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Can the Red Sox back up Papelbon's boasts?
Posted February 17th ago via Bugs and Cranks
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You go, Jonathan Papelbon. You just keep right on talking. Yep, keep right on telling the world how the Boston Red Sox are better than everybody else.

Talk is cheap, JP. Just ask your brethren in Foxboro, the New England Patriots, what reward you get for talking about being the best. For assuming no one can beat you. For snickering when someone dares to challenge you.

Remember Plaxico Burress' prediction and Tom Brady's incredulous 'We're only going to score 17 points?' remark. How did that work out for the Patriots?

Not so well, it seems. They scored 14 and lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl.

So, you go right ahead and talk JP. Keep saying stuff like this.

'If we're not the team to beat I'd like to know who is. I think that our No. 1 thing is to stay healthy. If we do that, I don't know who can really compete with us.'

Your team has won two of the last four World Series, you are the defending champ and on paper you look as good or better than you were last season. So, you've earned the right to feel good and be confident.

You earned the right last season to dance your Irish Jig all over the place and celebrate your achievements. But, it's February and you are already planning this year's celebration, saying stuff like 'I might come up with something new, though, stay tuned.'

You had better hope that you and your teammates can back up your smack talk. You and the Red Sox have already surpassed the Yankees as the team everyone loves to hate, and such a dismissive attitude toward every other team in baseball can only deepen the feeling.

Many things can happen between now and October. You have no farther than the just-concluded NFL season to look to find an example of a team that everyone said was supposed to win falling short of that goal.

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