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Terry Francona fans flames in wake of...
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on www.bostonherald.com
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""I think a man feels like a man when he's working out of doors in the springtime if he can have a bottle of suds."
— Andy Dufresne, in "The Shawshank Redemption"
Those words may have won over the screws at Shawshank State Prison, but you'd be wasting your time trying to get any suds past Bobby Valentine, the new field warden of your Boston Red Sox....
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Jason Varitek to announce retirement...
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on www.boston.com
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"Jason Varitek, a two-time World Series champion and the captain of the Red Sox from 2005-2011, will announce his retirement on Thursday in Fort Myers sources told the Globe today.
Varitek is expected to stay with the organization in some capacity.
A member of the Red Sox from 1997-2011, Varitek hit .256 with 193 home runs and 757 RBIs. He was a three-time All-Star and a Gold...
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Jacoby Ellsbury deal a fast topic
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on www.bostonherald.com
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"In 2010, Jacoby Ellsbury played only 18 games because of cracked ribs. In 2011, the center fielder had one of the best seasons ever by a leadoff hitter and was runner-up in the American League MVP voting.
Manager Bobby Valentine can't recall a better rags-to-riches tale.
"I'm stumped," Valentine said. "If he's not totally unique, he's in a real small...
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Theo Epstein deal done at last
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on www.bostonherald.com
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"The never-ending Theo Epstein compensation saga finally has ended.
Well, almost.
Four months after letting Epstein escape the final year of his contract to become the Chicago Cubs president, the Red Sox received hard-throwing reliever Chris Carpenter in return. Although the issue lingered long enough that the commissioner's office threatened to intercede, Sox general manager...
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Josh Beckett comes up lame
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on www.bostonherald.com
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"Listen up, Red Sox fans: Josh Beckett wants you to know he had perfect attendance at gym class last season.
That was essentially Big Boy's message yesterday morning when the right-hander held his much-anticipated first media session of spring training. While using carefully crafted, Beltway-type language to explain away the Red Sox' humiliating and historic September collapse...
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Jon Lester now Sox' main act
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on www.bostonherald.com
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"Jon Lester might own the broadest shoulders on the Red Sox. And yesterday the big left-hander sounded ready to bear the responsibility of leadership on them.
While there will be much debate today about just how truly sorry Josh Beckett is or is not for the disaster that befell the Red Sox last September, in truth, Beckett's a sideshow.
The story with far greater long-term...
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Bobby Valentine puts team in sunshine...
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on www.bostonherald.com
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"We'll soon find out what kind of manager Bobby Valentine is. In the meantime, he's proving to be one heck of a baseball ambassador. Meeting the media for his first official press conference of spring training, Valentine unleashed a megawatt smile and spent 28 minutes discussing anything and everything Red Sox.
If Valentine's comments held a common theme, it was this —...
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Jose Iglesias may hit short list
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on www.bostonherald.com
| | "When Bobby Valentine became the New York Mets manager in 1996, he inherited a defensively superior but light-hitting shortstop from Cuba and stuck with him for most of the next six seasons.
Could Jose Iglesias be the Red Sox' version of Rey Ordonez?
"He's a very intriguing player," Valentine said of the Sox prospect yesterday as pitchers and catchers reported to camp...
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For Papelbon, one bullpen door...
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on articles.boston.com
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"His body of work as a closer for the Red Sox had its warts, but overall you can't deny that he has been one of the best in baseball.
Which is why the respected talent evaluators of the Philadelphia Phillies discarded their own guys (Ryan Madson and Brad Lidge) and made Jonathan Papelbon the highest-paid reliever in baseball with a stunning four-year, $50 million deal in the...
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Bobby Valentine: Carl Crawford out...
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jtsredsox24 found this 1 year ago on www.bostonherald.com
| | "The Red Sox don't play a meaningful game for another seven weeks, but manager Bobby Valentine already is resigned to starting the season without Carl Crawford.
The outfielder, who went underwent wrist surgery last month, can't yet swing a bat and could be out well beyond the opener on April 5 in Detroit.
"I wouldn't be surprised if Carl's a few weeks into the season...
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