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Big Name MLB Players Offered Salary Arbitration

Monday proved to be mostly a day of paperwork and procedure as the deadline for MLB teams to offer their free agents salary arbitration expired at 11:59 p.m. ET. Players that were extended the offer included CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira, Manny Ramirez, Francisco Rodriguez, Brian Fuentes, Ben Sheets, A.J. Burnett, Derek Lowe, Oliver Perez, Raul Ibanez, Jason Varitek and Orlando Hudson. Included among the players that did not make the arbitration roll call were Trevor Hoffman, Bobby Abreu, Andy P

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Multiple Lawsuits Against Obama’s Eligibility to be President

source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80928 Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are ‘garbage’Legal challenges spring up across U.S., demand proof of eligibility for office Posted: November 13, 2008 10:30 pm EasternBy Chelsea Schilling© 2008 WorldNetDaily More than a half-dozen legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding President-elect Barack Obama’s decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he has failed to p

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Multiple Lawsuits Against Obama’s Eligibility to be President

source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80928 Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are ‘garbage’ Legal challenges spring up across U.S., demand proof of eligibility for office Posted: November 13, 2008 10:30 pm EasternBy Chelsea Schilling © 2008 WorldNetDaily More than a half-dozen legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding President-elect Barack Obama’s decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he

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Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are 'garbage'

Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are 'garbage' Friends and Patriots, It seems that the Obama camp considers anyone who questions the COLB of Obama via using a lawsuit GARBAGE! I don't think anyone asking for clarification on this garbage, but that is some more of the change coming to our country. Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are 'garbage' Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are 'garbage' Legal challenges spring up across U.S., demand proof of eligibility for office Posted: Nov

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Complete free agent list

(Click on the Frankie picture on the right to see a slide show of the top 25 free agents in baseball) It’s time to shop. Thursday was the final day for eligible players to file for free agency. Today is the first day for those free agents to start negotiating with multiple teams. Here is the complete list of players on the market: Arizona Diamondbacks (7) Clark, Tony (1B); Cruz, Juan (RP); Dunn, Adam (OF); Eckstein, David (SS); Hudson, Orlando (2B); Johnson, Randy (SP); Lyon, Brandon (RP)

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Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are ‘garbage’

Legal challenges spring up across U.S., demand proof of eligibility for office Posted: November 13, 2008 10:30 pm Eastern By Chelsea Schilling © 2008 WorldNetDaily More than a half-dozen legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding President-elect Barack Obama’s decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he has failed to prove his U.S. citizenship status. An Obama campaign spokeswoman told WND the complaints are unfou

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BDD Free Agent Rankings

The free agent signing period opens today and Bill Baer, Joe Hamrahi, Michael Street, Matt Sisson and I have put our heads together to rank the current field of free agents by position and put them together in a list below: BASEBALL DIGEST DAILY’S FREE AGENT RANKINGS (BY POSITION) Note: Some players added to the list were players who were waived and refused assignment or released and available on the open market but not found on most free agent trackers. Type A = Club receives two draft pi

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MLB free agents, 2008

The 149 players who have filed for free agency. Eligible players may file through Nov. 13 (c-pending decision on club option for 2009): AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (3) Alex Cintron, ss Kevin Millar, 1b Jay Payton, o BOSTON (8) Paul Byrd, rhp Sean Casey, 1b Bartolo Colon, rhp Alex Cora, ss Mark Kotsay, of David Ross, c Curt Schilling, rhp Jason Varitek, c CHICAGO (5) Orlando Cabrera, ss Joe Crede, 3b Toby Hall, c Horacio Ramirez, lhp Juan Uribe, 3b CLEVELAND (4) Brendan Donnelly, rhp S

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Free Agents

NEW YORK (AP) - The 170 players who have filed for free agency. Eligible players may file through Nov. 13 (c-pending decision on club option for 2009): AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (4) - Juan Castro, ss; Alex Cintron, ss; Kevin Millar, 1b; Jay Payton, of. BOSTON (9) - Paul Byrd, rhp; Sean Casey, 1b; Bartolo Colon, rhp; Alex Cora, ss; Mark Kotsay, of; David Ross, c; Curt Schilling, rhp; Mike Timlin, rhp; Jason Varitek, c. CHICAGO (6) - Orlando Cabrera, ss; Joe Crede, 3b; Ken Griffey Jr., of; T

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MLB Free-Agent Class of 2008-09

USA - The Major League free-agent class of 2008-09 includes a Megastar slugging outfielder (Manny Ramirez), one of the top - if not the best - starting pitchers (CC Sabathia) in the game today, and a slew of difference-makers (Mark Teixeira, A.J. Burnett, Francisco Rodriguez, etc.) that will make the upcoming winter meetings a memorable one. BaseballdeWorld presents the 183 players who have filed for free agency. Catchers Henry Blanco Toby Hall Paul Bako Javier Valentin Gary Bennett Adam

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Baseball Digest Daily’s Hot Stove Report #1

