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Complete Transcript of Mike Wallace’s Interview of Clemens on 60 Minutes

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Some people might claim this post amounts to little more than gratuitous Clemens bashing.   Well, they’re right. Here’s a full transcript of Clemens’ 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace, courtesy of Gary Dzen at Boston.com.
Update: You can watch it here on CBS news online.

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Fantasethics

January 7th, 2008 · 9 Comments

A piece via Hardball Times had  me doing some funny thinking today about the ethics of Fantasy Baseball Drafting. Entitled Mitchell Report fallout: Fantasy ramificiations (Part 1) the article goes on to advise readers how to handle the steroid scandal when draft day rolls around.
Morality
Hopefully this doesn’t apply to any of you, but I know [...]

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Kamchatka

January 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

 
I’ve thought of this place quite a bit. Everytime I fly back to Korea from the states the plane just goes over the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula and I wonder what the heck is going on down there.
It’s in the news in recent days with the discovery of 11 Russians who’d been stranded [...]

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Foreign Players Staying In Japan (but Changing Teams)

January 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Rather than creating one big list of all the foreign players in Japan we’re going to instead keep two lists, one for the new faces and one for the old. Jon Brooks has been kind  enough to start this list, which for now will just include foreign players staying in Japan, but will change uniforms [...]

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The High Cost of Pitching

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Seems like most people are getting a little apathetic about the Santana deal. The Red Sox are smugly waiting to add the best pitcher in baseball to the best team in baseball and Hank Steinbrenner is sitting next to them with a gun to his head babbling that he’s the boss.
But one can’t help but [...]

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