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Owners, execs descend on Chicago for meetings

CNNSI.com

CHICAGO (AP) -- While the Miami Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays worked on a blockbuster trade with far-reaching implications, major league owners and executives descended on Chicago on Wednesday for the first of two days of meetings.

MLB.com

As if the Rays weren't already in a tough spot competing in the American League East, the Blue Jays appear poised to make the division a legitimate five-team dogfight come 2013.

CNNSI.com

MIAMI (AP) -- The attendance-challenged Miami Marlins have antagonized fans yet again by deciding a low-budget team is good enough for their new ballpark.

ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com

Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria denied that he was conducting a fire sale in trading many stars to the Blue Jays for prospects.

Mark Bowman, MLB.com

Bobby Cox has always savored the friendships and experiences he gathered while serving as the Blue Jays' manager during the early 1980s.  But he is not interested in ending his retirement to fill Toronto's managerial vacancy.

CNNSI.com

If the Miami Marlins are going to dump their team every year, their new manager should be John Calipari. Why not? He can win some games, sell a bunch of tickets and sell a bunch more T-shirts -- and then announce in December that he traded his entire st…

Gregor Chisholm, MLB.com

The Blue Jays' search for a new manager is still ongoing but it one fell swoop the position suddenly became a lot more enticing for potential candidates. Toronto will no longer find itself having to entice a manager to sign on the dotted line. Instead, …

Dime Magazine, dimemag.com

Pau Gasol, we hope you surround yourself with protection tonight. You might turn up along the rocks in the Pacific Ocean tomorrow morning, courtesy of a crazed Kobe Bryant. Down two on the last possession last night against the Spurs, Gasol couldn’t fin…

CNNSI.com

Miami cleaned house by shipping Josh Johnson, Jose Reyes and Mark Buehrle to Toronto. But did the blockbuster actually make the Blue Jays better? Buyer beware, says Cliff Corcoran.