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Dustin Pedroia and the Red Sox agree to extension 
evan@mvn.com (Tim Daloisio) via Fire Brand of the American Lea on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
There's been a common trend throughout Major League Baseball for teams to lock up their young talent early giving them more front loaded money in longer term deals, while effectively buying potential free agent years at a discount. This strategy allows a team to lock in young talent at reasonable annual dollar amounts over the long term. In Boston, you might say "they just "Nomar-ed" him into
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The Brewers and the Rule 5 Draft
TheJay, Brew Crew Ball via SB Nation Recent Baseball Post on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Since major league clubs finalized their reserve lists (also known as 40-man rosters) on November 20, the Internet has been abuzz with speculation about the Rule 5 draft. This year's Rule 5 draft takes place on December 11 at the end of the annual Winter Meetings. So what exactly is the Rule 5 draft and why are people so excited about it? Perhaps more importantly for us, how have the Brewers pa
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NBC Still Can't Sell Super Bowl Ads (GE)
Nicholas Carlson via Alley Insider on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
NBC still hasn't sold any Super Bowl spots since September, when it crowed about a faster-than-usual pace.
Tradition
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The iPhone and the Ensuing Wireless Broadband Boom
Om Malik via GigaOM on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
I have been saying for some time that the launch of the 3G iPhone was going to jump-start the demand for wireless
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Hulu Users Choose Two Minute Ads
Nicholas Carlson via Alley Insider on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Internet users will never watch videos burdened writh long pre-rolls? Wrong.
Hulu users would prefer watching one 2 minute commercial instead of four 30 second ones during 22 minute TV shows,
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Part 2: Five Years Later ... Becoming a Red Sox
(unknown author) via Curt Schilling Archive on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Just days after the whole process began at Shonda's fundraiser (right), talks with the Red Sox truly heated up. The first day of negotiations saw an exchange of offers, with Larry Lucchino not real excited about my stance at $13 million and me making it clear to them that number was pretty much concret
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Part 1: Five Years Later ... A Pitcher's Most Memorable Thanksgiving
(unknown author) via Curt Schilling Archive on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
2003 Season: Five innings, six earned runs, two strikeouts a loss to the Brewers. After the 2001 World Series, after a 2002 season in which I was privileged to team up with R.J. to become the first duo to strike out 300 hitters each in a single season, that was my line score for what would be my last s
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What're People Most Thankful For? Twitter Knows
Nicholas Carlson via Alley Insider on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
What's Twitter's big secret plan for making money? We don't know. But here's another guess: In part, by allowing advertisers to sponsor single sites featuring live-updates from all Twitter users regarding a single top
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Could the Blackberry Storm’s Momentum Challenge iPhone Interest?
Eleanor Baird via Compete Blog on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
On Friday, the much-anticipated Blackberry Storm went on sale. Like many other recent Smartphone releases, the touchscreen, media player, and web-browsing features led to comparisons with the iPhone 3G.
Sales figures were not available at the time of this post, but we did get a sense of the onli
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The Dour Marketer
David Churbuck via Churbuck.com on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
The Scots have a word for the mood I’ve been in lately — heck the mood the entire world has been in the past couple months — and that is “dour” – which I’ve heard pronounced “dow-er” but think is more accurately spoken as “dew-ar” which is appropriate since a Dewars on the rocks with a twist is about the best recourse I can recommend for someone feeling b
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Exploring the ESPN Business Model (Hint: It Involves Swimming In Piles of Cash) [Espn]
Clay Travis via Deadspin on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
By now everyone knows that ESPN paid $100 million more than Fox could afford for the rights to the BCS games beginning in 2009. Cementing, to a great degree, ESPN's status as a post-season
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Top ten boardgames.
(unknown author) via The dish on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
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great list!
A few administrative notes: Chat today at 1 pm EDT; I’ll be on XM 175 at 10:05 pm EDT tonight; and you really need to read Joe Posnanski’s de-pantsing of Thomas Boswe
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Retail traffic flat from 2007
Heather Dougherty via Hitwise Intelligence - Analyst on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Thanksgiving is almost here, time for turkey, pumpkin pie – and online shopping. Each year Thanksgiving is the peak traffic day to the Retail 500, particularly among many of the brick & mortar players, who use the online channel to help inform shoppers about in-store (and online) Black Friday deals. Although bad news
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Could Julio Lugo be 2009's Coco Crisp?
evan@mvn.com (Tim Daloisio) via Fire Brand of the American Lea on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
While most people are dreaming of an off chance that Dontrelle Willis could recreate himself in a Boston Red Sox uniform, there is recent precedent that might point towards not rushing Julio Lugo out of town quite so quickly.
Tell me if this story sounds even remotely familiar?
An under-performing veteran coming off an injury plagued season, having never fulfilled his promise
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Talking Youtube Live
markcuban via blog maverick on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
This past Nov 22nd Youtube had its first major live event. A concert featuring HDNet fave Joe Satriani , Katy Perry Will.I.Am and others. Of course everyone involved in the space is chattering about whether or not the show was a success.
According to Mogulus, the live internet broadcast peaked at a
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Varitek’s Value
Dave Cameron via FanGraphs Baseball on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Scott Boras is known for his ridiculous assertions in an effort to boost his client’s worth on the free agent market. We’ve already talked about his hilarious Oliver Perez as Sandy Koufax argument, so today, we’ll look at his c
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The Next Bartolo Colon
evan@mvn.com (Tim Daloisio) via Fire Brand of the American Lea on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
From the likes of Wade Miller and Kyle Snyder to Bartolo Colon the Red Sox have often found value, or potential value in signing a veteran pitcher looking to right the ship after injury or at the end of their line to a one year deal and have them fill spots at the back of the rotation.
That type of insurance policy combined with an influx of youth at the tail end of your rotation has be
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Fireside Chats #28: Where the hot stove keeps us warm and we tool on Evan Grant in honor of the AL MVP
evan@mvn.com (Tim Daloisio) via Fire Brand of the American Lea on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Boston Red Sox podcast on MVN Radio, Episode #28 where the hot stove keeps us warm and we tool on Evan Grant in honor of the AL MVP.Episode #28Hosts: Paul Testa, Tim DaloisioGuests: No
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Why I like Dick Vitale
Joe Posnanski via Joe Posnanski on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
You can say what you want about Dick Vitale … but I was talking with him today for a Sunday column I’m writing* when the conversation took a rather unexpected turn.
*Vitale and Billy Packer are being inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame here in Kansas City this Sunday. More on this Hall
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FanIQ Keeps Fans In The Game, Membership Jumps 2000% This Year
Jason Kincaid via TechCrunch on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
FanIQ, a sports site that focuses more on entertaining its users than bogging them down with the stats and opinion pieces found on the likes of ESPN, has had a landmark year. The site launched in 2006, but hasn’t really hit its stride unt
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