Philadelphia Phillies' Brad Lidge, Raul Ibanez, Scott Eyre scheduled for surgery
ESPN (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phillies closer Brad Lidge will have surgery on his right elbow on Wednesday.
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Philadelphia Phillies pick up left-hander Cliff Lee's $9 million option for 2010 season
ESPN (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Phillies have picked up Cliff Lee's $9 million option for 2010.
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Utley ties Jackson's record for homers in a Series
ayushmatia30xz | yesterday
PHILADELPHIA – Chase Utley ripped a no-doubt-about-it shot to right, put his head down and ran around the bases so quickly he nearly passed Jimmy Rollins and Shane Victorino. Even in the World Series, Utley doesn't pause to admire his homers. He's had plenty of opportunities, too, connecting five times to tie Reggie Jackson's record set in 1977 with the Yankees. "Obviously it's great company,"
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Something about new ballparks
Pinstripe Alley (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
View full size photo » The first Yankee Stadium was built in 1923. The Yankees won the World Series (for the first time) over the New York Giants that year. The first year of the 'overhauled' Yankee Stadium was 1976. The Yanks won the pennant (for the first time in 12 years), but lost the World Series to the Big Red Machine. The first year of the new Yankee Stadium was 2009. The Yankees defeated...
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Bob Ford: Phillies' future hinges on Hamels
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
If the Phillies are going to get back to the World Series in 2010, they will need Cole Hamels to pitch like Cole Hamels and quit channeling his inner Tyler Green.
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Phillies' Manuel will finally take a break
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
For Phillies manager Charlie Manuel, this off-season will really be an off-season. "He should go hibernate," general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said.
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Phillies' Ibanez, Lidge, Eyre to have surgery
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Raul Ibanez, closer Brad Lidge and reliever Scott Eyre are due to have surgery this upcoming week, the team announced Saturday.
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Burnett a bust in Game 5, Yankees thumped by Phils
bela13xc5 | yesterday
PHILADELPHIA – A.J. Burnett started walking briskly off the mound before manager Joe Girardi even got there. The erratic right-hander already was finished — and he knew it. With a chance to pitch the New York Yankees to their first World Series championship in nine years, Burnett was a major bust in Game 5 on Monday night. He gave up a three-run homer before retiring a hitter and was chased
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Phillies' Ibanez, Lidge, Eyre to have surgery
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Raul Ibanez, closer Brad Lidge and reliever Scott Eyre are due to have surgery this upcoming week, the team announced Saturday.
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Eulogy for the Eliminated 2009: Part 7
The Serious Tip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dearly Beloved, Today we lay to rest our final soul. Like in the epic film The Highlander , there can be only one. And from the land of liberty and cheesesteaks comes our latest, a loser in the battle of recent versus historical glory. Defenders of a crown, descendants of champions, they fell woefully short to a machine funded by dollars and led by the beasts of ancient Greece and modern Japan. Done...
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Lidge, Ibanez and Eyre to have surgeries
MLB (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lidge, Ibanez and Eyre to have surgeries
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Yankees fans act like they've been their before...because they have
William F. Yurasko (Free subscription) | yesterday
DANIEL VICTOR - New York Yankees baseball fans seem content to punch the repeat button - Patriot-News Victor, a Phillies fan, State College native and Penn Stater (I've linked to him before) went to game 6 at Yankee Stadium. He compares and contrasts the atmosphere in New York as opposed to Philadelphia in 2008. Yankees fans were happy, but not exuberant, it seems -- well behaved too, aside from some...
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Phillies pick up option on ace left-hander Lee
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Philadelphia Phillies have picked up Cliff Lee's $9 million (all figures U.S.) option for 2010.
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Myers out as changes begin
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
FEWER THAN 48 HOURS after the Phillies were eliminated from the World Series, a clearer picture of the team's makeup for the 2010 season began to emerge. Cliff Lee, as expected, will be back as the Phillies exercised his $9 million option. Brett Myers, as expected, will not, with general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. informing the veteran righthander in an early afternoon meeting that the team had decided...
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Confetti and cheers fill the streets as New York honors the Yankees
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Crowds roared, church bells rang, and streams of paper rained down on Broadway as the New York Yankees celebrated their 27th championship in a way only this city can, with a parade up the Canyon of Heroes.
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Utley ties Jackson's record for homers in a Series
ayushmatia30xz | yesterday
PHILADELPHIA – Chase Utley ripped a no-doubt-about-it shot to right, put his head down and ran around the bases so quickly he nearly passed Jimmy Rollins and Shane Victorino. Even in the World Series, Utley doesn't pause to admire his homers. He's had plenty of opportunities, too, connecting five times to tie Reggie Jackson's record set in 1977 with the Yankees. "Obviously it's great company," Utley...
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Burnett a bust in Game 5, Yankees thumped by Phils
bela13xc5 | yesterday
PHILADELPHIA – A.J. Burnett started walking briskly off the mound before manager Joe Girardi even got there. The erratic right-hander already was finished — and he knew it. With a chance to pitch the New York Yankees to their first World Series championship in nine years, Burnett was a major bust in Game 5 on Monday night. He gave up a three-run homer before retiring a hitter and was chased with nobody...
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Injured Cabrera replaced by Pena on NY roster
bancroftva4tb | 11/07/2009
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) –The New York Yankees replaced injured outfielder Melky Cabrera with rookie infielder Ramiro Pena on their World Series roster prior to Monday night's Game Five, Major League Baseball announced. Cabrera, who had been hitting .271 in the postseason, strained his hamstring during Sunday's 7-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies that gave New York a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven...