Sox pay $51 mil for . . . WHAT?

NAPLES, Fla. - The market price for pitching talent is soaring so high that it's come to this: The Boston Red Sox are ready to pay more than $50 million just for the right to negotiate with Daisuke Matsuzaka, who's never thrown his "gyroball" — or any pitch, for that matter — in the major leagues.

This'll be fun August topic, when the Sox are, once again, four games behind and fading fast . . .