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ESPN:
Report: Boston gives Manny partial playoff share — Manny Ramirez spent the playoffs in Dodgers blue. But he'll still get a share of Boston Red Sox playoff green. — The Boston Herald reported that Red Sox players last month voted Ramirez a two-thirds share of playoff money …
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Steve Buckley / Boston Herald:
Somehow, Red Sox get magical — Somehow, out of nowhere, it became a game screaming and begging for a Dave Roberts moment. — Here were the Red Sox [team stats] last night and into the early morning at Fenway Park [map] trailing the Tampa Bay Rays 7-0 in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series …
Jim Caple / ESPN:
Stunned Rays can only hope to put brutal loss behind them … BOSTON — So how do you put THAT behind you? — How do you overcome blowing a seven-run lead when you're just seven outs from going to the World Series? How do you stuff a monumental, historic collapse …
Adam Kilgore / Boston Globe:
That just happened — If you didn't turn the TV off or go to sleep or leave the yard early, you witnessed something like a miracle tonight, something that wasn't impossible but wasn't quite possible, either, but somewhere in between. — In an effort to make sense of Boston's 8-7 Game 5 victory …
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Martin Fennelly / TBO Rays:
Seven Outs From The Series, The 2007 Rays Show Up — BOSTON - As incredible as this season has been, this was more incredible. — As amazing as the 2008 Rays have been, this was more amazing. — And stunning. — And shocking. — And unthinkable. — Seven runs ahead.
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Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:Stunning win keeps Sox alive
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Kat O'Brien / Newsday:
Pettitte, Joba likely to be part of '09 rotation — BOSTON - The Yankees' front office met in Tampa yesterday to begin hashing out the club's offseason plan of action. — Yankees co-chairmen Hal and Hank Steinbrenner, general manager Brian Cashman and president Randy Levine headed the meetings at Legends Field.
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George A. King III / New York Post:
HANK: CHAMBERLAIN WILL BE IN ROTATION — BOSTON - Yankees honchos gathered at George M. Steinbrenner Field yesterday in Tampa to hatch a plan they hope will make sure this past season when they didn't make the playoffs for the first time since 1993 was a one-year glitch instead of the beginning …
Tom Haudricourt / JSOnline:
Melvin expands search — Manager opening drawing interest — Boston - Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin now realizes just how much the Brewers have moved up in the baseball world. — Managerial candidates are calling him, instead of vice versa. — Melvin said Thursday …
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Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:Zduriencik reportedly an M's finalist
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Dan Graziano / New Jersey Online:
Yankees express interest in Padres' Peavy — The Yankees are one of several teams that have had preliminary discussions with the San Diego Padres about a possible trade for 2007 National League Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy. — According to a person familiar with the substance …
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MLB.com:
Rick Knapp named Tigers pitching coach — DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers today announced the organization has hired Rick Knapp as the club's pitching coach. — Knapp joins the Tigers Major League coaching staff after spending the previous 12 seasons as the Minor League pitching coordinator for the Minnesota Twins.
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Gordon Wittenmyer / Chicago Sun Times:
Cubs, GM Hendry close to extension — The Cubs and general manager Jim Hendry are closing in on a multiyear extension that could help stabilize the team's baseball operations at a time the sale of the franchise is growing increasingly uncertain. — Hendry, who was in the final guaranteed year …
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Columbia pitches ‘Moneyball’ to Pitt — Zaillian to write, Frankel to direct adaptation — Brad Pitt is adding to his busy schedule by playing ball for Columbia. — Steve Zaillian has signed on to adapt Michael Lewis' nonfiction bestseller “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” and David Frankel is attached to direct.
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Jay Jaffe / Baseball Prospectus:
A Dream Season Ends, a Nightmare Continues — No lead is safe. — If there's one thing I've learned from rooting against the Red Sox over the past decade or so, it's that in Fenway Park a ballgame is never as over as it seems based merely on a lopsided score.
