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...shoot forward two months, and there I am, watching my first NLCS, not knowing that it will be one of the most memorable in history. Francisco Cabrera pinch hits for the Braves with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth of game seven, with the Pirates leading 2-1. Cabrera drives a single to left off Stan Belinda, Barry Bonds can’t throw out speed-demon Sid Bream at the plate, and the Braves head to the World Series...
...cooked to a crisp. And he'll begin to act up in year three, as is his wont.) Gabe Kapler certainly deserved to play every day somewhere, and if that somewhere needed to be Japan, well, then, good for you, Gabe, and thanks for the memories. Orlando Cabrera brought flash to the field and fun to the clubhouse, and we'll learn down the road whether we made the right move at short. All these new pitchers-Clement, Miller, Mantei, our old whipping boy Wells-weren't they all dinged up, only yesterday? Our pitching roster could...
...Roberts we love and always will (and the betting here is, he'll be back one day). We love (No-Need-to-Panic, We've Got) Leskanic, unlikely winner of that pivotal Game Four. He's out of baseball now, but he's a Red Sox forever. So is Cabrera, who on April 11th did not fly to Boston but knocked in the winning run for his new club, the California (I reject that ridiculous new name) Angels, in the 10th inning of a game in Texas. I'm sure Cabrera is upset that Theo chose to sign the other...
DIED. GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE, 75, inventive Cuban-born novelist known for his offbeat humor and vivid evocations of pre-Castro Cuba; of a blood infection; in London. An exile since the early 1960s, he was best known for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres (later published in English as Three Trapped Tigers), a loving, pyrotechnic paean to the energetic night life of old Havana...
...will probably come up with the cash to keep Varitek, who guided a weary pitching staff through four straight playoff wins over the Yankees. Cabrera is iffy--he doesn't draw enough walks for number crunchers like Epstein, and several top shortstops are on the market. Lowe, the first pitcher to win the final game in all three playoff rounds, may have thrown his last sinker in Boston. As ESPN analyst (and former New York Mets general manager) Steve Phillips puts it, "He's too high maintenance...