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A couple of months ago, everybody's favorite Curly Haired Boyfriend — credit to Simmons: No nasty emails please, Bill! —
Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy release a memoir
about his son's senior year of high school baseball. Whatever your thoughts on this — and we suspect you have some — the book has received middling but not wretched reviews, and has sold decently. But that's apparently not enough for the Shaughnessy family.
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Well, the world of Red Sox fans can breathe a sliver easier this morning; Daisuke Matsuzaka has signed his (reasonable, really) deal and
is now officially a target of the Boston faithful. We find it amusing that one of the first things he had to do when his plane landed was undergo a physical; turning his head and coughing is an act that seems oddly similar for what he'll ultimately be in for down Yawkey Way. (Oh, nice coat, by the way.)
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Earlier this year,
The New York Times caused some controversy when it switched much of its online columnists to its
TimesSelect feature, forcing you to pay for certain columnists like Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich and so on. (You might not have noticed, because even though they put the sports columnists behind the TimesSelect wall too, nobody actually knows any of the
Times sports columnists.)
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