Jerry Micco’s sports chat transcript 03/05/08

Jerry Micco: My apologies folks. Technical problems on this end, but I’m here now and ready to go. Good to be back from my week out of town! PhillyMarty: Jerry: I was a bit surprised to see Dan rather than Art Jr. as the management representative at Ben’s signing announcement.

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Wed, March 5th, 2008

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