Smack Talk: Chapter 2: Lowe

All seemed pretty cool with the Red Sox vibe as Spring Training approached. The worst story printed all winter was about a Baseball a first baseman held onto. Derek Lowe was working out with his former team, the fabled truck was heading south down 95, and Terry Francona was singing kumbaya around a camp fire. Then reality set in, Trot Nixon questioned A-Rods manhood, and now Derek Lowe, the didn't want to be dispatched starting pitcher is making his true feeling known. Talking to Los Angles reporters this week Lowe stated that Sox officials asked him to leave the Ft Myers facility where he had been working out with former teammates.

I don't want to say that [the Red Sox] don't want controversial people, but they certainly don't want you to criticize them for anything," he said.

"The funny thing is, I'm the one getting attention for working out, but there are probably guys from three or four organizations working out here."

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