On Baseball: Whatâs the Deal? Did G.M.âs Take the Winter Off?
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Did general managers go on vacation for three months? Thirty-five trades have been made since the end of the season compared with 56 in the corresponding period last off-season.
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Itâs hard to understand why the Yankees let Roger Clemens pitch on Monday. They knew his elbow was bothering him. They had Mike Mussina rested and ready to take the start. They have off days coming up on Thursday and Monday. But instead of ordering Clemens to get an M.R.I. and rest the elbow, the Yankees [...].
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Baseball fans anticipate the winter meetings for the trades they expect or hope to happen. But few meetings in recent years have lived up to expectations.
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By Amy Amatangel  Some of network television's biggest hits took a long winter's nap this season and disappeared from the schedule -- for a while.  There was a time when being placed on "hiatus" meant that a TV show was awaiting inevitable cancellation.
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The last two Saturdays of July changed the 2004 Boston baseball season. Before the final two weekends of the seventh month, the Red Sox were alarmingly average. The Olde Towne Team, swollen with the second-highest payroll ($130 million) in the majors, was finishing a third consecutive month of .500 baseball and a season of great expectations looked like it might ...
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Billy Beane won&#39;t reveal much about his plans going into baseball&#39;s winter meetings, but the A&#39;s general manager suggested Tuesday, as he has before this offseason, that second base is an area of concern.
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Minneapolis -- They were down by four runs. They were five outs from defeat. Hmmm. You think the Yankees were actually worried about losing?
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After a pennant race and postseason dotted with reversed rulings, baseball will get another chance to see who else wants to give replay a look. The topic is on the agenda for Thursday at the GM meetings. And there seems to be growing support among teams to join the NFL, NBA and NHL in using instant replay on calls such as fair or foul and homer or not, but definitely not balls and strikes.
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The Red Sox may have crossed into the garbage time portion of their season, but there are still evaluations to be made that will affect decisions made in the offseason. And while owner John W. Henry responded to questions about the team's direction by saying, ``Prior to the free agent season, it wouldn't make sense for us to publicly disclose ...
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ESPN announced yesterday the signing of Rick Reilly, whose contract with Sports Illustrated expires at the end of November. He will write the back-page column in ESPN the Magazine and deliver essays on âSportsCenterâ during its golf coverage.Reilly said he succumbed to ESPN after rejecting offers 5 and 10 years ago. âThe money was ridiculous,â he said in a news media conference call. âThis is an itch Iâve always wanted to scratch, to take my voice to a different place.â Despite being on TV regularly with one-minute commentaries, he said ESPN wanted him for his column. âBelieve me, with this nose, I know whatâs best for me,â he said.
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The good part about postseason baseball on TV: The games mean everything. But viewing comes at a price because the networks have taken over, and they call the shots. That means, far from adding to the viewing pleasure, so far, the postseason has been taking away.
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FOR this, the Boston Red Sox spent all that time, energy and money last winter? They built the team for this series? This is the best they could do?
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When Omar Minaya was the general manager of the Expos, most of his major moves had to wait until January, when he could sort through baseball&#39;s bargain bins.
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The NHL Board of Governors will meet Jan. 14, when commissioner Gary Bettman could seek permission to call off the 2004-05 season. If a collective bargaining agreement hasn't been reached with the players association by then, the lockout will probably cause the cancellation of the 2004-05 season. Bettman has resisted announcing a drop-dead date to call off the season. Bettman ...
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A year ago, he was the new star in camp. Reporters begged for a moment of his time and he managed to avoid most of them. He was the centerpiece acquisition off a tumultuous offseason, a can't-miss kid with a World Series MVP (won in Yankee Stadium!) on his r&#xE9;sum&#xE9;.
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It's June, and another Royals season already seems a lost cause. You know it has to weigh on Buddy Bell . After almost 40 years in baseball without a playoff appearance as a manager or player, how couldn't it?
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By sports editor Ross Stapleton. Baseball is not called Americaâs favourite past-time for nothing. It transcends professional sport and enjoys a special mythology all of its own with the public - pretty much the way cricket does here in Australia.