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Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
Getting that sinking feeling — The Red Sox brass set sail on John Henry's big boat last night. The owner held a party to celebrate the engagement of his star general manager, Theo Epstein. Nice gesture. Toasts all around, no doubt. A three-hour tour.
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Associated Press:
Red Sox, Yankees shuffle players, including Ponson — BOSTON — Tuckered out a day after an interminable doubleheader, the Yankees and Red Sox bolstered their rosters Saturday with reinforcements from the minor leagues. — Boston recalled right-hander Jermaine Van Buren from Triple …
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Bronx Banter
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Hill of beans — Beckett (9 walks), Sox can't stop slide — The expiration date on the bloody sock has long since passed. Curt Schilling will be on his own tonight at Fenway Park when he tries to restore some dignity to a lost weekend for the Red Sox, who have left their glassy-eyed followers …
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The Feeding the Monster Blog
ESPN:
Yankees' patience burying Red Sox — BOSTON — Three things with the potential to make Boston Red Sox fans feel more stressed than their ordeal at Fenway Park so far this weekend: — • A September blizzard. — • Revelations of yet more structural defects on the Big Dig highway construction project.
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Pinstripe Alley
Jack Curry / New York Times:A Mound of Trouble, and Beckett Is No Help at All
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The Feeding the Monster Blog
Zachary Levine / MLB.com:
Phillies shore up staff with Moyer — Club sends two Minor League right-handers to Seattle — PHILADELPHIA — An 11-7 stretch since Aug. 1 transformed the Phillies from sellers to buyers. — They made that official late Saturday night when they acquired left-handed pitcher Jamie Moyer and his 211 career wins from the Mariners.
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Lookout Landing
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Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Tom may have a blood clot — Lefty's season is in jeopardy — Tom Glavine's health and his season are in jeopardy, a potentially crushing blow to the pitcher as well as to the Mets' World Series ambitions, the Daily News has learned. Sources said the southpaw has experienced coldness …
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Dodger Thoughts
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ESPN:
Report: Unknown ailment could derail Mets' Glavine — Tom Glavine's season could be in jeopardy. — Glavine, 40, has experienced coldness in a finger on his pitching hand, and the New York Mets left-hander is scheduled to undergo medical tests next week in hopes of finding the cause, sources told the New York Daily News.
Paul Harris / MLB.com:
Notes: Leyland keeps open mind — Manager considers fans' suggestions when composing lineups — DETROIT — Even though Tigers manager Jim Leyland makes out lineups for a living, he's not too busy to check out the ideas of amateurs. — Leyland says that he begins to read every letter …
Associated Press:
Diamondbacks-Padres Preview — With less than six weeks remaining in the regular season, the Arizona Diamondbacks have their eyes on more than a wild card berth. — Arizona will try to climb up both the wild card and NL West standings when they finish a three-game series against the San Diego Padres on Sunday.
Tom Krasovic / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Reality catching up with Bard and Bowen — It probably couldn't last, this trend of each Padres catcher slugging like Johnny Bench or drawing walks like Gene Tenace. — The happy times extended to even two catchers employed a year ago by the Padres, David Ross and Miguel Olivo …
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Ducksnorts
New York Post:
DODGERBALL — L.A. IS BETTER THAN METS NOW AND IN — FUTURE, NL GM CLAIMS — THE biggest threat to the Mets has the fewest homers in the NL, a 2006 dossier that includes 13 losses in 14 games to begin the second half and a manager best known as an October fool.
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Baby Bombers
Irv Moss / Denver Post:
Prospects thriving living on Tulsa time — Koshansky, Smith, Stewart and Tulowitzki excelling — If it were next year and the Rockies were looking for help in September for a pennant run in the National League West, they would probably have to look no further than the Colorado Springs Sky Sox.
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Purple Row
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Humidor evens playing field — This is what baseball wanted all along. Just some gravity and sanity at Coors Field. Just something resembling baseball, where pitchers weren't bumpers and hitters weren't pinballs. Just a breaking pitch that wasn't flatter than Kansas.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates Notebook: Hernandez could be in the future plans — CINCINNATI — Jim Tracy indicated yesterday he would like to see the Pirates sign utility player Jose Hernandez for next season. — "I think it's fairly safe to say there's probably an opportunity for a continuation," Tracy said.
