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Between this and the Kerry Wood signing, I can’t decide if the Indians are going to have a really good staff this season or set the record for use of the disabled list.

Mark Cuban isn’t going to be the next Cubs’ owner, and today on his blog he tells us why he thinks that is. He blames a lot of things — Jerry Reinsdorf and the capital and credit markets to name a few — but never once mentions that he’s being sued by the SEC for […]

For three days straight I’ve been seeing the headlines about how the Yankees are planning to “unveil” Teixeira in some sort of news conference and have been wondering why, exactly, this is big news. We know who he is. We basically know about his contract. What is there really to unveil? It’s an empty exercise […]

Death will eventually come to us all, but when I go, I hope it’s in my 90s with a couple of billion bucks in the bank. I’ve read a few Carl Pohlad retrospectives since yesterday afternoon. Some had nice things to say about his ownership of the Twins, some not so nice. The way I […]

Lost in Transactions is pleased with the work general managers did this week…

We continue our slow holiday schedule (sorry, the kids ain’t lettin’ me sit at the computer all day) with a note from the hot stove league. Seems that Manny and the Giants may be up to something. Via BTF: The San Francisco Giants are pursuing free-agent slugger Manny Ramirez and have offered him a four-year […]

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