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Tim Wakefield Keeps His Grip. Gordon Edes is on a roll, first with an in-depth look at the A-Rod negotiations , and now with a feature on W...

Gore Vidal, Patriot . "Franklin understood the American people better than [Washington, Adams and Jefferson]. ... Franklin saw danger e...

Random Jottings . The Red Sox made a play for 1B Mark Sweeney , but he decided to sign with Colorado. ... Steve Bechler and ephedra ... New...

I've said this every January 1 since I've been a serious Red Sox fan -- beginning in 1976 -- and I'll say it again: "This i...

How The A-Rod Negotiations Ended With Red Sox Shut Out . An absolute must-read article from Gordon Edes: "Alex Rodriguez was alone...

Memo To Tom Ridge : New Homeland Security directives will require selected international flights that cross into US airspace to carry an ar...

Strange But True Baseball Stories . From Jayson Stark's year-end wrap-up : On August 21 in Milwaukee, the Phillies managed to get fiv...

Looks Like We Got Ourselves A Reader. The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs (especially if they ar...

So Who's The Author? Laura Bush, on Meet the Press Sunday, admitted that a poem she had attributed to her husband back in October was,...

The Battle Is Only Beginning . Nick Cafardo looks at how the Red Sox and Yankees match up after their respective winter dealings. He rates ...

Box of Soap . Operation Get The F*ck Out Of Iraq Before The Election is in full swing . ... Dennis Kucinich on the Ernie Alert and news of...

40-Man Roster . According to mlb.com : Pitchers B/T Ht Wt DOB 61 Bronson Arroyo R/R 6-5 190 02/24/77 -- Colter Bean ...

Year in Review . Ian Browne looks at 2003 . ... In an article praising the Red Sox for their winter moves, Michael Silverman of the Herald ...

The Stupidity Tax. Reading the New York papers on the now-dead Rodriguez/Ramirez swap is like falling into Bizarro World, a universe of opp...

Box of Soap. Get me rewrite ! It turns out the account of Saddam Hussein offering to negotiate, only to be told by one GI: "Regards f...

A-Rod Deal Is Stone-Diddley-Dead. It appears that Tom Hicks's latest deadline of 5:00 pm this afternoon was for real. According ...

Line In The Sand. Tom Hicks has announced a new final deadline : "[General manager] John Hart has been forced to work in two directi...

Statheads in 1917. Two good articles: An excellent review of "Moneyball" and proof that sabremetrics was alive and well in 1917....

Tender Mercies. Doug Mirabelli agreed to a $825,000 contract for next season, with a possible additional $100,000 in performance bonuses....

Look, A Shiny Orange Rock! Hmmm, stories breaking this morning that the US's role in capturing Saddam Hussein might have been exaggerat...