This week’s quiz was actually decided upon before the latest glob of brown stuff hit the whirling blades over the Sox’ managerial hiring, so it is fortuitous that it has timeliness, given it’s from nine years ago, but more or less timely it is.
First, though, the answer to last week’s Cryptosoxery, said by one of the newcomers to the team. Or possible newcomer, as the case may be:
It’s tough to go to war when you don’t have all your weapons. — Jonathan Lucroy
Lucroy probably wasn’t talking about his former All-Star self, now reduced tremendously due to surgery on just about every available body part, but he kind of fits into it now as part of an area — backup catcher — where the Sox are taking a butter knife to the battlefront.