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With his stolen base last night, Red Sox
outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury earned everyone in the country a
free taco from Taco Bell on Tuesday, Oct. 30, between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. (thanks to Taco Bell's "Steal a Base, Steal a Taco" promotion).
The NYPost is all wrong with its reporting.
'Red Sox manager Terry Francona was peeved this morning
that a (major league baseball) security person made him show that he was wearing his uniform top in the second inning of Wednesday night's game with Derek Jeter at second base.'
Free-agent third baseman Mike Lowell has agreed in
principle to the framework of a three-year deal to
return to the Red Sox, major league baseball sources close to the negotiations have confirmed. Lowell, 33, tested the free-agent waters, and may ...
Below is the complete transcript of Mike Wallace's
interview with Roger Clemens, which aired this evening on
the Jan. 6 edition of '60 Minutes'. The transcript is courtesy of CBS: STUDIO OPEN: WITH 354 WINS, ROGER CLEMENS IS ONE OF THE BEST ...
The Red Sox and closer Jonathan Papelbon have
agreed to a one-year deal worth $775,000. That's more
than closer Bobby Jenks got with a similar amount of service time, as he signed a $550,000 contract. Papelbon was looking for a deal in the range of ...
ORLANDO--Agents who attended yesterday's union meeting in New
York were told that 11 current free-agents are named
in the George Mitchell report which could come out sometime around the first of the year, and that all 11 players have been notified by ...
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling reiterated this morning
his previous assertion that he would not consider pitching
for the Yankees next season, despite comments to the contrary from his personal doctor. "[Schilling] called me when he was angry ...
The Red Sox and Twins are through negotiating
for now, Both Sox GM Theo Epstein and Twins
GM Bill Smith have called it a night, but momentous news may await in the morning. As Amalie Benjamin reported an hour ago, the sides have exchanged medical ...
FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Red Sox have
just made Doug Mirabelli's release official. He was placed
on unconditional release waivers. Will he be back? That all depends on how well Kevin Cash or Dusty Brown handles Tim Wakefield. Wakefield ...
FORT MYERS, Fla. - While major league sources
indicate the Chicago Cubs have Coco Crisp on their
wish list, the Red Sox have no interest in expendable starting pitcher Jason Marquis or Arizona League MVP outfielder Sam Fuld. Both of those ...
Curt Schilling may be a big fan of
Roger Clemens, but you wont find any Barry Bonds
posters hanging on the walls of his Medfield home. Schilling, in his weekly appearance on sports radio WEEIs Dennis and Callahan show, was asked if baseball ...
Mike Lowell's agents and Theo Epstein could not
reach an agreement about an hour before the midnight
deadline in which the Red Sox had exclusive rights to negotiate with Lowell. Lowell will now be a complete free-agent and can negotiate with ...
The Red Sox today agreed to one-year, $800,000
deal with lefthanded hitting first baseman Sean Casey, pending
a physical. Casey will serve primarily in a backup role to Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis. Casey is known as "the mayor" around the ...
While talking to Julian Tavarez the other day
about his impoverished upbringing in the Dominican -- he
never went to school, sold newspapers, cleaned shoes and helped his dad, a construction worker -- Tavarez sheepishly admitted he had an odd ...
While Foxsports.com is reporting that the Braves and
Rangers have a deal in place for Mark Teixeira,
a major league source said a short time ago that chances were pretty good that the Red Sox would complete a deal with the Chicago White Sox for ...
Remember, these situations are fluid, but while the
White Sox remain hopeful of persuading the Sox to
make a deal for outfielder Jermaine Dye, the price remains too high for Boston. Chicago would take Wily Mo Pena but want either Manny Delcarmen ...
Daigo Fujiwara, the Globe's graphic designer who does
a great job of monitoring Japanese media for stuff
about Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hideki Okajima and other stories of interest in Japanese baseball, translated a recent radio interview Sox reliever ...
Expressing a need to be closer to her
family, Red Sox field reporter Tina Cervasio is leaving
her post at NESN effective at the end of March. These last two years working with NESN and covering the Red Sox have been both a privilege and an ...
The Red Sox and Terry Francona this morning
finalized terms of a three-year extension that will take
the Sox manager through the 2011 season, the team confirmed today. WBZ4's Dan Roche first broke the story this morning. The agreement was reached ...
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Who knows whether the
Sox will stick with Kevin Cash as their backup/Tim
Wakefield catcher, but for now he appears to be the man. The Sox haven't yet announced it, but they've released Doug Mirabelli. The veteran, who has been with ...



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