Bobby Valentine's influence is already felt here at brand spanking new Jet Blue Stadium, where they served only wraps yesterday, perhaps as an ode to their new manager, who some say is the inventor of the wrap at his Stamford, Conn., restaurant (OK, he is the one who claims that). Whether that's true or not, Valentine is here to reinvent himself, and more importantly, reinvent the storied Red Sox franchise that would have been better to sticking to wraps last year but branched out to chicken and beer in the clubhouse during games amid their disgraceful and unprecedented collapse.
In typical Valentine fashion, he dropped an intriguing hint about a new rule to come about drinking in the clubhouse. Valentine...
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