The first in a series of offseason reports on Major League Baseball’s Hot Stove action.  Every Monday, the BDD writers weigh in on the moves that will shape the Major League rosters of ‘09: BASEBALL DIGEST DAILY OFFSEASON POWER RANKINGS Throughout the offseason, BDD will keep a running tally of all of the offseason moves and recap them by ranking the 30 Major League teams with recaps of the previous week’s moves for each team and select comments from the BDD team (click on picture to right to

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Friday’s free-agent shopping list

Forty-two more players filed for free agency on Friday for a two-day total of 107. The latest batch included left-hander Darren Oliver and outfielder Juan Rivera from the Angels and Nomar Garciaparra from the Dodgers. Rivera could be quite a bargain for an outfielder-starved team like the Giants or Padres (though he might be better suited to an A.L. team where he can DH at least part of the time) and deserves a chance to play more often than he has with the Angels the past couple years. Missi

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Free-agent filings today

Free-agent filings today October 31 Here are the free agents who filed today: Arizona: Clark, Tony (1B) Atlanta: Julio, Jorge (RP); Smoltz, John (SP) Baltimore: Cintron, Alex (SS) Boston: Casey, Sean (1B); Colon, Bartolo (SP); Schilling, Curt (SP) Chicago Cubs: Blanco, Henry (Ca); Lieber, Jon (RP);Wood, Kerry (RP) Chicago White Sox: Hall, Toby (Ca); Ramirez, Horacio (RP) Cincinnati: Hairston Jr, Jerry (SS); Mercker, Kent (RP);Valentin, Javier (Ca) Cleveland: Elarton, Scott (SP

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Book Signing

  As you may know, Drew Magary, co-founder of Kissing Suzy Kolber and good friend to this site, released his debut book, entitled Men With Balls, earlier this week. Unsurprisingly, it’s ridiculously, and at times painfully, funny. The only remaining question is, will success go to Drew’s head? If the results of a recent book signing are any indication, the answer is an unequivocal “what do you mean ‘will‘?” ***   (A line-up has formed inside Loose Leaf, a bookstore in Willowdale Shopping Ma

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This Week in Yankees History (10/26-11/1)

October 26th - November 1st October 26th 1877 - Former Yankees P Eustance “Doc” Newton (1905-09) was born. On October 4, 1904, Doc was drafted by the Highlanders from the Los Angeles (PCL) in the 1904 Rule 5 player draft. Doc will go 20-25 in 78 games for the Yankees. 1918 - Former Yankees INF George “Snuffy” Stirnweiss (1943-50) was born. The Yankees signed George Stirnweiss as a free agent in 1940. He joined the Yankees in 1943 just hitting .219. In 1944, he hit .319. He led the AL in 4 de

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’69 Celtics, double-knot Red Sox and the Audacity of Hubris [Reader Post]

The Obamas are celebrating already. Michelle was ordering that lobster and caviar at the Waldorf. Plans for all the celebrations are, apparently, already moving forward at a feverish pace. Obama’s performance at the Al Smith fundraiser for the Catholic Archdiocesan charities, which was supposed to feature “comedy”, aroused in me a great deal of discomfort; he seems to lack true humor about himself despite the great lines written for him and there was a hard edge to some of his jabs. I think he

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"Jerry 'Needs An Instruction' Manuel" --Chris Berman (1955-2008)

KT covered some Manuel lunacy in the Gallimaufry, and there's more where that came from: While the big offensive trio had respectable statistics or better, they didn't stop the September slide. Manuel said spring training will be a time of teaching, for him to give "clarity" to players on his methods. Execution in the clutch is his emphasis, and the Mets likely will bring in new offensive players, most likely in the corner outfield spots. So Manuel plans on teaching "clarity" (I assume this me

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Cleveland Top 40

Like most everyone, I used to love Casey Kasem’s Weekly Top 40. I loved everything about it. I loved that we were listening to Shaggy from Scooby Doo. I loved that before some songs he would tell these bizarre stories (“And when Gabriele was 3 years old, she got her nickname, Nena, which means little girl in Spanish …”) and say absolutely nothing at all before others (“At No. 23 in our countdown this week, here’s Robert Palmer with ”Addicted to Love“). Most of all — and I realize this has bec

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Friday Tidbits - 10/10/08

The Rays took Game 2 to put the White Sox on the brink of elimination.  J.D. Drew’s 9th Inning HR gave Boston a 2-0 lead over the Angels heading back to Boston.  Jerry Manuel got a two-year deal with the Mets.  Mariano Rivera had shoulder surgery.  Wes Helms signed an extension with Florida.  Milwaukee beat Philly in Game 3 to stay alive.  Bud Selig urged owners not to dramatically raise prises.  The Dodgers swept the Cubs.  The Curse goes on.  The Phillies sent the Brewers packing in Game 4. 

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Jerry Manuel Back Again

Jerry Manuel Back AgainHe'll be back!Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 8:46 PM by: Gregory Gethard Tagged as: MLB, Jerry Manuel, New York Mets Over the weekend, the Mets extended Jerry Manuel's contract for another two years. This news kills my dream of once again seeing Bobby Valentine in disguise after an ejection. But what do Mets bloggers feel about Jerry's return? The first comment on METSBLOG Fire Jerry!!!! (Though I'd get an early start.) Another comment on METSBLOG I think Jerry de

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