SoxProspects on the newest waiver acquisition, Virgil Vasquez: "Impeccable control. Fastball has good movement.  Prone to giving up a ton of home runs."

I'd bat Varitek 10th.

Having a Red Sox starter who's running on fumes come out for th 8th? In an ALCS game?

In case you were wondering, here's the skinny on Joe Maddon's new math. It's even less clever than I initially thought.

Sox in 6.

Some words of advice: just do the opposite of everything Torrii Hunter does.

Don Orsillo and Harold Reynolds together at last, doing the Ray-White Sox game.

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If the promotion of Zink can't pull the Love out of semi-retirement, then nothing can. Seriously, folks, if you can't root for this guy, then you just don't like baseball. On to our facts!

• Went to art school in war-torn Georgia.
• Art background helps him paint the corners.
• Only the 8th big-leaguer to come out of Savannah College of Art and Design.
• When ahead in the count, will throw a 45-MPH schmuckleball.
• Throws a sinker in the high 80's that he proudly likes to call "The Zinkerball".
• SCAD teammates, impressed with his toughness, nicknamed him "Ox Hide". Yes, that's right, he's Charlie Zink "Ox Hide".
• Was once romantically linked to Kendal [sic] Sheppard of MTV's Road Rules:Campus Crawl.

Portland, ME.