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Red Sox chairman
Tom Werner said it well over the weekend,
"Everybody is very pleased about the fact the team has really come together. It's a fun team to watch." As we take stock of the series win over the Blue Jays (3 out of 4), it's increasingly evident that the team
Ben Cherington cobbled together over the Winter is, in fact, likable. They
are fun to watch. Although not quite as wild and wacky as the
2004 Idiots, this bunch of Carmine Hose has a sort of
restrained goofiness—probably governed by the personality of their manager
John Farrell. As in 2004, they are getting contributions from some unlikely sources—like they did yesterday from
Brandon Snyder and
Ryan Lavarnway.
Jonny Gomes is not quite
Kevin Millar—but he's not far off, at least in terms of his clubhouse value. In fact, Millar's best buddy in the world (
Ryan Dempster) has been an on-field and off-field plus this year. Of course, a lot of this talk is meaningless unless you win. It's not so much team "chemistry" as it is team "physics"—whether you can hit and pitch the ball well enough to pile up victories. So, while this 50-34 group is not exactly
Idiots II, maybe we can at least call them
Kooks I.
