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BABY BOSS BASHES BUMBLING BOMBERS — HANK TO YANKS: IT'S TIME TO EARN YOUR MONEY — HANK Steinbrenner had a mes sage yesterday for his Yankees: Gentlemen, it's time to get your act together. — “We've got to forget about all the injuries and start playing our butts off,” Steinbrenner told The Post.
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ESPN:
Hank speaks, wants more effort out of Yankees — With the New York Yankees falling two games under .500, team senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner is weighing in. — And he wants to see more effort out of baseball's best-paid team, or changes could be on the horizon.
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Justin Terranova / New York Post:
ON DECK: NATIONALS AT METS — It may be a downgrade for Claudio Vargas to go from pitching against Triple-A competition to “softball girls,” but he will deal with it. Vargas makes his Mets' debut tonight against the Nationals (7:10, SNY, WFAN) two days after Nelson Figueroa's struggles …
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Marty Noble / MLB.com:Order is restored — Church delivers runs, Maine the pitching in Mets' win over Nats
Howie Rumberg / Associated Press:Church leads Mets past former team
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Associated Press:
Broken fingernail lands BoSox's Buchholz on DL — BALTIMORE — Clay Buchholz was put on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday by the Boston Red Sox because of a broken nail on his right middle finger. — The Red Sox filled his roster spot by recalling outfielder Jonathan Van Every from Triple-A Pawtucket.
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Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
A few things.... BALTIMORE - According to acting manager Brad Mills, Clay Buchhholz' stint on the DL is due to a concern that 1) Buchholz' tender middle finger as a result of a torn fingernail, needs to heal; and 2) the possibility he could alter his delivery and injure a shoulder or an elbow if he pitched with it.
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Adam Rubin / Surfing the Mets:
Lo Duca calls WFAN — Brian Schneider is no Paul Lo Duca on his weekly spots on WFAN - not that the newest Mets catcher wants to match Lo Duca's penchant for being a lightning rod. — We were reminded of how things used to be when Lo Duca, on the DL with the Nationals with a broken hand …
Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com:
Crystal ball: Projecting the first 10 picks — Top of draft difficult to put together with no clear-cut No. 1 — The conversation usually goes something like this: — Me: I'm working on my first projection of the first 10 picks. — Scout X: (Laughter). Good luck with that.
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USA Today:
Some stats still anomalies one-quarter into season — By Ron Shandler, Special for USA TODAY — Another week gone and Chipper Jones is still batting around .400. Cliff Lee's ERA is still less than 1.00. Ryan Howard and Robinson Cano are still batting less than .200
Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Shea Apple may move over to Citi Field — If home run icon is transferred, it'll be placed left of center — NEW YORK — Citi Field may have a something-less-than-new component. — The Mets' new home next season may have a piece of their current home — the Apple.
Leitch / Deadspin:
Simmons: “Certain Promises Were Not Kept” — We're not the only ones who noticed that Bill Simmons hasn't written a column in two weeks — until today, anyway — and hasn't been featured much on the home page of ESPN.com. We figured it was nothing; the man has taken extended breaks before.
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Baker drives in two runs in rare start at first base — Jeff Baker, the forgotten man with Omar Quintanilla and Jonathan Herrera playing well at second base, took advantage of a rare start at first. He knocked in two runs in his first two at-bats with a sacrifice fly and an infield single.
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The Starting Five:
Boss's Boycott: The Bonds Vanishes By Dave Zirin — How many home runs would Barry Bonds hit if there weren't so much of these? — DZ stops by TSF yet again to drop some real rap on Bonds being grounded — The Commissar Vanishes is a coffee table book for only the dourest of coffee tables.
Richard Durrett / Dallas Morning News:
Wins of change: Texas Rangers beat Seattle, 5-2 — rdurrett@dallasnews.com — ARLINGTON - The first three weeks of the season seem like a long time ago now, don't they? — That Rangers team sure doesn't resemble the one that has won six consecutive series after beating Seattle, 5-2, in a light drizzle Tuesday night.
