The MLB has named Kevin Youkilis 'Player Of The Week' for last week. His numbers for those 7 days are a staggering .375 BA, with three doubles, five home runs and 10 RBIs. Youk becomes the second Sox player to earn the honor this year after Manny Ramirez was named POTW near the end of April.
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Red Sox Manager Terry Francona will miss the 2 game series in Blatimore du to a death in the family.
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It's a shame that Manny doesn't talk to the media more often. Kind of.Sometimes he says things like "I think I'm the best ever to play left field in Boston." (That Yaz guy? He didn't exist.) Then sometimes he walks into a group of reporters with a big grin on his face and quips "They got rid of   more...
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It's pretty sad when a persons love and devotion for a sports team gets manifested in violence. It happens quite often with football (soccer!) fans on the rest of the globe but not very often with fans of the "big 4" sports in North America. Unfortunately 'not very often' is still way too   more...
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Papelbon teaches Okajima how to play craps. Good times for all! I wonder if Okajima taught Papelbon how to play Pai-Gow
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Dice K earned his sixth win of the year by only giving up two runs as the Red Sox offense backed him up with four solo home runs for a 5-2 win over the Twins.
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Say what you want about Coco Crisp and his vocal unhappiness about being a backup outfielder; but don't you ever say that he doesn't have a sense of humor.When asked about the new speedier Boston team (their 26 stolen bases this season is the same as the amount of homeruns they've hit), Crisp came   more...

Josh Beckett will square off with Jeremy Guthrie tonight. The Sox have lost 3 of their last four, while the O's have won 3 of 4...
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See, like I needed another reason to hate the Red Sox. The Boston Herald is reporting a website SexySoxGirls is asking female Boston fans to post soft-core pornographic pictures of themselves in Red Sox gear. Which is fine, other than wondering what the hell soft corn porn is? From what I know, it   more...
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Josh Beckett was outpitched tonight by Baltimore's Mark Guthrie as the Red Sox offense and their starter were a little off. The Red Sox lost their third in a row and their hold on first in the AL East.
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It takes four years of naval training to decipher the system of hand signals sent in by third base coach DeMarlo Hale!
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After the Reds batted out of order on Sunday, Reds Manager Dusty Baker said he hadn't been part of a game when that happened since he was a player. How in the heck did Dusty forget this little episode four years ago? When he screwed up a double switch and threw a grand mal hissy fit?
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Manny Ramirez hit home run #498 last night - see the video at The Bottom Line.The Red Sox offense was shut down by Livan Hernandez... and the Sox lost the 4-game series 1-3.
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When Joba Chamberlain finished off a one-two-three eighth inning by striking out David Dellucci Thursday at Yankee Stadium he let out a howl of delight and pumped his fist, more than a few times.The "incident" went virtually unnoticed by the Cleveland media, from what I can tell from my   more...
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Red Sox spokesman John Blake admitted today that the team has spoken with officials in Sarasota, FL about possibly moving there in 2 years. The Reds will leave the facility empty after they move to Arizona and the Sox are looking into taking over where Cincinnati left off.
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