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New York Post:
HIGH'JINX' HITS YANKEES — CREW SABOTEUR — The new Yankee Stadium may be cursed! — A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team's locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction work ers told The Post yester day.
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Mark Feinsand / NY Daily News:
Joe Girardi: Bring on Bosox — KANSAS CITY - Joe Girardi has plenty of experience playing at Fenway Park, but when the Bombers and Red Sox resume their rivalry Friday in Boston, it will mark Girardi's first time running the show in enemy territory. — The Bombers and Bosox will face off three times …
MLB.com:
Yanks-Sox rivalry now painted red — Once in New York's favor, battle renews with Boston on top — BOSTON — Baseball's biggest rivalry has not only changed, it has been set on its head, turned inside out, inverted and fundamentally altered. — It is still the Yankees and the Red Sox, except that it is not.
tampabay.com:
Rays pitcher Reyes slugged, Tased, arrested at Tampa bar — TAMPA — Tampa Police arrested Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Al Reyes early this morning, saying the reliever was drunk and disruptive when he fell down, picked a fight and spit blood at patrons of a popular Hyde Park night spot where Jessica Sierra was arrested last year.
Ken Davidoff / Newsday:
Heilman has been weak link in Mets' bullpen — Good cheer pervaded the Mets' clubhouse late last night, and why not? They badly needed this victory, 4-3 in 12 innings over the Phillies, to establish further street cred in the National League East and even their record at 4-4.
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On the Mets beat
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Todd Zolecki / Philly.com:
Myers vows to come out smokin' against Cubs — NEW YORK - Brett Myers hasn't been himself in his first two starts this season. — He hasn't shown his fastball as much. He hasn't been his aggressive self. — “I'm closing for nine innings tomorrow,” said Myers, who will start tonight …
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
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Howard Megdal / New York Observer:
Now Starting for the Mets: Nelson Figueroa, King of Quadruple-A — While Nelson Figueroa, scheduled to make his first start for the Mets on Friday night, may be unknown to most American fans, observers from Mexico to the Dominican Republic to Taiwan know the 33-year-old journeyman pitcher as an ace.
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Ted Berg / SNY.tv:
Going the distance — Brooklyn product hopes to make good in Queens — Nelson Figueroa has come a long way to get home. — In pursuit of a spot on a Major League roster, the 33-year-old Brooklyn product went from Mexico to Taiwan, then back to Mexico, then to the Dominican Republic …
Gordon Wittenmyer / Chicago Sun Times:
Piniella hints Hill's on thin ice — Skipper implies rotation shuffle would be option — PITTSBURGH — Cubs starter Rich Hill's three poor innings and reliever Jon Lieber's 4 1/3 scoreless innings Thursday against the Pittsburgh Pirates might be raising ideas about how to fix what's wrong with the pitching staff.
NY Daily News:
Panic is too much, too soon for Mets — Events surrounding these early days of the Mets' 2008 season suggest cobwebs from the 2007 collapse have not cleared. The memory lingers on. It will continue to do so. — It's turning into a strange psychosis bordering on paranoia.
Associated Press:
D-backs' Davis has surgery — PHOENIX—Left-hander Doug Davis had surgery for thyroid cancer Thursday, two days after pitching the Arizona Diamondbacks to a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. — Davis had insisted on making his two scheduled starts before the operation to remove his thyroid gland.
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Bottom9 Baseball
Don Ehrke / Dugout Central:
Crime Dog: Baseball's Lost Man — I remember an announcer once explaining why Fred McGriff wasn't an elite player. He claimed McGriff was never dominant, citing that he had never won a home run title as evidence. — Of course, the announcer was wrong. Fred McGriff won two home run titles (1989, 1992).
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Baseball Musings
Jayson Stark / ESPN:
So many key players on the shelf … As far as we can tell, no team's superstar has gotten hurt in the last 30 seconds. But never fear. That'll probably change by the time you hit the pillow tonight. — The heck with Grady Sizemore's iron-man streak. The 30 people in baseball …
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MLB Rumors
Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Pettitte, revamped lineup power Yanks — New No. 2 hitter Cabrera leads offensive charge in Kansas City — KANSAS CITY — It wasn't necessarily going to make or break the Yankees' season, but with the hype and drama of their first Fenway Park visit looming straight ahead, it sure beat the alternative.
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Ken Mandel / MLB.com:
Phils sign Kline to Minor League deal — Veteran lefty reliever to report to Triple-A Lehigh Valley — NEW YORK — Lefty reliever Steve Kline signed a Minor League contract with the Phillies on Thursday and will report to Triple-A Lehigh Valley in one week.
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