JAY PARIS COMMENTARY: Big Apple or no, Peavy is a goner  —  The crowd settles into the seats at the new Yankee Stadium, as legendary public address announcer Bob Sheppard clears his golden throat.  —  “Your attention, please, ladies and gentleman,” booms Sheppard's deep voice, filling the South Bronx air.

Amaro Jr. takes over reins for Phillies  —  Longtime assistant GM, former player replaces mentor Gillick  —  PHILADELPHIA — Ruben Amaro Jr. has been named the Phillies' new general manager.  —  The announcement was made at a 10 a.m. ET news conference on Monday in which team president …

2009 Top 50 Free Agents  —  By Tim Dierkes [November 3 at 12:31pm CST]  —  It's time for the third annual MLB Trade Rumors Top 50 Free Agents list!  The entire list of available free agents can be found here.  —  A note before we begin - this is a complicated puzzle …

Brewers bring back Cameron for '09  —  Team picks up center fielder's $10M option for next season  —  MILWAUKEE — Mike Cameron will be back in center field at Miller Park in 2009.  —  Facing a Monday deadline for their decision, the Brewers exercised a $10 million option to bring Cameron back for a second season in Milwaukee.

YES Network, Michael Kay extend relationship  —  NEW YORK — The Emmy Award-winning Michael Kay, whose voice has been synonymous with the YES Network since its launch in 2002, has signed a multi-year extension with the network to remain its lead New York Yankees play-by-play voice.

St. Louis Cardinals make offseason plans  —  DANA POINT, CALif. — Major League Baseball's free-agent market doesn't open for another 11 days.  Winter meetings are more than a month away.  Less than a week removed from the World Series' goofball ending, this technically represents a slow period for movement.

Arbitration riches for Youkilis, Papelbon?  —  DANA POINT, Calif. — A discussion on salary arbitration between major league baseball officials and general managers and their assistants is the first official topic on the docket at the GM meetings this morning.

Enough  —  I was content to roll my eyes as every second rate hack from every second rate newspaper auto-piloted his way through his “we must fix the World Series” column last week, but now that a serious, and respected guy like Buster Olney is peddling this garbage [Insider only], something must be said.

Jimmy Rollins Robo-Calling For Obama  —  This close to election day, voters can never tell who is calling on the phone.  Maybe it's Gov. Rendell or U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton or Mayor Nutter, urging Philadelphians to get out and vote.  But Jimmy Rollins?  The Phillies shortstop has recorded …