Boston Red Sox - Door might already be shut on AL closer in All-Star Game - The Boston Globe

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Boston Red Sox - Door might already be shut on AL closer in All-Star Game - The Boston Globe
Projo Sox Blog found this 7/15/2008 on www.boston.com [flag]
Many argue the AL's Mariano Rivera should close tonight's All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. Many argue the AL's Mariano Rivera should close tonight's All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) [link]

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Baseball Today: Tuesday, July 15
Published 7/15/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... . (Boston Herald) ("Of course I want to close the game out. I wouldn't be Jonathan Papelbon if I didn't want to close the game out . . . If I were the manager, I'd use me.") He also acknowledged that "[there's] things within this game I have to understand . . . [and] one of the things I owe to this game [is] to let an elder statesman go ahead of me." Later he grabbed a Boston Globe reporter's tape recorder and, using it like a microphone, said: "This is Jonathan Papelbon, closer of the Boston Red Sox. Mariano Rivera will be closing the 2008 All-Star Game in Yankee Stadium. I'm ...

Papelbon on Rivera: "We have an awesome relationship."
Published 7/15/2008 by susan mullen (noreply@blogger.com) at XM MLB Chat
Boston Globe: ""We have an awesome relationship," Papelbon said of Rivera. "I saw him this morning. We were hanging out with [Sox bullpen coach] Gary Tuck, who was with Mariano here. ...

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