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Keitholbermann / Baseball Nerd:
Vin Scully, Voice Of The Yankees — The advent of the Mets' annual visit to Dodger Stadium always reminds me of one of the greatest baseball stories nobody tells. — Let's correct that. — A decade ago, when I was still working full-time in sports and in Los Angeles …
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Jerry Crasnick / ESPN:
Given a chance to play, Pierre thriving — Speedster flourishing in the spot previously held by the currently suspended Ramirez — The mayor of JuanPierreWood, an idyllic subdivision of Chavez Ravine, believes in giving an honest effort for a day's pay. He's making $10 million this year.
Mike Nichols / MetsBlog.com:
Delgado To Have Surgery — The Mets have announced Carlos Delgado will undergo arthroscopic surgery to remove a bone spur and repair a torn labrum in his hip tomorrow in New York. — ...from what i can gather, delgado will likely be out until the all-star break... RSS 2.0 You can skip to the end and leave a response.
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Michael Hiestand / USA Today:
MLB, Fox turn back World Series clock with earlier start times — Major League Baseball and Fox will announce today a real TV throwback: World Series action starting before 8 p.m. ET. — That hasn't happened, in a regularly scheduled weeknight Series game, in at least 34 years.
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Tom Singer / MLB.com:
World Series games will start earlier — MLB, FOX Sports respond to concerns of fans — World Series games this October will start approximately 40 minutes earlier, a concerted response by FOX Sports and Major League Baseball to concerns about late broadcasts inconveniencing East Coast and young fans.
Sam Borden / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Game 38: Twins at Yankees — YANKEES (20-17) — Pitching: LHP Andy Pettitte (3-1, 4.00 ERA) — TWINS (18-20) — ROLLING: After losing four games in a row from May 4-7, the Yankees have won seven of their last nine games including the past five straight.
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MLB:
New York Yankees' Brian Bruney blames video review for injury — NEW YORK — Ready to return from the disabled list, New York Yankees reliever Brian Bruney blamed an 8½-minute wait during an umpires' video review for causing a strained flexor muscle in his right elbow.
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Matt Gagne / NY Daily News:Mauer blocks Gardner at plate after fake throw to 1st
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Sam Page / Amazin' Avenue:
An Open Letter To ESPN — To whom it may concern: — Please remove Steve Phillips from all of your baseball broadcasts. During Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter, Phillips has been a relatively unspectacular commentator. Allowing Phillips to speak outside of these timed …
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Daniel Kaplan / SportsBusiness Journal:
Three banks set to finance Cubs purchase — Chicago Cubs buyer Tom Ricketts is close to lining up three banks to arrange the $450 million financing necessary to complete his acquisition of the team, financial sources said, positioning him to clear a substantial hurdle in the long-running sale of the club.
Lar / wezen-ball.com:
Revisiting the 1992 Expansion Draft — I wrote this article about 3 weeks back, as a submission to the “Baseball Prospectus Idol” competition the guys over there were having. For those of you who didn't see that before (I only saw it thanks to a Rob Neyer link), this was a competition …
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JSOnline:
Weeks out for season — By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel — St. Louis - General manager Doug Melvin just gave us the very bad news that second baseman Rickie Weeks is out for the season with the wrist injury he suffered Sunday. — Weeks has a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist that must be repaired surgically.
Geoff Baker / Seattle Times:
Improving Mariners looking to trade Yuniesky Betancourt to the Pirates for Jack Wilson? — A nice win by the Mariners yesterday, as seen in the photo above. They needed a weekend like this. That's two good series in a row by the Mariners, even though they only got results on this one occasion.
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Alyson Footer / MLB.com:
Bourn, Pence quick studies at the plate — Young Astros outfielders applying lessons from veterans — HOUSTON — Young players fall into one of two categories. Either they think they have everything figured out and never ask for help, or they appreciate their coaches and veteran teammates enough …
Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Wells swings against PED users — Former Yanks hurler weighs in on Clemens, Rodriguez — NEW YORK — Former big leaguer David Wells came out swinging Sunday against those who have used performance-enhancing drugs, counting the achievements of former teammate Roger Clemens …
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