Deja Dice?

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Red Sox Fans Can Only Hope as Yankees Lock Up
Highly-Touted Japanese Hurler

Report: Masahiro Tanaka to Yankees for $155 Million
Yanks Have Spent $438 Million and Counting to Return to Dominance
You Can't Go Wrong With That Contract. Sincerely, Daisuke Matsuzaka
Meanwhile the Stay-Put Sox Are Banking On Overachieving, Again
So Is Sporadic Jon Lester Going to Look for Tanaka Money Now?
In Other News: Union Wants to Give A-Rod the Boot

Been There, Done That

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Theo Fooled Us With a Phony Ace From Japan

Remember When Epstein's Pacific Rim Scouts Were The Smartest Guys in the Room?
We Really Love Our $51,111,111.11 Toilets. Sincerely, The Seibu Lions

" 'It's highly unusual,' Epstein said of submitting a second offer without receiving a response to the first, 'but it's showing that Matsuzaka is extremely important to the Boston Red Sox. It's normally not a good ploy, but we want to demonstrate to Matsuzaka, and the fans of Japanese baseball, just how important he is to us.' " -- Boston Globe, Dec. 11, 2006

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The Sun Goes Up, The Sun Goes Down,
And Scott Boras Sucker Punches the Boston Red Sox

"In Japan, he's known as the national treasure. Here, he will be known as Fort Knox." -- Scott Boras, agent for Daisuke Matsuzaka, Dec. 11, 2006

Japan's National Treasure In the Rear View Mirror

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Remember Tracking Da Plane! Da Plane!?

(Flight Aware live tracking of Matsuzaka flight to Boston)

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Those Were the Days

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