Awww, look - they kissed and made up!

Not surprisingly, Curt Schilling had something to say on last week's kerfluffle - some pretty fascinating clubhouse insight:

Manny vs. Youk, round 1. Trust me, this was a TOTAL non-issue and an event that happens far far more than you ever see or hear about. Many times, most times, events like this play out in clubhouses and no one outside the team ever knows about it. Bottom line is that 99 times out of 100 these are never personal, just like this one. The analogy I used was this. Most teams, most non-world championship caliber teams, have things like this crop up later in the year. For pretenders it happens in August, September, the "Dog Days". It does so because there is an awareness or belief that games, ABs, innings are somehow more important now, and the intensity ratchets up. That's not what happens here. Due to an organization wide commitment to winning the world series every year, and a fan base that will accept nothing less, we open the season, be it in Japan or Anaheim, and play 162 games with that approach, that intensity. Things happen when you have that level of intensity and our level of talent on a daily basis. It happens, punches might get thrown, and it ends, and we move on.

"I've had a couple teammates tell me don't think about it. You do what you do," Youkilis said. "There's other people told me, you need to tone this down. It's one of those things. There's a lot of bouncing around. Some people say this, some people say that. There has to be a (happy) medium.

"At times, I probably don't need to do what I do. Other times, it's just a frustration thing," Youkilis said, speaking in a private moment prior to last night's 6-3 win over the Orioles. "There's times for it. There's times I shouldn't do it. It's one of those things as I get older and realize a little more in life, it won't be as big a deal (for me to do it)."

"To me, I think the hardest thing is it doesn't change overnight. You can't just flip the switch. It doesn't work like that. You have to take it slow and try to get better. I think as my career goes on, it will get better."