Report: Red Sox have — or haven't — broken off talks with Mike Napoli

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Have the Red Sox broken off talks with Mike Napoli?
Boston-based reporter Jen Royle indicated they had . . . at first.
Speaking on radio station WGAM The Game in Nashua and Manchester, N.H., she told host Matt Perrault "I heard today that they're going in another direction." (Jump to 7:55.) She added: "And I just wish Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington would say that . . . I have spoken to Mike, and he just seems really bummed out about it. If I had to guess . . . I really think the Red Sox just don't want an injured player.

"I heard today they're not even talking . . . I got a text message from a source today that said 'I heard . . . they're going in another direction, that they haven't even spoken to each other.' So I don't know . . .
"I just wish Cherington would be honest. I don't think he's being honest."
But later, when news broke -- and when Cherington said on WEEI Radio that the sides were, in fact, still talking -- she backtracked a bit on Twitter.
"I said they weren't talking RIGHT NOW. I didn't say they weren't talking 'anymore', " she wrote in response to Twitter queries from Perrault and WEEI's Alex Speier.
And later, she wrote:

Source on Napoli: "Sides are quiet." Another source: "They're not talking." Another source: "They're working on it." Ben: "We're hopeful." Jen Royle (@Jen_Royle) January 10, 2013

As for Cherington, here's what he had to say on WEEI:

"We're still talking and when you're talking, there's hope for a resolution. But nothing to report right now."We have had dialogue with Napoli's agent, Brian Grieper. It's one of those situations, out of respect to Mike and the process, I'm not going to get into detail. Whenever we're talking and there's dialogue, it means we're hopeful of being able to do something, but we just don't know yet. We'll see how it plays out."

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