Spring Training and the Future of Red Sox Pitching

By DoNoUhOh, Section MLB
Posted on Sat Apr 07 2007 at 9:28 PM EST
More on: Daisuke Matsuzaka, spring training, Red Sox, Papelbon (all tags)

I can still remember the day I stopped being a baseball fan.  It was the day Tony Tarasco's career was snatched away by a boy named Jeffrey Maier.  It was the day that my beloved Orioles led the AL East wire to wire only to fall to the Yankees.  The Yankees became a dynasty of champions.  The Orioles became a dynasty of losers.  Baseball was never the same for me.  Innocence lost around the time I turned 11.  I'll tune in for a couple playoff games if the teams are interesting or the game is close in the late innings but the love is lost.  I guess it wasn't meant to be.

Somehow ten years later I find myself watching a Boston Red Sox spring training game.  Flipping channels I saw that Daisuke Matsuzaka was pitching.  Apparently hype does work.  The hundred million dollar myth from Japan had piqued my interest.

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