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New York Post:
Selfish Yankees are pretenders, not contenders — There has been a sense of selfishness around the Yankees for quite some, and it's not just Jorge Posada's frustration about his .165 average and the fact that manager Joe Girardi dropped him to ninth in the lineup last night.
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Pinstripe Alley and WasWatching.com
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Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
Jorge Posada asks out of Yankees lineup vs. Boston Red Sox after DH was initially listed 9th — Jorge Posada sat in the dugout next to bench coach Tony Peña during the first inning Saturday night, a blue sweatshirt over his jersey and a glum look on his face.
Discussion:
NY Post, New York Post, joy of sox, Can't Stop The Bleeding and Faith and Fear in Flushing
Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:
Yankees: Start to finished — + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email — NEW YORK — Usually it takes a couple of months to figure out what needs to be fixed on a baseball team. — There's no need for the New York Yankees to wait that long this season.
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DRaysBay and Associated Press
MLB.com:
Posada asks out of lineup to ‘clear my head’
Discussion:
It's About The Money, New York Post, MLB Daily Dish, MLB Rumors and BBTF's Baseball Primer …
Steven Miller / MLB.com:
No setbacks, but Desmond remains out — WASHINGTON — Ian Desmond remained out of the Nationals' lineup for the second consecutive game on Sunday, when he and manager Jim Riggleman originally said he would likely return. — But Desmond said he did not have any setbacks from the quad injury …
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Steven Miller / MLB.com:
Nix on a roll at plate — WASHINGTON — Manager Jim Riggleman wrote Laynce Nix's name into the Nationals' starting lineup for the 18th time this season, and 11th consecutive game Sunday against Florida. — Nix, who is 10-for-20 with two homers and six RBIs in the past five games …
Steven Miller / MLB.com:
Struggling with bat, Ramos gets breather — WASHINGTON — After a torrid start to the season at the plate, Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos cooled considerably, and gave way to Ivan Rodriguez behind the plate for Sunday's matchup with the Marlins. — Ramos hit .373 through the first 16 games, but is just 4-for-35 in his past 10 games.
Associated Press:
Hudson outpitches Halladay, Braves nip Phillies — ATLANTA (AP) — Dan Uggla hit a tiebreaking home run off Roy Halladay in the eighth inning to cap a productive afternoon, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 on Sunday to take two wins in the three-game series.
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baseballmusings.com, USA Today, Talking Chop, The Good Phight and Associated Press
Associated Press:
Turner Has 5 RBIs, Mets Beat Astros 7-4 — HOUSTON (AP) — Justin Turner homered and drove in a career-high five runs, and Jason Pridie hit a go-ahead single and stole home to help the New York Mets beat the Houston Astros 7-4 Sunday. — He hit a tying, two-run double in the Mets' four-run fifth inning …
Associated Press:
Marquis Helps Own Cause as Nats Beat Marlins — WASHINGTON (AP) — Jason Marquis pitched into the seventh inning to win his fifth game, drove in two runs and led the Washington Nationals over the Florida Marlins 8-4 on Sunday. — Ivan Rodriguez also had three RBIs for the Nationals …
Fox Sports:
Bonilla begins earning $30M from Mets — NewsCore — NEW YORK — The beleaguered New York Mets — hammered by Bernie Madoff's fraud, free-agent flops and ballpark tumbleweeds — will soon start forking over $1.2 million annually for 25 years to the paunchy 48-year-old ex-slugger Bobby Bonilla …
Discussion:
New York Post
Jayson Stark / MLB:
Baseball's unbreakable record — Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak turns 70 years old — It started innocently enough. Hitting streaks always do. — You think the great Joe DiMaggio ever imagined that seven decades later, we'd still be talking about a first-inning single …
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ESPN and Twinkie Town
