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Who is to blame for the cream filling in Twinkies (among other things)

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I couldn’t resist. The esteemed writer Charlie Pierce dropped this bit of knowledge on me while waiting for Daisuke Matsuzaka’s batting practice session. It turns out that Twinkies were originally supposed to be filled with a banana-based substance, but because all of the ships used to import bananas were being commandeered to transfer supplies to [...]

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This just in … Matsuzaka can pitch

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Just off field No. 2 where Daisuke Matsuzaka threw 44 pitches in a batting practice session. Hitting against the hurler was Bobby Scales, Kevin Cash, Luis Jiminez, and Jacoby Ellsbury.
“Impressive,” Ellsbury told me on the way to another round of BP. “His fastball got going as he went along. But his breaking balls were really [...]

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