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ESPN.com:
Manny Ramirez apologizes to his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates — Suspended outfielder Manny Ramirez met with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates on Friday for the first time since he was banned 50 games by Major League Baseball for violating its drug policy. — A source told ESPN …
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Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Ramirez has short meeting with team — Dodgers see suspended Ramirez at team hotel in Miami — MIAMI — Suspended outfielder Manny Ramirez held a brief meeting with manager Joe Torre, Dodgers teammates and coaching staff at the club's hotel Friday afternoon.
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Kevin Baxter / Los Angeles Times:
Manny Ramirez apologizes to Dodgers — 'We still support him. He's our teammate,' reliever Cory Wade says after a short meeting between players and the suspended outfielder at the team's Florida hotel. — Reporting from Miami — Outfielder Manny Ramirez apologized to his Dodgers teammates today during …
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Lance Pugmire / Los Angeles Times:HCG not found in Manny Ramirez drug test
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Juan C. Rodriguez / Sun-Sentinel:
Coghlan, fan reach hard bargain — MILWAUKEE - In spite of a fan's efforts to shake down the Marlins for merchandise in exchange for Chris Coghlan's first home run ball, Coghlan ultimately took possession of it after Wednesday's game. — Nick Yohanek, aka “The Happy Youngster,” …
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Adam Kilgore / Boston Globe:
Ortiz hits a new low by going 0 for 7 in defeat — ANAHEIM, Calif. - David Ortiz faced his locker and dressed slowly, putting on designer jeans and a blue shirt with a French collar as reporters gathered behind him. He turned around and saw them. His head dropped a little.
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Associated Press:
Yankees rally for win in A-Rod's new stadium debut — NEW YORK (AP) — Melky Cabrera capped a three-run rally in the ninth inning with a two-run single, and the New York Yankees stopped a five-game home losing streak with a 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.
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Ross / New Stadium Insider:
Could Lonn Trost (and Randy Levine) Be On The Way Out The Door? — “Look, we can't lose the next generation of Yankee fan because a father can't afford to take his kid to a game.” — Lonn Trost, July 13, 2008 … - Lonn Trost, May 12, 2009 — Are you wondering why there is such a difference in those quotes?
MVN Outsider:
MLB Outsider Mock Draft: Atlanta Braves Select Donavan Tate — MLB Outsider is hosting a 2009 MLB mock draft, where bloggers from all over come together in an attempt to project the draft results that will take place June 9. — Braves Journal's Mac Thomason picks for the Atlanta Braves at No. 7.
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Darren Everson / Wall Street Journal:
Yankee Stadium's Ugly Start — Cheap Home Runs, Empty Seats and Lopsided Losses Have Some Asking, ‘Can a Stadium Fail?’ — Printer — Friendly — The new Yankee Stadium — For more than 80 years, Yankee Stadium was the most revered sports venue on the planet.
Mark Newman / MLB.com:
Rice enjoys memories during Hall tour — Red Sox slugger to be inducted to Cooperstown in July — COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — After all that time, Jim Rice was right at home. — “He always envisioned making it here,” his wife Corine said Friday in the chilly archives vault in the basement …
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Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Rockies rally for big win — Colorado Rockies' Brad Hawpe, right, rounds third to greetings from coach Rich Dauer, left, after hitting a two-run ninth-inning home run off Pittsburgh Pirates closer Matt Capps in a baseball game in Pittsburgh Friday, May 15, 2009. The Rockies won 3-1. (AP |
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Todd Zolecki / MLB.com:
Phillies paying visit to White House — Club set to celebrate championship with president Friday — PHILADELPHIA — The time is finally here for the Phillies to meet the president. — Before Philadelphia opens a four-game series Friday night against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park …
David Lennon / Newsday:
Mets steal seven bases, score three in ninth for 7-4 win — Gary Sheffield celebrates after scoring on a single hit by Ramon Castro in the ninth inning against the Giants. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images / May 14, 2009) — SAN FRANCISCO - So who needs 25 players?
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Charles McGrath / New York Times:
Another Side of Kerouac: The Dharma Bum as Sports Nut — Almost all his life Jack Kerouac had a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs never knew about. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention …
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