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...topic at hand is Heathcliff Slocumb, who played a huge role in the Red Sox’ run to 2004 World Series. Slocumb was the Red Sox closer in 1997, but the Seattle Mariners wanted him so badly that they dealt Boston two top prospects—catcher Jason Varitek and pitcher Derek Lowe...
...right field of Fenway Park. That corner has seen it all in the last few years—from the notorious confrontation between Jeff Nelson and a groundskeeper in game 3 of the 2003 ALCS, to Bill Mueller’s walk-off homer in the A-Rod vs. Varitek brawl game, to David Ortiz’s extra-inning blast in game 4 of last year’s ALCS...
...World Champions are kind of the anti-Pats-Tom Terrific and a bunch of hardworking lunch-pail teammates. The Sox are cartoon characters and superheroes. Ortiz, Ramirez, Schilling: larger than life in personality and, in Curt's case, with an ego to match. Damon's everyone's darling. Varitek is like a Cooperstown statue of "Catcher" and, now, "Captain" too. Arroyo, who starred as a hard-rock singer at Peter Gammons' annual charity fundraiser in Boston in January-Arroyo and his cornrows, and now he's got a CD of Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots covers coming...
...idiots” like Johnny Damon and Kevin Millar. The Yankees, on the other hand, have idiots in the literal sense of the word, guys like the immature Brown, who broke his hand punching a wall this September, and the overpaid A-Rod, who picked a fight with Jason Varitek on July 24 that ignited the long-dormant Red Sox to a sizzling second half of the season...
...will probably come up with the cash to keep Varitek, who guided a weary pitching staff through four straight playoff wins over the Yankees. Cabrera is iffy--he doesn't draw enough walks for number crunchers like Epstein, and several top shortstops are on the market. Lowe, the first pitcher to win the final game in all three playoff rounds, may have thrown his last sinker in Boston. As ESPN analyst (and former New York Mets general manager) Steve Phillips puts it, "He's too high maintenance...