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...Superstars? The Mariners and their fans are understandably pleased as punch at the way this season is turning out - they lost franchise centerfielder Ken Griffey Jr. to free agency and his hometown of Cincinnati before the 1999 season, and Alex Rodriguez to a the biggest payday in baseball history, a ten-year, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers...
...Rodriguez, one of the game's pre-eminent players and most popular stars, was voted onto to the team and is batting cleanup. His 35-52 Rangers are in last place in the AL West, 28 games behind the first-place Mariners...
...financially motivated loss of Griffey, Rodriguez and fireballer Randy Johnson in 1998 was supposed to consign the Mariners to eternal mediocrity. They had just reached a new plateau in the 1995 post season by coming from two games behind to edge the Yankees in a best-of-five game series that remains among the most exciting in recent years. Now they were being stripped apart, one star at a time, by baseball's merciless economics...
...bittersweet day for all baseball fans, but most of all for the citizens of Baltimore. He's theirs. Always was, for 21 years. It's an anomaly in today's sporting culture that a player could span his entire Hall of Fame career in one city. Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Roger Clemens - all traveling salesmen by comparison. We cheer uniforms, not players (who can keep track?) these days, but Ripken made it easy to be an Orioles...
...market, the Spanish-language Univision and Telemundo are expected to increase their ad sales from 10% to 25% this year. And they aim not just at the "Spanish-dominant" speakers but also bilingual youths. "They've grown up with Spanish music and Spanish stars," says Univision president Ray Rodriguez. "Young Hispanics are now embracing their heritage better." Next year, Univision will launch a second Spanish-language network, reaching 80% of American Hispanics and directly aiming at bilingual viewers currently watching English-language...