Henry, whose Fenway Sports Group also owns the Liverpool Football Club, apologized to fans today for trying to create an American-style European soccer league, an idea instantly and universally spat on by everybody from fans to government officials across the continent: Read more.

The Globe itself gives us an anatomy of the home-delivery disaster, and reveals, for the first time, that John Henry visited one of those distribution centers:

"It's 6,400 papers," he said, grimly, to no one in particular.

Meanwhile, crickets quietly chirp at the timid tabloid, where the last story about the Globe, on Dec. 11, was about its move to a downtown office building.

John Henry explains (paid subscription required) why he bought the Globe, and it's basically what you'd expect the owner of a new paper to say about civic responsibility and stewardship, etc., etc. (with the possible exception that rather than inheriting vast amounts of money, he made it himself after coming of age as a McCarthy campaigner and civil-rights activist).

Oh, those wacky, fun-loving Henrys, whose joie de vivre is just so darn infectious, City Hall can't help but give them great deals on city property! Wouldn't you?

Red Sox release statement. Tom Werner not interested, either, in case you were wondering.

SoxFan parses Henry's Teixeira comments from last night. Red reads between the lines:

So the Sox winkwink are apparently dropping out of the Mark Teixeira talks winkwink because the money is just getting too winkwinkwink ridiculous. ...