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Tim Brown / Los Angeles Times:
Jones: 'No love lost here' for Weaver — DETROIT — Jeff Weaver returns to Detroit, where he pitched most of four seasons before being traded to the New York Yankees, then the Dodgers, and, well, it goes on from there. — In need of pitching, the St. Louis Cardinals gave up a marginal prospect to get him from the Angels.
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Tigers' Jones bashes ex-teammate — Detroit closer Todd Jones didn't roll out the red carpet for former Tigers teammate Jeff Weaver, who will start Game 2 of the World Series for St. Louis. — ``I'm not a big advocate of his and I wasn't a big advocate of his when he was here …
Mike Fitzpatrick / Associated Press:
St. Louis 7, Detroit 2 — Postgame: Tony La Russa Anthony Reyes — Postgame: Pujols & Rolen Tigers' Jim Leyland — DETROIT (AP) — Rest can be overrated. — The St. Louis Cardinals managed just fine in Game 1 of the World Series without much.
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Blogging Baseball
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
La Russa Must Play by a Rule He Abhors — Tony La Russa managed more than 2,500 games in the American League before taking over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1996. Playing in an A.L. park for Game 1 of the World Series on Saturday, La Russa had to adhere to a rule that he wishes would vanish.
Dailyfungo / The Daily Fungo:
You Almost Saw This One Coming, Didn't You? — The Tigers' loss in game one of the World Series was predictable...except of course that I didn't exactly predict it. — I thought the week off would help in terms of injuries and rest for the pitching staff but could hurt in terms of hitters and fielders getting back into game rhythm.
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Weaver Wants Different Windup to This Series — Jeff Weaver, who will start Game 2 Sunday night, entered this year with a 9.72 career E.R.A. in the postseason. He has a 2.16 mark this postseason. — Three months ago, on the first night of the rest of his career, Jeff Weaver went to dinner …
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
Kevin Hench / Fox Sports:
Why the Cards will win the World Series — Yes, it's true the National League has not won a single World Series game in three years. — And, yes, it's also true that the Senior Circuit's representative in this year's World Series barely won half its games during the regular season.
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Bad Altitude
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Reyes' start tonight will be part of a first — DETROIT — A few innings into the first postseason start of his career, Cardinals pitcher Anthony Reyes had to make a shift because he may have been tipping his pitches. The Cardinals feel sure enough that the tick was fixed in a side session …
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Sports Scope
Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:Smoke and fire — Leyland has lit up Detroit by leading Tigers back to the top
Enrique Rojas / ESPN:
Acta 'optimistic' after interviewing for Rangers' job … NEW YORK — New York Mets third-base coach Manny Acta was impressed with the management of the Texas Rangers and left his Friday interview with the team optimistic about his chances of becoming the next Hispanic manager in the major leagues.
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Tales Of A Transplanted …
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Associated Press:
HOMEMLBNEWS STORYMets' Acta interviews with Rangers — ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Hours after the Mets lost in Game 7 of the NL championship series, New York third-base coach Manny Acta became the third person interviewed for the Texas Rangers' managerial vacancy. — Acta flew to Texas and interviewed Friday.
John Shea / San Francisco Chronicle:
'Hurt' by players' comments, Macha tells his side of story — (10-22) 04:00 PDT Detroit — Former A's manager Ken Macha, saying critical comments by some of his players "really hurt," gave his side of the story for the first time since his Monday firing. — "The reason I was fired," …
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Halos Heaven
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ESPN:
Report: Fired A's skipper Macha critical of GM, Kotsay — Ken Macha threw a couple of brush-back pitches at the Oakland A's on Saturday in his first comments since he was fired on Monday. — "The reason I was fired," he told the San Francisco Chronicle, "[was] there was too much interference."
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Oh Yeah, There's a Ballgame, Too — The Chop House, one of several restaurants and other attractions at Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves. These kinds of amenities are becoming important revenue producers at many stadiums. — Atlanta — DINERS in the members-only 755 Club …
Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
MLB set to announce new labor deal — Any fear that Major League Baseball could go through another embarrassing labor dispute will be extinguished very soon. — FOX Bite — Videos — Rosenthal on MLB labor deal — FOXSports.com has learned that a new labor deal that will be for five years …
Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Glavine ponders uncertain future — His contract expired, lefty considers New York and Atlanta — NEW YORK — Tom Glavine hoisted a duffel bag over his left shoulder on Friday in the Mets clubhouse, wincing. — "Ooh," Glavine joked. "That might put me on the DL."
