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Rays' TV games hold steady at 140
By MARC TOPKIN
Published January 27, 2005
The Devil Rays again will televise 140 games split between over-the-air (Pax TV) and cable (Fox Sports Net Florida).
Pax will air 65 games, including nine each against the Yankees and Red Sox. FSN will show 75, including the April 4 season opener.
The biggest change is that the games will be carried by DirecTV for the first time.
Dewayne Staats and analyst Joe Magrane will return to the broadcast booth for the eighth straight season.
Staats will also host the new Devil Rays Insider weekly radio show, which starts 7 p.m. Monday on WDAE 620-AM. Manager Lou Piniella and new second baseman Roberto Alomar will be guests.
NEW DEALS: The Rays agreed to terms on one-year contracts with pitchers Doug Waechter, Scott Kazmir and Chris Seddon.
Mets turn to fallback
NEW YORK - The Mets acquired Gold Glove first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz from the Red Sox for minor-league first baseman Ian Bladergroen. The deal happened a day after Carlos Delgado accepted the Marlins' $52-million, four-year offer, spurning New York's similar proposal.
Mientkiewicz caught the final out of Boston's World Series sweep of St. Louis in October and kept the ball, which the Red Sox want back.
GIANTS: The Scottsdale (Ariz.) City Council voted to buy property that could be part of the team's new spring training complex.
MARINERS: Cuban shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt, 22, agreed to a contract.
PIRATES: Right-hander John Van Benschoten will have shoulder surgery today and is expected to miss the season.
Information from Times wires was used in this report.
[Last modified January 27, 2005, 00:41:13]
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