November 2010

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Before he was a Hall of Famer, NESN broadcaster, and Man of a Thousand Technicolor Dreamcoats, he was just a ball player trying to pay the bills. So he suited up and read whatever scripts were handed to him. In this gem, he teams up with Fred Lynn to discuss the merits of joining the [...]

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“So, like, have a good time and shit. Don’t hurt anybody.” Denton and I would like to echo those sentiments, and thank everyone who makes this site part of their daily supply of vitamin goon. We are truly, truly thankful for your continued patronage of Surviving Grady. So eat the turkey, quaff the cheap beer, [...]

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“What he needs to happen, and it won’t, is for Boston to get in it to amp up the price,” an exec said. “But that’s not going to happen because he is a [Yankees] icon. And if they did that, Theo [Epstein, Red Sox GM] and Cashman would go to blows. There is nobody to [...]

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Look, I loved Victor Martinez. Honestly. He was like my Dominican-born, weirdly-accented brother. Who catches. He was born in Venezuela! Close enough. The thing is we made what we thought was a pretty sweet offer. I can’t speak to what made him turn it down. I dunno. Desire to feed his family? To not be [...]

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Great NESN article on the Red Sox players eligible for arbitration next week. I don’t see any reason not to offer arbitration to all four players eligible. Beltre and Martinez will decline and the Sox get draft picks. Tek could go either way but seems to want to stay in a Red Sox uni and [...]

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Despite all the pomp and circumstance, the Yankees are going to re-sign Derek Jeter. You know it. I know it, too. The Steinbrenners know it. Jeter and his agent know it. Your butcher knows it. Your landlord knows it (actually, that guy knows lots of things since he installed that webcam in your bedroom). Your [...]

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Yeah, this is how bored I am and how much I’m jonesing for baseball already on November 20th. It’s gonna be a long, cold, lonely winter. Remy does a pretty good impersonation of Brian Daubach after the Sox-Rays brawl, eh?

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They got this one right. Felix Hernandez is the 2010 American League Cy Young Award winner. His 13 wins and 12 losses are irrelevant: he was the most dominant pitcher in the AL, if not all of baseball. In seven of those 12 losses, Hernandez gave up three runs or less. In ten of his [...]

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