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Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
GM may have quiet winter — Compared with his other two off-seasons with the Diamondbacks, General Manager Josh Byrnes' winter could be a quiet one. — Two years ago, he traded Javier Vazquez for Chris Young. Last year, there were deals for Doug Davis and Randy Johnson.
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Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
ROCKIES WIN THE PENNANT — NL champion Colorado, on 21-1 roll, dashes toward first Series — It's impossible to stretch the truth. Hyperbole doesn't fit. — The Rockies, a team that was too young in April, too hurt in August and too far behind in September, are going to the World Series.
Mike Celizic / MSNBC:
Rockies would be royalty if on East Coast — Amazing run by no-names is like nothing we've seen in baseball before — This is a terrific team that's stormed out of the thin air of Denver and into the even thinner national TV ratings they're drawing from an audience that has no idea who the Colorado Rockies are.
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Diamondbacks finished off in 4 — DENVER - For once, everyone was right about the Diamondbacks. — Their improbable run through October ended Monday night at Coors Field, where the merciless Colorado Rockies completed a four-game sweep of the National League Championship Series with a 6-4 victory …
Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:
Veteran Wakefield is game for this start — CLEVELAND - Tim Wakefield knew it was a risk he was going to have to take. He knew, if the Red Sox failed to advance past the American League Division Series, that his season might be over. He knew also that he simply couldn't help the team …
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Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
Cuffed in Cleveland — Sox trail in series, 2-1, as bats stay quiet — CLEVELAND - Fenway Park was bursting with hubris and expectation Saturday night when Manny Ramírez and Mike Lowell hit back-to-back homers in the fifth inning of Game 2 of the American League Championship Series against the Indians.
ESPN:
Agent says Mattingly ready to manage Yankees — Don Mattingly's agent refuted a report Tuesday that said he was uncomfortable replacing Joe Torre as the Yankees' manager. — The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., citing a friend of the Yankees bench coach, reported that Mattingly had informed …
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Mike O'Malley / Yahoo! Sports:
My Red Sox scrapbook — Mike O'Malley, an actor, writer and fervent Boston Red Sox fan, is blogging about the Red Sox during their American League championship series matchup with the Cleveland Indians. — At this time of year, fans and journalists alike complain about fair-weather …
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Carpenter may return as Nats TV voice — Team offers announcer one-year contract to continue role — WASHINGTON — During the last week of the 2007 season, it looked like Bob Carpenter was set to do his last broadcast as the TV voice of the Nationals. A couple of weeks earlier …
John Helyar / ESPN:
Red Sox go where other LCS teams can't — to the revenue races … It was some kind of Saturday tripleheader for Mike Dee, who literally works both sides of the street on Yawkey Way. At Fenway Park, he is chief operating officer of the Boston Red Sox. Across the street …
Business Wire:
Fox Atomic Scores Home Run With Bill Buckner — Former Major League Baseball Player Bill Buckner Appears in Fox Atomic's Film, The Comebacks, Where He Spoofs the 1986 World Series Game — LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Fox Atomic announced today that former Major League Baseball player Bill Buckner …
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SPORTSbyBROOKS
Steven Goldman / New York Sun:
If Baker Is a Hot Commodity, Torre Deserves a Job — The following isn't an argument for retaining Joe Torre as manager of the Yankees, but a study in contrasts. Yesterday afternoon, the Cincinnati Reds officially named Dusty Baker as the team's new manager.
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Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Quote: $30 M per Year is Idiotic — Last Friday, former-Braves GM and current team president John Schuerholz appeared as a guest on Colin Cowherd's ESPN radio show. — Schuerholz, on super-agent Scott Boras, and his suggestion that Alex Rodriguez could be worth $30 million per season, while speaking to Cowherd...
New York Post:
SLEEP WITH JETER, PARK FREE — IF Bronx Bomber Derek Jeter wants to keep his sex life a secret, he should learn to tie up any post-tryst loose ends. — Our spy in the lobby of the Shore Club in Miami early Sunday morning spotted "two scantily clad women screaming at the front desk …
Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:
Lowrider: TBS Will See Lowest Rated LCS in History — With TBS finishing up their first MLB postseason broadcasts, they can look back fondly at the Division Series, and look painfully at the NLCS. — As reported last week, Game One of the NLCS between the Rockies and the Diamondbacks …
Kieran Nicholson / Denver Post:
World Series ticket outlook: It's tricky — Feeling lucky? — That's what it will take, along with cold hard cash or credit, to score tickets to the upcoming World Series. — Now that the Rockies have advanced, World Series tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday.
ESPN.com:
Cards keep Pineiro for rotation with two-year deal — ST. LOUIS — Joel Pineiro agreed to a $13 million, two-year contract with St. Louis on Monday after pitching well for the Cardinals down the stretch. — The right-hander went 6-4 in 11 starts with St. Louis after being acquired …
