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Ken Davidoff / Newsday:
Source says Willie turned down Nats job — PHILADELPHIA - Willie Randolph turned down an opportunity to join the Washington Nationals' coaching staff, and if he doesn't get the Brewers' managing job, he'll probably sit out the 2009 season, a person familiar with the situation said.
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ESPN:
Report: Randolph rejects chance to join Nats staff — Under consideration to be the next manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, Willie Randolph reportedly turned down a chance to return to the NL East in a coaching capacity. — Newsday reported Saturday that Randolph, who was fired as Mets manager in June …
Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
Brewers finish managerial interviews — Skipper to be named next week; scouting post on deck — MILWAUKEE — Brewers general manager Doug Melvin has finished interviewing managerial candidates and plans to name his choice immediately following the World Series.
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Cliff Corcoran / Sports Illustrated:
World Series Game 3 preview … Rays at Phillies — Series: World Series, Game 3 — TV: FOX — Starters: Matt Garza (2-1, 3.32 ERA) vs. Jamie Moyer (0-2, 13.50 ERA) — The Phillies won the game they were supposed to win behind Cole Hamels in Game 1.
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Sean McAdam / Boston Herald:
Unwritten in pen — Rays go by committee — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - On Opening Night of the 2003 season, the Red Sox [team stats] began an experiment that came to be known as “closer by committee.” — The concept was simple enough: Without an established reliever to nail down the final three outs …
Jesse Spector / NY Daily News:
Smoltz could follow Rocket's path — Could John Smoltz be the next Roger Clemens? — No, the longtime Atlanta Braves ace isn't going to face a Congressional panel, be investigated for perjury or have lurid details of his personal life cause him great embarrassment, but Smoltz could follow …
Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Dodgers coaching staff to return in '09 — Torre to work with same cast that helped send LA to NLCS — LOS ANGELES — The coaching staff of Dodgers manager Joe Torre will return intact for 2009, the club announced Friday. — Hitting coach Don Mattingly, pitching coach Rick Honeycutt …
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Jon Heyman / Sports Illustrated:
L.A. vs. N.Y. for top free-agents … ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Baseball executives envision this country's horrific economic meltdown adversely affecting this free-agent class, though it might not cost three superstars who baseball people believe are too good to be affected.
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David O'Brien / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Which Braves prospects are untouchable? — Philadelphia — I'm in chilly Philly and Braves officials are not. But neither are officials from most other teams, save for the participating Phillies and Rays. — Gone is the day when all major league teams sent all their top officials …
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Vincent M. Mallozzi / New York Times:
At Rutgers, Yankee Stadium 101 — Typical first-year courses at Rutgers University include biology, calculus, English literature, history and economics. But 20 freshmen — 19 of them Yankees fans — are enrolled in a research seminar called Yankee Stadium.
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Yankees Say They Would Have Left Bronx if Pushed — WASHINGTON — Randy Levine, the president of the Yankees, told a Congressional hearing Friday that if the city had not issued tax-exempt financing for the team's new stadium, it would have left town. — “It's been no secret for many years” …
Ashby Jones / Wall Street Journal:
The Happy Heckler Can't Be Heard Now in the Din at Tropicana Field — As Tampa Bay Rays Draw a Noisy Throng, Robert Szasz Gets Drowned Out — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — For the past six years, the taunts of a lone Tampa Bay Rays fan could be heard echoing across cavernous Tropicana Field …
Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
Mariners GM leaves Milwaukee legacy — Zduriencik helped draft many pieces of the NL Wild Card winners — MILWAUKEE — In his now-former life as the Brewers' amateur scouting director, Jack Zduriencik was so sure about a high school kid from Tucson named J.J. Hardy that the Brewers might …
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Kotaku:
Activision Taps Ratner For Star-Studded World Tour Ads — Thank you , Activision, for distracting Brett Ratner from ruining any more comic book movie franchises, at least for the small amount of time he spends working on the television ads for Guitar Hero World Tour.
