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Petitti prepares for MLB Network's launch
neil.best@newsday.comThe digital clock outside Tony Petitti's office counts down the seconds, minutes, hours and days, never letting him forget what he has gotten himself into. As of Tuesday, it showed 37 days until the MLB Network goes live at 6 p.m. New Year's Day in...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Verizon Communications, Major League Baseball, Michael Strahan, New York Mets
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Big monthly bite
The worst time Most all companies' profits are down. Many are hitting bottom, and others are going bankrupt, so why should power companies get a rate hike, plus collect money for future energy to keep their same margin of profit in this day and time?...Tags: Electricity Production and Distribution, Government, Altamonte Springs, Waste, Progress Energy Incorporated
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MLB Network to open with Larsen's 1956 perfecto
WatchdogMLB Network boss Tony Petitti and high-ranking MLB exec Tim Brosnan appeared Wednesday at the Sports Business Journal's Sports Media & Technology conference, sponsored by the Fantasy Sports Association, to talk about the new network, launching Jan. 1....Tags: Startups, Consumer Electronics Industry, Major League Baseball, All Stars, Baseball
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Managing for Steinbrenner was ultimate survival test
Long before Thursday's announcement that official control of the Yankees has been transferred to Hal Steinbrenner from his father, manager Joe Torre changed the calculus on George Steinbrenner, merely by surviving for 12 years. Torre's own heartburn...Tags: George Steinbrenner, Joe Torre, Lou Piniella, Government, Major League Baseball
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FAMOUS FOES
George Steinbrenner publicly battled with many during his tenure as The Boss. Here are six notables: Steinbrenner vs. Bowie Kuhn Commissioner Kuhn suspended Steinbrenner for two years in 1974 for being convicted of a felony - conspiring to provide...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Major League Baseball, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Joe DiMaggio, Dave Winfield
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WATCHDOG: BLOG BITES THE BEST OF NEIL BEST
neil.best@newsday.comGiants, Jets naming rights options dry up with economy Dang, I'm starting to almost feel bad for the Jets and Giants, what with being stuck looking for a stadium sponsor in an environment in which banks, insurance companies, automakers, airlines,...Tags: National Basketball Association, Dining and Drinking, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Major League Baseball, Philadelphia Eagles
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Red Sox's Pedroia In Running For AL MVP
The Hartford CourantHe is listed as 5 feet 9 in the Red Sox media guide, but we know better. Dustin Pedroia might be 5-7 in his spikes. The American League MVP will be named today and Pedroia should get the call. And this being baseball's supposedly post-steroids era, we...Tags: Joe Morgan, Major League Baseball, Paul Doyle, American League, Nellie Fox
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'Eden,' 'I Can't Think Straight' and 'Toots'
The phrase "talk solutions" emblazons the van that phone lineman Billy -- boyish, glum and in his early 30s -- drives through the drab suburbs of the Irish midlands. The cruel irony of that marketing tagline is as pointedly aching as everything in "Eden,"...Tags: Theater, Walter Cronkite, Whitey Ford, Manhattan (New York City), Frank Gifford
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George Steinbrenner hands Yanks over to son
Staff and wire reportsGeorge Steinbrenner's 35-year reign as boss of the New York Yankees ended Thursday when he passed control of baseball's most famous team to his youngest son, Hal. The elder Steinbrenner has gradually withdrawn from the Yankees' day-to-day operations in...Tags: New York Yankees, Major League Baseball, Sandy Koufax, Dave Winfield, Miguel Cabrera
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MLB Approves Yankees' Transfer Of Ownership To Hal
George Steinbrenner is boss of the Yankees no more.
The omnipresent owner's colorful 35-year reign of pronouncements, threats and firings ended Thursday when he passed control of baseball's most famous franchise to his youngest son, Hal.
The elder...Tags: Major League Baseball, Dave Winfield, New York Mets, Satellite and Cable Service, Voting
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Weekly letters
Cheers for Wood PERU, Ill.—I got home from work Thursday night and my son said he was angry. I asked Danny what the problem was and he said Kerry Wood is no longer with the Cubs. I tried to console Danny but did not get into the business end of...Tags: Major League Baseball, Colleges and Universities, Football, Chicago Bears, Tommie Harris
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Plotting a comeback in Md.
In 2006, when the first GOP governor in four decades was defeated, it seemed Maryland Republicans' fortunes could not get any worse. Now, two years later, the party has achieved what Yogi Berra famously called "déjà vu all over again." In a...Tags: Republican Party, Executive Branch, Government, Major League Baseball, National Government
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