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T here was a time — a glorious time of abundance and joy — when the rest of America was really, really sick of the Red Sox. The Sox were on TV all the time. The Yankees were, ...

Red Sox legend David Ortiz is one of them, begging on NESN for the Sox to spend some money. "PLEASE! PLEASE... to put a good lineup together, nowadays, is not that difficult. What you gotta do is ...