mondesishouse.blogspot.com - 11/26/2008
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The top two participants of the India's "Million Dollar Arm" contest are now the property of the Pittsburgh Pirates . 20-year-old left-handed pitcher Rinku Singh and 19-year-old right-handed pitcher Dinesh Kumar Patel (or as they've been dubbed by Steve Is Alive Braband, "Harold and Kumar") ...
walkoffwalk.com - 11/24/2008
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walkoffwalk.com —
My favorite new Japanese baseball blog NPB Tracker
has the biggest and best news of the week...
: the Pittsburgh Pirates have signed our favorite Indian contest winners Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel to minor league contracts! Hopefully, this means ...
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Baseball Yatra is Great Success: Pirates Sign Rinku and ...
bugsandcranks.com - 11/25/2008
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bugsandcranks.com —
Talk about change.When Dave Littlefield and Kevin McClatchy
ran the Pirates, I’m not sure there were scouts...
assigned to cover Indiana. With Frank Coonelly and Neal Huntington running the show now, there’s word today that the Pirates have ...
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A Passage To India?
themilliondollararm.com - 11/26/2008
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themilliondollararm.com —
Special blog from both Rinku and Dinesh… On
November 24, 2008, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Kumar Patel...
made Indian Sports History becoming the first athletes from that country to sign professional sports contracts here in the USA. Monday our ...
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We Are Now Pirates!!!
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More Wilson Rumors, Singh/Patel Fallout
Raise the Jolly Roger —
... I have been saying many interviews. We talk with reporter and see they write about us, but we always hoping that reporter would be talking slower so it is more easy for us to understand. I am think that we sound bad, but JB, sir says we are doing good job of talking. We practiced for 2 hours with JB, Sir tonight. ---- These guys are the coolest. [Here's an article] from the Hindustan Times about them. ---- Of course, the jokes are rolling in as well. From [Harold and Kumar] to this [PG poll where 52% call the move "desperate"] (and 18% call it ...
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Crasnick: Starting 9 —
ESPN.com - MLB 11/26/2008
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