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Fan pulse: Good riddance, Roger
He wasn’t speaking for Red Sox Nation, but Curt Schilling pretty accurately summarized the mood of a spurned Sox fan base with this four-word take on Roger Clemens signing with the Yankees: “We don’t need him.” We took a sampling of Red Sox fan blogs and message boards this morning, and almost universally they depict Clemens as a money-grubbing mercenary whom the Sox are better off ...
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The Clemens Reaction
Depressed Fan — ... Sour cranberries in Massachusetts. [Extra Bases]

Bronx Banter: Yankee Panky # 8: Rocketing Through The Media
Bronx Banter — ... provides the hard-news roundup of the Red Sox offer. Boston.com has complete roundup of Sox blogs and the vitriol coming from Tea Party Central. The breadth and depth of analysis of the Clemens story over the past day and a half has been enough to cause information overload. Credit Roger Clemens for being such a polarizing figure, but also the people who tracked and presented the story, and offered provocative angles from which to view it.

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