10:49 On we march.  This game is, in fact, long, and we haven’t even started playing with bullpens yet…Ortiz is doing his part by making out FAST!
10:52 JBay strikes out ooking on a pitch you couldn’t argue if you tried.  Two down. Again.
10:53 Lowell pops out to catcher.  Could the Sox offense be more asleep?

Both starters have 53 pitches. We’re about to add the bananas foster cooking process to the liveblog.  So far, smoke has been generated (this might be because of the cutting board we melted on to a burner last week.  Don’t worry, the plastic is nontoxic!)
Probably.
9:47 Oh, is there a baseball game occuring?  V-Mart grounds out.
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David Ortiz apologized for being a distraction. Twenty minutes earlier, the player’s organization mea culpa’d: some of the players on the 2003 list didn’t actually test positive, saying that of the 104 names on the list, both the player’s association and MLB agree that only 96 of them actually tested positive.  But Fox baseball says [...]

OK, that’s not exactly what Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon said today, when he spoke to Red Sox radio affiliate WEEI about David Ortiz’s steroid situation.  In fact, he vouched for the integrity of his old teammate, saying he came away with a strong impression that Ortiz had no clue his name appeared on the 2003 [...]