Found January 28, 2009 on Tirico Suave: Yardbarker Blogger Network
Allow me to take a break from Tirico Suave’s Super Bowl De-Media Week*, where we combat the overexposure of the big game by not writing about anything at all, to give my thoughts on a trade that no one outside of Seattle or Chicago will care about. My beloved M’s traded the recently acquired Aaron Heilman [...]
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