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Quick ReadFor all of the highly entertaining tales of beer and fried chicken that have hit Red Sox Nation in the last two months, you could argue that, had Jonathan Papelbon simply converted a save on Sept. 28, we never would've been served this soap opera.
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For all of the highly entertaining tales of beer and fried chicken that have hit Red Sox Nation in the last two months, you could argue that if Jonathan Papelbon had simply converted a save on Sept. 28, we never would've been served this soap opera.
That the 2011 Red Sox, having come so close to making the playoffs before completing their historic collapse, needed simply to shake...
