Ho-hum results at Wrigley
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The Cubs&#39; glass had to be half empty because these were two games they should have swept. The Marlins&#39; wound up half full because these were two games they had every excuse to surrender.
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Competition makes for a dreary outlook for the company.
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SEATTLE - No. 258 for Ichiro Suzuki was like so many others, a little ground ball up the middle...
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Bobby Cox and Buck Showalter were given little chance of success after payroll purges pushed out key players. Proving the predictions wrong, their teams won, anyway, and so did the managers.
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Melvin just completed his second season at the helm of the Mariners. Seattle finished last in the AL West this year with a 63-99 record after posting a 93-69 mark in 2003.
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Warm winds blow across Wrigley Field and the ivy that covers the brick walls is a lush green. Summer baseball has finally arrived on the North Side, and the fans are turning out in big numbers.
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A victory over Baltimore, a loss by the Red Sox, and a defeat for Detroit. It's almost as though the New York Yankees won three times last night.
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Bob Melvin is out as manager of the Seattle Mariners. If there&#39;s a bright side, he&#39;s sure getting a glowing performance review from the guy who let him go.
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CHICAGO The Chicago Cubs have forked over more than 67-hundred dollars in penalties for renovating Wrigley Field without the necessary city permits.
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After spending a rotten weekend in the Big Apple, one that left them with frayed nerves and short tempers, the Cubs were in dire need of a laugher upon their return to Wrigley Field.
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Before Derrek Lee even had a chance to look at the big, old-fashioned scoreboard at Wrigley Field, a helpful Cubs fan let him know what he needed to do.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 4  â Five months after the Tribune Company announced plans to sell the Chicago Cubs, the first-place club is making more noise on the field than its corporate owners are in a slow-moving sale process.
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These aren&#39;t meaningful games the Mets are playing. But at least yesterday&#39;s 11-9 loss in 13 innings to the Phillies was entertaining.
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BOSTONâThese Yankees are an arrogant bunch. Six consecutive first-place finishes tend to do that. But very rarely do you see a team in the heat of a pennant race facing the team chasing them send out a starting pitcher just to see him get work.
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Whaddya think? Let him close tonight? He threw only 99 pitches and he was still pumping high-octane gas at the end. Curt Schilling might be good for a batter or two in a pinch tonight.
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I played two seasons of Little League in Queens under a cigar-chomping manager named Morty Silver. My sole distinction was winning a trophy for Best Sport, which Morty gave me for crying the least after striking out. The only other thing I remember were the scoreboards at the better fields: They were all bulbs in the days before monster television ...
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The MR2 is built. Dear god, I am sore and tired. &nbsp;It started Friday night and was expected to be a job done by Saturday afternoon. Sunday afternoon rolls around and we're still smashing things... There's odds and ends to clean up (I'm absolutely sure it needs an alignment and set of plugs) but otherwise I am done working on cars for quite awhile.