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Why am I happy for Dusty Baker? Am I? Should I be?I have some sympathy for anyone who has to sell this World Series. While it would be honest, if it is one’s job to write about MLB’s climax, you can’t really attract eyes and hearts by constantly beating the drum of “Boy, everyone sure hates these assholes!” You do have to find some angle that can g...

Lowell's Bum Thumb Gives Thumbs Down To Texas DealEleven days later, the deal's off. The upside of re-signing him after the 2007 season: keeping a World Series winning team together. The downside: it's Mike Lowell, and he was all but guaranteed to be physically untradeable. [Boston Herald]...

Mike Lowell Kills With Cell Phone PranksThose crafty Red Sox, you never know what they're going to be up to next....

Mike Lowell, staying in Fenway. Three years, not too bad. [ESPN]...

That Keep Mike Lowell petition is growing fast. [Keep Lowell]...

The Red Sox Could Start Getting Used To This

The World Series was mostly lacking drama this year, but by now, we should be awfully used to that. Since the outstanding 2002 World Series, we've had one series go six games, one go five and three sweeps. Not that Red Sox fans care anyway....

Gotcha!

We have been giggling all morning at Marlins third baseman Mike Lowell's successful execution of the hidden-ball trick last night; it's our favorite play in sports. We're hardly alone either. The great archivists at Retrosheet has a collection of all the great hidden-ball tricks of the past. And ...