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Mariotti: GM Williams saving face with team’s 11-7 start, Frank Thomas’ release
Published 4/21/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Mariotti: GM Williams saving face with team’s 11-7 start, Frank Thomas’ release Mariotti: The Defiant One ! Oh, but the new karma gets even better for Kenny the Grump. His mortal enemy, Frank Thomas, was released Sunday amid his usual controversy by the Toronto Blue Jays. This comes two years after Williams called Thomas “an idiot,” ordered him like a mob boss to “stay out of White Sox business,” told the world that chairman Jerry Reinsdorf loaned him money—and had to endure the subsequent embarrassment of Thomas combining for 65 home runs and 209 RBIs the last two ...

Is Something Wrong With Jay Mariotti?
Published 4/21/2008 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
... in the bleachers. Still, at the end of the column, Mariotti dropped this bomb that caused me to start becoming concerned. But lately -- and brace yourselves -- Wrigley has traded places with what suddenly is a kinder, more sedate ballpark. In the name of William Ligue, would you believe U.S. Cellular Field has become saner than Cubdom? Whoa. I never thought Jay would say something like that, and it took me some time to come to grips with it. Then I woke up this morning, and my mind was absolutely blown . I'm not sure how this is possible, but several days have passed since ...