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...Costas will be described as "The conscience of baseball" 2. A pitcher will credit the good Lord for helping him throw a two-hit shutout 3. Manny Ramirez will get picked off first base...
Nomar Garciaparra just appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, fresh off back-to-back batting titles and an intensive workout regime. Enter Manny Ramirez, perhaps the best slugger in all of baseball. See Carl Everett, who managed to hit 34 homeruns last year for the Sox while simultaneously head-butting umpires and denouncing the existence of dinosaurs...
...addition of Ramirez will certainly make Boston a contender this season. The Sox might even win the AL East, which would add even more hype to a possible playoff showdown with the Yanks. But, the postseason has and will always depend on pitching. A seven-game (or, heaven forbid, a five-game) series is usually determined by which pitching staff--starters, middle relievers, and closers--has more talent...
...bottom line is that the Yankees are the favorites this season, no different than the past five years. They now have Mussina, who most sports fans believed to be the prize of this year's free agent class--even more valuable than Manny. The Yanks probably could have signed Ramirez if they so desired, but chose to go after 'The Moose' because Brian Cashman and Joe Torre understand that pitching wins championships. After all, they've been in the winners' circle four times in the past five years...
...sustains when cases of fraud or sales of offensive items hit the news. Last month a California man was charged with selling $110,000 in computers and consumer electronics on eBay but not delivering. And there was a minor dustup last fall when convicted serial killer Angel Resendez-Ramirez boasted in a television interview that his hair and shavings from calluses on his feet had been sold on eBay...