I'm dizzy

SPORTING GOODS

With the utterly unexpected signing of Carl Crawford pretty much a done deal, the Sox certainly look like they have MLB's best offense.

Given this, I wondered what their 2011 lineup would actually look like, and at least one blogger is all over it. Viz.,

Ellsbury
Pedroia
Gonzalez
Youkilis
Crawford
Ortiz
Lowrie
Drew
Saltalamacchia

would score approximately 5.77 runs per game.

As much as I hate to disparage what looks like money in the bank, I've got to think the Sox will be relieved when they no longer have to pay an apparent number eight hitter $14 million a year in 2012.

At any rate, Crawford's signing sure has taken the red hot Patriots off New England's front pages.