Brian Cashman’s Wife Files for Divorce: A New York Mets Fan’s View (Yahoo! Contributor Network)

For the first time in a decade, an ugly scandal regarding a New York-area baseball team involves the Yankees instead of the Mets. Brian Cashman's Philandering According to a Yahoo! Sports report, a woman stalked and shook down New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman,...

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Top 5 Catchers of the 2000’s: A Fan’s Opinion (Yahoo! Contributor Network)

Here is my list of the top five catchers of the 2000's: Jorge Posada (2000-09 New York Yankees) - Finished the decade with a .283 batting average, hitting 208 homers while driving in 819 runs. Jorge had eight seasons of 20+ homers and 80+ RBI's.

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Report: Orioles will talk to Dan Duquette (Yahoo! Sports)

Dan Duquette will reportedly interview with the Baltimore Orioles on Friday for their general manager position, trying to get back into the major leagues after nearly a decade absence and the club will also talk to Boston Red Sox assistant GM Allard Baird and several other...

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Epstein joins the Chicago Cubs (The Canadian Press)

CHICAGO - Theo Epstein knew it was time to move on, even though it meant leaving the team he loved. After nearly a decade as general manager in Boston where he won two World Series titles, Epstein decided change would be a good thing.

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Yankees face offseason questions after ‘bitter disappointment’ (Yahoo! Sports)

As has usually been the case around the New York Yankees in the past decade, the club deemed its season a failure because it had not won the World Series, and faced a multitude of offseason questions after falling to the Detroit Tigers in the ALDS.

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Bartolo Colon’s stem cell treatment opens a new can of worms (Yahoo! Sports)

Oh, this should be loads of fun. Just when you thought the mind-numbing decade-long discussion about baseball and performance-enhancing drugs was fizzling out, it's now being reported that Bartolo Colon's big comeback was aided by a controversial medical procedure involving … Continue reading →

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Top 5 notable hitting streaks in the past decade: A fan’s report (Associated Content)

In baseball lore, records come and go. As the generations of players progress, they're consistently bigger, faster and stronger than their predecessors, yet the historic legacy of their accomplishments continue to reign supreme.

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Fan reaction: Dave Sappelt making big bid for Reds outfield (Associated Content)

I grew up in Cincinnati during the 1970s and, like anyone else in the Queen City at that time, I followed the Big Red Machine intently. As awesome as that team was, they could have won even more than two World Series before beating the Boston Red Sox in '75 and the New York Yankees in '76. The team already had three solid outfielders in George Foster, Cesar Geronimo and Ken Griffey, so the management thought Hal MacRae was expendable. They sent MacRae to Kansas City, where he became one of the best hitters of the decade.

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The past decade’s greatest Boston sports moments (Associated Content)

The histories of Boston's sports franchises are no less storied and remarkable than that of the city itself. Few Americans would deny that although Boston has not always been the most formidable presence in major league sports, it has unquestionably become one of the great sports cities in the country. There's good reason for that well-deserved status. With championship franchises in each of the three biggest team sports leagues in America, it's little wonder that fans are jumping on the bandwagon.

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Boston’s worst sports moments of the decade (Associated Content)

Boston's status as one of the great sport cities of America is a claim with which few outside of the region could argue. As a proud New Englander who emigrated from Buffalo over ten years ago, home of the perennial second place finishers, it's nice to be able to root for a city which can boast three championship-quality teams in three separate sports leagues. Unfortunately, as any sports fan knows all to well, the bigger they are, the harder they fall, and stratospheric expectations have been dashed more than once in recent years.

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