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Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
On the edge of elimination — CLEVELAND - Fenway Park and "Sweet Caroline" can't save them now. — A global network of fans, a $143 million payroll, a front office of stat geeks, and a savvy collection of marketing persons and television executives can't help the Boston Red Sox at this hour.
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Howard Ulman / Associated Press:
Wakefield wilts in Game 4 loss to Tribe — CLEVELAND —Casey Blake hit Tim Wakefield's pitch over the left-field fence — eerily similar to the drive Aaron Boone hit exactly four years earlier. — Another playoff loss for Wakefield and the Red Sox. — Instead of sending Josh Beckett …
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
White-knuckle time — Sox on edge as Wakefield can't stave off third straight loss — CLEVELAND - The idea was to pass "Go" and win a trip to Blake Street in Denver for a rendezvous with the Colorado Rockies in the 103d World Series. Instead, the Red Sox have stumbled into Bleak House in Cleveland …
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Bob Ryan / Boston Globe:
Nothing odd here, and nothing even — CLEVELAND - Is this the time to remember that somebody or other once said, "Momentum is tomorrow's starting pitcher"? — Is this the time to remind people that baseball teams have been coming back from 3-1 deficits in seven-game series for more than 80 years?
Bill Madden / NY Daily News:
Yankee silence doesn't bode well for Joe Torre — Eight days after the Yankees were ousted from the postseason, nine days after George Steinbrenner was quoted as saying that Joe Torre's job was on the line if the Bombers were eliminated, the Yankee high command has still not made a decision on who will manage the team next season.
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George King / New York Post:
'GATOR' FATE UNCLEAR — Though several Yankees officials insist decisions haven't been made about next year's coaching staff, speculation is growing that Ron Guidry won't be asked back for a third year as the pitching coach. — GM Brian Cashman says a coaching staff can't be constructed until …
Tim Dierkes / MLB Trade Rumors:
Needs and Luxuries: New York Mets — Next up in our Needs and Luxuries series, the Mets. — C - — 1B - Carlos Delgado — 2B - Ruben Gotay — SS - Jose Reyes — 3B - David Wright — LF - Carlos Gomez — CF - Carlos Beltran — RF - Lastings Milledge — SP - Pedro Martinez
Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
The Sporting News honors Ramirez — Slugger voted as top National League shortstop by peers — MIAMI — After being named the 2006 National League Rookie of the Year, Hanley Ramirez has been voted by his peers as The Sporting News' top NL shortstop. — Just 23, Ramirez has already blossomed …
Bill Simmons / ESPN:
There's only one October diary — Over the last 10 years, my beloved Red Sox are 24-3 when I write a running diary of one of their big games. All right, I made that number up. But with things looking increasingly bleak for the spiritless Sox after Game 3, I couldn't resist breaking out the diary for Game 4 in Cleveland.
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 …
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 …
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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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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