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Mychael Urban / MLB.com:
Rickey, Rice ready to join baseball immortals — Idyllic Cooperstown filled with anticipation of inductions — COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Having thoroughly soaked this idyllic, tiny, tree-swathed town with a steady downpour for most of Friday, the skies relented as the sun surfaced Saturday …
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Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Aaron: PED users can be Hall candidates — Legendary home-run hitter suggests asterisk by names — COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Hank Aaron, who was baseball's all-time home run king until Barry Bonds passed him in 2007, thinks that players linked to performance-enhancing drugs shouldn't necessarily be excluded from the Hall of Fame.
Bob Klapisch / NorthJersey.com:
Halladay traffic growing intense — Almost everyone agrees that, sooner or later, Roy Halladay will be on his way to Philadelphia, where he'll become the symbol of the Phillies' enduring dominance of the Mets. The Blue Jays and Phillies are engaged in feverish, last-minute talks that might turn …
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Jayson Stark / MLB:
MLB trade: Blue Jays reject latest offer for Roy Halladay — The Blue Jays have rejected the Phillies' latest offer for Roy Halladay, a source familiar with the two teams' discussions told ESPN.com. — On Saturday — after the Phillies informed Toronto they would not agree to a proposal …
Jayson Stark / MLB:Sources: Philadelphia Phillies won't meet Toronto Blue Jays' demands …
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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Game 98: Athletics at Yankees (updates with Gardner going on disabled list) — YANKEES (59-38) — Pitching: RHP Sergio Mitre (1-0, 4.76). — NOTES: Thanks to Ernie Palladino for calling in the lineup. ... The 1:05 p.m. game is on YES. ... Oakland is starting LHP Dallas Braden (7-8, 3.40). ...
Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Different varieties in Apple — Yankees flourishing, Mets floundering — They represent the same city, but the performances of the Mets and Yankees are as different as Mars and Venus. — While sports talk radio isn't always the best barometer, the airwaves generally are filled with angry, bitter fans.
Geoff Baker / The Seattle Times:
Top Mariners officials think Erik Bedard is hurt again — The good news in the photo above is that I think the Mariners actually won the game you see them playing. The bad news is, it was against their own 4 and 5-year-old kids and doesn't count in the standings. — Oh well.
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Brian Costa / New Jersey Online:
Constant roster changes take a toll on NY Mets' clubhouse chemistry — HOUSTON — They sat in sofa chairs only a couple feet apart, but said nothing to each other. Oliver Perez flipped through People magazine. Elmer Dessens read Sports Illustrated. — They sat like this for more than …
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Kevin Rozell / Zell's Pinstripe Blog:
Yanks might consider trading Joba for Halladay — Here is some interesting news. Jon Heyman reports on twitter that the Yankees might consider giving up Joba Chamberlain for Roy Halladay. I would do it. I would say Hughes is untouchable right now. — Let's see exactly what they want in return before we jump to any conclusions.
Associated Press:
Red-hot Dodgers walk off on Blake's bases-loaded hit — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Casey Blake (FSY) blooped a bases-loaded single with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Florida Marlins 4-3 on Saturday night for their sixth win in seven games. — GAME REPORT: Dodgers 4, Marlins 3
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Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
A's pound Pettitte, Aceves in 7th as streak ends — Hope rippled through the new Stadium Saturday when the Yankees staged a mini-rallies in the eighth and ninth innings, but neither could out-do the damage Andy Pettitte and Alfredo Aceves did in the seventh.
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Polls / Brew Beat:
Possible relief help in Colome? — The Brewers quietly made an intriguing pick-up on Saturday. — The team signed former Nationals reliever Jesus Colome to a Triple-A contract Saturday, but he has not pitched since July 3 so will report to rookie-level Helena to build back to full strength.
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Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Deals for Holliday, DeRosa demonstrate the team's urgency — New Cardinals Matt Holliday, left, and Mark DeRosa (P-D) — Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. is rarely mistaken for a riverboat gambler. But Thursday night, in a move with long-term implications, he officially authorized …
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Tim Brown / Yahoo! Sports:
Price will be steep for Padres' Gonzalez, Bell — Buzz up! — The San Diego Padres were getting a lot of play on first baseman Adrian Gonzalez — and closer Heath Bell — as of Saturday, but club sources were adamant that interested clubs would have to overpay to acquire either.
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David Kaplan / Kap's Corner:
Can it Be? Are the Tigers After Milton Bradley? — Two very solid baseball sources confirmed for me just moments ago that the Detroit Tigers are interested in Cubs RF Milton Bradley. They believe that Bradley would be a much better fit as a DH than as a right fielder and that he would mesh well with Tigers manager Jim Leyland.
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