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Squared Up: Not The Same As The Old Boss
July 13, 2010 – 11:12 AM | 20 Comments
Squared Up: Not The Same As The Old Boss

Roberto Kelly was up in the bottom of the fourth against Detroit when a murmur began circling through Yankee Stadium. The scoreboard read: July 30, 1990, 8:26 P.M. The murmur built steadily, and suddenly a …

“Seriously, was anybody editing this thing?”
April 5, 2009 – 10:56 PM | 32 Comments
“Seriously, was <I>anybody</I> editing this thing?”

The other day, I received an email from reader Todd K in which he crabbed at length about Jeff Pearlman’s new book on Roger Clemens.I had just read in Sports Illustrated‘s baseball preview issue that …