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March 19, 2008
Journal photos / Bob Breidenbach
Jonathan Papelbon, Mike Lowell and other Red Sox players leave the dugout for the clubhouse just before the scheduled noon first pitch of today's spring training game agains the Blue Jays.
A very rare sight indeed -- while fans rise for the national anthem, the Boston dugout is empty.
Jason Varitek updates the media on the Red Sox players' stand just after noon.
Impatient for the game to start, Red Sox fan David Ferazzi, of Fort Myers, offers a $240,000 check to Red Sox coaches so that the game can go on. The game did go on, but Ferazzi's hero, Daisuke Matsuzaka, was not around to pitch.
Manny Ramirez takes advantage of the national television audience to get a message out to his mom.
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