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The clubhouse was in turmoil Monday louis vuitton shoes morning as the team reported for its annual Patriots Day game, thanks to comments he made about third baseman Kevin Youkilis. By day's end, everyone involved — and just about everyone was involved — was professing some semblance of harmony.

"It is what it is," Valentine said after talking with Youkilis and second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who had some of the most pointed comments. "We're good," Pedroia said Ray ban sunglasses after meeting with Valentine, who is 10 games into his Red Sox tenure.

Earlier in the day, Pedroia said, "I really don't know what Bobby is trying to do. That's not the way we go about our stuff here. He'll figure that out. … Maybe that works in Japan."

The issue began when Valentine, who last managed in Japan, said in a television interview Sunday, "I don't think (Youkilis) is as physically or emotionally into the game as he has been in the past for some reason."

Youkilis, who did not play Monday because of a groin injury, said he met with Valentine but would not say what they discussed. He did say he was surprised and confused by the comments.

"I go out and just play the game," Youkilis said. "For me, it's not an issue."

Valentine said of that burberry outlet meeting, "I totally apologized. I said, 'Jesus, the last thing in the world I want you to think is that I'm criticizing you.' I should have been more specific."

But are Valentine's clubhouse relations an issue?

"Oh, God, come on," Valentine said. "We're big boys, and I'm sure he's going to get it. … I think the guys will get it. It's a good group of guys."

By the way, the Red Sox lost 1-0 to the Rays to end a three-game winning streak and remain in last place in the American League East.

Wesley Korir, a Kenyan citizen and permanent resident of the United States, won the Boston Marathon on Monday in a heat-slowed time of 2 hours 12 minutes 40 seconds that was almost 10 minutes behind the world best established here a year ago by Geoffrey Mutai.

It was the second-slowest Boston race since 1985, burberry bags as temperatures rising into the 80s slowed the leaders and may have convinced as many as 4,300 entrants to sit this one out. Mutai, who was hoping a repeat victory would earn him a spot on the Kenyan Olympic team, dropped out after 18 miles with cramps.

Instead, Korir may have won a ticket to the London Games.

"To me, I think running the Boston Marathon is an Olympic event," the two-time Los Angeles Marathon champion said. "I don't care what comes up after this, but I'm really, really happy to win Boston."

Sharon Cherop won the women's race to louis vuitton handbags complete the Kenyan sweep, outkicking Jemima Jelagat Sumgong to win by 2 seconds in 2:31:50. The women's race was decided by a sprint down Boylston Street for the fifth consecutive year.

Korir was the 19th Kenyan men's winner in 22 years. But he is hardly typical of the African runners who have come to dominate the event since Greg Meyer became the last American winner in 1983.

Korir attended college oakley sunglasses at Murray State — the Racers, naturally — before transferring to Louisville and graduating from the school with a biology degree. He is hoping to receive American citizenship within a few years.

The winners will receive $150,000 apiece. Korir and his wife, Canadian runner Tarah McKay, run a foundation in his hometown of Kitale and have been building a hospital in the memory of his brother Nicholas, who was killed by a black mamba snake at the age of 10.

A total of 22,426 runners started the race in Hopkinton in temperatures expected to be as high as 84 by the time the last of them finish their 26.2-mile trek Burberry designer ties for men white on sale best to Boston's Back Bay. That's about 84% of the registered field of almost 27,000, with many of the no-shows expected to take race organizers up on their offer for a deferment into next year's race.

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The heat didn't seem to be a problem for Canadian Joshua Cassidy, who won the men's wheelchair race in a time of 1 hour 18 minutes 25 seconds cheap louis vuitton shoes for women that is the fastest in history. American Shirley Reilly edged Japan's Wakako Tsuchida during a sprint to the finish in the women's wheelchair division.