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Jim Caple . Page 2 : Long-suffering Yankees fans can finally rejoice. ... Trading for the best left-hander of his era should restart the Yan...

Yankee Fans Get Cocky As Team Grabs Unit . "The Yankees officially turned the calendar yesterday on the Year of the Red Sox ... [agreei...

Blurb! "JoyofSox, the only blog that offers both Red Sox coverage and far-out left wing conspiracy theories in one convenient package....

A Headline . Tsunamis Shatter Celebrity Holidays -- No, it's not the Onion.

A Thrill Divine / Down My Spine . The Red Sox's ALCS comeback and World Series win was selected as the top sports story of 2004 by the ...

VORP . Baseball Prospectus looks at the change in starting pitchers: Added VORP Status David Wells 40.3 2 yr/$8M...

Moral Values . After being criticized for pledging only $15 million for Asian earthquake relief, the US upped that total to about $35 milli...

The Happy Recap . Ian Browne looks back over 2004. From October: A century from now, this still may rate as the most glorious month in the ...

Ay, There's The Rub . Dave Barry, in his " Year In Review ," notes that the Red Sox won the World Series despite at one point ...

Now-Dead Manny-To-Mets Deal Explained . The Red Sox are still hoping Byung Hyun Kim can return to the club next season, possibly as a long ...

Operation Dessert Storm . No imagination: December 26, 2003 : "[He] gave Mrs. Bush a gold beaded necklace, some earrings and some de...

The View From Above . I missed this at the time. Art Thiel, in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , on October 23, 2004: "HAPPIEST PLACE ON...

Flight 93 Shot Down? According to Donald Rumsfeld, today on CNN : "And I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world ...

The Changing Roster . It sometimes feels like there has been a lot of turnover on the roster in the last seven weeks, but there really hasn...

Four New Blogs . Check 'em out: Fenway Park Effects Call Of The Green Monster RC's Sports Blog Sex & Sox

Supporting The Troops : Bush-style : Members of a second National Guard unit that prepared for duty in Iraq at the Army's Fort Bliss com...

Varitek Named Captain; Only Third in Sox History . In addition to resigning, Jason Varitek was also named team captain . Mientkiewicz ...

"USA" Mentioned In Bible . Or so some insane people in the South would have you believe. ... Someone in North Carolina who posts o...

Varitek Resigns! Globe : Jason Varitek "agreed to a four-year, $40 million contract today, a source directly involved in the negotiati...