Well, lookie what we got here - we got ourselves a couple of snazzy cover boys.

I opened my mailbox today to find a giant squinty Jonathan Papelbon staring out at me from the cover of the latest issue of The Sporting News. He's wearing an expression that's a weird cross between a snarl and a grin. It's a grarl. Or a snin.

And then there's Mike Lowell - who garnered himself not one, but TWO covers of the Improper Bostonian. He's lounging in jeans and a tshirt on one, and modeling the GQ suit look on the other.

Of course, wherever there are Red Sox players appearing in magazines, one Mr. Josh Beckett isn't far behind. He's not gonna let them hog the spotlight. In the very same issue of The Sporting News for which Papelbon graces the cover, Josh appears in two advertisements inside-- for TBS baseball, and the new Major League Baseball 2K8 video game.

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