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Twins pick up OF Cuddyers 2011 option (AP)

post from MLB News Blog on 07 November 2009 07:22:13 AM. © MLB News Blog

The Minnesota Twins have picked up outfielder Michael Cuddyer's $10.5 million option for 2011. Cuddyer hit a career-high 32 home runs to lead the team. He also had 94 RBIs and was sixth in the American League with 73 extra-base hits. When slugger Justin Morneau went out with a back injury in September, Cuddyer moved [...]

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Twins keep Cuddyer for 2011 at $10.5M (AP)

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Happy BirthdayNovember 7

post from The WGOM on 07 November 2009 07:10:48 AM. © The WGOM

Chris Von der Ahe (1851)Ed "The Only" Nolan (1857)Bill Brubaker (1910)Dick Stuart (1932)Jake Gibbs (1938)Jim Kaat (1938)Joe Niekro (1944)Buck Martinez (1948)Willie Norwood (1950)Orlando Mercado (1961)Russ Springer (1968)Todd Ritchie (1971)Glendon Rusch (1974)

Pitcher Jim Kaat spent roughly half of his incredibly long career in the Washington/Minnesota organization. Born in Zeeland, Michigan, he attended Hope College in Holland, [...]

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Solar Sox Summary

post from The WGOM on 07 November 2009 07:01:50 AM. © The WGOM

Mesa scored four in the second and never looked back as the Solar Sox cruised to an 11-1 victory over Surprise Friday.

Bryan Petersen (Florida) was 3-for-6 for the game. Matt Dominguez (Florida) was 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles and drove in four runs. Jose Iglesias (Boston) hit a three-run homer and drove in five. [...]

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Can Managers Influence Pythagorean Over/Under
Achievement

post from Capitol Avenue Club on 07 November 2009 07:00:36 AM. © Capitol Avenue Club

With the end of Bobby’s career looming and the discussion about possible replacements already taking place, I’ve been thinking about managers a lot, lately. What makes a good manager? I don’t know. People generally cite two things when debating whether or not a manager is a good one. 1) The opinions of players, ‘experts’, and [...]

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Did You Know

post from 30-Year Old Cardboard on 07 November 2009 07:00:03 AM. © 30-Year Old Cardboard

Barry Bonds’ on-base percentage of .609 in 2004 is the highest of all-time; second highest is his .582 in 2002.**factoid courtesy of ‘Armchair Reader – Grand Slam Baseball’My take – I wonder if we’ll ever take the time to appreciate just how awesome Barry Bonds really was…

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Yankees = Team Of The Decade

post from Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog on 07 November 2009 07:00:00 AM. © Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog

There's been some discussion lately about who is the team of the decade. Some people are saying it's the Red Sox, others are saying it's the Yankees. Yesterday, David Wells tackled the question and Sam Borden did the same this morning, and like most rational human beings they both concluded that the Yanks take the crown.

I don't feel any different, and with #27 it's not even close. Sure, the Red Sox also won two rings this decade, but after that you can clearly see it's no comparison.

Playoff Appearances:

Yankees - 9
Red Sox - 6

Division titles:

Yankees - 8
Red Sox - 1

League Championships:

Yankees - 4
Red Sox - 2

Record:

Yankees - 965-653 (.596 W%)
Red Sox - 920-699 (.568 W%)

Sorry Boston, it's not even close.

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Tigres Tales

Justin Huber hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the twelfth, his second home run of the game, as Aragua defeated La Guaira 9-6 Friday.

For the game, Huber was 2-for-4 with a walk, driving in five runs. Dustin Martin was 1-for-4 with a walk and a run. Wilson Ramos, who was removed from Thursday's [...]

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Offseason Options

What Could the M's do?[...]

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World Series parade: My homeless adventure of New
York City

post from lenNY's Yankees - A Bronx Bombers Blog on 07 November 2009 05:51:00 AM. © lenNY's Yankees - A Bronx Bombers Blog

You may have been wondering why I did not post at all two days after the Yankees won the World Series. Some of you learned I was at the World Series parade in N.Y.C. through twitter, but others were left in the dark.

Anyway, my two buddies and I arrived at Grand Central at 1:30 in the morning. Rather than staying at my sister?s lovely apartment less than a mile away from City Hall, we pulled an all-nighter. Here?s how it went down.

Getting to my sister?s apartment
After we made our spur-of-the-moment decision to take a train down to New York, I texted and called my sister to make arrangements. However, she never responded and never picked up. I figured she was in a meeting.

By the time we got to her apartment, I had texted her three times and called her eight times. We buzzed in several times in attempt to wake her up, but still, no response. So we began our homeless adventure.

Staying warm
Our first order of business was finding warmth. We had no other place to stay because my other sister and parents were too far away and asleep. So we went into the closest 24/7 convenience store we could find. It was a diamond in the rough. A fully-heated store with a bathroom. We nested there for about a half hour, but later regretted that decision to leave so fast.

We then walked close to a mile to reach City Hall, the culminating site of the parade. It was nice to see a few other die-hard Yankees fans loafing around in the middle of the night. We chatted with a group that stood sat right against the gates of City Hall with the best angle at the podium. We didn?t stay with them because we expected them to be kicked across the street by the police. But they did point us in the direction of a Dunkin Donuts.

Dunkin Donuts

We stayed in DD until around four, drinking hot cocoa, eating stale donuts and playing baseball trivia. ?Name the eight states with at least two baseball teams.? (Thanks, Eddie.) We left when we realized it was freezing inside compared to the 24/7 convenience store. We needed a new nest, so we went exploring.

The banks
One of my friends saw a Wachovia, and it was his bank so we went inside the small ATM room to get money. We stayed their for an hour or so reading a free newspaper from DD. At 4:55 in the morning, I thought, ?Won?t Modell?s open soon?? I asked my other friend with an iPhone to look it up, and I was right. So we bolted to Modell?s to pick up some Yankees gear. I bought a World Series champions hat and a navy blue thermal ?Property of Yankees Baseball.?

We left and detoured past Ground Zero for my friend who had never seen it, and then proceeded to find more shelter and warmth, my other friend?s bank, Bank of America. At around 5:30, we found our standing room, on the corner of Murray St. and Broadway, right across from City Hall. We stood in the same spot for over seven hours, not including my brief trip to Starbucks for a small breakfast.

Post-parade
After the parade, I lost one of my friend?s in the mass of people, and it was nearly impossible to communicate due to everyone?s use of cell phones. Finally, my lost friend?s call got through to me, and soon found him a couple blocks away from where we were.

Instead of meeting up with the rest of my family for a small lunch, we bolted out of the city, finding a subway in Chinatown and then catching a 1:34 train, barely, back to New Haven. We waited a half hour for the shuttle home to Quinnipiac, and then waited 15 minutes for the driver to make an unnecessary cell phone call. The three of us were freezing and tired, and happy to be home when we arrived at school.

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The adventure with photos post is on the way.