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...League team. Teams submit blind bids to the player’s Japanese club, and, if it is accepted, the highest bid awards a team the rights to sign him. This ante can only be refunded should the American team and the Japanese player fail to agree on a contract. Unsure of what they are getting, teams usually keep their bids conservative—until Boston’s binge...
...control a team that already outspends everyone but the Yankees. You already have the second-largest contract ever on your books. Your tickets are far and away the most expensive in baseball, not to mention the hardest to get. How exactly are mortal fans supposed to get within a mile of Fenway Park next season? How much sense does it make that ticket prices in the ultimate college town are out of students’ leagues? Here’s some news for the Yawkey brain trust: All of Boston is Red Sox Nation, not just Louisburg Square?...
...introduce more competition, diversity and dynamism to the nation's schools, the commission proposes that schools be run by independent contractors - in some cases groups of teachers - who agree to meet requirements set and measured by the district or else lose the contract. Parents would choose the school their child attends...
...Tokyo Thursday for a historic summit, and although he was accorded the rare honor of addressing Japan's legislature, he couldn't make the front-page lead of the country's national newspapers. That territory belonged to Daisuke Matsuzaka, a 26-year-old pitcher whose six-year, $52 million contract with the Boston Red Sox (plus another $51 million Boston paid to Matsuzaka's old team, the Seibu Lions, just for the right to negotiate with him) is the most lucrative deal ever for a player coming out of Japan. That may be a fitting tribute to the All-Star...
...dare in just a hair under an hour. Dern’s fame—on and off campus—hasn’t quite gone to his head, though he does admit, in true reality TV star fashion, that he hopes to parlay this into a record contract or gig at a comedy club. And who knows after that? Guess we’ll all have to tune...