Flotsam and JetsamMiscellaneous thoughts and observations.If I were to brainwash someone to be a serial killer - I would use the Lexis December to Remember tune as the trigger to set him off... These are awesome! Dirty Signs with Kristin... It should be noted that the Red Sox signing of Kelly Shoppach also saved the team $650,000 over what they paid Jason Varitek last year. Team seems to be in penny-pinching mode... How long before someone claims to have found a picture of Tim Tebow in their toast? Or the inside of a tomato?... I would really like to know the rest of the story of why this guy was banned from his adult hockey league... When people shake hands and say "How do you do" I instinctively say "How do I do what?"
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December 14, 2011
Kelly Shoppach is going back to where he started. The 31-year-old catcher agreed to terms on a one-year, $1.35 million contract with the Boston Red Sox — the organization that drafted him in the second round of the 2001 draft. With incentives, the deal could be worth $1.75 million.
Signing with the Red Sox ensures that Shoppach will remain in the American League East, where...
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December 16, 2011
BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox want Jason Varitek back. It might not be as a player, though. Two days after signing free agent Kelly Shoppach -- giving the Red Sox a full complement of three catchers who are expected to be on the major league squad -- general manager Ben Cherington said the team is still talking to the captain and longtime backstop about remaining with the ballclub...
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December 14, 2011
Since the end of the regular season, Jason Varitek has been in limbo. With the veteran catcher –– and team captain –– pushing 40 years heading into the 2012 season, his status on the Red Sox roster has been unknown. The answer apparently came on Tuesday, though, when the Sox signed catcher Kelly Shoppach to a one-year deal. With Shoppach, Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Ryan Lavarnway...
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December 14, 2011
By signing Kelly Shoppach the Boston Red Sox seem to be indicating that the Jason Varitek Era is at an end. Varitek was already a part-time player in Boston, mostly serving as the lesser half of a catcher platoon with fellow switch-hitter Jarrod Saltalamacchia in 2011. Saltalamacchia is sticking around, and Shoppach is also the right-handed half of a platoon. It appears that there...
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December 14, 2011
Upon being drafted by the Red Sox in 2001, Kelly Shoppach was perceived as the potential heir apparent to Jason...
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December 15, 2011
BOSTON -- The Red Sox want Jason Varitek back.
It might not be as a player, though.
Two days after signing free agent Kelly Shoppach — giving the Red Sox a full complement of three catchers who are expected to be on the major league squad — general manager Ben Cherington said...
Via Rant Sports
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December 15, 2011
As most of the fun Cubs rumors continue to swirl around Prince Fielder and Yu Darvish, it appears as if they could have interest in a couple of old Boston veterans.
Neither Jason Varitek or Tim Wakefield are expected to return to the Sox next season as both are still free agents. The Sox signed Kelly Shoppach earlier this week, and with Jarrod Saltalamacchia already starting behind...
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December 16, 2011
Bobby Valentine has a lot of work ahead of him as he prepares for the 2012 Red Sox season. The team's closer isn't set, the starting rotation is in flux and Jason Varitek's future is still uncertain, to name a few issues. On Friday, the Red Sox manager took some time out of his day to chat with Red Sox fans and address those topics and more in a candid #AskTheSox Twitter...
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December 15, 2011
Old men love rivers
This was inevitable. With Varitek out of the picture in Boston, and the Sox showing zero interest in retaining Wakefield, it was only a matter of time before Theo and Hoyer started mulling the idea of bringing the two to Chicago.
Via the Tribune:
Jason Varitek in a Cubs’ uniform? How about knuckleballer Tim Wakefield?
Both of those Red Sox fixtures...
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December 15, 2011
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Boston Red Sox owner John Henry says catcher Jason Varitek always will have a home in the organization.
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December 15, 2011
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Boston Red Sox owner John Henry says catcher Jason Varitek always will have a home in the organization.
The...
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December 14, 2011
A Cubs source confirmed the team has some interest in acquiring longtime Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek and ageless knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
Via Boston Red Thoughts
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December 14, 2011
I was talking with my friend, Paul from Boston, the other day, and he mentioned that he recently saw the Big Guy in the Red Suit, and hoped that he would have the opportunity to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas this year.
Unfortunately, he did not have the chance, so he told me instead…
Well Santa:
I need an effective RH Power Hitting Right Fielder with a Gun of an arm...
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