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Gerry Callahan / Boston Herald:
Pathetic in pinstripes: NY needy, Roger greedy — It is sad, really. Even during their current seven-year championship drought, even while they were losing four straight to the Red Sox [team stats] in 2004 or flopping in the first round of the playoffs to the Tigers last year, the Yankees at least were interesting.
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Curt Schilling / 38 Pitches:
Clemens and us? — I am not sure how people can misconstrue things as badly as they do, but it's being done. If you read any of the sports writers with integrity, the guys that printed the ENTIRE quote I gave last night, I thought it was clear. Roger Clemens coming to Boston was something none …
ESPN:
Boomer: Clemens' not traveling disrespects team — Roger Clemens has a big challenge ahead of him to get in shape and take the mound for the New York Yankees. But some around baseball think the Rocket is getting off too easy. — According to his contract, Clemens will not be forced …
Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Disappointing night for Perez in opener — Left-hander solid until allowing eight — two earned — in fifth — SAN FRANCISCO — What Barry Bonds did was of no consequence, and, in relative terms, what Barry Zito did hardly mattered. The latest installment of Mets 2007 had little …
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Ben Shpigel / New York Times:
Giants 9, Mets 4: Errors Lead to Giants' Big Inning and Doom Mets — The Mets spent so much time in the field during the fifth inning of Monday's game that they could have counted how many fans were sitting in Section 108. Anything to distract them from Giants stampeding around the bases.
Janie McCauley / Associated Press:Molina's two 5th-inning HRs lift Giants
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The Musings and Prophecies …
MLB.com:
ESPN2 to televise MLB's 2007 First-Year Player Draft — Draft, to be held in Orlando, will be aired on television for the first time — Major League Baseball's 2007 First-Year Player Draft will be carried live by ESPN2 from 2:00-6:00 p.m. (EDT) on Thursday, June 7th, marking the first time that the Draft will be telecast.
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George King / New York Post:
OH MO! PEN NOT DESALVO'S PAL — ROOKIE PROVES READY, BUT M'S STEAL VICTORY — Mariano Rivera giving up the game-winning homer in the ninth cut to the bone. Umpire Gerry Davis blowing a call in the eighth didn't help. And two bloop singles off Kyle Farnsworth were lethal.
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The Soxaholix
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Joel Sherman / New York Post:
SEARCHING FOR THE REAL RIVERA — There were more quotes within the Yankee clubhouse about being shocked whenever Mariano Rivera falters and more vows about not being worried at all about the greatest closer of all time. — But as the first week of May ended, Mariano Rivera gave up another homer, lost another game.
Ian Casselberry / Bless You Boys:
Zumaya Out Until August? — According to MLive.com's Danny Knobler, Joel Zumaya will require surgery for a ruptured tendon in his right middle finger. He's been scheduled for a procedure on Thursday in New York, and doctors are estimating he'll be out for 12 weeks.
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Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Notes: Glavine holds esteem for Bonds — Mets southpaw views slugger as 'greatest player of our era' — SAN FRANCISCO — Tom Glavine, the Mets' starting pitcher Tuesday night against the Giants — and Barry Bonds — answered some questions about Bonds on Monday:
Jeff Seidel / MLB.com:
Notes: Westbrook placed on DL — Carmona, Mujica recalled from Triple-A Buffalo — BALTIMORE — The Indians made several moves Monday, putting starter Jake Westbrook on the 15-day disabled list, recalling fellow right-handers Fausto Carmona and Edward Mujica from Triple-A Buffalo …
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Tribe Report
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David Ginsburg / Associated Press:Hafner, Carmona lead Indians by O's 10-1
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Let's Go Tribe
Dylan Hernandez / insideBayArea:
Boohoo: Alou looks back with sigh — In his return to AT&T Park, Mets' Moises reflects on Giant disappointment — SAN FRANCISCO — Back at AT&T Park for the first time as a member of the New York Mets, Moises Alou revealed Monday that he looks back with regret on his two seasons with the Giants.
Marc Hulet / Baseball Analysts:
No Ordinary Joe Smith — Every time I look at a New York Mets' box score, rookie reliever Joe Smith's name seems to be present. The 2006 third round draft pick - and 94th overall - out of Wright State appeared in 17 games during the Mets' first 29 games of the 2007 season.
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MetsBlog.com
Ben Schmitt / Detroit Free Press:
Ex-Tigers player LeFlore jailed over child support — Ron LeFlore's journey took him from prison in the 1970s to Major League Baseball, where he became an All Star with the Detroit Tigers. — Today, he went back behind bars at age 58 for $73,000 in unpaid child support.
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baseballtoaster.com
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Helton's on-base skills now walking the walk — St. Louis - Sift through the rubble of the reconstructed bullpen and the uneven starting rotation and there's a sliver of light in the Rockies' start: Todd Helton is hitting. And walking. — He reached base a major-league best 72 times in his first 139 plate appearances.
Murray Chass / New York Times:
Baseball Ignores a Problem More Deadly Than Steroids — Alcohol last week killed one more major league baseball player than steroids ever have. — I repeat: Alcohol last week killed one more baseball player than steroids ever have. — Yet Major League Baseball and George J. Mitchell …
Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
Notes: Willis grateful to Clemens — Marlins ace got pointers from Rocket at World Baseball Classic — MIAMI — At the 2006 World Baseball Classic, Dontrelle Willis was fortunate enough to pick up some points from the best. — The D-Train was a teammate on Team USA with the legendary Roger Clemens …
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FishStripes
