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Theo - "I know what you did last summer!"

ESPN Boston  -FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said he employed "a bad figure of speech" when he said the Red Sox checked out Carl Crawford "as if we were privately investigating him" before signing the free-agent outfielder last December.
Crawford said Tuesday that he was "creeped out a little bit" when Epstein told him that the club had monitored him, not only on the field, but off the field, in the months before signing him.
"I thought that was a little weird," Crawford said Tuesday. "I guess that's what they have to do when they're making that kind of investment."
Crawford signed a seven-year, $142 million contract with the Red Sox last December, the largest contract in club history in terms of average annual value.
"Our scouts just did a real thorough job on background, that's all," Epstein wrote in an e-mail after being apprised of Crawford's comments. "[We] felt like we got to know him real well, that's all. I told him we got to know him real well and we really respected the decisions he made, even away from the park. 

Usually the only things you hear out of spring training are "best shape of his life" type stories. A whole lot of nothing is reported by the dozens of reporters that are down there. Most springs I would rather hear which reporter got the drunkest, who caught the biggest fish, or who was the best golfer. But this Carl Crawford story is pretty funny. I am not surprised at all that they would "scout" a player on and off the field, its just funny that they admit it. I guarantee all teams do this, and if they don't they probably suck and have shit head players. Crawford has every right to be "creeped out" most people would. But if you are the Red Sox you don't want to get burned by a big contract cause the guy has bad character. I would love to see an interview or story on the guy that followed Carl around for three months. Boston is known for three things we do better than anyone else and that's beans, pro sports, and spying. Someone play Tessie please.

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