Sports Redux: A Day Of Calm

The Red Sox have returned home to find out which parts of Fenway haven't washed out to sea in the last two weeks. They'll play the Mariners to begin a 10-game homestand that will take us to the All-Star break; Oakland and Kansas City will follow. Red Sox history will be made tonight, weather permitting, as Tim Wakefield will make his record-breaking 383rd start for the team. Pushing that Clemens uncomfortableness out of the record book. We say "weather permitting", of course, because we've heard that the guys from Seattle are rumbling that Boston is a little too rainy and clammy and cloudy for them. Let's hope for the best.

One Sox player who made the most of the day off was Jason Bay, who stopped by Fanieul Hall with his wife to take the oath and become U.S. citizens. Does this mean Tito can't rag on him for his Canadianness? Will Bay run out to left with a tiny American flag tonight? Questions swirl.

Elsewhere in baseball, the same Mariners beat the Yankees, growing the Sox' ALE lead to 3. There was some excitement at the Astros/Padres game (now there's a sentence that doesn't exactly write itself), as a giant swarm of bees invaded left field in San Diego and caused a nearly hour-long delay. A representative finally explained to the bees that Joba Chamberlain was 3,000 miles away, and they dispersed without incident.

The Celtics' Danny Ainge and Wyc Grousbeck brought some friends along with them on their business trip to Detroit. Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett tagged along to Motown to meet with free agent forward Rasheed Wallace and talk up life in Boston. If Rasheed agrees (he said he's not going to rush into a decision), it doesn't bode well for Glen Davis' future with the team. The Celtics have already wished Leon Powe luck on the free agency market; as certified Powe-lovers, Bostonist actually hopes his injury scares other teams away and he winds up back here after all. A website can dream, right? The Bruins, meanwhile, resigned Mark Recchi for another year.

The Globe finally found out about the trend of athletes on Twitter. We do love the news that Bill Belichick had to caution his charges against overusing social media; we're dying to know how that speech went.