If anyone ever doubted that the Boston Red Sox clubhouse was a family, heres your proof:
Essentially, MLB thought they could cut a few costs on the big "Opening the season in Japan" experiment by not paying bonuses to the coaches and staff of the Sox and the A's, even though they are paying each player $40,000 to make the trip. The Red Sox players, upon learning of this, voted unanimously to cancel the trip and boycott their last spring training game. You gotta hand it to these guys, $40k is a drop in the bucket to some of them, but they didnt forget their roots here. Thats a good deal of money to the guys who wash the jerseys and pick up the balls after batting practice. Even for the coaches, $40k is 40% of the salary for some on the lower rungs. Heres to labor sticking it to management!
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Show me a picture of Varitek presiding over a Hiroshima or Nagasaki monument and we can maybe talk about the sox MAYBE being half the humanitarians that the Yankees are.
While I admit I too would rather sit on a plane for 15 hours to Japan than to have to spend 1 hour in Blacksburg, the Yankees still let Billy Crystal bat lead-off instead of some poor inner-city kid.
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