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Jeff Wilpon, the COO of Major League Baseball's New York Mets discussed the possibility of buying the Islanders from Wang and moving them adjacent to the Mets ' home ballpark, Citi Field in Flushing, Queens.
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" Ownership and the organization are very disappointed in Francisco's inappropriate behavior and we take the matter very seriously ," team chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon said.
Citi Field's interior design is primarily influenced by PNC Park, which was the favorite ballpark of Mets COO Jeff Wilpon.
Others claim that Peterson was merely giving his opinion as pitching coach, and that any responsibility for the trade should fall on GM Jim Duquette, owner Fred Wilpon, COO Jeff Wilpon, or scouting directors Al Goldis and Bill Livesey.
Jeff and other Wilpon family members invested with Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme that collapsed in 2008.
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On December 17, 2010, Jeff Storey, President and COO of Level 3 Communications wrote a letter to Neil Smit, President of Comcast.
Both, acting Commissioner & Chairman, John Tory and President & COO, Jeff Giles resigned from their respective posts.
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* Three Major League Baseball players were born in Waynesboro ... Claude Passeau ( 1909 ), Paul Busby ( 1918 ), and Jeff Branson ( 1967 ).
* Eleven Major League Baseball players were born in Poughkeepsie: Frank Bahret ( 1858 ), Frank Beck ( 1860 ), Bill Daley ( 1868 ), Buttons Briggs ( 1875 ), Elmer Steele ( 1886 ), Mickey McDermott ( 1929 ), Fred Lasher ( 1941 ), Tommy Boggs ( 1955 ), Ricky Horton ( 1959 ), Frank Cimorelli ( 1968 ), Jeff Pierce ( 1969 ), and Dan Gallagher ( 1982 ).
* In the field of sports, Rider graduates include: Jack Armstrong, 1990 Major League Baseball ( MLB ) All-Star and World Champion ; Al Downing, 1967 MLB All-Star and Strikout Champion, and 1971 MLB Comeback Player of the Year ; Jeff Kunkel, professional baseball player ; Caroline Lind, MBA, Olympic Gold Medal rower at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ; Digger Phelps, ESPN college basketball analyst and former Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball coach ; Bobby Smith, National Soccer Hall of Fame member ; and Jason Thompson, basketball player in the NBA.
Jeff Bajenaru was believed to have been ( until 2006 ) the only active Major League Baseball player with a SABR membership ; Elden Auker, Larry Dierker, and Andy Seminick also have been involved.
Other former Snappers players who moved on to Major League ball include Greg Vaughn, Geoff Jenkins, Jeff D ' Amico, Ron Belliard and Ben Sheets.
* Jeff Robinson former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Gillick ’ s prospects turned San Antonio into a Texas League powerhouse, boasting future Major Leaguers Willie Bloomquist, Jeff Farnsworth, J. J. Putz, Raphael Soriano, Greg Dobbs, Julio Mateo, Gil Meche, Cha-Seung Baek, Jose Lopez, George Sherrill, Shin-Soo Choo, Felix Hernandez, Mike Morse and Yuniesky Betancourt.
Jeff Parke ( born March 23, 1982 in Abington, Pennsylvania ) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer.
Jeff Stewart ( born June 21, 1980 in Bellevue, Washington ) is an American soccer defender who last played for Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer.
Jeff Cassar ( born February 2, 1974, in Livonia, Michigan ) is a retired American soccer goalkeeper, who last played for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer.
Major black American soul acts like James Brown and Sly & The Family Stone were rarely if ever played on commercial radio in Australia, and as a result, local acts like Max Merritt, Jeff St John, The Groove, The Groop, Ray Hoff and others.
Former Nova High School players to see game time with a Major League Baseball team include Doug Johns ( Baltimore Orioles ) ( Oakland Athletics ), Harry Chappas ( Chicago White Sox ), Michael Morse ( Washington Nationals ), Jeff Fiorentino ( Baltimore Orioles ), and Anthony Swarzak ( Minnesota Twins ).
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Rookie of the Year, Billy Martin was named Manager of the Year, Jeff Burroughs won American League MVP, and Ferguson Jenkins was named the Comeback Player of the Year after winning 25 games, a club record to this day.
The Hurricanes would end up with the 7th overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, eventually selecting Jeff Skinner from the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League.
* Jeff Bostic, a former American football Offensive lineman player for National Football League for the Washington Redskins, born in Greensboro, graduated from Ben L. Smith High School.
Piedmont is home to a number of notable individuals in the political, business, sports, and academic communities, including: ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty ; ex-National Football League player Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers ; ex-National Football League player Bill Romanowski ; Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich ; Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up and co-writer of WALL-E ; Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock band Green Day ; Eric Whitaker, GC of Tesla Motors ; Thomas Horn, actor ; and Dr. George Rutherford, State Health Officer. Also Dipper and Mabel Pines from the Disney Channel show " Gravity Falls " was born here.
* In 2001, writer Jeff Foley published War on the Floor: An Average Guy Plays in the Arena Football League and Lives To Write About It.
The League was created by the husband-and-wife team of Jeff Schaffer ( Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld ) and Jackie Marcus Schaffer ( Disturbia, Eurotrip ) who serve as executive producers and directors.
In the 1985 American League voting, a tie for third place resulted in the presentation of Gold Glove Awards to four outfielders ( Dwayne Murphy, Gary Pettis, Dwight Evans and Dave Winfield ); this scenario was repeated in the National League in 2007 ( Andruw Jones, Carlos Beltrán, Aaron Rowand, and Jeff Francoeur ).
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