John Farrell,Former Red Sox pitching coach and new Blue Jays manager understands life in AL East

It's not as if he didn't have choices. John Farrell would have been on anybody's short list to manage their baseball team, which is why the Boston Red Sox added financial sweeteners to his contract that prevented him from leaving as pitching coach the last three seasons.

So, then how do you explain why Farrell, freed from his obligation to Boston, has elected to make his managerial debut with the Toronto Blue Jays, which is the baseball equivalent of signing up to fight Manny Pacquiao 18 times a year, followed by another 18 nights in a steel cage with Brock Lesnar?

During the winter meetings in Orlando, while the Red Sox were dominating the headlines with their trade for Adrian Gonzalez and signing of Carl Crawford, and the New York Yankees were engaged in their futile pursuit of Cliff Lee, Farrell insisted that he was undaunted by going toe-to-toe with the two teams that have maintained a chokehold on the AL East.

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Mark Zuckerberg named Time Person of the Year.

 It's Mr. Facebook himself CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Why? Well, Time says it's because his creation has "wired together a twelfth of humanity," but we think a certain highly dramatized blockbuster movie might have something to do with it. Really, it's not luck the Zuck did that much in 2010, except tell some uncomfortable stories when launching Seamless Messaging. Runners up include Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who had another rough year, and Wikileaks' Julian Assange, who is currently having a rather rough December after shaking up international relations all year long.

Terrence Williams to Houston in a 3 way-deal

The New Jersey Nets agreed to trade Terrence Williams to the Houston Rockets in a three-way deal that will land them Los Angeles Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic and a pair of first-round draft picks.

The trade, which has been agreed upon in principle, will also send Nets veteran power forward Joe Smith to the Lakers, while New Jersey will receive Los Angeles' 2011 first-round pick and Houston's 2012 lottery-protected first-rounder, sources said.

To make roster room for Williams' arrival, sources said, Houston has struck a deal with Sacramento that will send Jermaine Taylor to the Kings for a future second-round pick. 

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