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Infielder Marco Scutaro signed with the Boston Red Sox after the team requested his medical records.

CARACAS. — The rumors cleared. Marco Scutaro became part of the Boston Red Sox’ payroll, said sources close to the player.

The terms of the contract are unknown.

That’s my translation, by the way, so pardon any inexactness. But there you go.

And via Efrain Ruiz on Twitter:

Alguien muy cercano a los Medias Rojas me dice que lo de Marco Scutaro es cierto. Parece sólo cuestión de hacerlo oficial.

(Somebody very close to the Red Sox tells me that the news about Marco Scutaro is true. It seems to be only a matter of making it official.)

By the way, Jolie, this would be why studying Spanish > studying French (says the pepper).

Derek Jeter may seem like he has mastered how to maneuver in the bright lights of the big city, but the Yankees’ shortstop is ready to admit that even he slips up from time to time.

Jeter appeared on Wednesday with FOX News Channel’s “FOX and Friends” and said that despite his often glossy public image, there are occasions when he does not pull everything off in his life perfectly.

I bet sometimes even Jeter rolls his eyes and says, “Give me a freakin’ break,” when he reads articles about himself. Because give me a freakin’ break.

Completely and utterly fucking appalling.

The Providence Journal reports that the court, which said it was “dismayed” by the age of the suit, dismissed the appeal because Inge had its corporate charter revoked by the state in 1986 and has not legally been in existence for 23 years.

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So Inge was not “legally … in existence” four years after filing the suit, AND THEN THE SUIT SAT AROUND FOR ANOTHER 23 YEARS?

This is my state, people.

I’m sorry, this has absolutely nothing to do with anything, and I’m not exactly a proponent of killing animals for fun, but it made me laugh my ass off.

For diehard bowhunters like Chuck Thome Jr. of Peoria, though, there’s a sense of relief in already having a big buck down. Actually, this is a nerve-wracking week for archers who fear the bucks they are hunting will fall to the gun.

That’s one of many reasons Thome was elated last Sunday when he shot a big Fulton County 12-pointer on brother Jim Thome’s farm near Ellisville. The deer - whose wide rack could qualify for the Boone and Crockett Club’s exclusive record books - met his demise while following a doe.

“I owe it to the doe. That’s the only reason I killed him,” said Chuck Thome, who made a 24-yard shot through a narrow shooting lane that the buck walked past while in close pursuit of the doe.

That’s not an uncommon story in November, when whitetail breeding season peaks.

That also made up for a slow bow season for the Thome clan, who have been frustrated by too much standing corn in the area they are hunting. “And it’s going to get tougher once the guns start booming and those bucks head for the corn or for wherever big bucks go,” Thome said.

“the corn or wherever big bucks go.” Yep, they’re definitely brothers.

Next time your team gives up a shitload of runs in an inning, remember it’s probably still not the worst thing a team has ever done.

On April 22, 1959, the A’s gave up 11 runs on 1 hit to the White Sox in the 7th inning. The inning featured three errors, ten walks (eight with the bases loaded!), and a bases-loaded hit batsman, as well as one lone single.

The best part is that aside from the single, none of the White Sox put a ball in play beyond the infield. Two of the errors were on the shortstop and third baseman (the other was the right fielder misplaying the single), and two of the outs were groundouts back to the mound, with the other a strikeout.

More fun: this was an A’s home game. Initial attendance was 7,446. How many of those do you think were left after this 7th inning?