Scott Priest

He’s appealing, so he’s available tonight, but it looks like we’ll be without our closer for a bit.

Morning post at Ted’s Army.

Morning post at Ted’s Army, plus news on an old friend being released.

Who doesn’t like to take a look at the schedule?

Morning post at Ted’s Army.

Quick injury update post.

David Ortiz is awesome; Justin Verlander is awesomer.

A bit of an odd-couple story, in hindsight, via Fox Sports.

Carl Crawford’s getting hot, and we get into Dustin Pedroia’s struggles.

Last spring, I interviewed Will Leitch for the now-defunct GHOST magazine. My friend from college was the editor and worked with Leitch at New York Magazine; she casually asked me if I’d want to talk to him.

We ended up emailing back and forth, and he answered every dumb question I sent him. He was every bit as nice (at least in email correspondence) as you always hear, and I think his answers seem pretty thoughtful.

This isn’t the final version — in fact, since GHOST was print-only, I never actually saw the final version — but it’s what I submitted.

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