sports.yahoo.com - 5/20/2008
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There's a little unspoken agreement around here at the YSB : As editor of Shutdown Corner , MJD gets first crack at anything Tom Brady related, even if it's as big a gray area as a picture of Mr. Wonderful wearing a baseball cap at a basketball game. Both Skeets and I are perfectly fine with that, because there are similar handshakes in place with A-Rod and LeBron and also because MJD ...
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The Wil Cordero Memorial Linkpunch, Tuesday, May 20th
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Dex heads out to the Big Apple for the National Sports Forum Executive Retreat and hears the keynote address by Tim Brosnan, Executive VP of Business at the MLB, aka the douchenozzle who tried to put Spiderman on the bases. Gaslamp Ball.
Pat notices that Pittsburgh closer Matt Capps is the only NL Central closer to keep both his shit together and the Pirates within reach of .500 so far this season. Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke?.
Joe Posnanski was in attendance for Jon Lester's no-hitter ...
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NYT > Baseball 5/20/2008
Clint Barmes homered and Yorvit Torrealba added a go-ahead two-run double in the sixth, leading the Colorado Rockies to a 4-3 win over slumping San Francisco on Monday night. >
