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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Torre's brother: What Yanks did to Joe ‘was not right’ — PHILADELPHIA — Frank Torre, the 76-year-old brother of Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre, walked onto the field Thursday at Citizens Bank Park, and had one question: — “I wonder what the (New York) Yankees are thinking …
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Bronx Banter
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Justin Einhorn / Yahoo! Sports:
Los Angeles at Philadelphia — The acquisition of Manny Ramirez spurred the Los Angeles Dodgers into the playoffs and his offense helped get them into the NL championship series. — The big bats for the Philadelphia Phillies might need to get on track if they are to go any further.
Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Homers hurt Dodgers in Game 1 — Lowe allows two long balls in Phils' three-run sixth inning — PHILADELPHIA — One game into the National League Championship Series and the Dodgers know for sure that this isn't the NL Division Series. — The Philadelphia Phillies are not the Chicago Cubs …
Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:Dodgers add Kuo to NLCS roster
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Sons of Steve Garvey, River Avenue Blues, Mike Scioscia's tragic illness and Philliesflow.com
Sean McAdam / Boston Herald:
Five keys for the Red Sox — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Think the Tampa Bay Rays are going to be an easy opponent for the Red Sox [team stats] in the American League Championship Series? — Think again. — Get beyond all the cute modifiers - plucky and upstart, for two …
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Sean McAdam / Boston Herald:
Tampa Bay Rays won't say sorry — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The opponents in the American League Championship Series couldn't be more different. — Name the measuring stick - revenues, resources, tradition, fan base, experience - and the Red Sox [team stats] have it all over Tampa Bay.
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Baseball Analysts
Sam Donnellon / Philly.com:
Burrell turning jeers to cheers — THERE IS a guy who sits 12 rows back in the leftfield bleachers who has, over the years, embraced Pat Burrell like a brother, kicked him around like a dog, and now loves him like an old army buddy again. Anyone who has sat back there on Sunday afternoons has heard him …
Rick Morrissey / Chicago Tribune:
Cuban: Financial crisis will slow Cubs sale — What, you expected the Cubs' sale to go smoothly? — After the club's torturous playoff loss to the Dodgers, which brought on a great depression? — While the U.S. financial system is in convulsions? — No.
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GoatRiders of the Apocalypse
Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
Rays' numbers game — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Nine equals eight. It's true. — Mathematics professors at Michigan State University say so. They can prove it. — So can the Tampa Bay Rays. All season they've worn T-shirts with what seemed a mathematically impossible message: 9 = 8.
Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com:
Bucs' Moss should be ready for camp — Arthroscopic procedure replaces microfracture surgery on knee — PITTSBURGH — It looks as if Pirates outfielder Brandon Moss should be ready to take the field with no limitations in Spring Training after all. — Moss traveled to Vail, Colo. …
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Bucs Dugout
Liz Doup / FloriDUH:
Women getting Mohawk-style bikini wax to support The Rays — Talk about team spirit. — The latest style to sweep the west coast, home of the Rays, is a bikini wax. Mohawk style. — Try waving that around at a game! — Michelle Foster of Skin Deep Spatique says she was inspired by her son's Mohawk, reports
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SofaKing / Toronto Star:
A.J. Burnett in no hurry to talk to Blue Jays — A.J. Burnett, in possibly his last game as a Jay, salutes the home crowd. “It was storybook,” Burnett said of the sendoff on Sept. 24, 2008. — CATHAL KELLY — The Toronto Blue Jays may have to wait well into November …
Jimmy Chuang / Taipei Times:
Baseball players suspended in match-fixing probe — Former US major league baseball player Cory Bailey and two Taiwanese players were suspended yesterday because of their alleged involvement in match fixing, baseball authorities said yesterday. — ¡
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The Griddle
