Decision 2006: Shea Hillenbrand for AL MVP

I see Shea Hillenbrand, alone in the clubhouse, cold despite the heat still wafting from the now-abandoned showers. The rest of the team is on the bus by now, hushed chatter that waits only for the first fissures, that fracture of decorum – the sideways remark, the cocked-eyebrow inflection – that will open the gates, […]

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