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Lisa Olson / NY Daily News:
Wright's surprise razing ritual may turn out to be shear genius — SAN FRANCISCO - Carlos Beltran hung a shingle on his barber shop inside the visitor's clubhouse, prepping for customers. He had shears, razors and plenty of towels to blot the blood. — Before long there was a parade of Mets lining up to get their domes shaved.
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Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Glavine, Mets roll despite Bonds' shot — Left-hander allows just a solo homer in seven strong frames — SAN FRANCISCO — It was a numerical anomaly that developed at AT&T Park on Tuesday night when the Mets engaged the Giants in a place that is all about long distance.
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Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Notes: Mets un-locked on Tuesday — Starting with Wright, club changes it up with short haircuts — SAN FRANCISCO — The Mets conduct scouting meetings before the first games of all series, baseball versions of X's and O's. What they had Tuesday before they engaged the Giants in the second …
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Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Buzz: Literally, Buzz — Following Monday night's game, David Wright had his friend, bullpen catcher Dave Racaniello, shave his head Marine-style. — Last night, the entire team, minus Aaron Sele and Jose Reyes, did the same, as did the team's trainers, Mike Herbst and Ray Ramirez …
Janie McCauley / Associated Press:Bonds hits No. 745 but Glavine, Mets win
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Francona to Schilling, Papi: 'Shut up' — Everyone has an opinion about Barry Bonds. Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona wants his players not to express theirs so much. — A day after Curt Schilling and David Ortiz gave interviews in which they talked about the San Francisco Giants slugger …
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Rocky Mountain News:
Lincicome: Bonds poll is questionable — Abaseball manager once responded to a poll asking him to list his team broken down by race. — None, he answered. More of his team was broken down by alcohol. — The point is, you see what you want to in these polls, endless as they are, concluding what they do.
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Notes: Wagner struggles, goes on DL — Simontacchi and Batista called up to the big-league club — MILWAUKEE — The Nationals purchased the contracts of right-hander Jason Simontacchi and infielder Tony Batista from Triple-A Columbus on Tuesday. The team also placed reliever Ryan Wagner …
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Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Nats Fall To Their 7th Loss In a Row — Washington Roster In a State of Flux: Brewers 6, Nationals 4 — Hours before the Washington Nationals dropped their seventh straight game, an all-too-familiar 6-4 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, they lost one player, Chad Cordero …
David Pinto / Baseball Prospectus:
The Big Picture — Rescheduling — Whenever a wet April occurs, calls are made to revamp the schedule. At one time, Major League Baseball tried starting the season in as many warm cities and domes as possible, but the cold-weather teams wanted to start the season at home, too.
Fun Sheriff / Lion in Oil:
Meet Your First Two-Time Steroid Offender — A disturbing trend has coming out of the Mets organization. First there was Guillermo Mota's steroid suspension last November, and last week former clubhouse worker Kirk Radomski admitted to dealing steroids to numerous MLB players.
Richie Rich / Home Run Derby:
Followup on the Vernon Wells Heckler Ball - A Home Run Derby Exclusive — This past Sunday, we wrote about some hecklers who got a ball from Blue Jays CenterFielder Vernon Wells. Wells politely gave back some of the heckling he was getting during the game ...
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John Walsh / Hardball Times:
Infield Defense — Back to Basics … In recent years, methods for evaluating defense have been springing up like mushrooms after a spring rain. We've got UZR and PMR and the plus/minus system, all based on play-by-play data. Then there are the zone rating-based systems, one from Chris Dial …
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O's TV host sorry for domestic violence wisecrack — BALTIMORE — Rick Dempsey is apologizing for attempting to crack a joke about domestic violence on the air during a telecast of a Baltimore Orioles game on Saturday. — Dempsey, a former Orioles catcher and coach who usually hosts …
Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Youk sick of getting hit: 1B may sit out tonight — TORONTO - Kevin Youkilis [stats] is questionable for tonight's game against the Blue Jays after being hit in the left leg for the second consecutive game, this time by a Casey Janssen pitch. — Youkilis, who's been hit by a pitch a team-high five times …
Janie McCauley / Associated Press:
Rickey Henderson considering comeback — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Roger Clemens' big announcement this week has Rickey Henderson hoping some club might give him one more chance to make a major league comeback. — Otherwise, he will call it a career — for good this time.
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Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Sluggers Cited in Steroid Inquiry — Investigators of steroid use in baseball are seeking medical records from at least two of the game's premier sluggers over the past dozen years, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, along with records from dozens of other players suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs …
Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
Pieces found along the trail — Picked-up pieces while bracing for Barry Bonds's Fenway visit next month, which looks more and more like a showdown with Hank Aaron's home run record . . . Something "Evita"-esque about Roger Clemens in George's private suite Sunday.
Paul Meyer / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates Notebook: Tracy sees offense, but it's from his son — CHICAGO — Jim Tracy saw a rare sight Monday night — offense. — OK, so it was in Lansing, Mich., and not Wrigley Field, but it was pretty sweet all the same. — The Pirates' manager and his wife, Debra …
