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  Thank God Boston dumped these overpaid and underachieving bums and sent them to the desperate Dodgers.

  The deal allowed the Red Sox to clean house after the team’s September 2011 collapse morphed into an even unhappier 2012, one in which Boston lost 93 games, its highest total since 1965. In sending Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez and Nick Punto to Los Angeles, the Sox freed themselves from more than $270 million in future salary commitments while unloading players generally perceived to be unhappy in Boston for one reason or another. Crawford remains bitter about his Beantown experience, and neither he nor Gonzalez would talk to Boston-based muckraker Dan Shaughnessy when the Sox visited L.A. for an interleague series that coincidentally marked the one-year anniversary of the trade.
  

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  • Was a smart move and teams with with small time hustlers, not big time divas. Yankees are learning this.CygnusZero4
  • *win withCygnusZero4

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