He wants it

Jim Bowden is certainly talking like a guy who wants to be the GM of the Boston Red Sox:

Washington Nationals General Manager Jim Bowden said yesterday that the opportunity to interview with the Boston Red Sox presents "a real chance to win a World Series, and that's what we're all in this for," and that the Nationals' uncertain position -- still owned by Major League Baseball more than a year after moving to Washington -- dictates that he pursue the Sox' GM position.

"I was born in Boston," he said by phone from the general managers' meetings in Indian Wells, Calif. "I grew up in Massachusetts and Maine. I've never had a [large] payroll in my career. I owe it to myself and my family to at least explore the possibility."

Godspeed, Jim Bowden.