Red Sox to Play, Go to Japan

 
The Boston Red Sox ended a threatened boycott Wednesday of their final spring training game in Florida, resolving a dispute over paying coaches for the season-opening trip to Japan. [link]

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Red Sox, MLB resolve dispute over coaches' pay after team takes stand

The Boston Red Sox ended a threatened boycott Wednesday of their final spring training game in Florida, resolving a dispute over paying coaches and staff for the season-opening trip to Japan.
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Sox threaten to boycott Japan trip

F ORT MYERS - The Red Sox [ team stats ] trip to Japan has already hit a major snag. During a players-only team meeting at City of Palms Park this morning at 8:30, the players decided unanimously, according to more than one player, that the Sox would ...
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Roundup - Boycott Settled

Boston players settle coach bonus dispute, Bradley and Gallardo coming back, Pelfrey and Hernandez compete for the same job, George Sherrill will be the Orioles closer in 2008...
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Resolution is official

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Sox PR man John Blake has announced there has been a resolution to the dispute bwteen the players and MLB over coaches compensation. Blake did not elaborate on what the resolution was, but that player rep Kevin Youkilis would ...
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I admit it: I was drawn in by the faux boycott

One time when I worked at the daily newspaper in Greenwich, Connecticut, I was conducting man-on-the-street interviews outside the town library, asking people if the paper’s decision to endorse John Kerry for president would influence their own ...
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Boston Red Sox ended a threatened boycott yesterday of their final spring training game in Florida, resolving a dispute over paying coaches for the season-opening trip to Japan. The televised game against Toronto started an...