Saturday, June 09, 2012
DH-less Royals shuffle lineup, lose again in NL park 4-2 to Pirates - Washington Post - NOTES: The Royals recalled 1B Clint Robinson to add an extra bench bat for the nine games in NL parks they have over the next 13 days. Robinson made his major league debut, striking out as a pinch hitter to end the game.
Robinson impressed by Major League digs | Royals.com - Dick Kaegel - Count Clint Robinson, getting his first taste of the Major Leagues after five-plus years in the Minors, as impressed. - Robinson was called up to join the Kansas City club from Triple-A Omaha where, among other things, getting up at 4 a.m. to catch commercial flights and staying in budget accommodations is routine. With the Royals, it's a charter flight to Pittsburgh, a first-class hotel downtown and an upscale clubhouse at picturesque PNC Park. - "That's why they call it the big leagues," Robinson said. "There's nothing minor about 'em."
Cost to lunch with Warren Buffett: $3.5 million – USATODAY.com - The annual auction for a private lunch with the Nebraska billionaire closed following a flurry of activity in the final hours. In the end, the highest bid was a record-breaking $3,456,789. The auction benefits the Glide Foundation, which helps the homeless in San Francisco. Buffett has raised more than $11.5 million for the group in 13 past auctions. The event provides a significant portion of Glide's roughly $17 million annual budget that pays for social services to the poor and homeless.
LinkedIn Performance Impresses Investors, Despite Hiccups - The Daily Beast - Nick Summers - The résumé/job site has never really been cool. But the disastrous Facebook IPO has Silicon Valley reappraising the smaller social network—even after this week’s missteps.
Six Mariners pitchers combine for no-hitter - USATODAY - Kevin Millwood and five relievers combined for the fourth no-hitter this season in a 1-0 home win Friday night against the first-place Dodgers. It is the third no-hitter in Mariners history, following by Randy Johnson's in 1990 and Chris Bosio's in 1993.
The many rumors surrounding Apple's keynote at WWDC - LATimes.com - Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco is just around the corner, with the keynote session Monday morning, and we could be in for quite a few announcements.
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