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The Last Off Night Before The Offseason
The Last Off Night Before The Offseason
First and foremost, huge congrats to a good friend of the blog, Craig Calcaterra . After graduating from Blogspot to The Hardball Times and from there to NBC Sports , the Shyster is quitting his day job and moving to NBC Sports full-time. Like many others, I found Shysterball through Rob Neyer ...
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