Hey Yankees and Rays!

We're the same now!

THE SAME!

So Manny apologized (for well.....being Manny I guess) to the Red Sox

When do the Dodgers get theirs?

2012?

White Sox?

2013?

I hope the Super Bowl Committee was not watching that game last night

Not surprising but still.....

Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald had a sit down with everybody's least favorite personality, Kevin Youkilis and out came this gem from the "personality-challenged" one:

"I read where they used to hang people down at Boston Common. That's one I don't think too many Red Sox players are aware of. Sometimes a player will say he's taking his family down there, and I'll throw that one at them. I think that's a pretty interesting fact."

What the.....?

What a killjoy!

A teammate (probably not considered a "friend") is going to take his family down to Boston Common and Youkilis butts in with "Hey, did you know they used to kill people there. They hung em until they dead. Before that, they used an axe. Tell your family that! Welcome to Boston! Ha Ha Ha."

You know Kevin, there is a reason you didn't get invited to a Super Bowl party this year.

Or last year.

Or.....

No, your teammates DO like football.

Hey, the Red Sox signed Joe Nelson!

You know Joe, Greg Maddux and Pedro Martinez can't do that and I can (I just tried) and I can't pitch to save my life so I am not really getting the point of this.

Adrian Beltre to Boston?!

Didn't Dodgers and Mariners fans periodically boo the consistently inconsistent Beltre?

And now he's going to Boston?!

Have you seen THEIR fans? I mean the Boston Globe doesn't even bother carrying that Miss Manners column.

He's a career .179 hitter at Fenway.

Yea, this is gonna work.

Welcome! (oh, don't mind that over there, ok?)

The Boston Herald reports that newly signed pitcher for the Red Sox, John Lackey and his wife, Krista were in town last week. As many visitors do, they stopped to get a bite to eat at a restaurant in Kenmore Square. So far, near perfect.

Apparently, Krista put her nice fur coat on a chair where an inebriated patron promptly threw up on it. Not even a fur protester to my knowledge. Just a drunk guy.

Welcome to Bawston, lady!*

What?! You thought this was gonna be a bed of roses here?!

*Apparently she is from the area so no doubt has seen vomitus maximus in restaurants before. On St. Patrick's Day, it is even green.

(You know this is one of the few Goudeys this year that makes the player look better than in real life but again it's Lackey)

Theo Epstein is speed-dialing Bud Selig right now

Per the Boston Herald, Daisuka Matsuzaka may be out for the season.

Terry Francona: "This is not going to be a two-week DL. We have to figure this out. We have a lot of work ahead of us, trying to get him back to being Dice-K."

Daisuka Matsuzaka when asked if he will return this season: "I don't think that's really my decision and I don't think frankly anybody really knows how things are going to proceed. All I can do right now is do what I need to do."

What are the chances of a Red Sox pitcher ever pitching in the WBC again?

Less than single digits?

David Ortiz says he will have his eyes checked

"I've been thinking about getting my eyes checked-for real," he said, "My vision has always been 20-20, and I'm not feeling anything crazy, but I'm going to get it checked out." This per the Associated Press.

Aw come on now! You CANNOT tell me that after all this time, that this has not been thought of or looked at yet. You just can't. Sorry, it is just not within the realm of believability that the Red Sox would not have had set him up for a simple eye/vision test sometime throughout this long horrid slump. They have Bill James on staff evaluating every baseball statistic known to man but they haven't had his eyes checked yet?

Please tell me that Big Papi is just joking around here and that this hasn't already been done.

I do like the "I'm not feeling anything crazy" comment though.