sports.espn.go.com - 12/10/2008
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Steve Phillips On Mets Landing Francisco Rodriguez
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 12/9/2008
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LAS VEGAS -- The Mets appear on the
verge of simultaneously interrupting a sluggish baseball market and...
solving their biggest winter issue. They are closing in on a deal to sign star free-agent closer Francisco Rodriguez. The deal, which is expected ...
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New York Mets are close to signing closer Francisco ...
nypost.com - 12/9/2008
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nypost.com —
LAS VEGAS Mets officials and representatives for
Francisco Rodriguez were huddled this morning in attempts to...
put the last items in place for a contract that will bring the elite closer to New York on a contract in three-year, $37 million range...
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METS, K-ROD CONTINUE TALKS
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The Mets Report —
I'm O-K with this Rod
It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations —
I realized I wouldn't really be a blogger if I didn't go at least moderately bat-shit over the closing of the deal with so-called "K-Rod" today, pending a physical. K-Rod apparently is urban slang for "mess up" but I won't hold that against him. As for the clamor coming from the bloggers unions for players with cool noun-like names "Wood", "Dunn"... well we'll have to hope to land on easy (Huston) Street soon. My emotional take on it? Ehh. I've seen this Christmas movie before, and we all know most Christmas movies do not repay subsequent viewings kindly. It's Billygoat all over again I'm sure, but the 'Goat had his moments. K-Rod isn't bad, he's just ...
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Mets Get K-Rod: Trouble For Phillies? —
Bleacher Report - MLB 12/10/2008
The New York Mets signed Francisco Rodriguez to a three-year deal on Tuesday.
That being said, the Mets have basically given up all hope on Billy Wagner. Wagner won't play next year anyway due to an injury.
Now for the question of ...
Francisco Rodriguez Headed To Queens —
Bleacher Report - MLB 12/10/2008
Major League Baseball's best closer has come to terms with the New York Mets this afternoon at the winter meetings in Las Vegas.
Mets GM Omar Minaya wasted no time on Sunday night when the meetings first started, sitting down for dinner with ...
With K-Rod, Manuel can relax a little —
Major League Baseball News 12/10/2008
With Francisco Rodriguez in tow, there should be no more wondering who will close out games, no more nightly micromanaging in the eighth and ninth innings. The signing should give Mets manager Jerry Manuel, as much as is possible in New York, reason ...
