Or so they're reporting in the Boston Globe.

You know, talent-wise, I'd love to get him here. As great as Lowell has been, A-Rod is just a more dangerous hitter, and he's pretty solid with the glove, too.

But not for $350 million.

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Yesterday in the Broncos-Bills game, the worst nightmare of every football player happened to Bills reserve tight end Kevin Everett. While covering a kickoff, Everett came out of a helmet-to-helmet hit with a fractured cervical spine. His spinal cord is intact, but he's still in a medically induced coma, some paralysis is likely, and there is still some chance he could die.

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I'm going to be out of town for a few days, so here are my OTM picks for the next several games. If someone would copy them to the appropriate threads for me, I'd appreciate it.

Friday, 8/17, game 1:

Player of the Game: Lowell
Buchholz's Line: 6 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 5 K
Above and Beyond: Sox have at least 5 extra base hits

Friday, 8/17, game 2:

Player of the Game: Manny
Beckett's Line: 7 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 7 K
Above and Beyond: Sox hit 2 HRs

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Tim Wakefield takes on Roy Halladay tonight in the first game after the All-Star break. Go Sox!

Sox lineup is up:

Drew, rf
Pedroia, 2b
Ortiz, dh
Ramirez, lf
Youkilis, 1b
Lowell, 3b
Crisp, cf
Mirabelli, c
Lugo, ss

Sox Player of the Game:
Wakefield's Line (IP, H, R, BB, SO):
Above and Beyond:

Just to add insult to injury, while she attended the funeral of her son, the late Marquise Hill, someone broke into Sherry Hill's home and stole $16,000 worth of property.

I just don't have any words to describe how disgusting this is. I don't hold out much hope that the thief or thieves will be caught, but here's hoping they are caught, and that the prosecutor throws the book at them.

ESPN.com is reporting that AGon has signed a three year deal with the Reds. We need a new shortstop.

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I promoted this to the front page as it needed exposure and RSNexile had written about it so well. /SweSox

I spent much of the afternoon, as I frequently do when I work at home, with my TV on CNN. I watched with horror as they showed the aftermath of a plane that crashed into an apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The initial speculation, of course, was that it may have been a terrorist attack, but the small size of the plane -- it wasn't that big a fire -- seemed to preclude that possibility and it was discarded pretty quickly.

I never expected, though, that the story would take a sports-related turn: Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle may have been piloting the plane, and he and one other person were killed.

Lidle was working toward getting his pilot's license, and as the story on ESPN indicates, he has made several statements to the press about his interest in flying and all the safety precautions he took. It sounds like he was very conscientious, and it seems like this was just a freak accident of the sort that happens on planes (and small planes in particular) from time to time.

I've never been a Lidle fan, and of course I can't stand the Yankees, but when something like this happens, none of that is important. My heart goes out to Lidle's wife, Melanie, and six-year-old son, Christopher.

Rest in peace, Cory.

Let me apologize in advance for this diary. I didn't see anything about this story here, and I thought you good folks might be better able to help than I.

Some of you may be aware by now that SBNation's tech guy, Jeremy, a resident of Olympia, was lucky enough not to be home a couple days ago when a drunk driver plowed his truck into Jeremy's home. Had he been home, it is very likely he and his infant daughter could have been killed.

Now Jeremy needs our help.

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