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July 2008 Archives
6:09 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon  Email
Brandon Moss was standing in the outfield in McCoy Stadium this afternoon, nearly an hour after the Major League trading deadline, when he found out he had been dealt to the Pirates. Moss had been penciled in to hit......
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4:54 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
NEW YORK (AP) - In a swap of minor leaguers, the New York Yankees traded shortstop Alberto Gonzalez to the Washington Nationals for pitcher Jhonny Nunez on Thursday. A slick fielder, Gonzalez briefly filled in for the Yankees this season......
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4:51 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
According to multiple sources, including SI.com and The Boston Globe, Manny Ramirez has been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a three-way deal that will send the Pittsburgh Pirates' Jason Bay to Boston. We'll have more on this story......
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4:19 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The rumor mill churns, and now Ken Rosenthal reports that "unless a miracle happens," the Tampa Bay Rays actually failed in their attempts to land Jason Bay. Separately, a Tampa official denied recent MLB.com reports that a deal had been......
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3:55 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The votes are in, and projo.com readers narrowly selected the Boston Celtics' NBA championship as the top local sports story from the first half of 2008. The Celtics' run beat out the story of Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel by eight......
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3:42 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
MIAMI (AP) - Alex Rodriguez agrees with his wife that their marriage is over, but he says her allegations of extramarital affairs aren't relevant to the divorce. The New York Yankees' All-Star third baseman said Thursday in court papers......
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3:40 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
With Jason Bay apparently gone, SI.com and other media outlets report that the Red Sox are now in talks with the Los Angeles Dodgers about trading Manny Ramirez. Jon Heyman says the Red Sox are believed to be most interested......
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2:34 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
There are lots of reports out there that the Manny Ramirez-to-Florida trade will not happen. And that could be a good thing for one of the Red Sox' key division rivals, because Peter Gammons is reporting on ESPN that the......
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2:21 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Posted earlier today on the PatsBlog by Kevin McNamara: The Patriots have concluded their morning workout, Bill Belichick has spoken and the Gillette Stadium workers are setting up for a visit from Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band. A......
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2:17 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Patriots fans hoping to see the Patriots practice Friday had best change their plans. The players will be off Friday. The Pats will practice once both Saturday and Sunday from 2:30 to 4:40. But Saturday's practice will be closed to......
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1:58 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
RACINE, Wis. (AP) -- He'll talk about the Iraq war, gas prices and terrorism. But don't look to Republican presidential candidate John McCain to weigh in on the Brett Favre saga. The first question at McCain's town hall meeting Thursday......
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1:49 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Jayson Stark on ESPN's trade deadline special just said that he is hearing "from all sides" that the Manny Ramirez is dead: "The Pirates are blaming the Marlins. The Marlins are blaming the Pirates. And the Red Sox aren't too......
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1:22 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
SI.com's Jon Heyman reports that Manny Ramirez has given his OK to a trade that would send him to the Marlins, but that a deal has not yet been reached. But the slugger told ESPNdeportes.com this morning that no one......
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12:24 PM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Click the play button below to hear Sean's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: Manny Ramirez, Jason Bay and Josh Beckett. Here's what Sean had to say about what would happen if the Sox kept Manny: "I would say that......
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11:45 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
BOSTON (AP) -- Manny Ramirez may have played his final game with the Boston Red Sox -- or he could lead the team he says doesn't deserve him to another World Series championship. Negotiations to send the Red Sox's disgruntled......
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11:35 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Our own Mike Foran asked the pressing question of the day to some folks on the street near our building in downtown Providence. Click here to see what people had to say.......
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11:16 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Newsday's Greg Logan reports today that Providence Bruins head coach Scott Gordon met yesterday with New York Islanders general manager Garth Snow about the Isles' vacant head coaching job, and that the interview was said to have gone "extremely well."......
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11:13 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Tired of hearing and reading about Manny Ramirez? You could always go fishing. Tom Meade has some things you might want to know about in his weekly fishing report. Click here to read it.......
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10:18 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
There are reports out there this hour that indicate Manny Ramirez should not be packing his bags just yet for Southern Florida. The Boston Herald's Michael Silverman quotes a source saying the chances of a deal are less than 50-50,......
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10:14 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Manny Ramirez sounds off again, maybe for the last time; the Red Sox lose to the Angels for the last time in this regular season (because they don't play them again, thank goodness); Rodney Harrison brings his intensity back to......
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8:12 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Ken Davidoff Newsday In one of his first moves as a bona fide, independent general manager, Brian Cashman signed Kyle Farnsworth to a three-year, $17-million deal, on December 2, 2005. Farnsworth's first two years in the Bronx were brutal,......
