Blog Hog: 500 + 1 Posts!

Dear Criss, do you realize we've hit post number 500? In fact, this is number 501!

I'm happy to hog the blog this week with Red Sox, Steelers and Patriots news. Hee, hee. So here's the scoop (um, I guess it's not really scoop if it's all over the news): Pedroia got a lovely $40.5 million, six-year contract with a club option in 2015. What's up with Jacoby? When's he gonna get a contract in the millions? Let's help these kids pay the bills. No, but really, Jacoby deserves a nicer contract that closely matches Dusty's. Now I know he kinda slumped a little last season, but he's one of the two reasons we won another World Series in 2007. The other reason I just covered.

And then there's news Theo said it's an option to keep Varitek AND pick up the catcher of the future. Don't care how that works, just re-sign Varitek, send him to a retreat in the mountains of some foreign country and hire a private batting coach for him.

Also, my Sox picked up another Japanese pitcher, and he looks at least 15. He also looks like an old college friend who is blonde with blue eyes - but don't ask. Meet Junichi Tazawa. He'll hang out in the minors for a while. But as my wise mother said, "We're not gonna get excited yet." You know what happens when you do.

So what's up on your side of the sports world?

Roxy

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