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The Schilling files
Published 4/5/2007 by Seth Mnookin at The Feeding the Monster Blog -- In which the author discusses Boston, the Red Sox, the media, and very occasionally popular music.
... I gots to run, and there’s been several full days of baseball to mull over with nary a peep out of me. There have been some nice developments: last night Beckett didn’t seem afraid to throw his curve, and while KC probably isn’t the best indicator of what the season’s going to be like, on a night when Mike Lowell seemingly wasn’t able to hold onto the ball, it was nice to see the rest of the Hanley Ramirez trade bait step up to the plate, as it were. Tek finally got a hit (although I’m increasingly less confident we’ll see a lot of those this year…to say nothing of ‘08). J.D. “Don’t call me Nancy” Drew is stroking the ball. And Youkilis is showing he’s ready to take Manny’s mantle as the premier slugger in the game.

Matsuzaka - Potentially Every Bit As Good As John Maine
Published 4/5/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... , was nearly as good, striking out 7 and giving up just a pair of earned runs in 7 innings. Jonathan Papelbon had a perfect 9th inning to collect his first save of the ‘07 campaign, while Mike Lowell singled, doubled, and managed not to commit any errors.

The Week In Quotes: April 2-9 by Alex Carnevale
Published 4/9/2007 at Baseball Prospectus
... , on a play by the Red Sox right fielder that bailed out Lowell for multiple errors in an inning. "I told J.D. when he came in after the inning, ‘No one loves you more than me.’" --Lowell "The first one could have been iffy. It was a hard-hit ball. The scorer’s the scorer. I’m not going to (complain) about it." --Lowell "That’s his quota for a couple of months." --Red Sox manager Terry Francona (Michael Silverman, Boston Herald ) AND THAT'S HOW ELIJAH DUKES OVERDOSED ON JAMBA JUICE "You can probably just imagine. Put it this way: It won't do no good to try to call somebody in their room. You better have a cell phone number." --