Phoning Pedroia

The friendship between Jon Lester and Dustin Pedroia is one of those rare ones in baseball that transcends teams and becomes about the people. After signing with the Chicago Cubs, Lester said his phone call to Pedroia was the toughest part of the whole ordeal, "Those guys I'll love and consider my brothers until I'm dead. But yeah, that one was probably the most difficult." Pedroia responded with, "There are no words that I can tell you for you to understand how much Jon and his family mean to me and my family." You gotta love these two. The full article is here.