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Article: Boston starts season as if last year's loss to Tampa was just a bad dream Beckett in firm control as Red Sox beat defending American League champs Baseball
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ALAN SCHWARZ The New York Times
International Herald Tribune
04-09-2009
Boston starts season as if last year's loss to Tampa was just a bad dream Beckett in firm control as Red Sox beat defending American League champs Baseball
Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ The New York Times
Edition: 3
Section: SPORTS
BOSTON: --
Maybe it really was just a bad dream for everyone else in the American League East.
Maybe the surreal ascent of the Tampa Bay Rays last season from laughingstock to division champions - culminating in the Rays' beating the Red Sox for a berth in the World Series - was, indeed, too bizarre to have actually occurred.
On Tuesday, the cosmos did seem realigned at Fenway Park, where the Red ...