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So Yoshi wants to know how many "Yoshi"'s I know. That leads me to believe that he's not as excited about our new blog as I am. Or it's one of his games. Either way, it obviously didn't effect his fire today:

Yoshi: Ortiz should beat the c out of Burnett tonite.

followed by: Ellsbury too.

followed followed by: You got to sign Martinez.

Right. Right. And... What? But, first, Yes, Ortiz should've and Ellsbury kind of did. But Martinez? As in Pedro Martinez? Yoshi. Bro. He threw one good pitch at Fenway this season and let's leave it at that. Re-signing Martinez would be like dating an ex-girlfriend -- it feels right at first and then... Wait! That's it! Yoshi never dated an ex-girlfriend.

Quick crash course in dating an ex-girlfriend: At first, she's totally cool. She doesn't do any of the things you used to hate, i.e. cheat on you, tease your kid brother about his stutter, or steal from you. So you think, wow, who cares if she's put on a few pounds? I've put on way more. Compared to me, she looks kind of ok; which is kind of smoking hot compared to the more recent blog-hags. But you're wrong. You already know she's cray-cray. She didn't change and neither did you. She's going to hate you for the same reasons. You're going to hate her for the same reasons. And things are going to end for the same reasons; i.e., she's old and you're no willing to pay her enough money.

Yoshi, there was a reason Pedro was wearing dress slacks the other night: Theo wasn't willing to pay him to pitch.

And then I read the recap of tonight's game...

Hideki Okajima - the kid Yoshi used to babysit in high school - walked in the winning run in the 8th. That got me thinking. Maybe Yoshi's right. What if Theo signed Pedro and put him in the pen. You saw him pitch last year for the Phillies. Old man still had some heat. Imagine: Pedro - Bard - Pap. Yoshi, that's not fair.

How many Yoshi's do I know? Maybe a dozen, or so. But how many Yoshi's do I know who'd jump back in with his ex and make her convert to a dope-ass set-up man? Only one.