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Curt Schilling / 38 Pitches:
6/7/07 vs. Oakland and shaking off 'Tek...... Nice to be able to start a post game thread with something other than "I sucked and we lost". — Figured it would be quickest to get to the middle part of the game, when things began to get interesting. We got to the fourth in a 1 …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Percival agrees to minor-league deal with Cards — STAFF REPORTS — Looking to augment a bullpen that has been picked apart by the club's constant need for consistent starters, the Cardinals agreed to a minor-league deal with former Anaheim closer Troy Percival.
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Viva El Birdos
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MLB.com:
Cards and pitcher Troy Percival agree to Minor League deal — ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have agreed to terms with right-handed reliever Troy Percival on a minor league contract. The veteran closer will report to Triple-A Memphis where he will continue his attempt at a comeback.
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MLB Trade Rumors
Anthony DiComo / MLB.com:
Mets ready to fit Draft pieces into puzzle — New York leans toward pitching with eye toward quick risers — NEW YORK — When the day was finally over after hundreds and hundreds of names whizzed on and off of Draft boards and in and out of consciousness, the Mets' front office could finally rest.
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Evan Drellich / MetsBlog.com:
Recap: MLB Draft — The Mets selected 34 players in the second and final day of the 2007 MLB First-Year Player draft on Friday, bringing their total to 42. — Half of the 42 picks were pitchers. — The draft ran to the maximum allowed 50 rounds, though the Mets made their final selection in round 39 …
Ron Vample / Associated Press:
Mets' Sosa shuts down Tigers 3-0 — DETROIT (AP) — Jorge Sosa didn't know — or care — that the Detroit Tigers had not been shut out this year. — "I didn't think about, I just tried to do my pitches," the 30-year-old journeyman from the Dominican Republic said through an interpreter …
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Mets Today
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Charles Odum / Associated Press:
Soriano hits 3 homers as Cubs top Braves — ATLANTA — When Alfonso Soriano had only four homers in 190 at-bats through May, he was starting to hear boos from impatient Chicago Cubs fans. Soriano proved with three homers in his first three at-bats Friday night that the early season power slump is history.
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Bleed Cubbie Blue
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Drew drives Red Sox — PHOENIX — The hidden-ball trick is baseball burlesque, a sight gag that seldom appears on the big stage anymore but never fails to draw a guffaw when it does. — But as entertained as the Red Sox were by shortstop Julio Lugo when he undressed unsuspecting Arizona …
Associated Press:
Young powers Nationals over Twins 8-5 — MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Washington Nationals followed one of their worst games of the season at the plate with one of their best. — Dmitri Young had three hits and three RBIs, and Cristian Guzman went 4-for-5 with an RBI as the Nationals beat the Minnesota Twins 8-5 on Friday night.
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We've Got Heart
Kevin Kernan / New York Post:
CLEMENS IS LEADER YANKS HAVE LACKED — WHEN Roger Clemens strides to the mound for the 692nd time in his major-league career in the regular season this afternoon at the Stadium, the Yankees will become whole again. — Whether they climb out of the hole they've dug for themselves depends largely …
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MY BASEBALL BIAS
Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
With Timlin in, Romero odd man out — PHOENIX - The Red Sox [team stats] cleared a spot on the roster for the activation of Mike Timlin [stats] from the disabled list by designating veteran relief pitcher J.C. Romero for assignment. — The team has 10 days to either trade or release the left-hander …
Dan Steinberg / D.C. Sports Bog:
Baseball Players are Buck Commanders — By and large, the mainstream media does a tremendous job covering Major League Baseball, but one significant story slipped under the radar this week. Willie Robertson, the current leader of the famed Duck Commander clan of Louisiana waterfowl hunting icons …
Associated Press:
Ejected PA announcer has to stand in for umpires — RENO, Nev. — The Golden Baseball League settled on punishment Friday for a public address announcer who was ejected from a minor league game for inciting criticism of an umpire: spending an inning in the ump's shoes.
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Foul Balls
Stan Gable / The Ghosts of Wayne Fontes:
Happy Friday: Classic Nintendo Sports — TGIF. It's the weekend and what better way to get it kicked off than with a barrage of youtube clips that you probably could've found for yourself if you were remotely interested in finding them. Make sense to you? Good. Let's get it going...shall we?
