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Shitting On Toronto About twice a year I go to New York in order to feel my civic pride for Toronto deteriorate faster than Stoeten's skin after an ill-advised purchase of Powercell batteries. During my visit to Manhattan this past weekend I came across a gentleman in his early thirties, standing in the middle of Times Square, dressed head to toe in New York Giants paraphernalia. He held a ...
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Oh, What the Hell
The Mockingbird — ... But DJF just made the topic cool again, I’ve got this graph laying around, and some idiot just keyed my car for fun so the world can go get stuffed again. Here’s Fasano vs. Barajas in terms of OPS+ over their careers: ...

Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
Bleacher Report — ... I have to admit, I've been kind of trying to keep the soccer stuff to a minimum around here lately-- and also trying to keep the boners for New York City horsecock to a minimum as well-- but I'm going to have to break from that a second and point out awesomeness that is the New York Times' blog, ...

In Rod We Trust
The Mockingbird — ... (and a Drunk or two) pointed out that maybe career numbers weren’t the way to go here and Barajas wasn’t such a terrible (or meaningless) cheap pickup. ...

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