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Mike Fitzpatrick / Associated Press:
St. Louis 3, NY Mets 1 — NEW YORK (AP) — No way anybody was catching Yadier Molina's ninth-inning shot. And by the time it landed beyond the left-field fence, the St. Louis Cardinals were headed to the World Series. — Molina's tiebreaking homer and another Game 7 gem …
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Deadspin:
A Cards Fan And A Mets Fan Discuss Game 7 — You've followed your team every day for six, nearly seven months. You've sweated one-run games in May, stayed up until 2 a.m. for the 14-inning marathon in July, cursed rainouts in August and finally felt some release come September and October.
Brooklyn Met Fan:
USS Maine Impenetrable & Leads Mets to Game 7!!! — Johnny Maine bent but he flat out refused to break in the biggest game of his life! Johnny M shut the Cardinals out into the 6th limiting them to merely 2 hits. The kid faced his biggest test immediately as he found himself in a top off the first bases loaded jam.
Bernie Miklasz / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Redbirds learn about mean streets of New York
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Viva El Birdos
ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Neyer: Oliver Perez is the worst Game 7 starter ever — After reviewing the data, Rob Neyer came to this inescapable conclusion: Oliver Perez is almost certainly the worst pitcher who's ever started a Game 7. — Oliver Perez, huh? — One can hardly blame Willie Randolph.
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The Assimilated Negro / The Mets Are Better Than Sex:
God To Oliver Perez: Do You Want To Be A Star??? — WHO KNEW??? — We're going to hear it a million times between now and whenever Game 7 of the NLCS is done, but that's because it must be said: Can you believe Oliver Perez is the Mets starter for arguably the two most important games in this series?
David Lennon / Newsday:Good, but can be better — Minaya's happy with direction …
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the metropolitans
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:Call to Perez the playoffs' worst-case scenario
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Baseball Musings
Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Ramirez still waits — Slugger, Cubs have yet to OK extension — General manager Jim Hendry said at the end of the season he would try to "move expediently in the next couple of weeks" on getting Aramis Ramirez's contract reworked. — But 18 days have passed and no deal appears imminent.
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Toni Ginnetti / Chicago Sun Times:
Lou next to step up to the fate — It's a familiar line, but Cubs say Piniella is 'all about winning' — Except for the ivy and Wrigley Field, the past is over for the Cubs in the eyes of the team's new guiding hands. — The message from general manager Jim Hendry and new manager Lou Piniella …
Ben Walker / Associated Press:
Poll: Half of baseball fans hope Bonds falls short of Aaron's record — Half of baseball fans are rooting against Barry Bonds in his bid to break Hank Aaron's career home run record. That said, it's getting tough to find anyone rooting for the sport at all these days.
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
For McCarver and Buck, More Chatter — If you're a public person long enough in sports or politics, someone will dislike you and may start a Web site to advance that belief. Tim McCarver is the star of at least two sites that make clear their feeling for him.
Dallas Star-Telegram:
Rangers to meet with second candidate — The Rangers are moving on to No. 2 of five planned interviews for their managerial opening, as John Russell is scheduled to interview today. — Russell, 45, managed the Philadelphia Phillies' Triple A affiliate, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, this season.
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Murray Chass / New York Times:
New Labor Contract May Be Ready This Weekend — Negotiators for Major League Baseball and the players union, who have been meeting daily, are closing in on an agreement on a new labor contract and hope to have it finished by this weekend, a person with knowledge of the talks said yesterday.
Patrick Walters / ABCNEWS:
Coffins to Bear Logos of Baseball Teams — Baseball Fans Will Be Able to Rest in Peace in Caskets Marked With Favorite Team's Logo — Baseball fanatics won't have to leave behind their beloved teams when they finally go to that big stadium in the sky. Instead, they'll soon be able to rest …
Christina Kahrl / New York Sun:
Tigers Offer a Lesson In Roster Management — Who are these guys? It might seem to be a strange question to ask of a team that's in the World Series, but many fans can be forgiven if they look at the Tigers, collectively scratch their heads, and have trouble trying to sort out Ramon Santiago …
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Mack Avenue Tigers
Mark Newman / MLB.com:
LCS is no stranger to Game 7s — Mets and Cardinals take to Shea with NL pennant on line — NEW YORK — All things considered, the Tigers are perfectly happy to be in the World Series by virtue of a four-game sweep of the A's in the American League Championship Series.
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Sports Scope
MLB.com:
Major League Baseball extends Pepsi partnership and welcomes Frito-Lay as "Official Snack Chip" — Agreements with Major League Baseball Properties and MLB Advanced Media through 2010 — Major League Baseball Properties (MLBP), Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) …
