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The feud between Red Sox ownership and Hank "Spaulding Smails" Steinbrenner is escalating. After Hank moaned, "Red Sox Nation? What a bunch of [expletive] that is.", John Henry responded by sending Hank an honorary RSN membership card.

We could go into all sorts of philosophical and historical stories to draw some sort of analogy between the Red Sox and the Braves – from Thanksgiving to the Trail of Tear, but we won't go there. It's Monday and it's warm. The Sox won the last three games, all of them that they played against the Braves on their home turf in Hot-lanta. After falling to the Twins in Minnesota we'll take them – and know that our smelling salts work better than the Tomahawk Chop any game of the season. This video is proof positive of two things – Red Sox fans are everywhere, in every stadium, especially if the Sox are playing, and the Tomahawk Chop couldn't pull the Atlanta Braves out of the rut that leaves them with a string of losses. Three of at the hands of the Red Sox bristles as they were swept in the series.

It’s been an eventful week for the Sox at baseball’s winter meetings. Already, 2 deals have been made by the Sox as the 2006 squad starts to shape up.

No doubt glad to be back home, at least for a little while, the Red Sox licked their collective wounds and returned to Boston last night after a pretty abysmal performance by Grimace, errr ... David Wells, after his stint on the DL. Two innings, 7 runs? Sure, not a problem! Today armchair managers across New England put on their 20/20 "hindsight goggles" and wondered whether or not Boomer should have taken the mound in Pawtucket for one game to work out the kinks and make sure he's game-ready. Bostonist trusts Tito, and probably would have agreed with the decision to let the veteran decide how he felt. Sure it didn't work out, but ... hey! If a pitcher can't ask for a measly 14 runs in run-support then whatayagon' do?!