PICTURE THIS

Adam Duerson

August 28, 2006

Has G.M. Theo Epstein gone round the bend in his search for pitching help for the injury-ravaged Red Sox? Maybe, but that's another story. This is about Ayla, a capuchin monkey who works with quadriplegics, helping them do things such as picking up objects or turning the pages of a book, and who was at Fenway last Wednesday for Disability Awareness Night. Ayla's ceremonial first pitch was more of a drop--but it wasn't much worse than the junk Boston pitchers have been serving up of late.