Found December 01, 2011 on Baseball Heavy:
During these gray holiday doldrums, do you ever find yourself wondering what Ryan Kalish has been up to? Or do you long to re-connect with his sparkle, his charisma, his fascinating ways?M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E! That's what I say!1. Wait, Kalish hit a grand slam off Jered Weaver? How do I not remember this?2. Chili Davis understood what Kalish was going through, because he was a spokesman for struggling bats and a sensitive lover.3. "At this point honestly, I can’t really tell that anything was done to my neck," said Kalish via phone from San Francisco, where the Red Sox outfield prospect is conducting his rehab. "You have post-surgery pain and all that, but that’s totally gone. It just feels like a normal neck." Brendan McGair talked to a rehabbing Ryan Kalish and it was sadly overlooked. McGair also did a thing about suicides of the American Indian and nobody cared. Nobody shhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifowed.4. It just feels like a normal neck!5. Der...
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