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ESPN.com:
Reports: Canseco finalizes deal for ‘Juiced’ sequel — Jose Canseco has finalized a book deal for his sequel to “Juiced” and it is expected to hit bookstores by Opening Day of the 2008 season, two New York newspapers reported Sunday. — Robert Saunooke, Canseco's lawyer …
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Peter Cox / New York Post:
CANSECO BARING MORE JUICY DETAILS IN STEROID SEQUEL — José Canseco has inked a deal to publish a sequel to his blockbuster steroid tell-all, “Juiced,” his lawyer said. — “It will be an unjaundiced view, without the rose-colored glasses that [The Mitchell Report] obviously put on,” said Robert Saunooke, Canseco's attorney.
Christian Red / NY Daily News:
Jose Canseco announces ‘Juiced’ sequel — It has been a most foul holiday season for Bud Selig and Major League Baseball in the wake of the Mitchell Report's release. But the 20-month investigation into the sport's steroid culture — which outed Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte …
Warren Goldstein / The Huffington Post:
Steroids in Baseball: What's New York Got to Do with it? — As I've written before, I don't think there's any reason to think that the Mitchell report snared most of professional baseball's juicers. Just on logical grounds, if a couple of accidental low-level distributors looking …
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River Ave. Blues
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Theo Epstein — Right before the final game of the World Series, Theo Epstein was asked for context on the burgeoning dynasty he seems to be creating. — “If someone wants to compare us to the Yankees based on winning and results, that's an incredible standard,” said Epstein, the general manager of the Boston Red Sox.
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WasWatching.com
Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Hot Stove: Cold, hard data is McLouth's best friend — There is no more objective guide to Major League Baseball than the annual Bill James Handbook, a detailed compendium of way-inside-the-game numbers. No fluff, no conflicting observations from scouts and no talk of promise or potential.
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Pittsburgh Pirates, Where have you gone …, Pittsburgh Lumber Co., Bucs Dugout and Honest Wagner
John Perrotto / Beaver County Times & Allegheny Times:
Pirates Notes: Thrilled with Garcia — It is only fitting that Carlos Garcia has been hired as the Pirates' minor-league infield coordinator. He was an infielder with the Pirates from 1990-96 and was the home team's only representative in 1994 when the game was at Three Rivers Stadium.
NY Daily News:
Hall-worthy 5 — Hall of Fame ballots are due Monday. I'm voting for five players: Goose Gossage, Jim Rice, Jack Morris, Bert Blyleven, and Dave Concepcion. — Gossage, denied too long, should finally make it; Rice might benefit from steroids-weary voters taking another look …
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Fan with a one-track mind — In study of homers, he goes the distance — Greg Rybarczyk has a day job. But most of all, he digs the long ball, and he has devoted much of his spare time to tracking home runs, creating a tool, the Hit Tracker, that he says calculates the precise trajectory of every home run hit in the big leagues.
NY Daily News:
Family of woman who died in Jim Leyritz car crash tries to cope with loss — The young son of a Florida woman who cops say was killed by ex-Yankee Jim Leyritz in a car crash went to bed with tears in his eyes after his father broke the horrible news to him.
Malia Rulon / USA Today:
Bill would've called for letting Rose back into baseball — WASHINGTON — What would have happened if Congress had called on Major League Baseball to allow Pete Rose back into the game? — As far flung as that scenario sounds, it was actually something that an Ohio congressman …
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ShysterBall
NY Daily News:
Stupor agent — Several weeks after Alex Rodriguez broke free from Scott Boras' influence and personally talked Hank Steinbrenner into rethinking his Yankee opt-out ultimatum, a lingering media perception suggests that it was all some clever plan contrived to get A-Rod his $300 million and repair his battered image.
Gerry Fraley / Sporting News:
Inside Dish: Who's getting the nod on my Hall of Fame ballot — Bert Blyleven — His career record (287-250) was more a function of his teams than his performance. From 1971-89, he ranked among the league top 10 in ERA 10 times, in innings pitched 11 times and in strikeouts 15 times.
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Lone Star Ball
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Andy Behrens / Yahoo! Sports:
Roto Arcade: Factoring Fukudome — Of all the things we learned at the inaugural World Baseball Classic, the most startling fact was this: the actor who played Taka Tanaka in “Major League” is a pretty big deal in Japan. — His name is Takaaki Ishibashi.
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East Windup Chronicle
