How will they buy Carl Crawford? Easy. Welfare scum Redsocks want $40 million from you, the U.S. taxpayer

Congratulations, America. Next April, you can sign your tax checks directly to Josh Beckett.

The cup-rattling Redsocks, takers of Bronze in the '10 AL East, who already have tallied a sweet $11 million in tax break gravy to buy more badly needed lawyers and accountants for Fenway Park, are doing what they do best: Poormouthing. Yes, John Henry -- the billionaire money launderer and Cialis-crazed hubby to a woman half his age -- wants another $28 million in cream from the public teat.

The Boston Red Sox [team stats] are seeking millions of dollars in historic rehabilitation tax credits as the team wraps up a decade-long Fenway Park [map] renovation this offseason.


So far, John Henry’s ownership group has received $11.1 million in credits - $300,000 in a round of awards made earlier this year. But the team hopes to score another $28.4 million on qualifying renovations totaling nearly $200 million.

How does a billionaire-owned organization that shelled out $90 million for Dice-K have the gall to pull out its pockets and walk the streets, begging for Obamacare? Our guess is John Henry is taking his testosterone shots directly through the forehead. Maybe Big Papi's contract whining has done something to him.

They need the money? Gimmie a break.

Write this down: The bidding war for Cliff Lee won't be between the Yankees and Rangers. It'll be with Boston, and they'll have $40 million in their warchest, directly from Nancy Pelosi and her World Series-ringed coven of commies.