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Two moves you might have missed matter now.(Baseball)
UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS.
It's a wonderful phrase--not to be confused with Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness, or Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. Under the cover of darkness, two American League West teams made significant additions last offseason, and I'll personally mail you a twenty if you thought they were significant at the time they were made.
From the darkness into the light, Part 1: The Athletics announced on October 11 that they had claimed Marco Scutaro on waivers. The A's also grabbed a guy named Mark Watson on waivers from the Mets (the same team they rescued Scutaro from) and designated John Halama and Mark Johnson for assignment. The reason you may not have noticed this? October 11 was the day the Cubs went up three games to one on the Marlins in the NLCS. It also was the day Pedro faced the Rocket in the ALCS, with all kinds of hijinks and hilarity breaking out at Fenway.
That same day, the college football gridiron was alive with top 25 excitement: Florida knocked off No. 2 LSU, Wisconsin beat back previously undefeated Ohio State, and Oklahoma announced its intentions to become a runaway train, whipping Texas by 52 in the Red River Shootout. So you are hereby forgiven if you failed to adequately note that the A's picked up a vagabond second baseman whose last name sounds like a Chef Boyardee ...
- Phillies sign catcher Rod Barajas.
- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack December 21, 2006 700+ words
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Catcher Rod Barajas has reportedly signed a one-year agreement with the Philadelphia Phillies. The Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday said the 31...
- Barajas arrives late, but is feeling better: Rod Barajas, on a rehab...
- Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) August 23, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Brian Rippey Aug. 23--Rod Barajas is anxious to rejoin his Philadelphia Phillies teammates in their push for a playoff spot. Barajas just isn't sure how long...
- Phillies expected to announce signing of catcher Barajas.(baseball player Rod...
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Zolecki, Todd December 21, 2006 700+ words
...assumed that the Phils had their catchers in the fold, but they are expected to announce today that they have signed catcher Rod Barajas to a one-year, $2.5 million contract with a club option for 2008. Barajas, who won a World Series title with Arizona...
- Carrasco hurls 6-inning no-no: On a night when Shane Victorino and Rod Barajas...
- Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) August 22, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Brian Rippey Aug. 22--Shane Victorino and Rod Barajas could be back in Philadelphia Phillies uniforms soon. It will probably take pitching prospect Carlos Carrasco a little longer...
- Phillies trade Conine to Reds: They got minor-leaguers Javon Moran and Brad...
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) December 22, 2006 700+ words
...Cincinnati Reds yesterday for minor-leaguers Javon Moran and Brad Key. They also announced that they had signed catcher Rod Barajas to a one-year, $2.5 million contract with a club option for 2008. The Phillies still hope to find bullpen help, but...
- 2K Announces The Darkness(TM) Now Available.
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 26, 2007 700+ words
...developed by Starbreeze Studios, The Darkness brings gritty underworld action to next...NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today that The Darkness[TM] is now available in North America...3 computer entertainment system. The Darkness is a next-generation, first-person...
- Living by the word: groping in darkness.
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Satterlee, Craig A. April 18, 2006 700+ words
...God is light, and in God there is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5). Being legally...not automatically bring safety and the darkness of night does not automatically signal...Left unaddressed, all this talk of darkness and light may confuse us instead of proclaiming...
- CULTURAL PSYCHOSIS ON THE FRONTIER: THE WORK OF THE DARKNESS IN JOSEPH CONRAD'S...
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel BROWN, TONY C. March 22, 2000 700+ words
...Grimaces of the Real"(1) Heart of Darkness has perversely proved a central document...the long shadow of Conrad's Heart of Darkness falls on so many texts of the postcolonial...exemplary example of such a text: Heart of Darkness is the novel that invites the most comment...
- Darkness, my old friend.(REFLECTION)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Cole, Marjorie Kowalski January 19, 2007 700+ words
...for six long months ..." Every winter the darkness and the cold, but especially that darkness, reminding me, I suppose, of the grave...Alaska, and yet didn't get used to the darkness. Antidotes and placebos were available...
- Out of darkness.(Faith MATTERS)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Paulsell, Stephanie August 26, 2008 700+ words
...common was this: they shone out of utter darkness. With each turn of the telescope, a...on our computer screen, surrounded by darkness so deep and complete that the light reflected...was most striking to me was the deep darkness that provided the background to so many...