In which Theo Epstein has to eat his words

Baseball Musings found this 3/12/2008 on riveraveblues.com [flag]

A little over two weeks ago, Theo Epstein criticized Mike Mussina over his complaints — from 2004 — about the Yankees’ ill-fated trip to Japan to opening the regular season. At the time, Yankee fans were a little surprised about Theo’s seeming breach of protocol. A GM’s criticizing another team’s player for comments about an unrelated incident are exceedingly rare in ... [link]

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Inconvenient Trip
Published 3/12/2008 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
... March 12, 2008 Inconvenient Trip River Ave. Blues is enjoying the fact that the Red Sox suddenly aren't too happy with the Japan trip . The Baseball Musings pledge drive continues through March. ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, March 13
Published 3/13/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND: The blog River Ave. Blues -- don't really have to tell you where they're coming from, do I? -- is chortling about the Red Sox' trip to Japan. ...

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