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8:09 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Larry Stone The Seattle Times SEATTLE - It's too bad there's not a parallel universe where we can find out how all those unconsummated Mariners trade-deadline deals during the years would have played out. You know, if Jamie Moyer......
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8:07 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
BOSTON (AP) - Red Sox players took a wait-and-see approach Wednesday night to reports that Manny Ramirez could get traded before Thursday's deadline. "Every year this is like this," catcher Jason Varitek said after Boston's 9-2 loss to the Los......
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8:04 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Bill Plunkett The Orange County Register BOSTON - Sweep Caroline - second verse. The Angels continued to confirm their new status as the team to beat in the American League at the expense of the team they used to......
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8:00 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
MIAMI (AP) - Manny Ramirez is still with the Boston Red Sox - for now. Hours after Marlins president David Samson said anything is possible, club owner Jeffrey Loria denied a deal was in place that would send Ramirez to......
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9:07 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Jimmie Johnson, coming off his victory in last Sunday's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, has added a pair of races to his 2008 schedule. In addition to his duties behind the wheel of the No. 48 Hendrick......
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8:59 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
Manny Ramirez spoke with ESPNdeportes.com's Enrique Rojas before Wednesday night's game with the Angels and had some interested comments about the Red Sox. Here is what he had to say. "The Red Sox don't deserve a player like me," Ramirez......
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8:41 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
The New York Yankees traded reliever LaTroy Hawkins to the Houston Astros on Wednesday for minor league infielder Matt Cusick. Hawkins was 1-1 with a 5.71 ERA in 33 appearances this season for the Yankees, who designated him for assignment......
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7:58 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
ESPN's Jayson Stark just posted an item on the Website's trade blog listing the possible pieces of a Manny Ramirez to Florida trade.......
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7:49 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
MIAMI -- A deal that would send Manny Ramirez to Florida may be a long shot, but Marlins president David Samson didn't rule it out Wednesday, less than 24 hours before the trade deadline. On his weekly radio show, Samson......
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5:52 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steven Krasner Email
Jacoby Ellsbury has been struggling, dropped from the leadoff spot to ninth in the batting order. He is batting a mere .223 (33 for 148) over his last 35 games, including a 4-for-15 log on the homestand. So, with......
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5:48 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steven Krasner Email
Boston manager Terry Francona got mixed up on Tuesday when he was outlining the plans for injured pitcher Bartolo Colon. The corrected version of the right-hander's timetable is that Colon threw a side session this afternoon and will throw another......
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5:44 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steven Krasner Email
By STEVEN KRASNER Journal Sports Writer BOSTON -- Today's trading deadline can cause various types of emotions in a team's clubhouse, from anxiety as players wonder if they'll be staying or going or the excited anticipation of a trade that......
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5:23 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
In the Journal's Patriots training camp schedule that has been published over the last couple of days, it says that the practice times for tomorrow are 8:45 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. However, the second session tomorrow will begin at 2:30......
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5:22 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
The owner of a pizza shop in Denver, who despises the Yankees and Red Sox, is offering free pizza to the world if the Tampa Bay Rays win the World Series. Click here to read the full story.......
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5:11 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
Classic Sports & Entertainment officially announced yesterday that Providence boxer Peter Manfredo Jr. (30-5, 15 KOs), star of The Contender I series, will take on Danny McCrary (24-7-2, 13 KOs) for the vacant North American Boxing Federation super middleweight title......
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5:09 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
NEW YORK -- The Detroit Tigers traded veteran catcher Ivan Rodriguez to the New York Yankees for hard-throwing reliever Kyle Farnsworth on Wednesday. Rodriguez, a 14-time All-Star in the option year of a $50 million deal he signed with the......
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3:30 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Pawtucket Red Sox got out to a 2-0 lead, then things got ugly today as the Rochester Red Wings won, 8-3, at McCoy Stadium. David Pauley took the loss to fall to 12-4. Click here to see the box......
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2:50 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Shalise Manza Young Journal Sports Writer After Bill Belichick left the podium, Andre Tippett stepped in front of the microphone this morning to talk about his emotional morning with the Patriots players and staff and his emotions since learning......
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2:46 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Ken Rosenthal, writing on FoxSports.com, says that while it is unlikely, there are some who believe the Red Sox really want to dump Manny Ramirez, and that he could end up playing for the small-market but still-competitive Marlins. Rosenthal is......
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1:27 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The St. Petersburg Times reports that Rhode Island's own Rocco Baldelli, sidelined since spring training with a rare muscle fatigue disorder, could return to the Tampa Bay Rays very soon -- possibly this weekend. Baldelli's been playing well on a......
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