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The Wil Cordero Memorial Linkpunch, Thursday, June 4th

Found June 04, 2009 on Walkoff Walk:
PLAYERS: Wil Cordero,  Jorge Posada,  Curtis Granderson,  Josh Beckett,  Luke Scott
TEAMS: New York Mets,  New York Yankees,  Detroit Tigers,  Boston Red Sox,  Baltimore Orioles

Sometimes people write better than us. Each Tuesday and Thursday WoW gives you our favorite baseball links we've come across. Jonah Keri stirs up the Yankee lovers and haters in the baseballblogosphere with his defense of Jorge Posada's legacy (and then cedes to Jay Jaffe) in response to Rob Neyer's ideas about catcher of the decade. You're all wrong. The catcher of the aughts was absolutely the Three-Headed Molina Voltron. JonahKeri.com. Kevin Armstrong takes a jaunt down memory lane and features the great Boston sportswriter cabal from the 1970s. Imagine a Boston Globe roster starring Ray Fitzgerald, Leigh Montville, Peter Gammons, Will McDonough, Bob Ryan, Dan Shaughnessy, and John Powers and then go fill your bird's cage with today's edition. Sports Illustrated. Forget all this jibber-jabber about the McCutchens and Beckhams and Wieterses. The Marlins have an 18-year-old fella name Michael Stanton who is bashing up the FSL and who the Red Sox lu...
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