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Archive for March, 2007
San Francisco Giants to Install Solar Panels
( MLB News )
According to the Giants team website, the Giants intend to install 590 solar panels in at&t park to make the stadium more energy efficient. Here’s some info taken from the Giants’ website,
“We will showcase solar power in one of the most visible locations on the waterfront. In turn, we hope to send a message to […]
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MLB to drug test off-field employees
( MLB News )
The MLB intends to randomly screen all employees for drugs. That includes the players but also all the off-field employees as well. Maury Brown of the Web site the Biz of Baseball reports that commissioner Bud Selig issued a memo Feb. 21 titled “Major League Baseball’s Drug Policy and Prevention Program,” which outlines drug-testing procedures […]
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MLB makes rule changes for first time since 1996
( MLB News )
NEW YORK (AP) — A major league position player who scuffs or defaces a baseball would be ejected and receive an automatic 10-game suspension under changes approved Friday by the sport’s playing rules committee.
Previously, the penalty was to call the pitch a ball and warn the player. For pitchers, umpires have the discretion to issue […]
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Ken Griffey’s Kid Breaks Hand
( MLB News )
The center fielder form the Cincinnati Reds said he was wrestling with two sons and daughter last december. When his oldest son fell awkwardly on Griffey’s left hand and broke it according to fox sports. “It was nothing that could violate my contract,” he said Friday after reporting early for training camp. “It was Dad […]
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Arkansas Player Fakes Injury then Throws Tantrum
( Nationals News )
I know this video doesn’t have anything to do with the Nationals but I just had to include it. The Arkansas player (at bat) first fakes getting hit by the pitch. Where he makes a very convincing display that he has been injured. He eventually gets over it. Then, after striking out, he throws a […]