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Duk / Yahoo! Sports:
Umpire Tim McClelland makes the worst call of all time — Just when you thought the 2009 postseason umpiring couldn't get any worse, Tim McClelland goes ahead and makes what ends up as the worst call — or non-call — of all time. — Yes, you read that right. The worst call of all time.
Discussion:
It's About The Money, Fack Youk, TheNoonerBlog.com, Bugs & Cranks, Bats, Major League Jerk and 3:10 to Joba
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Tim McClelland / ASAP Sports:
AL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: ANGELS v YANKEES — THE MODERATOR: Tim, whatever you want to say. — TIM McCLELLAND: As far as the two calls that I had at third base. The first one with Swisher leaving too soon. In my heart I thought he left too soon. — On the play with Cano and Posada, I thought Cano was on the base.
Ken Davidoff / Newsday:MLB absolves Mariano Rivera of alleged spitball
Discussion:
MLB.com, A Die Hard Yankees Fan, Sliding Into Home, Major League Jerk, Over the Monster and The Joy of Sox
Wall Street Journal:
Mets Win One: Owners Made Money on Madoff — The New York Mets just emerged from a woeful season but the team's financial picture may not be as dire as previously believed. — A partnership connected to the baseball team — which had widely been rumored to have lost money investing with Bernard Madoff …
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Mets Entity May Be Sued for $48 Million Profit From Madoff Firm — Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — An entity tied to the New York Mets baseball team and its owner Sterling Equities Inc. might be sued for withdrawing $47.8 million more from Bernard Madoff's firm than it deposited with the con man, a lawyer said.
MLB:
Court documents: New York Mets profited from Bernard Madoff — The owners of the New York Mets baseball team made about $48 million in dealings with swindler Bernard Madoff, court documents showed. — The Mets Limited Partnership, which is connected to the Wilpon family …
Discussion:
Mets Merized Online
Corey Brock / MLB.com:
Padres could soon hire new GM — CEO Moorad would like to make move before Fall Classic — SAN DIEGO — Could the San Diego Padres be close to hiring a new general manager? — Padres CEO Jeff Moorad has said he would like to hire a general manager by the start of the World Series, which is set to begin on Oct. 28.
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MLB Rumors
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Buster Olney / MLB:
Sources: San Diego Padres closer to hiring Jed Hoyer as GM — The San Diego Padres are moving closer toward hiring Jed Hoyer, an assistant general manager with the Boston Red Sox, as their next general manager, according to major league sources. — Hoyer, 35, has worked in Boston's front office under Theo Epstein.
Discussion:
Circling The Bases
New York Post:
Affair is foul for ESPN star — Ex-Met GM's dumped mistress has a ‘Fatal Attraction’ freakout — She's not going to be ignored, Steve! — ESPN analyst Steve Phillips had a fling with a 22-year-old production assistant, who, after being dumped, taunted his wife with “Fatal Attraction” …
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Casey Blake: The Dodger Diplomat — As the Los Angeles Dodgers walked out to the field to stretch on a recent drizzly afternoon, they assembled in their usual clusters. Third-baseman Casey Blake, as always, had a hard time choosing his spot. — “There's the little Latin community, the white guys and the black guys.
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Ben Goessling / The washington times Blogs:Mattingly says Nats asked for permission to interview him
Discussion:
Baseball Prospectus, Sports Illustrated, The Nationals Enquirer, Federal Baseball and Associated Press
Bruce Levine / ESPN:
Chicago Cubs hire former Texas Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo — The Cubs will announce Wednesday that former Texas Rangers hitting instructor Rudy Jaramillo has signed a three-year, $2.42 million contract to become Chicago's next hitting coach, player sources told ESPNChicago.com on Tuesday.
Amy K. Nelson / MLB:
MLBPA memo: Donald Fehr to get $11 million package — PHILADELPHIA — When Donald Fehr officially steps down as the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, he will leave with an $11 million compensation package, according to a memo sent out to players late last month and seen by ESPN.com.
Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
Piece by piece, putting it together — Picked-up pieces while packing for London and wondering how Schill got overlooked by the Nobel Committee . . . Anybody else spooked by that center-field door opening when the Red Sox were batting in the bottom of the ninth 10 days ago? It was a moment.
Danny Wild / MLB.com:
Heisey powers Saguaros to first win — Fellow Reds prospects Cozart, Alonso lead comeback — Reds prospect Zack Cozart hit a go-ahead two-run single to highlight a six-run ninth inning Tuesday as the Peoria Saguaros rallied for an 11-8 victory over the Phoenix Desert Dogs.
