The Curtain Call Conundrum

Take the 7 Train found this 4/28/2008 on www.hotfootblog.com [flag]

Like it or not, right or wrong, Carlos Delgado’s decision to not come out for a curtain call is going to be news. We’ll hear about when Beltran reluctantly took one, at the urging of Julio Franco, because he too had recieved the Shea Boo Treatment. For those who neither saw the game, watched the highlights, or read any of the blogs and/or mainstream media accounts of this ... [link]

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Hands Down: Round Trip Edition
Published 4/28/2008 by Jessica Bader at Take the 7 Train
... (who hadn’t given up a home run since last July) in the seventh. There will surely be plenty of discussion of Delgado’s decision not to go out for a curtain call after the second home run, and as far as I’m concerned Dan Lerner over at Hot Foot has said all that needed to be said. ...

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