By Dan Shaughnessy He's always there in the Red Sox October photos - shaking hands with Carlton Fisk as Fisk rounds third after the midnight moonshot off the left-field foul pole; standing in the dugout hanging his head when Bucky Dent hits the pop-fly homer into the net; sprawled face-down on the Fenway grass after getting shucked to the ground by Pedro Martínez.
He is the Leonard Zelig of Boston baseball, and therefore, it comes as no surprise that Don Zimmer will be in uniform, on the field, when the Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays take batting practice Friday at Tropicana Field before the first game of the American League Championship Series.
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BOSTON - You need to see past the tiresome self-importance of Red Sox Nation, past the Boston Red Sox's money, past the way they've squeezed every extra nickel out of Fenway Park. You need to look past the image of adults on their knees peering underneath the fence surrounding the players parking lot to see - well, to see what exactly? Tires? Feet?
Because in the lead-up to Friday's American League Championship Series between the Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays, you'll need the cliché riot squad out to handle all the piffle about how the Rays have done it "the right way," by building through youth. The draft. By playing the game the right way ... yadda, yadda.
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By Dan Shaughnessy He's always there in the Red Sox October photos - shaking hands with Carlton Fisk as Fisk rounds third after the midnight moonshot off

Monday night, as Jed Lowrie knocked a single into right field at Fenway Park and Jason Bay rounded third and slid home with the winning run (who knew