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Why baseball purists are dead wrong about instant replay
It was an eventful sixth inning in Florida on Sunday. Phillies outfielder Hunter Pence hit what was initially ruled a double, but after going to instant replay, umpire Joe West ruled, accurately, that a fan had interfered with Bryan Petersen's ability to make the catch by reaching out for the ball....
No Love For College Football In Boston?
In his latest Sports Illustrated feature, Dan Shaughnessy takes a giant, highly publicized dump on college football interest in Boston: "The college football season is underway and nobody cares in New England. OK, I'm exaggerating. There are plenty of parents and girlfriends of local college...
Thursday Bird Droppings
Wieters discusses the walkoff (video)- MASNsports.comWieters was looking fastball, and he got one. "They gave me confidence to swing away and I was going to look for a fastball early and try to put a good swing on it, and I was fortunate enough that it carried out," he said. "It's a situation where...
Hard Times with Brady and Gisele
There comes a time in every man's life when he must stand up to injustice. When he must cast off his doubt and inhibitions, and forcefully raise his voice. When he must rise from the desk of ignorance, dash to the phone booth of revelation, and emerge as a defender of Truth, Justice, and the...
Link Chowder
Serving up the best links of the week from all across the newfangled interwebs:Mass Hysteria writes a smashing preview of this weekend's baseball matches that would make Abner Doubleday and other fine upstart young chaps quite proud indeed. [Mass Hysteria]Fitzy has a great idea for a Jimmy Fund...
BREAKING NEWS: Sox to Turn Back the Clocks
By the Aggravated Press via boston.redsox.mlb.com Boston, MA - Red Sox officials called an impromptu press conference yesterday evening to address the future of the organization. A tearful John Henry vowed the team would "return to its roots" and "start losing again." "When Tom, Larry and I...
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