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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Rogers' Game 2 gem marred by controversy — DETROIT - Questions, questions ... FOX Bite — Videos — Tigers even Series — What exactly was on Kenny Rogers' left hand? — Was Rogers discoloring and/or defacing balls? — Why didn't the Cardinals' Tony La Russa …
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ESPN:
Questions linger over substance on Rogers' hand — DETROIT — Kenny Rogers pitched eight scoreless innings Sunday, running his shutout streak this postseason to 23 innings, but that may be the least of the news about the 41-year-old left-hander coming out of Game 2 of the World Series.
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Murray Chass / New York Times:
In Postseason Full of Surprises, Rogers Is the Biggest — Much of this postseason has produced the unexpected. The teams in the World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers, offer the prime examples. — The Tigers limped into the playoffs as the American League wild card …
Jayson Stark / ESPN:
Rogers' dirty hand overshadows his Game 2 brilliance … DETROIT — Kenny Rogers threw eight shutout innings in a World Series game on Sunday night. — OK, now that we've got that little item out of the way, let's move on to the biggest Kenny Rogers story of the night: — Dirtgate.
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The Wayne Fontes Experience
NY Daily News:
Ex-Yanks keeping Stot baffled — DETROIT - You have to wonder if Kenny Rogers could have done this without the Yankees, once his old team and then his longtime tormentors. — What if the Tigers hadn't been swept by the Royals on the final weekend of the season?
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Bronx Banter
Dallas Morning News:
Rogers rewriting his story as Tigers even series — Former Ranger's scoreless streak, playoff success growing — DETROIT - He is perhaps the most self-deprecating pitcher in major league history. — Just ask him. — Kenny Rogers will tell you he's old. He's got nothing on his fastball.
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Baseball Musings
Tom Singer / MLB.com:
Cameras get the dirt on Rogers' hand — Cards players watching TV in clubhouse alert La Russa — DETROIT — Dirtgate! — The 2006 World Series got smudged by controversy Sunday night. Kenny Rogers' dirty stuff became a little too literal for one inning.
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Gene Wojciechowski / ESPN:
Rogers was masterful, but did he cheat? … DETROIT — Here at The North Face photo shoot, otherwise known as the 102nd World Series, you didn't know whether they were going to play Game 2 or a Grey Cup championship. — But they played Game 2, Detroit beat St. Louis 3-1 and, oh, by the way …
Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
Did winner have dirty little secret? — DETROIT — Kenny Rogers was dazzling again last night. But was he also cheating? — The 41-year-old lefthander continued his Joe Hardy-like October mastery at cold Comerica Park, blanking the St. Louis Cardinals on two hits over eight innings of a 3-1 World Series victory.
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Jack Curry / New York Times:St. Louis Rally Starts When Taguchi Is Called Out
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Cutoff Man
Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Cubs' fortunes went south — Hiring of Piniella, however, renews hope — Illinois senator and Chicagoan Barack Obama has written a book titled "The Audacity of Hope," which deals with far more important things than baseball, but the title could also be used to describe the future …
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Surviving Grady
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Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
The Candidates Keep On Coming — There are a few certainties about the Washington Nationals' search for a manager. No announcement will come during the World Series, as Major League Baseball insists fans remain focused on the games. The Nationals' top officials — President Stan Kasten …
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Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
Players and owners reach tentative agreement on new labor contact — DETROIT (AP) — Following nearly a quarter century of labor wars, baseball players and owners will have 16 years of peace. — They set aside their long history of bitter negotiations to reach a tentative agreement …
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Rolen makes bid to clean up — DETROIT — Visions of Endy Chavez dancing in his mind's eye, Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen headed for first base Saturday after taking his next best swing of the postseason calculating how this bolt to left field could end badly. — It is been that kind of October.
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Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
Samson completes grueling Ironman — Marlins team president finishes event in under 16 hours — MIAMI — Resiliency, a trademark of the 2006 overachieving Florida Marlins, was a characteristic of team president David Samson on Saturday. — Reaching deep inside himself …
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Bob Klapisch / ESPN:
All eyes on A-Rod — NEW YORK — It's only been two weeks since the Yankees disappeared from the postseason, but the machinery of change has already jump-started. At least that's the consensus among major league executives, many of whom are under the impression that Alex Rodriguez will be traded this winter.
