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Appreciate what Drew is

By Peter Gammons

Friday, October 2, 2009

J.D. Drew will never be one of the guys wearing goggles and puffing on a cigar and spraying champagne in a celebration. He's not going to run out of the clubhouse and shove a whipped cream pie in Jonathan Papelbon's face for NESN. That's not who he is. What is interesting about this 32-year-old man is that other than typecasting him as enigmatic, what the media seldom focuses on is what J.D. Drew is. The focus is typically on what he isn't. He's not Mickey Mantle, as he was hyped when he dec ...

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