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(Commenter to Yankees mlb forum after Tuesday night's game): If an upcoming must-win game like Tuesday night's v Blue Jays
"is 1-0 Yankees with 1 out in the 7th and the same 3 lefties are due up that Rasner was set to face, does anyone think that Girardi will realize the error of his ways from last night's debacle and manage any differently? ... because I sure don't. Why was Marte warming ...
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Top Newsday back cover, bottom NY Post back cover.
NY Daily News opted not to picture Damon.
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Johnny Damon
via American Thinker.
NBC's Chris Collinsworth smiled and squirmed at one point, hopefully not due to any adult diapers the Commies were making some people wear.
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Umpires voted to boycott MLB's conference call about instant replay.
( CBS Sportsline News Services): "Major League Baseball responding by saying it canceled the Wednesday call because it doesn't have a replay agreement with the union. "A lot of the procedural issues necessary for instant replay to be implemented need to be worked out," World Umpires Association spokesman Lamell ...
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Tim Marchman's article today referenced pitchers' velocities continuing to rise . Some expected the opposite to happen perhaps as a result of fewer performance enhancers .
The very famous Dan Naulty noted an 'increase in velocity' in his pitches at a certain point in time and that phrase was used in headlines around the world as proof that artificial substances really work. That conclusion ...
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George Mitchell
(NY Sun): "The real sports story of the weekend, of course , far more important than anything the Mets or any swimmer did, was Chris Russo's departure from WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog show after 19 years of whatever it is you would call what Russo did. Count me among the millions who hope and pray that this is some sort of horribly misguided negotiating ploy. Not since Lora Logic left ...
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(Newsday back cover, 8/19/08). By his actions to oust Torre, Randy Levine succeeded in proving the opposite of what he postulated.
Joe Torre got a lot more out of this flimsy group of Yankees than anyone believed. And a lot more than most thought the new 'General Joe' would.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - " Rock band AC/DC's first studio album in eight years , "Black Ice," will be sold exclusively in the U.S. via Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and the band's Web site, beginning October 20.
First single "Rock 'n' Roll Train" will hit U.S. radio on August 28 .... The 15-track "Black Ice" is the follow-up to 2000's "Stiff Upper Lip." An extensive world tour in support of the set ...
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Fresh from being punished by Manager Joe Maddon, BJ Upton lollygags yet again Monday night and is thrown out at 2nd base. Maddon did not remove him this time.
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Neil Best notes Sirius XM to announce a "major sports media personality" tomorrow morning in their NYC offices. Which supposedly Mel has done up really nice. Chris Russo in clover once again?
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Suzyn Waldman found this statement surprising related to the 13 inning game on Saturday.
Whoever is running the Yankees, and that could be anybody, is willing to work the pitching staff 13 innings instead of 9 rather than ask a lead off hitter to bunt when it's needed. Maybe fans don't like sitting in the car for a few hours to see something below the level of spring training ...
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Having recently joined New York Magazine as contributing editor, Will Leitch now adds WEEI.com.
BallHype.com comments .
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Culture-changing commercial interests were tied to baseball legends at the All Star game in New York City this July. Starting with the green/red carpet:
(Washington Post, 7/20/08): ""We did the Oscars. We advised the Grammies. But this is our first green red carpet!" said a clearly excited Allen Hershkowitz , senior scientist with the nonprofit environmental group Natural Resources ...
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Northwest Herald: ""“The last time there was a sale without it being chosen and manipulated by [MLB commissioner] Selig was when Arte Moreno bought the Angels [in 2003],” Hall of Fame writer - and ESPN pundit - Peter Gammons wrote last week....
Money is irrelevant, really . Franchises don't necessarily go to the highest bidder, or even the second-highest bidder. When the Red Sox were ...
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Suzyn Waldman and John Sterling relate Luis Polonia's pinch hit at bat, bottom of the 9th inning WS Game 5, score 1-0 Yankees. Runners on 1st and 3rd, 2 outs. As Polonia came to bat, Suzyn recalls Jose Cardinale coming out of the Yankee dugout motioning right fielder Paul O'Neill to move a few steps away from where he was standing. Which he did. The ball Polonia hit was just barely caught ...
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The past 2 games against the Royals featured less than spring training managerial interference with hitters- while asking numerous pitchers for their best 7th game of the World Series performance. Seeing the win, mostly on unearned luck (not counting a good clutch at bat in the bottom of the 13th), a Newsday reporter viewed the Yankees :
"acting almost as if they just clinched the pennant . ...
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Beijing Olympics Womens' Football Match, 8/12/08, getty images. Picture accompanied LA Times article about empty seats at touted hockey match. Actually, no mystery involved. Just have a blackout on the truth.
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Upton is taking a seat in tonight's game v Texas for again showing a lack of hustle: ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- "Tampa Bay Rays center fielder B.J. Upton was benched for the second time in less than two weeks for failing to run hard on a double-play grounder in the sixth inning of Friday night's 7-0 victory over the Rangers. Rays manager Joe Maddon punished Upton by keeping him out of the ...
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