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In Case You Haven’t Been Keeping Up With Current Events

By sog | April 29, 2008

(Image courtesy of the Boston Globe)
Yes, I’m a couple of days late with this, but did you really want me to post something on Sunday? Trust me, you did not. Besides, I’ve been a little busy preparing for a cross-country move.
Anyway, In Case You Haven’t Been Keeping Up With Current Events, we lost five [...]

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What About the Fans? Won’t Somebody Please Think About the Fans?

By sog | March 22, 2008

Every so often, Buster Olney - who is otherwise one of my favorite non-statistically focused baseball writers - careens off the rails into the type of mawkish story typical of the more traditional beat writers. So it was Thursday, I’d argue, when the headline to Olney’s blog read “Red Sox protest hurtful to fans.”
Huh.
At [...]

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In Case You Haven’t Been Keeping Up With Current Events

By sog | February 10, 2008

Or, the inaugural edition of a recurring series.
The Beckett Update
Meant to mention this last week but, well, you know how it goes. If you haven’t seen it yet, Peter Gammons spoke with one member of the Red Sox front office who’s of the opinion that after Beckett’s current deal expires in 2010, we’ll be [...]

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The Difference Between Steroids and Scuffed Balls

By sog | January 23, 2008

Much like what two consenting adults choose to do in the privacy of their own bedroom, what one consenting adult chooses to put into his or her own body is something I generally would consider to be none of my business. When it’s a major leaguer, I’m marginally more concerned given the potential impact to [...]

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