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• Comment on: Trout or Cabrera for AL MVP? - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog

  Posted 10/01/2012 04:39:23 EDT

  The triple crown is so rare that it deserves recognition for the player who achieves it. Otherwise, you might need to go back and apply your WAR views against all other earlier players. It may be that more »

• Comment on: 'Ross, Gonzalez blast away as Red Sox roll on'

  Posted 07/19/2012 10:02:16 EDT

  And even if he perhaps shouldn't have said it publicly, Valentine seems to have been correct that Youlilis was not playing with commitment with the Sox. more »

• Comment on: 'Ross, Gonzalez blast away as Red Sox roll on'

  Posted 07/19/2012 09:57:48 EDT

  I also have wondered if Lester is tipping his pitches.
  
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• Comment on: 'Less is more for the Red Sox’

  Posted 04/25/2012 12:35:18 EDT

  David Ortiz is a marvelous hitter but an even better human being. His deep concern for children and their hopes is a noble model for all of us. more »

• Comment on: 'GOP derails Senate 'Buffett rule' taxes on wealthy'

  Posted 04/16/2012 08:04:03 EDT

  The top 5% own 90% of the country.
  
  How many millions do you need? more »

• Comment on: 'GOP derails Senate 'Buffett rule' taxes on wealthy'

  Posted 04/16/2012 07:57:45 EDT

  If trickle down is so effective, why the recession of 2008 and the loss of so many jobs while hyper wealth has become ultra hyper-wealth? Apparently the wealthy just like to be wealthy. The poor? Let more »

• Comment on: 'GOP derails Senate 'Buffett rule' taxes on wealthy'

  Posted 04/16/2012 07:54:41 EDT

  No surprise here. Sen. McConnell and friends want the super-rich to be the super-super-rich.
  
  And everyone else to be their serfs.
  
  Good by America more »

• Comment on: Mitt%20Romney%20says%20%u2018all%20moms%20are%20working%20moms%u2019%20but%20mothers%20on%20welfare%20%u2018need%20to%20go%20to%20work%u2019%20

  Posted 04/15/2012 07:53:33 EDT

  Obviously only poor mothers should have jobs outside the home. Multimillionaire moms are just fine at home letting the nannies take care of things (i.e., children). more »

• Comment on: 'Reflections from the sunny side'

  Posted 03/11/2012 10:55:06 EDT

  Hmmm. Valentine is not good on TV because he thinks before he speaks? Perhaps if other followed Valentine's odd habit of thinking, TV would be greatly improved. The apparent ban on thinking is a prett more »

• Comment on: Random Red Sox thoughts from Fort Myers - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog

  Posted 02/27/2012 10:28:32 EST

  As for being cultured, I would include baseball in a broad definition. Obviously the day to day points relate to people and baseball expectations around the field, but history, achievement, and except more »

• Comment on: Spring Training Today: Crawford, Youkilis speak their minds - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog

  Posted 02/20/2012 07:13:46 EST

  Mr. Crawford would do better to make his argument on the field. He is making 20 million dollars a year, about what Mitt Romney makes from investments, which puts hims in the top .01% of income earners more »

• Comment on: 'Papelbon walks a fine line with ump'

  Posted 09/27/2010 11:20:23 EDT

  As I understand it, Joe Morgan on ESPN claimed that A-Rod should have been out on a strike that was not called. And he knows the game extremely well. Paplebon is certainly much less effective than is more »

• Comment on: Obama’s soak-the-rich mentality - The Boston Globe

  Posted 09/02/2009 08:21:03 EDT

  After the Regan/Bush/Bush era of welfare for the wealthy, this seems a distorted view. Look at the stagnation of income for the middle class over the last eight years and the massive advances for the more »