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All's Wells That Ends Wells
David Wells will be the lefty in the 2006 Red Sox rotation
"I just told him, `Listen, plan on me going north, dude.' I said I want to stay. I said I think it will be fine. He was all smiles and that was that."

-David Orson Wells on his conversaton with Theo

"Just the way 'Tek looked at me. He goes, 'We need to talk.' We didn't really get a chance to talk, but, knowing 'Tek and talking to him a lot last year, I kind of had an idea what was going through his mind," Wells said. "That vibe I got from him, whoa, pretty deep."

-David Wells on his "Brokeback talk" with Tek