JEFF PEARLMAN

JEFF PEARLMAN

This week’s SI.com column …

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… ran today instead of Friday, because of Christmas.

It’s my take on bad teams always signing bad players. Here’s the link.

Thanks.

PS: A side note: I was thinking this morning about Pudge Rodrizguez. A bunch of years ago I visited Pudge’s house in Miami. He was friendly and nice and sorta dull, but two things stand out: First, he had a ton of books in his library—stuff like biographies of FDR and Lincoln; profiles of great debates, etc. I picked up one of the books to read through it—and the pages were empty. One hundred percent empty. All the books. They were merely for show, brought in by some interior decorator. Second, in his backyard he had an enormous bronze statue of … Pudge Rodriguez. In catching garb.

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