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Cruz has been beguiling international audiences since 1992, when she played the youngest of four loving sisters in the Oscar-winning Belle Epoque. She gave birth on a city bus in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, played a pregnant nun in Almodovar's All About My Mother, made love to a disfigured roue in Open Your Eyes, resisted the advances of Joseph Goebbels in The Girl of Your Dreams and, in her first American role, provided a beacon of moral beauty for cowboy Billy Crudup in The Hi-Lo Country...
nothing if not that the Red Sox were never meant to prevail on baseball's grandest stage. Even our most admired hero and thought-to-be savior, ace Pedro Martinez, admitted as much when, following the Sox' devastating 2-1 loss to the Indians last Wednesday, he acknowledged, "We were not meant to win that game...
...Pedro, meanwhile, was cursed by a lack of run support all season, receiving a grand total of just seven runs in his six losses this season. Carl Everett, whose slugging skills were supposed to finally replace the bat of Mo Vaughn, was revealed to be little more than a whack job, whose off-the-field tantrums overshadowed his team-leading home run total. Perhaps the four teams that released Carl prior to his joining the Red Sox knew something we didn...
Picked by Sports Illustrated to capture their first world championship since 1918, the Sox began the summer with high hopes and lofty goals. After Pedro Martinez gave up his first earned run in more than 32 innings (including playoffs) in his second start of the season, he was asked if he had thought he would ever give up another earned run. "I'm only a man," he said...
...Pedro was wrong--he proved to be almost supernatural over the course of the season, compiling a miniscule earned run average in an era of hitting, not pitching. Nomar Garciaparra also duplicated last year's superior performance and is poised to win his second American League batting title in a row. It was the rest of the Red Sox team that proved far too human...