MLB Network aired the debut of ?We Are Young: A Baseball Family? last night, and I watched it this afternoon while working. Actually, I didn?t really watch it so much as gaze at the screen whenever older brother Dmitri was talking. You can blame me for that if you like, but it?s a two-hour program, [...]
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