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Blaine beauty

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So Adam Hyzdu gets traded for Blaine Neal. I’m sorry, but I can’t look at the name Blaine without thinking of that chain of beauty schools. Funny that most of the Neal pics that come from a Google image search are of his fight with the ump last year. Anyway, the deal seems to make sense: Hyzdu and Stern give us a glut of outfielders and Hyzdu with the Sox would be a backup’s backup, while the Padres have an amazing bullpen in Linebrink and Otsuka and probably need more help in the OF department. And clearly Theo Epstein remains connected to Kevin Towers from his days in San Diego…