On a gray, drizzly Memorial Day afternoon, it's sleepy inside the Red Sox's clubhouse. About 12 hours have passed since the team returned to Boston in the middle of the night from a weeklong trip, and today's game against the Orioles still is more than three hours away. A couple of players watch a Marlins-Pirates game. Bill Mueller pecks away on a computer. Others, in their street clothes, are filing intermittently into the room.
Jason Varitek, already in uniform pants and ...