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Tim Brown / Los Angeles Times:
La Russa Supports Cooling-Off Period — ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols' decision to slight Tom Glavine's pitching performance in Game 1 had legs for another day, with Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa advocating a 24-hour cooling-off period for athletes before they address the media and threatening …
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
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NY Daily News:
Pujols pulls no punches — Bat, mouth are trouble — Albert Pujols had an at-bat to remember last night, one that showcased all of his ability as the game's most dangerous hitter. In the seventh inning he fouled off six pitches from Guillermo Mota during an 11-pitch at-bat that ended …
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ESPN
Jayson Stark / ESPN:
Taguchi stunningly becomes latest October hero … NEW YORK — These are the October moments that live forever. You see them happen. Thousands of witnesses can testify they happened. History will always be there to remind us that they happened. — And still you ask yourself: Did that really happen?
David Lennon / Newsday:
Never had a chance — Trachsel digs a hole and Suppan buries Mets' sluggish offense in it — ST. LOUIS — Steve Trachsel left last night's game shortly after taking Preston Wilson's second-inning grounder off his right thigh, but the pain from his bruised leg was nothing compared to what Trachsel did to the Mets in NLCS Game 3.
Bruce Jenkins / San Francisco Chronicle:
A Very Classy Clubhouse — From Sporting Green columnist Bruce Jenkins in Detroit: — One of baseball's toughest men was moved to tears. Sitting at his locker, a towel draped over his head, Milton Bradley had been crying. His eyes were blood-red as he finally turned to face the media.
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South Side Sox
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Jason Beck / MLB.com:
Ordonez sends Tigers to sweep, Series — Walk-off homer lifts Detroit to first Fall Classic since 1984 — DETROIT — The Detroit renaissance is just about complete. — The team that sat at the historic bottom of the American League three years ago with an AL-record 119 losses has scratched, clawed, and pitched its way to the top.
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The Baseball Desert
Mychael Urban / MLB.com:
A's fight hard, but can't avoid sweep — Team disappointed, but proud of 2006 accomplishments — DETROIT — The moment Magglio Ordonez's two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth cleared the left-field wall Saturday night in Motown, one fine season moved to the next stage and one fine season ended.
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Cutoff Man
Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
Trachsel awful and injured as Mets start to run short on starters — ST. LOUIS (AP) — First, Steve Trachsel was awful. Then, he got hurt. — Now it's up to Oliver Perez — yes, Oliver Perez — to keep the New York Mets in the NL championship series. — Trachsel lasted just three outs …
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6-4-2
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Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com:
Focused Perez to start must-win game — Looking to even series, Mets turn to young left-hander — ST. LOUIS — It's not as if Oliver Perez hasn't started some big games before in his career, but none of them have been in the playoffs. And on Sunday night, because of the circumstances …
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It's Mets For Me
Lee Jenkins / New York Times:
Outfield Gets an A for Effort and a C for Coverage — The Mets used to have a right fielder with too much range. — It seemed like an enviable problem. Mike Cameron, the Gold Glove-winning center fielder, was in right. Carlos Beltrán, the free-agent prize, was in center.
Ben Shpigel / New York Times:
Trachsel Does Little but Place the Mets in a Big Pitching Bind — The ball stayed aloft for several seconds after smacking off Steve Trachsel's upper thigh, and in the time it took for it to plummet to the ground, beyond the infield, another injury had sucked the life out of an already strained pitching staff.
Chris De Luca / Chicago Sun Times:
Lou 'refreshed,' ready to return — Piniella says time off from managing has changed his perspective — but his only goal still is to win, and it appears he'll try with Cubs — DETROIT — Barring a snag in contract talks that are expected to begin Monday, Lou Piniella will become the next manager of the Cubs.
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Associated Press:
Fox fires Lyons for racially insensitive comment — DETROIT — Fox baseball broadcaster Steve Lyons has been fired for making a racially insensitive comment directed at colleague Lou Piniella's Hispanic heritage on the air during Game 3 of the American League championship series.
Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Lyons dismissed by FOX for remarks — Mota replaces former Major Leaguer in ALCS broadcast booth — DETROIT — The American League Championship Series underwent a quick lineup shuffle in the broadcast booth, with news coming down shortly before Saturday's Game 4 that FOX …
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Chicks Dig The Pitchers' Duel
Tom Krasovic / San Diego Union-Tribune:Bochy person of interest, but no longer Cubs' focus
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The Cub Reporter
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Nationals not close to hiring Girardi — Contrary to news reports, club mum on plans — ST. LOUIS — The Nationals are not close to naming Joe Girardi as their new manager, according to sources in Chicago. — The Chicago Sun-Times reported on Saturday that the Nationals are expected …
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District of Baseball
NY Daily News:
Gonzo journalism — Fox drops ball with Luis in booth — Fox's Jeanne Zelasko and Kevin Kennedy got all self-righteous a couple of weeks ago while attacking the veracity of a Los Angeles Times report that revealed names said to appear on the affadavit from the federal investigation of Jason Grimsley and his alleged HGH distribution.
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
