The House That Dewey Built (Free subscription) | yesterday
... that plastic bottle, and the thick aromatic goo gushed into the palms of our hands (in the form of Dustin Pedroia and Jed Lowrie). We are now sitting here with an empty bottle, and I’m going to do what any like minded gentleman would do. Add water and shake. Here is what we get: 1) Argenis Diaz - SS Age: 21 2008 Level: AA After watching Edgar Renteria and Julio Lugo kick the ball...
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | yesterday
... with ESPN top dog George Bodenheimer. ( College Hoops Journal ) More from the writer who left Dustin Pedroia off his MVP ballot. ( Red Sox Monster ) Warrants issued for entire Kansas football team for robbery of a football game Saturday in Missouri. ( LJ World ) Your best name in Roller Derby winner. ( Steady Burn ) What it’s like to get run over by a Cadillac after it scores. ( Bucs...
SOX & Dawgs (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... stories for WEEI.com on his 2003 pre-trade Thanksgiving with Red Sox management and on teammate Dustin Pedroia’s MVP season. “Looking beyond baseball I knew I would continue to blog,” Schilling said. “If this was indeed my last season, I wanted a forum that would allow me to talk about things beyond baseball, while at the same time being connected to people with a passion for the...
Dodger Thoughts (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... league's MVP was twice the size of the other's. (The AL MVP was Boston's diminutive second baseman Dustin Pedroia.) And the pitcher's size, some observers believe, represents a serious problem.Sabathia is listed at 6'7" and 290 pounds, although one wonders if the scale involved in that measurement was borrowed from an especially disreputable pawn shop. He is a behemoth—only 295-pound...
Kissing Suzy Kolber (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... DENIES THIS”___________”Nice try, jagoff. I ain’t no Anthony Smith” Favorite player WELKAH, the Dustin Pedroia of football__________ Numbell one smaltest leceivel Disarming but still kind of annoying YouTube representative based in New York Fitzy (Coach Omar Epps? That’s gold!)_______________ Yinz Luv ‘Da Stillers Detests above all else Dahhhhhkies, Yankees______________Bruce Arians,...
The Sports Culture (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
New England is thankful for: Its new MVP, Dustin Pedroia Manny being Manny somewhere else The fact that at least Tom Brady has a really hot girlfriend, Gisele Bundchen Atlanta is thankful for: The fact that they don’t have to put up with Michael Vick’s bullshit anymore Matt Ryan’s love of dogs Brian McCann not being a fat tub of goo anymore New [...]
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
In the last two years, Markakis has quietly blossomed into the best right fielder in the American League, and there really isn't much point in debating it. (Vlad Guerrero might be more feared, but Markakis is the better overall player, and his best years are in front of him, not behind him.) Did you know he got on base 283 times in 2008? That was the most in the league, more than league MVP Dustin...
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
After finishing second to Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia in AL MVP voting announced last week, Morneau expressed no hard feelings."Pedroia deserved to win," said Morneau, the 2006 AL MVP. "We didn't make the playoffs. He was there for his team when it needed him. If I had to vote, I would have voted the same way."Asked what moves the Twins should make this offseason, Morneau...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
After finishing second to Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia in AL MVP voting announced last week, Morneau expressed no hard feelings."Pedroia deserved to win," said Morneau, the 2006 AL MVP. "We didn't make the playoffs. He was there for his team when it needed him. If I had to vote, I would have voted the same way."Asked what moves the Twins should make this offseason, Morneau...
