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Toni Ginnetti / Chicago Sun Times:
Ripple effect could manage to reach Cubs — Changes on the field could stretch to changes off the field for the Cubs as baseball's managerial landscape continued to evolve Wednesday. — The latest firing took place in Texas, where the Rangers dismissed manager Buck Showalter after four years …
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Fred Mitchell / Chicago Tribune:
In the homestretch? — Girardi is building house in Lake Forest — A house is not a home. — But it could become one for Joe Girardi and his family. — Girardi, whom the Florida Marlins fired Tuesday, is having a home built in Lake Forest, according to a source.
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GROTA
Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Mets' bats help secure Game 1 win — Delgado's four hits, Wright's two doubles back pitching — NEW YORK — Whatever gloom and doom had seeped into the Mets' universe because of the recent injuries could have weakened them even more than the injuries and undermined their plans for the National League's postseason tournament.
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Always Amazin'
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Jayson Stark / ESPN:
Some kind of blunderful for Dodgers … NEW YORK — Postseasons don't always turn on magical October moments, on Kirk Gibson-esque swings of the bat, on Bob Gibson-esque pitchers taking over games with their bionic arms. — No, sirree. Sometimes, postseasons turn on happenstances right out of the Three Stooges playbook.
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Faith and Fear in Flushing
Mark Bowman / MLB.com:
Dodgers victims of wild double play — Mets retire Kent, Drew at home in same second-inning play — NEW YORK — Less than nine outs into its duration, the lasting image and memory from this National League Division Series between the Dodgers and Mets may have been created.
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It's Mets For Me
Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com:
Bonds feeling great after surgery — Slugger says he's OK with not playing next year — SAN DIEGO — Giants slugger Barry Bonds had bone chips and a bone spur removed from his left elbow on Monday, he told MLB.com on Wednesday when reached by telephone at his home in Beverly Hills.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Bradley 'Coffeegate' incident a big deal to ESPN, no one else — (10-04) 15:41 PDT Minneapolis — The power of postseason baseball is that everything is a big deal. The more enduring power is that winning postseason baseball renders all those big deals to be not so big after all. — Thus, Milton Bradley.
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Jim Caple / ESPN:
Hunter has no explanation for miscue … MINNEAPOLIS — Fortunately for most of us, when we make costly, embarrassing mistakes, they aren't shown on national television. Over and over and over again. In slow motion. With a broadcaster explaining in detail exactly how we screwed up.
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Beasley waits and wonders — STEVE DeSHAZO: In limbo, Beasley awaits his future — WASHINGTON—The season began with Tony Beasley's decision to send a runner who was called out at home. It may end with Beasley out of a job. — In between, there's little the Bowling Green native …
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Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Nats looking at Girardi, Piniella — Search for Robinson's managerial successor begins — WASHINGTON — The Nationals have a long list of managerial candidates, but Joe Girardi and Lou Piniella top the list, according to two sources, one of whom said that the interview process could start as early as next week.
Murray Chass / New York Times:
Injuries Can't Dent Randolph's Playoff Passion — Here it was the day before the start of the 18th postseason of Willie Randolph's October-filled career, and he entered the interview room down the hall from the home clubhouse at Shea Stadium for what should have been a proud, glorious moment.
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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Yanks still feasting off sweep of Sox — NEW YORK - What transpired at Fenway Park Aug. 18-21 will go down as the low point of the Red Sox' season, if not the new century. — For the New York Yankees, however, their first five-game sweep in Boston since 1943 catapulted them past the Sox …
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Mike Berardino / Sun-Sentinel:
Willis, Cabrera may command a combined $12.5M — · Fredi Gonzalez had only been introduced as Marlins manager a few minutes earlier when he faced the first hard question of his fresh tenure. — Was he confident Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera would be part of his roster in 2007?
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FishStripes
Rob Maaddi / Associated Press:
Phillies let go 3 coaches — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies let go three coaches on Tuesday, an indication manager Charlie Manuel will keep his job for another year. — First-base coach Marc Bombard, third-base coach Bill Dancy and bench coach Gary Varsho …
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A CITIZEN'S BLOG
Associated Press:
Little rain, but Tigers-Yankees Game 2 postponed — NEW YORK — Justin Verlander was throwing in the outfield, Mike Mussina was nowhere to be seen and the fans in Yankee Stadium just wondered what was going on. — In a rainout with hardly any rain, Game 2 of the AL Division Series between …
Billfer / The Detroit Tiger Weblog:
Game 1: The Day After — Yes the Yankees lineup is formidable, but if you look at the final box score you see a Tiger team that nearly matched them hit for hit. The Yankees posted 14 hits, 5 for extra bases including 2 homers. The Tigers banged out 12 hits, 7 for extra bases including 2 homers.
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