This is for Tim especially, but others may also enjoy this week’s free download - Chris Thomas King’s “Baptized in Dirty Water” (Oh Brother Where Art Thou’s Tommy Johnson). Nevermind the Katrina message, it’s a great song with serious guitar skillz.
(1) It is reportedly 80-90% certain that the Sox will trade David Wells within the next 48 hours - he cleared waivers back in the beginning of August and as such can be traded without restriction to any club.
(2) Francona “spoke to Ortiz and said he hasn’t suffered any more episodes”, after Big Papi checked back into Mass General last evening, the second time this month.
(3) ESPN.com has an interesting survey going on - “which player do the Red Sox miss most: David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, or Jason Varitek?” Looking that the regional results, the whole country is blue (for Ortiz) except New England, where Maine, VT, NH, and Mass all picked Varitek. And it’s not just because he wears the C - as I have commented before, the loss of Tek directly correlates to the decline in pitching performance, especially with the youngsters.
