rgj.com - 6/28/2009
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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 retired. The 1991 graduate of Douglas High, ...
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
albuquerque.isotopes.milb.com - 6/28/2009
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albuquerque.isotopes.milb.com —
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 ...
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sonsofstevegarvey.com - 7/1/2009
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sonsofstevegarvey.com —
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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Manny Doesn't Spread the Love
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Q&A: Estes ‘not retired,’ still wants to play in bigs
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Q : Estes ‘not retired,’ still wants to play in bigs Estes didn’t retire...he was geezernapped by the diabolical Colletti Gang! If you’re not retired, how did it get reported that you were? A: “They had to put me on some sort of list and they chose the retirement list. It was, obviously, my decision not to pitch in Triple-A anymore but I’m not retired, not suspended, not hurt.” Even after the season started, you didn’t think it might get to this point? A: “The relationship I had with the (Dodgers) general manager, Ned Colletti, was one that I thought I could, with my ...
Speed Read: Mo Saves #500 As Mets Melt Again
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... has a mean case of sports columnist hyperbole syndrome, suggesting that the the Cubs should waive Carlos Zambrano because they’ll never win anything with him on the team. That may be true, but of course they’ll be further away from winning anything without him, because, you know, he’s a good pitcher.
• A teenager is being congratulated for driving like three times the speed limit in New Hamsphire.
• Free Shawn Estes!
• TNT’s play-by-play man for NASCAR was suspended from ...
Estes Hopes To Play In Majors
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... Shawn Estes told Chris Gabel of the Reno Gazette-Journal that he "retired from Triple A," not from baseball. Earlier in the month we heard that Estes ...
Link-O-Rama: Brewers turned down for DeRosa
Circling The Bases —
... over the weekend. * According to Shawn Estes, he's not actually retired , but rather "retired from Triple-A." Which seems a bit like me saying, "I'm not actually single, just unwilling to date non-supermodels." * Chris Jaffe of The Hardball Times notes that ...
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Shawn Estes Retires
cubscore.com 6/19/2009 — Diamond Leung reports that Shawn Estes has retired. The 36-year-old was pitching for the Dodgers in Triple A, where he started the season 3-4 with a 3.07 ERA. The lefty accepted the minor league assignment in hopes of fortifying the Dodgers" pitching later in the year. His best major league ...
Shawn Estes Retires
mlbtraderumors.com 6/19/2009 — Diamond Leung reports that Shawn Estes has retired. The 36-year-old was pitching for the Dodgers in Triple A, where he started the season 3-4 with a 3.07 ERA. His best major league season came in 1997, when he went 19-5 with a 3.18 ERA and 181 Ks ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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:
date
starter
opponent
IP
# of pitches
result
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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 ...
