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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Another Yanks' loss could lead to big changes — DETROIT - Not that anything is at stake Saturday, but if the Yankees lose, they could fire manager Joe Torre, trade third baseman Alex Rodriguez and kidnap Japanese right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka, just for starters.
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Jerry Crasnick / ESPN:
Yanks facing elimination with Wright in Game 4 … DETROIT — Jack Nicholson might not be the only big-name, highly-compensated star appearing in "The Departed" this weekend. — Just a few days ago, geniuses from every market and medium expected the New York Yankees to be doing lots of things other than playing baseball this weekend.
NY Daily News:
A beautiful day for Mr. Rogers — Ex-neighbor torments Yankees — DETROIT - We'll know soon enough what fate awaits this $200million Yankee superteam that, for all its money and might, nevertheless has played itself onto the brink of elimination in the first round of the playoffs …
George King / New York Post:
YANKS' LOSS IS UN-KENNY — TEAM ON BRINK AFTER ROGERS' GEM; JOE FUMES — DETROIT - Across nine innings, Joe Torre watched his Men Without Bats get dominated by Kenny Rogers. — So, in the aftermath of the Yankees' embarrassing 6- loss to the Tigers in Game 3 of the ALDS in front …
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Cutoff Man
NY Daily News:
Ancient Randy only raises old questions — DETROIT - It has happened again, somehow. Joe Torre has gone through another season declaring, over and over, that the game of baseball is all about pitching. And yet here he is, down to an elimination Game 4 in the playoffs today with a bad matchup and without a sturdy starter.
Associated Press:
Rogers roasts Yankees, Tigers coast to 6-0 win in Game 3 — CBS SportsLine.com wire reports — DETROIT — Kenny Rogers stood alone near the mound and soaked in the cheers. He had stared down his past and all that pinstriped power, and now it was time to enjoy a night like no other.
Discussion:
Surviving Grady
Sam Borden / NY Daily News:
Yankees face gloom, doom — Torre's warning: End is near — DETROIT - Joe Torre broke the sullen silence of a deflated clubhouse last night when he stepped in front of the Yankees and held what he could only hope would not be his final meeting of the season. — Torre was not angry.
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Buck O'Neil, Negro Leagues Pioneer, Is Dead at 94 — Buck O'Neil, a star first baseman and manager in the Negro leagues and a pioneering scout and coach in the major leagues who devoted the final decade of his life to chronicling the lost world of black baseball, died last night in Kansas City, Mo. He was 94.
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Associated Press:
Former Negro Leaguer O'Neil dies — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Buck O'Neil, baseball's charismatic Negro Leagues ambassador who barnstormed with Satchel Paige and inexplicably fell one vote shy of the Hall of Fame, died Friday night. He was 94. — Bob Kendrick, marketing director …
Doug Tucker / Associated Press:Buck O'Neil, Negro League baseball great, dies at 94
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Where have you gone …
Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Edmonds fights pain for playoff gain — Jim Edmonds' most complicated season resumes this morning with a simple, painful truth. The Cardinals center fielder will arrive at Busch Stadium shortly before 9 a.m. and limp to the trainer's room, where he will accept a needle near the ball beneath his left foot.
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David Lennon / Newsday:
Mets go up 2-0 on L.A. — The veteran Tom Glavine was in command on the mound in the Mets' 4-1 win. — With a week left in the regular season, the Mets positioned Tom Glavine as their No. 2 starter for the Division Series. But after injuries suffered by Pedro Martinez and Orlando Hernandez …
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Chris De Luca / Chicago Sun Times:
Hendry hopes to name manager by end of October — General manager Jim Hendry began his week by not renewing Cubs manager Dusty Baker's contract and ended it by basically completing his list of potential replacements. Phase II of the managerial search begins next week, with the interviews.
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Bleed Cubbie Blue
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Josh Suchon / Contra Costa Times:
Beane just glad it was a short series — A's notebook — OAKLAND — Billy Beane described the division series as "five hands of blackjack" and didn't look like a man who had just been dealt a 20 for three straight hands. — As the wild celebration continued in the A's clubhouse late Friday afternoon …
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Al's Ramblings
MLB.com:
Garciaparra, Thome win 2006 Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award presented by Viagra — Nomar Garciaparra of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Jim Thome of the Chicago White Sox are the recipients of the 2006 Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award presented by Viagra® …
Gordon Wittenmyer / TwinCities.com:
Radke loathe to leave — Pitcher puts off saying he's done — OAKLAND, Calif. — Brad Radke has known this day was coming for more than two years. He said it then, and his weakening, throbbing shoulder made him even more certain of it this summer than he ever has been.
Claire Smith / Philly.com:
'Hells Bells' silenced for record-setting closer — In a perfect world, Trevor Hoffman, the near-perfect reliever, would be reveling in the postseason spotlight this week. — October has yet to work out well for San Diego or the premier reliever in the history of the game.
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Baseball Musings
Tim Brown / Los Angeles Times:
Beimel Cut Hand in a Bar, Not Hotel — NEW YORK — Dodgers left-hander Joe Beimel said Thursday he was in a New York bar early Tuesday morning when he cut his pitching hand on a broken glass and not in his hotel room, as he had told team officials. — "I realize nothing good happens …
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The Eddie Kranepool Society
