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Tony's Top 5 things to do during the Patriots’ bye
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Scramble. This means you should not plan anything. Wake up, grab the Sunday Globe (of course) and pour yourself a cup of coffee, then make decisions. We operate in a structured world. Call an audible and live a little.
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Go deep. Take a day trip you have been meaning to take. Drive to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont or Rhode Island. New England is beautiful at this time of year. The network beauty shots during football games don’t do it justice.
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Take a knee. Turn out the lights, close the drapes and don’t answer the phone. Leave the television off and hide from the rest of the world. If you get crazy, maybe you can read a book. (Note: Ignore this suggestion if anyone already has described you as a shut-in.)
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Defer … to your significant other. This means giving up control of the television, going apple picking, visiting a farm, etc. Should you lack a significant other, we strongly urge you to get one. (It will help you grow as a person.)
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Run the reverse. In this case, we mean that you should let your kids decide the day’s events. Of course, we are operating under the assumption that you have kids. If you do not, feel free to play with someone else’s. (But ask first.)
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Red Sox spring training story lines
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Shortstop Apparently, it's reached the point where the Red Sox have to trade their shortstop to trim payroll. Anyone feel good about that?
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Carl Crawford After a poor debut season in Boston, he had wrist surgery. And now we know the owner never wanted him.
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The bullpen No small story here. Jonathan Papelbon is gone and Daniel Bard is in the rotation. Welcome, Mark Melancon and Andrew Bailey.
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Bobby Valentine The last time the Red Sox changed managers, they won the World Series. Will history repeat?
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Josh Beckett By the end of last season, Beckett seemed to lose his focus and his fire. Can he bounce back - and stay healthy, too?
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"Embarrassment of riches" is a bit of an overstatement, Mazz, and will be until we're actually outspending the Yankee$ on a regular basis.
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Tony Massarotti is a Globe sportswriter and has been writing about sports in Boston for the last 19 years. A lifelong Bostonian, Massarotti graduated from Waltham High School and Tufts University. He was voted the Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year by his peers in 2000 and 2008 and has been a finalist for the award on several other occasions. This blog won a 2008 EPpy award for "Best Sports Blog".
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