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Leitch / Deadspin:
Here's Your Ex: See, Now This Is Just Being Mean — Imagine you're facing one of the most important moments of your career, a moment in which you must be on top of your game and perform at your peak capacity. Everyone is counting on you; the whole world is watching. Concentration is paramount.
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Jeff Goldberg / Hartford Courant:
Red Sox Downplay Report That Beckett Is Hurt — CLEVELAND - The great debate over whether Josh Beckett should have pitched Game 4 on three days' rest took an unexpected turn Tuesday night. — Ken Rosenthal, working the Fox broadcast, reported that Red Sox sources indicated Beckett …
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Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Manny, Sox unfazed by pressure — Slugger says team is confident despite trailing, 3-1, in ALCS — CLEVELAND — How is Manny Ramirez holding up amid the pressure of his Red Sox trailing, 3-1, to the Indians in the American League Championship Series? — So well that Ramirez held …
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Survival test — Sox call on Beckett to keep them alive — Is Terry Francona pointing the way toward victory to Game 5 starter, Josh Beckett? The Sox certainly hope so. Beckett knows how to overcome 3-1 deficits - he did it in '03 with Florida. (BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF)
Paul Meyer / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:Remaking Of A Team — Red Sox's Farrell strong candidate for manager's job
Tim Brown / Yahoo! Sports:The Manny diaries — CLEVELAND - If this American League …
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George King / New York Post:
TORRE LANDS IN TAMPA — NEW DEAL IMMINENT? — Joe Torre just landed here, in what could be the surest sign that a new deal with the Yankees brass is imminent. — Torre, wearing a dress shirt with sleeves rolled up, departed from Westchester this morning and landed here in a private jet …
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George King / New York Post:
OPT IN THE AIR — YANKEES 'WILL NOT PARTICIPATE' IF A-ROD CHOOSES FREE AGENCY — TAMPA, Fla. - The Yankees ended two long days and a lot of cholesterol intake at the Capital Grille yesterday without deciding Joe Torre's fate, but they did emerge with a warning to Alex Rodriguez: Opt out and your Yankees career is over.
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John Harper / NY Daily News:
Indecision on Joe Torre makes clear that Boss Era is over — CLEVELAND - So the newly formed Yankee hierarchy hasn't made a decision on Joe Torre after two days around a conference table in Tampa, not to mention the week the various bigwigs had to consider their positions?
Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Mets' collapse weighs heavily on Green — Missed opportunity at playoffs continues to haunt right fielder — NEW YORK — Survivor's guilt it isn't. The Mets don't qualify as survivors. It is a full-fledged guilt, a guilt that weighs on Shawn Green these days, a heavy and unsettling sense …
Paul Lukas / ESPN:
Long live the bullpen car — The notion is absurd on its face: professional athletes needing a motorized vehicle to bring them approximately 100 yards. And yet that was once the norm in Major League Baseball, where that quaintest of innovations, the bullpen buggy (or car, or cart, or motorcycle), held sway for nearly half a century.
Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:
Interview - Eric Fisher - Sports Business Journal — If you're interest lies in anything that has to do with sports outside the lines, then the trade magazine the Sports Business Journal and it's counterpart, the Sports Business Daily are indispensable resources for keeping up with all manner of sports business.
Nate Silver / Baseball Prospectus:
Offseason Plans, AL West — This is the third of a six-part preview of the impending offseason. Today, we cover the AL West, because it's kind enough to have only four teams, none of whom remain in the playoffs. — Part I: AL Central — Part II: NL Central — 2007 Record: 94-68, first place
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Lone Star Ball
Tom Smith / TimesDaily.com:
Three arrested in connection with copper theft cases — Last Updated:October 17. — Three Colbert County men, including a former Major League baseball pitcher, have been arrested in Muscle Shoals in connection with separate cases of copper theft, police said.
Ted Berg / SNY.tv:
Help from the Far East — Scoping out the Japanese free-agent market — A reader e-mailed me a question yesterday that I planned on holding for an upcoming offseason mailbag post, but after watching Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima pitch in Monday night's ALCS Game 3, I decided this would be as good a time as any to answer him.
Scot Gregor / Associated Press:
White Sox sitting pretty with Garland, Contreras as trade bait — The stove isn't hot yet. As a matter of fact, it hasn't even been turned on. — That will soon change. Not long after the Cleveland Indians finish cooling off the Colorado Rockies and celebrate their first World Series …
