Bob DuPuy Quotes
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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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Overall the first round-robin was a success. The winners of Pool B will have their hands full next week facing rested Korea and Japan teams.
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He is interested and he's a free agent.
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I'd like to have a vote on it at the November owners' meetings. There's no reason why we can't announce who we intend to sell the team to in conjunction with signing the lease. But it's very important that we sign a lease contemplated by the stadium agreement. We continue to negotiate and hope that this will quickly be resolved.
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I expect them to play the whole season. I expect Bonds to play the whole season, his physical limitations not withstanding.
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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.
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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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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 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.
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We need to find a way to get the (D.C. Council) to honor the commitment it made to get a stadium built. I am guardedly optimistic that we can find a way to get it done.
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Commercial issues related to the land that's being delivered and the development of that land.
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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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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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There are those who felt the Latin player-base community had been overlooked by fans in that election.
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I think we're all running out of time.
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Why would that be better? ... Look, there are always circumstances.
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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.