In addition to my usual Yankees Chick posts, I have also begun writing regularly for AOL's FanHouse blog. I will post the beginnings of those articles here on YC, and then you'll have to click the link to jump on over to FH to read the rest... stick with me here, amigos!
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The Mets may have won the Johan Santana race that consumed the early parts of the off-season -- back in the days before the Clemens "excitement" really took over, which seems like a lifetime ago -- but the Red Sox aren't feeling like losers.

If you recall -- and again, this was loooong ago, before the days of Clemens filing lawsuits and crying during press conferences, so it's possible your brain may have already had to delete Santana data in order to use the storage space for McNamee et al -- the Red Sox offered the Twins a nice package of youngsters in exchange for Santana, but the Twinsies wanted more and ended up going with the Mets instead. There was some speculation by cynics like myself that either the Yanks or the Sox (or both) were only in the hunt to keep the other from acquiring the beast that is Santana, but that is nothing but hogwash according to Theo Epstein.

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