December 2010

So, they thought me mad to buy over 100 fully poseable Carl Crawford action figures, once given away at the Trop. We’ll see who’s laughing when Carl, whose intro presser at Fenway will be broadcast live on NESN this morning at 10am, gets his major market spotlight on next summer and these babies skyrocket in [...]

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Yup. Looks like business as usual to me.

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Okay, I made up the second half of the headline, but the Red Sox apparently did sign Carl Crawford. A Major League source had told the Globe the deal is for seven years and $142 million. With Gonzalez reportedly having agreed to a seven-year, $154 million extension to his contract, the Red Sox have invested [...]

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It was this night, thirty years ago, that the world learned of John Lennon’s death. I heard the news from the unlikely source of Howard Cosell while watching the Pats-Dolphins game on Monday Night Football. Just three days removed from my 17th birthday, the news made no sense to me. A musician gunned down on [...]

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Call me a homer, but there is no chance (barring a Tom Brady assassination) that the Jets win this game. I have watched them win the last four weeks solely based on the power of a horseshoe stuck up their collective ass. I don’t care what their record is, my eyes tell me they suck. [...]

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Pending the ol’ turn-your-head-and-cough to make sure that his recently surgi-fied right shoulder is healing and some contract needling, the Red Sox appear to have snagged Adrian Gonzalez from the San Diego Padres. No word yet on who the Sox would be sending west, but, as the Globe points out, “the deal would likely involve [...]

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The Red Sox appear to have made their decision on the catching situation, signing Varitek to a one-year, two million dollar contract. There is an additional potential of $300,000 in incentives. Varitek will serve as back-up and mentor to Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Tek was having a solid season in the back-up role until an injury ended [...]

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I really thought it was going to be fun watching the Jeter negotiations unfold. When it started getting ugly, even better. But then this idea, this silly, foolish concept of Jeter coming to the Red Sox hit the media. And now, Napoleon has jumped into the fray with his own attempt at justifying an impossibly [...]

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