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What do you call the champs?

By Brian Murphy
Special to Page 2

Monday, February 7, 2005

How great would it be to be a 12-year-old kid in New England about now? Whether in a small fishing village in Maine or a leafy suburb in Boston or down on the Rhode Island coast, the rest of your life will be defined by the 12-month stretch between February 2004 and February 2005. You will be 75 years old and the names "Branch" and "Brady" and "Vrabel" and "Crennel" -- not to mention "Manny" and "Pedro" and "Papi" -- will cause you to get a lump in the ol' gurgler. You go to sleep at night, dre ...

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