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Flipping the expendable Coco Crisp for an inexpensive bullpen arm with promise is just the sort of move Theo Epstein has to make.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - It's going to be a tough game, Wes Welker said. The opposing fans, the high stakes, the fact that one team with title aspirations suffered an embarrassing loss the last time the two teams met.
BOSTON - Updated, 12:19 p.m. Outfielder Coco Crisp was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Kansas City Royals today for reliever Ramon Ramirez.
Two punches. Monarchs forward Kevin Westgarth, a 6-foot-5, 247-pounder, needed only a left hook and right uppercut to floor Jeff Szwez of the Philadelphia Phantoms. The Nov. 7 bout in Manchester, viewed almost 9,000 times on YouTube, sent a message throughout the AHL: Don't mess with the Princeton pugilist.
Dustin and Kelli Pedroia could have been in Mexico yesterday -- with the season the Red Sox second baseman had, it would have been a well-deserved vacation.
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