Offseason IN Review For BoSox 

New Look, best Pitcher in baseball, Key Additions. Management have some high
Expectations for This Franchise. Getting Infront of the Yankees is something
they want to do but leaving them in the Dust is the Ultimate Goal.

First ever Trade in NIBA History(*trivia question) saw Boston get a long
awaited Closer in Troy Percival, which sent Person and Ramiro Mendoza out.
The bullpen looked Weak but the addition of Percival made it a bullpen to
look at.

Then same day, two hours later, Boston management brought in Scott Sullivan
to fill a much needed spot behind Pedro and Lowe making the rotation pretty
much set.

A few days later, Boston management was back on the phones again with Cincy,
this time they traded for a relief pitcher which they eyed for a while. In
return for heredia, Bo Sox sent back Jose Guillen to Cincy in hopes of
finding more playing time there.

Seeing that the team still needed more pitching, BoSox management sent young
prospects SP Phil Dumatrait and 3B Kevin Youkilis to the new look twins for
young phenom JC Romero.

Two hours later, Todd Hundley was on his way to Boston in exchange Varritek
was sent packing the other way to LA along with Todd "play me more"Walker.
This deal made the Sox have the catcher the team needed.

Still not satisfied with the Pen, bosox management traded for another good
reliever and sent a prospect out to Baltimore. Kerry Lightenberg is not
brought in to setup Percival.

The MOVE that Fans all have been waiting for finally happened. Mo Vaughn was
back in Fenway park. Mo Wanted back and Boston wanted him now hes back to
where he made a name for himself and the city couldn't be more happier. With
the news that Mo was back in Beantown, the bosox sold out on all their home
games for the upcoming season. A fan was quoted as saying "This is the best
thing that Boston management has done since giving up Babe Ruth", what I say
as a reporter is this man is a joke still, Whatever happened to Pedro, hes
the best thing that ever happened to Boston.

After That deal Bosox management were satisfied with the way the team looked
so the GM went back in the hood to take care of some things and didn't talk
trade until this morning, "So I've heard".

New Look BoSox.

The Hitting is better than before, the OF is stacked with speed and power to
give the pitching what it needs, Manny and Damon could be too much for
opposition pitching. Hundley brings his power game into the catching spot.
DH Mo Vaughn will still be a fan favorite even if he strikes out a million
times but thats not his goal. SS, its all bout Nomar, he just hopes to over
.350 this season. With speedsters like Damian Jackson on the team and Johnny
Damon, this team will get alot of steals to get into scoring positions for
the big guyz.

The Pitching is led by future hall of famer Pedro. All the hitting has to do
is just give him 2 runs and the game could be easily over. Kim finds his way
into the rotation in hopes of staying there but the man has some pitches
that he can dominate with, he can always pitch in the pen where he loves. JC
Romero wants to start and he gets the chance to. He said that "I will make
Minny regret dealing me because well, I liked the place". With all that
said, the pitching is as good as it has ever been and it can beat out the
old legs of the Yankees.

The bullpen on the other hand, was weak, now its one of the teams strong
points, Kerry Lightenberg, Felix Heredia, Troy Percival and now Jeff Suppan
join Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield and Alan Embree to form a pen that will be
hard to stop when the pitching hands the ball to them.

This is Mike Wilbon of ESPN reporting from Boston. I took a break PTI so I
can get a free vacation. Tony Kornheiser(TK), you should do the same.

One other thing, Boston management don't believe in predictions, they are
worse than Miss Cleo trying to tell someone future, they never come true,
teams are lucky to see that half of what they said comes true. And Truth be
told/said, BOSTON management didn't like me coming into their spring
trainining and doing a report on them, they said that if they see my face
again, the ball boy will be coming after me.  For one thing though, I didn't
want to talk about any mobo jumbo stuff about any team but I gots to get
paid, my gurl is gon leave me. Thats it for now, but am Mike Wilbon expect
to see me on PTI tomorrow.

Latz