Autistic Man Singing National Anthem Gets Some HelpSource: Godvine.com
Some uplifting video for your Monday, showing the power of the people. A young man with autism sings the national anthem. As his nerves get a little frazzled he gets some help. Truly inspirational.
Worth every PennySource: The Boston Herald
Brad Penny took a line drive to the chest, right over his heart, last night at Fenway Park [map] that would have sent most pitchers, never mind your average human being, crumpling to the ground in agony - or something worse.
Not Penny.
Clock's ticking for Theo EpsteinSource: The Boston Herald
DETROIT - With two months in the books of the Red Sox [team stats]' 2009 season, their plot is beginning to resemble one of those boilerplate thrillers where the leading man spends the first third of the book ducking sniper attacks and dodging poisoned meals.
Junichi Tazawa taking different route to the bigsSource: The Boston Herald
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- When Daisuke Matsuzaka [stats] arrived in spring training two years ago and threw his first practice pitch as a member of the Red Sox [team stats], he did so under the frantic watch of hundreds of media representatives from both the United States and Japan.
The Evil Has ShiftedSource: blog.f-boston.com
For all the negative attention the New York Yankees receive for their free spending on the open market, the Boston Red Sox have quietly established themselves as the highest paid championship team in baseball history for the second time in four years.