Predicting MLB Free Agent Landing Spots

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Is your baseball team lacking an ace starting pitcher? Cliff Lee is available. How about a power hitting outfielder? Jayson Werth's 63 homers over the past two seasons might help. What about adding some stolen bases? Carl Crawford is on the market.

It's free agency season, and the MLB Hour crew will tell you just where the best ones are going to wind up. Click to watch:

 

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Roland Thatcher Feeling the Magic, Grabs Lead at Disney

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- When a guy named Roland Churchill Thatcher IV is counting every penny and worrying about his rank on a money list, you know things have gotten tough.

Golf, however, audits with a different numbers system.

Besides, Thatcher has a confession to make.

"We come from a long line of auto workers and Navy families," he said. "There's no family business. My father was a retired airline pilot. I might have an in as a baggage handler at Southwest if I had to.

"But no, the name, as pretentious as it is ... my wife and I decided to stop it. We didn't pass it on to my son."

Instead, Thatcher is in this week's PGA Tour Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney World hoping to create another identity.



 

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Roland Thatcher Feeling the Magic, Grabs Lead at Disney

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- When a guy named Roland Churchill Thatcher IV is counting every penny and worrying about his rank on a money list, you know things have gotten tough.

Golf, however, audits with a different numbers system.

Besides, Thatcher has a confession to make.

"We come from a long line of auto workers and Navy families," he said. "There's no family business. My father was a retired airline pilot. I might have an in as a baggage handler at Southwest if I had to.

"But no, the name, as pretentious as it is ... my wife and I decided to stop it. We didn't pass it on to my son."

Instead, Thatcher is in this week's PGA Tour Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney World hoping to create another identity.



 

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Source: http://golf.fanhouse.com/2010/11/12/roland-thatcher-feeling-the-magic-grabs-lead-at-disney/

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Report: Valentine, Hershiser, Shulman New Voices of 'Sunday Night Baseball'

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Those familiar with ESPN's baseball coverage shouldn't have much trouble adjusting to the new voices of the network's signature show, "Sunday Night Baseball."

Dan Shulman will be the play-by-play man working alongside analysts Bobby Valentine and Orel Hershiser, according to a New York Times report. An official announcement is expected "soon," the paper said.

Shulman and Valentine will be new to Sunday nights, stepping in for the longtime pair of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan after ESPN declined to renew their contracts. Hershiser had shared the booth with Miller and Morgan in 2010, the duo's 21st season working "Sunday Night Baseball."

 

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Janet Jackson Has Drake, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga On Her iPod

Her 'For Colored Girls' co-stars also share their musical faves, in Mixtape Daily.
By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Kara Warner


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Celebrity Favorites: Janet Jackson, Kimberly Elise and Thandie Newton

Although the ladies of Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls" had to embrace pain and confront harsh realities to channel the characters in the movie script, from an adaptation of playwright Ntozake Shange's 1974 Broadway hit "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf," offscreen, the cast was as cool as Janet Jackson's character in the film.

"She's someone who has no time for niceties, really," Jackson told MTV News of her role. "That was a tough thing for me, to drop the 'please' and the 'thank you,' just trying to get into the role, get into her head and doing that at home and in my world, that was kind of tough, but eventually it happened. [Laughs.] She has her walls up, for sure."

OK, maybe the lovely ladies of Perry's film weren't that cool. But when the camera wasn't rolling, Jackson, Kimberly Elise and Thandie Newton spent plenty of time listening to music.

"I enjoy listening to Drake, I enjoy listening to Bruno Mars," Jackson revealed. "I enjoy listening to Gaga."

"I love Citizen Cope," Elise added. "Anything Citizen Cope-y. I like Matt and Kim; they're different."

Newton noted a track from Amos Lee's discography, "Long Line of Pain," from the blues singer's Supply and Demand album, as a song she kept loaded in her iPod during filming.

"I'm a huge fan of TV on the Radio," Newton said. "A bit of Afro-Punk. I like a bit of Amos Lee, one of his songs, 'Long Line of Pain,' really reminded me of the movie. That was a part of my 'For Colored Girls' playlist. How we can inherit pain unless we intercept the cycle. We're just passing it forward. Thank you, Amos Lee."

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Stewart Cink Dishes on PB&J Stall

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Stewart Cink, playing in this week's Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney World -- the former British Open champ's first competitive appearance since last month's Ryder Cup -- wanted to set the record straight.

He is not nearly as crafty and everybody thinks.

"I have no tricks in my toolbox," Cink said.

All the same, on the way to compiling a 1-0-3 record he provided one of the Ryder Cup's most replayed moments that suggested otherwise.

It was Saturday's second round of play at Celtic Manor. Cink and teammate Matt Kuchar were playing Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell.

The Europeans had just rallied from a two-hole deficit to tie the alternate-shot match going into the 17th hole. The gallery at Celtic Manor was crazed all week, but suddenly it sounded like a jumbo jet preparing for take off.

McDowell hit a tee shot that ended about five feet from the pin, setting McIlroy up for a very makeable birdie putt for the lead. Kuchar's tee shot left Cink with a 25-footer.

 

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Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, John Paul Jones Unveil Supergroup

Them Crooked Vultures make their debut with a post-Lollapalooza set.
By James Montgomery


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Officially, Lollapalooza ended Sunday night in Chicago's Grant Park, with dueling sets from the Killers and Jane's Addiction. Unofficially, it ended very early Monday morning, across town at venerable rock club the Metro, with a surprise show by Them Crooked Vultures.

To the unfamiliar, the Vultures might seem like an odd choice to close out Lolla weekend ... until you realize that they're made up of Foo Fighters frontman/ former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age mastermind Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones. And their gig at the Metro was their world premiere.

According to some reports, the Vultures actually turned down Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell's request to replace the Beastie Boys as headliners at the festival, opting to debut in front of some 1,100 super-psyched fans at the Metro, rather than 75,000 in Grant Park (tickets for the gig were announced via Foo Fighter/ QOTSA fan clubs). Meaning that, in a lot of ways, this was the most sought-after ticket in town.

Taking the stage just after midnight, the Vultures — Grohl on drums (of course), Homme on guitar and vocals, Jones on bass and keys and frequent QOTSA contributor Alain Johannes on guitar — ripped through 12 songs in 80 minutes, all taken from their upcoming debut, which may or may not be called Never Deserved the Future, and may or may not be hitting stores on October 23 (early "promo" videos touting both those facts were revealed over the weekend to be hoaxes perpetrated by QOTSA fans).

The songs, with appropriately Homme-ian titles like "Scumbag Blues," "Mind Eraser (No Chaser)," "Caligulove" and "Interlude w/Ludes," sounded pretty much how you'd expect, given the band's pedigree. They rocked, hard — Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot described them as "fresh, invigorating and just plain nasty" — delving off into psychedelic, reverb-filled excursions and exploring proggy territory, "both of the old-school Yes variety, and the more modern Tool flavor," according to the Chicago Sun-Times' Jim DeRogatis.

It's not known if Monday's Metro performance was a one-off event for the Vultures — there have been whispers of a full-blown tour, but a spokesperson for Homme had not responded to MTV News' request for comment at press time. Nor was it clear whether or not they'll have an album out in October.

Early Monday, a Crooked Vultures Twitter account, which had previously posted links to the band's official-looking Web site and the Metro's online ticketing site — posted a link to what appears to be the group's first bit of official merchandise: a Deserve the Future T-shirt. Cost: $30.

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