i just can't even begin to tell you how happy this makes me

just seeing Wake & Schill getting reacquainted with the baseball. does it get any better than this...?

...or this? =)


even the workouts appear to be fun! ::giggle::


and then there's the media circus surrounding our newest pitcher, but i am really far more amazed by #31 -- one Jon Lester, back from an off-season fight against cancer. it is incredible to see him back on the field so quickly. (and i think i will save my Matsuzaka praise for when he shows us something in a Boston uniform. til then... all just hype. so was Josh Beckett before last year officially got under way. and we know what happened there.::cringes at the memory:: let's hope it goes better than *that*.)


and then there's Julian...

...oh Julian...who almost had me ::gasp:: liking him after his performance late last season... and then i read this...
Asked if he expected to be traded, Tavarez said: "Not yet." The journeyman said he would not be dismayed if a trade happens. The positive part of being traded, he said, is that the team doesn't make a deal unless it wants the player. "Piece of cake," he said. "Different color uniform, but the money is still green." (Extra Bases)
::shakes head:: i guess we see which green monster is most important to our old buddy Ugly EZ.
=P

all photos courtesy of The Boston Globe