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Jean-Jacques Taylor / ESPN:
Mike Napoli turns pressure into success — Rangers' best postseason performer once more uses taste for spotlight in key spots … ARLINGTON, Texas — No words remain to put Mike Napoli's postseason performance into proper perspective. — “Phenomenal” doesn't really do it justice.
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Kevin Baxter / Los Angeles Times:
Call to arms falls on deaf ears — ARLINGTON, Texas - Mike Napoli's game-winning double came off left-hander Marc Rzepczynski. But that wasn't the matchup St. Louis wanted. — Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said he wanted hard-throwing right-hander Jason Motte to pitch …
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Gregg Doyel / CBSSports.com:
In Moneyball world, Young's legacy has become fuzzy — ARLINGTON, Texas — The older baseball guys love Michael Young. The mainstream media, the grizzled vets, the baseball lifers. They love him. To them, he's a great player, a clubhouse leader, a potential Hall of Famer.
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Associated Press:
Wilson Good Enough in Possible Walk-Off for Texas — ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — When C.J. Wilson walked off the mound during the sixth inning in what could have been his last start for the Texas Rangers, they were down by a run. — This time, it was good enough for the Rangers.
David Schoenfield / ESPN:
Rangers win wacky and weird Game 5 — ARLINGTON, Texas — There were about 51,000 Rangers fans in attendance for Game 5 of the World Series. — Considering each lost 10 pounds in nervous sweat during this crazy, inexplicable, tension-filled, dramatic, weird contest that defies all rational analysis …
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Theo Epstein / Boston Globe:
Farewell, Red Sox Nation — I gave everything I had to the team and received even more in return — Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein gestures to fans during the 2004 World Series Championship parade. (File 2004/Bill Greene/Globe Staff) — I GREW up in Brookline just down the road …
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Red Sox to name Cherington GM
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Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
MLB accuses Frank McCourt of ‘looting’ $189 million from Dodgers — As the bankrupcty case moves forward, a slew of court filings on Monday show that beating victim Bryan Stow will be central to the arguments and outcome in court. — For the first time, Major League Baseball put …
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MLB claims McCourt took $190M from Dodgers — Major League Baseball claims that Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt took nearly $190 million from the team in what a court filing termed “looting.” — In filings in a Delaware court, MLB said McCourt took $189.16 from the club …
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Bloomberg:
Selig Bends Rules to Fit as Baseball Attempts to Oust McCourt From Dodgers
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Bill Shaikin / Dodgers Blog:
Dodgers bankruptcy: Creditors ask judge to deny TV rights sale
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Cash Kruth / MLB.com:
Phillies decline options on Lidge, Oswalt — Club could attempt to bring both players back as free agents — PHILADELPHIA — It is no surprise the Phillies declined the 2012 options for right-handers Roy Oswalt and Brad Lidge. — If Oswalt's mutual option had been exercised …
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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Cashman has meeting with Hal Steinbrenner — Yankees GM confident of new deal before Monday's expiration — NEW YORK — Yankees general manager Brian Cashman met with managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner on Monday in New York, and a new contract for the GM is expected to be agreed upon before next Monday.
New York Post:
Baseball needs replay to get calls right — I also think you can limit the delays. In the time it took Texas manager Ron Washington to argue futilely on Saturday night, every viewer knew Kulpa had made a mistake. So install a rule that any manager who leaves the bench receives a huge fine.
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Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
La Russa is to blame for Cardinals' Game 5 loss — ARLINGTON, Texas - He couldn't do it. The Genius couldn't take ownership of the fiasco he oversaw. Of all the places to manage the single worst inning of a career with 50,000 of them, Tony La Russa chose the eighth inning of the fifth game of a dead-even World Series.
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Rob Bradford / WEEI:
YOCUM EXAMINES LACKEY; ‘RESOLUTION’ NEAR — According to multiple industry sources, Red Sox right-hander John Lackey recently visited Dr. Lewis Yocum in California to have his right elbow examined. According to one of the sources, the Red Sox are expecting “a final resolution” …
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MLB.com:
Jose Bautista, Matt Kemp Win the 2011 Hank Aaron Award — Award Recognizes Most Outstanding Offensive Performers in Each League — Major League Baseball announced today that Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays and Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers have been selected as the winners of the 2011 Hank Aaron Award.
Associated Press:
Selig tells Dallas radio station league plans to expand replay … ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Commissioner Bud Selig tells a Dallas radio station baseball plans to expand its use of replay, but he says reviewing every close call would hurt the game. — Umpire Ron Kulpa blew a call …
