Great day/night to be a sports fan in New England. Patriots simply dismantled one of the "best" defenses of the NFL in the Detroit Lions. Celtics played a very high caliber team in the Trailblazers in a 2-3 possession game. And finally the big splash of November, the 5 year/ 90 million dollar contract supposive signing of Ex Sox SS, 30 year old Hanley Ramirez. I love this move by Ben Cherrington, but most of all about it how under the radar it was. Not to toot my own horn but i think i follow a very underrated group twitter accounts and saw this hours before the rest of you shmucks. As I'm typing this more rumors circle that Pablo "Panda" Sandoval is on his way to Boston. Like Ramirez, to ink a new deal of his own and join our squad for another "Worst to First" year for your 2013 World Champs. Although its nice to see a front office spend some cash and revamp a deflated roster (take note C's & B's). Problem i do have, is does these two acquisitions taint the run were giving Lester? and what to do with our young guys. At this point i think we can only get 2 out of these three guys without making a mess of our depth charts, where id rather see Hanley & Lester versus any other combo. I have a man crush on the Middlebrooks/Jenny Dell situation and i can't disagree that I'm a big fan of Xander Bogarts (sp?). So these two guys get kicked to the curb or sent down to develop longer? i doubt that this will go smoothly. Hanley was quoted as being open to working at Third or SS, which is a great thing so him and X will be interchangeable. I have a vision that the Panda signing is an eventual bridging of the gap to lessen the burden of David Ortiz. When i think of an American League DH, the build and make up of Sandoval comes to mind very quickly. Big Bat with a large frame, hopefully I'm not correct about this since i can't imagine a Brady/Papi-less world.Sox lineups no matter what this year is going to be exciting, and it must be a coincidence that were like 75% of latin decent. Cespedes, Rusney Castillo, Hanley, Panda Sandoval, yeah it seems like Papi's indirectly the guy behind all of this. If your skin color aint midsummer time all year round we don't want ya!
Oh the Giants aren't going to pay Panda ......"HMD"!
To quote the film Superbad..People don't forget!
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