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Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
Finally, relief for a Royal pain — For the first time in my years of eBay bidding, I lost an auction and was legitimately bummed. A man's loyalty was for sale, and I wanted it. — Chad Carroll is 34 years old. He lives in Maryland. He is a computer tech with the Air Force.
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Associated Press:
Change in the works — Angry Royals owner promises adjustments — KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An angry David Glass vowed Friday that "significant changes" are coming soon to the woeful Kansas City Royals. — "I'm not willing for us to sit and wait to see if it gets better," the Royals owner told The Associated Press on Friday.
Joe Posnanski / Kansas City Star:At the end of their ropes — Even the eternally hopeful have a breaking point
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Bucs Dugout
Associated Press:
Nationals SS Guzman to have season-ending surgery — WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals shortstop Cristian Guzman will miss the entire season after the team decided Friday his right shoulder needs surgery. — Guzman has been out since early in spring training.
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Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Glavine enjoys smooth sailing — Sinks Pirates for win No. 279 — Don't get Tom Glavine wrong. He appreciated the run support, even if he did quip: "It would've been nice the first couple of innings." — Glavine retired the first 12 Pirates he faced last night and nursed a one-run lead until …
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ESPN:
Power Rankings: Reds, Tigers finally getting their due — Ranking all 30 teams since the beginning of the season, we admit that preseason reputations have hurt some teams and helped others along the way. But now that we're nearly 30 games into the 2006 season, reputations are starting to carry much less weight.
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Angels 7, Tigers 2 — DETROIT - Vladimir Guerrero, Mike Napoli and Casey Kotchman homered, and the Los Angeles Angels stopped their longest losing streak since 2002 at six games with a 7-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday. — Napoli, a 24-year-old catcher brought up from Triple …
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
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Amanda Branam / MLB.com:
Notes: Navarro's surge set back? — Catcher's hot streak on pause after Thursday's early exit — LOS ANGELES — Just as Dioner Navarro's bat was finally coming around, a wrist injury may slow him down. — Navarro was hit on the right wrist on a foul tip by Vinny Castilla in the second inning …
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Jon Heyman / Newsday:
Amazin's are best team in town — Almost every other day it seems, the Mets break out in song. — Tonight, we'll hear for the first time a jazzed-up version of that old standard, "Meet the Mets." There's also that funky new tune they play at Shea, "Our Team, Our Time." (Or is it "Our Time, Our Team"?)
Discussion:
Hot Foot
Will Carroll / Baseball Prospectus:
Under The Knife — In My Backyard — Imagine my surprise when I found out that my travel plans for the 2009 Winter Meetings were already taken care of. Bud Selig and MLB saw fit to give me a little gift yesterday, dropping the Meetings right in my backyard a few years from now.
Richard / SportsJustice:
$20 million for the Rocket? — • I'm told the Astros made a stunning opening offer to Roger Clemens: around $20 million for five months. Meanwhile the Hendricks Brothers aren't tipping their hand. — • People have been so nice to defend me on this blog. I appreciate it beyond words.
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New York Times
Amy K. Nelson / ESPN:
At an early age, Calabrese learned lifelong lesson … The hardest part of Kelly Calabrese's job comes not when she has to walk through a clubhouse full of undressing men, or when she's enduring the grind of a 162-game season, or even when a Mets broadcaster publicly mocks and criticizes her for being a woman in a man's game.
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Gaslamp Ball
Deadspin:
Jose Guillen, Money Manager — We've got to consider it, at this point, very possible that the reason Nationals outfielder Jose Guillen never received any lessons in financial management is because they were scared at him. — Because it's clear he never received any lessons in financial management.
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Shealy on the mend — Sky Sox first baseman biding his time in Triple-A … Is there any news on Ryan Shealy's possible return from the DL? — Phil - I talked with Ryan Shealy on Tuesday night in Colorado Springs. He looked great, clearly maintaining the conditioning program he adopted over the winter.
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Purple Row
Mychael Urban / MLB.com:
Notes: Kendall suspension expected — Melhuse in starting lineup Thursday to get acclimated — OAKLAND — The A's know that it's a question of when as opposed to if regarding a suspension of catcher Jason Kendall, who charged the mound in Anaheim on Tuesday, so they've already started preparing for life without their iron man.
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Athletic Supporters
