The Year That Wasn't

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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/071231


Theres some good ones in there.

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Dec. 31: New York's traditional calendar-ending celebration is cancelled after Jonathan Papelbon's dog eats the Times Square ball, George Mitchell expands his investigation to include the Bad News Bears due to "reports of acne," and the New Year's Baby, already whining that the Red Sox haven't won the World Series in his lifetime, takes the advice of agent Scott Boras and abruptly opts out of 2008.

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Dec. 31: New York's traditional calendar-ending celebration is cancelled after Jonathan Papelbon's dog eats the Times Square ball, George Mitchell expands his investigation to include the Bad News Bears due to "reports of acne," and the New Year's Baby, already whining that the Red Sox haven't won the World Series in his lifetime, takes the advice of agent Scott Boras and abruptly opts out of 2008.

xlolx
:p

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Aug. 1: Minnesota trades Kevin Garnett, Randy Moss, Johan Santana, Adrian Peterson, Marian Gaborik, Tom Lehman, Garrison Keillor, the Coen brothers, Al Franken, Mary Tyler Moore, Charlie Brown, Betty Crocker, Paul Bunyan and the Pillsbury Doughboy to Boston.

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Aug. 9: David Beckham finally turns American women (and gay men) into passionate soccer fans when he poses in his underwear for Armani.

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Oct. 4: After hitting .314 with 54 home runs and 156 RBIs during the regular season, A-Rod opts out of his contract with an 0-1 count in his first at-bat of the Division Series against Cleveland, but unfortunately fails to inform manager Joe Torre.

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Oct. 5: Cleveland successfully introduces its newest promotion: "Midge Night" in which all Yankees relievers age 22 and under receive 100,000 free midges.

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Oct. 28: The Red Sox' World Series sweep is briefly interrupted during Game 4 when A-Rod runs naked onto the field during "God Bless America," grabs the microphone from Carrie Underwood and formally announces he is opting out of his contract. In a related story, Bill Belichick is fined $250,000 for taping the World Series without the express written consent of the commissioner of baseball.

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Nov. 10: The Rockies phone major league baseball offices to ask if the World Series has started yet.

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Dec. 10: Having shrewdly scheduled absolutely no games whatsoever on its schedule, undefeated Ohio State receives a bid to lose in the BCS Championship Game to Appalachian State.

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those were my personal favorites along with the papelbon one.