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The presence of Cuba in the tournament ensures the highest level of competition for the tournament which, for the first time, will bring together the very best players throughout the world in a single event.
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We want to make sure that the kind of ballpark we agreed upon will be built, that it can be paid for as we have agreed, that the team be able to exercise adequate control over the ballpark site, that we understand the limits of the legislative power to further rewrite contracts we enter into and that the balance of burdens and benefits agreed to by us in mediation is readdressed, since it has been seriously disrupted by the legislation.
Bob DuPuy
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The Commissioner is going to interview the groups in the next week to 10 days that he hasn't spoken to yet. And then we hope to move forward on the decision-making process.
Bob DuPuy -
There are still some fundamental economic differences. We've said all along our goal is get a lease and we're going to continue to work on it. I don't think it'll be done Friday. We're probably looking at next week.
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We're optimistic it will be voted in Turin, and baseball and softball will be reinstated, ... We were encouraged.
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This is an acknowledgment of an entire area of the world and a heritage and multiple countries. This is not a racial thing. The Latin American influence in baseball has been pervasive.
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We're important to ESPN. We fill up a lot of space for them in the summer. We're their programming in the summer. If you look at 'SportsCenter,' most nights in the summer, it's, what, 70 percent baseball.
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I think we're doing much better player-wise, but I think we need to reach out to African-American fans.
Bob DuPuy
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Plans to talk to people involved with various groups he does not know. After that, we should be in a better position to make a recommendation.
Bob DuPuy -
I assume physical constraints notwithstanding, Bonds will play the whole year.
Bob DuPuy -
I expect them to play the whole season. I expect Bonds to play the whole season, his physical limitations not withstanding.
Bob DuPuy -
There are those who felt the Latin player-base community had been overlooked by fans in that election.
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He is interested and he's a free agent.
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I think we're all running out of time.
Bob DuPuy
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Why would that be better? ... Look, there are always circumstances.
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That's far too narrow. The Commissioner wants the panel to look at it and take it as far as they want to go.
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We are growing increasingly concerned about the District's ability to meet the agreed-upon December 31, 2005 deadline, by which date a number of critical tasks in the Baseball Stadium Agreement must be completed.
Bob DuPuy