his thumb was hurtin' but figured it to be no biggie--just a side effect of all those hours playing Halo? Did the Boston medical staff and/or Theo know Lowell was damaged goods, hence the willingness to pay most of his salary (hey, what do you want for 3 million bucks)? If there was prior knowledge of the tear, did Lowell or anyone else ever consider getting it fixed sooner rather than later so that he could be some kind of factor in 2010? Was this all part of some insidious front office plot to create the single most awkward spring training ever? ...
Pete Abraham tweets the Rangers don't want a guy who turns out to have a torn ligament in his right thumb.
Does the fact that Paul Pierce's new boston.com blog is really "as told to" rather than something from his own hand detract from it in any way? At least the Globe is up front (well, bottom of blog) about the fact that reporter Julian Benbow is the one actually composing the sentences that appear on screen; it's not like they hired somebody like this.
Jimmy explains why Mike Cameron's acquisition is Boston's best move of the offseason.
ESPN reports a five-year deal similar to the one they didn't want to give Jason Bay.
Red: Josh Beckett no longer the Red Sox's angriest pitcher.
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