Saturday, December 30, 2006

as 2006 winds down

Lastest from the Globe at noontime Saturday was that the ongoing J.D Drew contract saga will continue into the New Year and that Theo and Boras will try to hammer out something next week. Something isn't right for this to drag out for a month.
Daisuke Matsuzaka certainly looks good in a Sox uniform. He has been busy in Japan making commercials. Boston.com looks at other Sox players who have done commercials.
Things are so quiet this weekend that NESN even did a story on Matsuzaka's commercial.
Bob Ryan does his annual "State of Boston Sports" and says this about the Olde Towne Team -

Be honest. None of us could have remotely imagined that Red Sox interest could get much higher than it was in 2002. Who would have believed the Red Sox would themselves have become Evil Empire II by spending $51.1 million just to talk to a Japanese pitcher, or that people would be paying 100 bucks to sit in a glorified bleacher seat on top of the left-field wall or that they would sell out every game? You can’t take that for granted. It won’t always be like this, but, right now, in 2007, they’ll most likely sell out every game for the third consecutive season.
The team? I don’t know who’s going to close games, but I have a feeling they’ll make the playoffs.
The Globe considers these the Top 10 stories of 2006 in Boston sports

1. Red Sox sign Daisuke Matsuzaka
2. Red Auerbach dies
3. Theo Epstein returns to Red Sox
4. Bruins’ makeover
5. Rookie stars Jon Lester, Phil Kessel diagnosed with cancer
6. David Ortiz’s heroics
7. Red Sox swept away by Yankees at Fenway
8. Patriots bounced out of playoffs by Broncos
9. Ex-Patriots
10. Tom O’Brien departs BC

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