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Gardner agrees to a contract extension. 

“So Good to Be Here”–Al Green

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Frankie And Johnny

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de Kooning.

Chairman Mao on Tribe’s third LP, “Midnight Marauders.” 

Since there is a certain Bronx Boy now living down south who digs citrus, check out this kumquat marmalade.

If there is a bigger question mark for the Yankees this year than the health of Mark Teixeira I’d like to know what it is.

Sure, there’s Jeter’s health too, and C.C. Sabathia, and David Robertson as closer, and what’s what at second and third…OK, fine: there’s a bunch of things to gnaw over.

But Teixeira, man, I just don’t have a good feeling.

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Huh.

Picture by our man Bags. Who has been on fire of late.

It’s Not About the Nail from Jason Headley on Vimeo.

But beautiful.

Sweet Sueno.

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Alexandra makes a tasty-looking skirt steak with shallots. 

Derek Jeter spoke to reporters today. The always excellent Chad Jennings has the skinny. 

And here’s some good stuff about Ichi. 

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Picture by Nikolai Larin.

It’s spring time in Florida.

Worth a click. 

Tonight on “American Experience” gives Penn Station.

Here’s a dumb spring training story and a dumb rebuttal.

Now, that we’ve got that out of the way, check out Steven Goldman’s ranking of Derek Jeter against the greatest shortstops of all time:

Sixteen shortstops rated, Jeter wins 13-3, with only Banks, Smith and Ripken coming out ahead. Given Jeter’s extraordinary consistency at bat and career accomplishments, that seems fair. While a few shortstops exceeded him at their peak moment, and many were fairly rated as superior on defense, the totality of his contributions, combined with when he made them, at a time when baseball was at its most cosmopolitan and competitive, means he cleared a higher bar than most of his predecessors. He might not have been the best shortstop ever, but he wasn’t far off.

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Untamed.

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