LOS ANGELES -- For a while, it was a fun little narrative, the aging pitcher re-inventing himself and resurrecting a career gone adrift.It made for a nice newspaper article or blog post. Then, when Josh Beckett just kept doing it, his ERA remaining stuck week after week among the National League elite, it started seeming more like a feature-length magazine profile. You could expand on the nuances of pitching sequences, the weird surgery he underwent and the evolution -- or is it devolution?