Terry Francona’s Do or Die Mission

April 18, 2011 by Andrew Tuttle · 2 Comments

â€œI think Francona should be gone by the end of the month and the pitching coach also. They both suck.â€ Thatâ€™s not me saying it. I intercepted a message on an answering machine from one lifelong Red Sox fan (who lives in Rhode Island) to another lifelong fan. And, no Iâ€™m not talking the Twenty-oh-fours. […]

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There Will Never Be Another Owner Like ‘The Boss’

July 14, 2010 by Chris Jensen · Leave a Comment

When I received news that George Steinbrenner had passed away at the age of 80, a wave of thoughts and emotions came over me. A lifelong fan of the Yankees, I was 10 years old when Steinbrenner and his partners bought the team for $8.8 million in 1973 in a deal that now rivals the […]

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