newsday.com - 7/25/2008
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If you're a baseball general manager, an opposing hitter,
even Oliver Perez's own catcher or manager, the ever-changing charm and danger of the quirky Mets lefthander is that you never know what you'll get.
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Amazin' Avenue —
... that Jimmy Rollins was benched yesterday for arriving late for the team's 10am reporting time. Rollins says he was stuck in traffic, but that Charlie Manuel is a stickler for the rules.
Apparently there was an imaginary clash between Carlos Delgado and Jamie Moyer yesterday after the latter lost control of his bat and the former tossed it back to him. Kevin Burkhardt was the only one who noticed.
And we'll wrap things up with a write-up of Ollie Perez in Newsday. I wrote more about him earlier today.
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