A Conflict.

During spring training last year, Javier Lopez and Manny Delcarmen gave an interview where they poked fun at Jonathan Papelbon for having an actual checklist of things he had to do before a game. It struck me immediately as a tool that would have been given to him as part of an IEP at some point during his education. If I'm right about him, then Papelbon may want to invest in a secretary. You see, he has apparently agreed to appear at the First Pitch Banquet for the baseball program at Mississippi State University on February 18. The problem is that that date also happens to be when pitchers and catchers report to Fort Myers. I guess that it's conceivable that he really, really wanted to go and he planned on flying back to Mississippi for the night and that I'm wrong about him.