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Today's Soundtrack: Pedro Martinez and L.L. Cool J

Posted by Katie McLeod  October 29, 2009 04:28 PM
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Today's Soundtrack is an occasional feature that takes the events or mood of a day — and attempts to find a song for it. Today's artist: L L Cool J

By Ben Collins, Globe Correspondent

John Smoltz. Brad Penny. Bartolo Colon. Joel Pineiro, for God's sake.

The Red Sox took a flyer on all of these folks — mostly on minor league deals — in the last three years.

Does anybody else wish they would have taken a flyer on a now-stumpy, now-mature 38-year-old finesse pitcher, who says things like, "I don't believe in damn curses Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the a--, pardon me the word," who wields around little people and calls them his -- pardon him the word -- "good luck charms," who definitely did not take steroids (“I’m going to start stripping my clothes off and show people that I never had acne on my back. I’m going to start stripping in front of everyone. … If I did use it before they need to give me money back. That bleep didn’t work”), and who is positively unafraid of fighting the elderly?

Because he's starting Game 2 of the World Series tonight. On a minor league contract.

Don't call it a comeback.

Today's Soundtrack: L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out

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