MLBers Call For Stronger PED Sanctions Mets, SNY Look For Audience Boost Wolff: Sewage Issue Won't Push S.J. Talks O.co Coliseum Suffers Sewage Backups Mets' Alderson Asks Fans For Patience Mets Decide Against Dating Website Pitch Crane Discusses Astros' TV Deal, Payroll MLB Eyes Return Trip To Australia After '14 Billy Butler's BBQ Sauce Selling Fast Red Sox Outbid For Street Concessions?
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Cracking Down: Several MLB Players Call For Stronger Sanctions Against PED Users
Published June 18, 2013Many MLBers are "calling for stronger sanctions" to player... On Long Island, Steven Marcus noted former MLB arbitrator Shyam Das, who overturned the suspensi... ...header, "Fenway Park Fans Are Sick Of Steroids In MLB. ...0 fans chosen at random, 76% said that they "want MLB to clean up the game, and 24 percent said they wa... nt MLB to move on" (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/16).
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Mets, SNY Look For Doubleheader Audience Boost With Ps Harvey, Wheeler Starting
Published June 18, 2013...'s Ron Darling said of Wheeler, who is making his MLB debut, "I think this team, fan base, organization...
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A's Owner Wolff Says Sewage Problems Won't Push San Jose Talks With Selig
Published June 18, 2013...yesterday said that he has "no plans to talk" to MLB Commissioner Bud Selig about O.co Coliseum and th...
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Sewage Issues At O.co Coliseum Have A's Execs, Players Talking New Stadium
Published June 17, 2013The A's and Mariners "had to shower together in the Raiders’ second-floor locker room" at O.co Coliseum after yesterday's game because "raw sewage backed up into both clubhouse shower areas, the umpires’ room and all bathrooms on the clubhouse level," according to Susan Slusser of the S.F. CHRONICLE. Sewage also was backed up in "both managers’ offices and the Mariners’ training room." The umpires "left without showering, as did much of the Mariners’ coaching staff and manager Eric Wedge." A'...
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Mets GM Sandy Alderson Preaches Patience In Q&A With Season-Ticket Holders
Published June 17, 2013The Mets on Saturday morning held a Q&A session with 350 season ticket-holders at Citi Field, and GM Sandy Alderson said that the team will be "capable of adding substantial pieces soon, and the need for patience is almost over," according to Mark Hale of the N.Y. POST. Alderson said, "I believe in the next six months or so, we’ll be in position to make some significant acquisitions, either by free agency or trade." He added, "Problem is, that at some point the best thing you can do is have a...
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Leaving Cougar Town: Mets Scrap Talks With Dating Website To Solicit All-Star Votes
Published June 14, 2013...Wright's All-Star candidacy" ahead of the July 16 MLB All-Star Game at Citi Field, according to Adam Ru... " Wright recently had been "named 'MLB's Hottest Cub' via a vote of more than 11,000 res...
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Astros' Jim Crane Touches On TV Deal, Increasing Payroll During Radio Appearance
Published June 14, 2013Astros Owner Jim Crane Wednesday was in studio for an extended appearance on ESPN Radio 97.5 Houston's "The Rush," where he addressed several issues facing the team, including the status of talks with Time Warner about CSN Houston carriage and the team's paltry payroll this season. Crane said he is "optimistic that ... we'll get the games on here before the season ends." He added, "We're very focused on it. We work on it every day and … something I think will develop here within 30 days." Cra...
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MLB Aims For Return Trip To Australia If Next Year's Games Go Well
Published June 14, 2013MLB officials have indicated that the two-game Dodger... MLB VP/Int'l Events Jim Pearce is "hopeful of a retur... ..., who helped bring the games to Sydney, said that MLB's schedule commitments "meant a return to Austral... MLB. ...e of cooperation between baseball and its union" (MLB. MLB. ...step in growing the sport," and this is something MLB Commissioner Bud Selig "envisioned years ago when...
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Royals DH Billy Butler's BBQ Sauce Seeing Sales Spike; Proceeds Benefit Non-Profit
Published June 14, 2013Royals DH Billy Butler's Hit It A Ton Barbecue Sauce has become a "national sensation" since first hitting the shelves in April, according to Pete Grathoff of the K.C. STAR. Local sales, "in particular, have been robust." K.C.-based BBQ company Zarda COO Terry Hyer, whose company worked with Butler to develop the product, said that Zarda also "has seen had a spike in online orders." Hyer: "There’s no way I or anyone could have expected the phenomena that has taken off. Truth is, sales are boo...
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Red Sox Could Be Outbid In Efforts To Renew Yawkey Way Concession License
Published June 14, 2013Everett, Mass.-based attorney and restaurateur Joseph Marchese Jr. has "offered to outbid the Red Sox for a license to sell food and drink along Yawkey Way on game days at Fenway Park, throwing a curveball at the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s exclusive negotiations with the ball club," according to Callum Borchers of the BOSTON GLOBE. Marchese in a letter said that he would "pay $3 million for a 10-year contract." His offer is "roughly double the annual rate paid by the Sox since the franc...
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Yankees' Jean Afterman Took Unique Path To Top-Ranking Female Front Office Exec
Published June 13, 2013...n the only woman serving as an Assistant GM since MLB VP/Baseball Operations KIM NG left the Dodgers in... " Former MLBPA COO GENE ORZA said of Afterman, "She's obviousl... ...er notes Afterman "first won the approval" of the MLBPA in the '90s, when she and player agent DON NOMU...
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Rockies Considering Upgrades To Coors Field; Plans Include Restaurant, Party Deck
Published June 13, 2013A plan to "dramatically alter the upper deck" in right field at Coors Field is "under serious consideration," according to a source cited by Troy Renck of the DENVER POST. The Rockies have "sketched out potential plans that include a restaurant and even a party deck." They have "taken bids from construction companies, an indication of their desire to move forward with the major project that would alter the appearance of the Lower Downtown stadium." With total home attendance "settling around ...
