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'Make amends'? Mariners CEO Kevin Mather can't take back those 45 disastrous minutes of disrespectful words
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Monday, 22 February 2021 11:25
Over the course of a 45-minute chat to a local Rotary Club in early February, Seattle Mariners CEO Kevin Mather disparaged a Japanese player for not learning English, belittled a star prospect from the Dominican Republic for his language skills and derided another top prospect while admitting to manipulating his service time. He called his team's best pitcher "very boring"…
Bloom: Red Sox have talent to bounce back in '21
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Sunday, 21 February 2021 14:54
One by one, the Boston Red Sox have arrived at spring training spouting the same, stubborn message.From Eduardo Rodriguez -- "Don't sleep on us" -- to Chris Sale's -- "We plan on going and making some noise" -- there is optimism at the team's complex despite the 24-36 record in the pandemic-shortened season that left them last in the AL…
Welcome to the Year of Tatis: Why San Diego's $340 million face is exactly what MLB needs right now
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Monday, 22 February 2021 04:20
Over the winter, when Fernando Tatis Jr. was not working on trying to fulfill his goal of becoming the best baseball player ever, he exhausted his free time working on his farms in the Dominican Republic. He rode horses and fed chickens and tended to the lemons and hunted duck. Tatis might be the burgeoning face of baseball -- his…
Mariners president Mather apologizes for remarks
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Sunday, 21 February 2021 21:34
Seattle Mariners president and CEO Kevin Mather apologized Sunday night after his wide-ranging comments to a rotary club earlier this month surfaced, including him calling the English-speaking capabilities of two members of the organization "terrible" and "not tremendous."Mather's comments were made to a Bellevue, Washington, rotary club on Feb. 5 and were posted online over the weekend."I want to apologize…
Stan Williams, fearsome pitcher for Dodgers, dies
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Sunday, 21 February 2021 18:32
LOS ANGELES -- Stan Williams, the fearsome All-Star pitcher who helped the Los Angeles Dodgers win the 1959 World Series, has died. He was 84.Williams died Saturday at his home in Laughlin, Nevada. He was hospitalized on Feb. 11 and had been in hospice care due to the effects of cardio-pulmonary illness, the Dodgers said Sunday and son Stan Jr.…
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