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Article: Red Sox' Talks With Matsuzaka at Endpoint
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 13, 2006
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Two baseball-loving nations -- Red Sox and Japan -- will be
standing by anxiously today to see whether the most fascinating,
complex and important contract negotiation in recent history will
culminate in pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka donning a Boston Red Sox
uniform at Fenway Park or returning to Japan in an ending that would
disappoint both nations and could lead to a legal fight over the
"posting" system that brings Japanese players to the major leagues.
The latest twist in a month-long negotiation that has strained
credulity and tested the basic premise behind the posting system
came late Monday night, when Red Sox executives Theo Epstein and
Larry Lucchino, flying on the private plane ...