On WBZ's Sports Final last night they had an interview with Mike Lowell. He was his usual charming self but he was mostly there to plug his book, which comes out May 6. It sounds interesting enough and I probably would have purchased it for that reason alone but some interesting things came up during the discussion. The first is that Rob Bradford (who co-wrote it) used excerpts from Lowell's journal-the Beckett type journal-as introductions for the chapters. The second fabulous thing (and I really wish that Amazon or Barnes and Noble had a picture of the book so I could confirm this) is that the forward of the book was written by, wait for it, Josh Beckett.
I'm not sure how I feel about this new Josh Beckett who seems to be emerging. First, he was smiling and seemed to be enjoying himself. Then, he showed evidence of introspection. And now it turns out he can write at least passably well. What has happened to the simple, easy to predict, one-dimensional character that we knew? What'll we find out next? That he devoured Proust in the original French? That he does, in fact, get paid to make those decisions?
Also, Pedroia was on Red Sox this Week right afterward. I don't know if they'll put the interview up on their website but if they do check out the boy's fashion sense. First he says that he's going to wear an American flag tie to meet the president, which he quickly amends to an American flag suit. A joke, probably; it's hard to tell when the person making it happens to be wearing gray, madras, bermuda shorts. I don't know where he purchased them. They're very preppy goth-I guess.
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