The Nest

If they’re not careful, the Red Sox will have to take out an ad in the Boston Globe:

Help Wanted
-Experience preferred
-Must be willing to travel
-Weekends and nights.

Yes, the injury bug has hit the team – and hard – and Francona is juggling faster and harder than a sideshow act at a Ringling Brothers Circus to put healthy bodies on the field.

Mike Lowell, J. D. Drew, Julio Lugo, Sean Casey and Alex Cora are just some of the latest casualties.

More recently Big Papi hears an ominous popping sound in his wrist after swinging and fouling off a pitch. Now he’s in a cast to immobilize his wrist and is probably out for at least a month (maybe longer?).

Manny’s hamstring is acting up and will no doubt slow down his homerun trot even more! Ellsbury usual hustle play landed him some bench time on a day to day basis after he rolled his wrist underneath his body making yet another spectacular play.

Granted, other than Ellsbury, the Sox won’t miss much defensively from either David or Manny but those are three bats that they can ill-afford to lose from the lineup.

But it isn’t as if there isn’t a silver lining to all this mess. Chris Carter, a recent Triple-A Pawtucket callup was thrust into a game the other night when the Sox and Rays swung at each other rather than the ball. Carter’s performance that night was fun to watch. It’s great that the Red Sox can rely on their home-grown talent when needed and it looks as if they’ll be need’n them soon!

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