TURKEY DAY!!
Best to you all!  Get back to the dinner table, you ain’t done yet!!!

MLB Trade Rumors MAD LIBS
MLB Trade Rumors is reporting that [_____] is interested in [____], citing a report from [______] (and Ken Rosenthal) that GM [_____] is looking to upgrade [____] and is “open to [_______]“.  Although nothing has actually happened yet, the [______] have not yet decided whether to [______] or [______] free agent [_______], whose agent [________] [...]

Movie Review: “Sugar”
[official website] Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck LibertyBoyNYC scores it:  run-scoring double This movie tells the tale of the biggest season in the life of Miguel “Azucar” Santos.  Attending a baseball camp in the Dominican Republic sponsored by the Kansas City Royals, 19-year-old Sugar is a hard-throwing pitcher who has been training since age 16 in [...]

Kettle Cookin’ on the Hot Stove
Fireballin’, $15.1M-bonus getting No. 1 draft pick Stephen Strasburg is strained and dislocated. I guess they are sick of being in the closet and just outright call it “ESPN Boston” now.  Hey, didn’t Pete Gammons say the same thing about the Sox and Mark Teixeira 12 months ago?  Marco Scutaro is a type A free agent [...]

New Jersey Native Son Captures AL Rookie of the Year
Andrew Bailey, originally of Voorhees NJ, has been awarded the ROTY for the AL.  Congrats to the big 25-yr-old righty, and to the state which has put out loads of talent over the years.  Andrew saved 26 games for the A’s, striking out 91 batters in 83+ IPs, to the tune of a 1.84 ERA.  Drafted in the [...]