albuquerque.isotopes.milb.com - 6/28/2009
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The Albuquerque Isotopes, in conjunction with their Major League partner the Los Angeles Dodgers, will be making a donation of $10,000 to The Taylor Hooton Foundation. The presentation will be made prior to Friday night's game vs. the Nashville Sounds. The Taylor Hooton Foundation ...
mvn.com - 6/24/2009
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mvn.com —
Lets just talk for a moment, sports aside.
Lets say that you were caught running a deep-rooted...
drug cartel out of your lovely little two bedroom apartment and were promptly evicted from your place. What once was a comforting roof amid a family-friendly neighborhood is now nothing more ...
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How do you say thank you? I know how Manny Ramirez does
rgj.com - 6/28/2009
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rgj.com —
Shawn Estes won 19 games for the San
Francisco Giants in 1997, as well as 15 for...
the Giants in 2000 and 15 for the Colorado Rockies in 2004. But after a nine-year major-league career, it was reported last week that the 36-year-old left-hander had ...
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Q&A: Estes 'not retired,' still wants to play in bigs | ...
rumorsandrants.com - 7/1/2009
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rumorsandrants.com —
Why would a pitcher with a .521 winning
percentage (101-93) and a 4.71 career ERA in 13...
big-league seasons be stuck in triple-A Albuquerque? Shawn Estes sure doesn’t understand. Estes, an embodiment of left-handed mediocrity, has “retired from triple-A” as of a few days ...
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Shawn Estes Doesn’t Get It
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Triple-A Team Finds Tenuous Manny/Steroids Link [Manny Ramirez]
Deadspin —
... The 'Topes pulled in a record 54,763 fans for the series, and I'm guessing more were interested in seeing Manny than the Nashville Sounds. Ill-gotten gains, you say? So does Albuquerque President Ken Young, who donated $10,000 to the Taylor Hooton Foundation, an anti-steroid charity. "I'm not going to say they're not connected," he said (or didn't say). ...
Links of the Day 6/30/09
The Victoria Times —
The Isotopes were a little uncomfortable with Manny Ramirez. Victor Conte still has customers! Just to clear up any confusion, Willie Mays is still not dead.
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Manny Doesn't Spread the Love
sonsofstevegarvey.com 7/1/2009 — Via True Blue LA comes this unsavory item :
Manny Ramirez, in five minor league games split between Albuquerque and Inland Empire (San Bernardino) chose not to buy the spread for either his Isotopes or 66ers teammates.
The above tidbit came in the form of a rumor spread among visiting ...
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albuquerque.isotopes.milb.com 6/26/2009 — The Los Angeles Dodgers have pulled Manny Ramirez from Thursday's game because of wet weather and field conditions. Even though the game will be played in its entirety, fans will be able to redeem their tickets from Thursday for a ticket of equal ...
Homer, Manny And The Isotopes
obsessedwithsports.com 6/24/2009 — I was listening to the radio just the other day and heard a caller quote Homer Simpson before making a point. The radio host remarked something to the affect of, “Why is it that Homer Simpson seems to make perfect sense while others do not.”
I think I have found another case of this starring us ...
You Can, However, Chase Drug Suppliers
sonsofstevegarvey.com 6/26/2009 — Manny Ramirez's last game with the Albuquerque Isotopes was under a cloud, both literally (it was wet) and figuratively (as the Drug Enforcement Agency, with the cooperation of MLB, is chasing the doctors who prescribed Manny PEDs ). Indeed, Pedro Bosch is under quite a lens:
As Los Angeles ...
Hochman: Logos say a lot about teams
baseballthinkfactory.org 7/1/2009 — Stan Hochman...hey, at least he dislikes Frank Crosetti.
They talked softly because Manny Ramirez totes a big stick. They patiently explained that the team was called the Isotopes, and that an isotope is any of two or more species of atoms of a ...
Game 72 Thread: June 24 @ White Sox, 5p
sonsofstevegarvey.com 6/24/2009 — MANNYWATCH: 8 GAMES
DODGERS' RECORD WITHOUT MANNY: 26-16
The Albuquerque Isotopes' mascot, Orbit.
Randy Wolf (3-2, 3.29) vs. Gavin Floyd (4-5, 4.65).
COMMENTS: Let's take a gander at the Dodgers' past five starts:
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# of pitches
result
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Manny Back
hardballtimes.com 6/24/2009 — Now if you turn your attention to the center ring, I give you Manny Ramirez , standing on his head while riding on the back of a flaming horse! Or something!
Ramirez, easing back into playing shape after a 50-game drug suspension, suited up for the Albuquerque Isotopes as they beat Nashville ...
Knucklehead of the week: Manny Ramirez —
SFGate: Top Sports Stories 6/28/2009
"People love me wherever I go," Manny Ramirez said when Albuquerque fans gave him a rousing welcome. Sounds like contrition lite. Yo, Manny, if you ever get tired of that brain-dead adulation, come pay a visit to the Bay Area. Ramirez played two games ...
Manny goes hitless in minor league game —
FOXSports.com News for MLB 6/29/2009
Manny Ramirez's minor league rehab tour continued Sunday without a word from the suspended slugger.
Ramirez didn't produce any hits, either, a day after a hitting leadoff homer for the Dodgers' Class A Inland Empire 66ers.
Sunday was the fourth ...