ST. LOUIS -- I called the Red Sox switchboard early yesterday afternoon. It took a while to plow through the recorded message, but when an operator finally came on, she said, "Thank you for calling the . . . um . . . world champion Boston Red Sox." (Full article: 856 words)

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