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ounty Stadium on July 4 Greg Holland Jersey , 1985, for the famous rain-delayed 19-inning game that ended with the New York Mets beating the Braves at 3:53 a.m. followed by postgame fireworks.“I had a long history of pulling for terrible teams,” he said.Puckett’s contribution to baseball won’t stretch for nearly as long. He composed “The Fix” to mark the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Black Sox agreeing to throw the 1919 World Series, a work that premieres Saturday at the Minnesota Opera in St. Paul. The two acts run 2 hours, 15 minutes, including an intermission.With a libretto by Eric Simonson, the opera has a cast that includes tenor Joshua Dennis as Shoeless Joe Jackson, the famous Chicago outfielder, and baritone Kelly Markgraf as Ring Lardner, the renowned writer.“He’s just he’s just a wholly different character than I’ve ever done,” Dennis said. “Especially as an opera singer who sings a lot of very proper languages, diving into his linguistics and that kind of — I don’t want to say backwards — but that kind of uneducated Appalachian linguistics, it’s been a really interesting study for me.”The Minnesota Opera has been a leading force for new music, presenting premieres that include “The Grapes of Wrath” (2007) by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie; “Silent Night” (2011) and “The Manchurian Candidate” (2015) by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell; “Doubt” (2013) by Douglas J. Cuomo and John Patrick Shanley; “The Shining” (2016) by Paul Moravec and Campbell (2016); and “Dinner at Eight” by William Bolcom and Campbell (2017).Dale Johnson http://www.rockiesfanproshop.com/authentic-chad-bettis-jersey , the Minnesota Opera’s artistic director, decided Puckett would pair well with Simonson, who grew up a Milwaukee Brewers fan. They even share the same birthday, June 27, when Puckett turns 42 and Simsonson 59.Simonson wrote “Lombardi,” which had an eight-month Broadway run in 2010-11, and also “Magic/Bird” in 2012 and “Bronx Bombers” in 2014, which both lasted less than two months.He was familiar with “Eight Men Out,” both Eliot Asinof’s 1963 book and John Sayles’ 1988 film. Jackson and the other seven White Sox players who accepted money from gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series against Cincinnati were acquitted at a criminal trial in August 1921 but were banned from the sport for life the following day by Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first baseball commissioner.Even though Jackson accepted a $5,000 bribe, he hit .375 in the Series with six RBIs in six games. Jackson had a $6,000 salary from White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, a pay structure that prompts teammate and fellow conspirator Chick Gandil to sing: “Here’s your headline: ‘Skinflint Comiskey gets pennant at rock bottom prices.'”“I felt like he made a mistake that he regretted http://www.rockiesfanproshop.com/authentic-chad-bettis-jersey ,” Simonson said. “And once he made that mistake there was no one there who was going to forgive him or let him correct his mistake, and that’s heartbreaking.”Operas about sports are rare but not unprecedented. Daniel Sonenberg’s “The Summer King” about Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson, premiered at the Pittsburgh Opera in April 2017 after more than a decade of development.Puckett spent three years working on his first opera, and he has a distinctly American sound with echoes of Aaron Copland and Charles Ives. He enjoyed composing “sort of nefarious, dark” music for the gambler characters Arnold Rothstein, Bill “Sleepy” Burns and Abe Attell.“That kind of New York 1920,” he said.Simonson views this as a great tragedy and wants the audience to come away with the same feeling they might when leaving Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” ”King Lear” or “Macbeth.”“Our heroes are celebrities that come from anywhere,” he said. “They’re not kings. They might be somebody like Shoeless Joe Jackson. And what I want them to feel is that we’re susceptible to the same human frailties that Joe Jackson is. It’s in a sense a cautionary tale: make the right decision. If somebody comes up to you and wants to ask you to conspire against the public to lose the World Series, don’t do it.” TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Aaron Judge thinks the New York Yankees have a championship-caliber team without Manny Machado.“We weren’t in the position I felt like that we really needed to go out there and grab too many big pieces,” the Yankees slugger said after Tuesday’s first full-squad workout. “We were just in a position where we just needed to add maybe one or two key guys and bring back a couple key guys that are just going to get us over the hump, and I feel like we did that.”A person familiar with the negotiations speaking on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press confirmed that Machado agreed to a $300 million, 10-year deal with the San Diego Padres. The person said the agreement was subject to a successful physical and had not been announced.The Yankees had met with Machado in the offseason Tyler Anderson Jersey , but didn’t appear to make a formal offer to the star infielder.“My take on it is, San Diego signed a really great player,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “I think we have a great club. I think we’re deep. Sitting here last year I felt like we had a really good team. As I sit here today, I feel like we’re a stronger team based on the moves we made this winter.”New York’s 100-62 record in Boone’s first season as manager was its best since winning the 2009 World Series. New York added left-hander James Paxton, reliever Adam Ottavino, shortstop Troy Tulowitzki and infielder DJ LeMahieu, and also re-signed starters CC Sabathia and J.A. Happ along with reliever Zack Britton.“The lineup and the team that we have is pretty darn good,” Judge said. “We won 100 games. I’m excited for our team.”Judge knows the team goal is always the same.“We came up a little short last season,” Judge said. “It’s always a disappointment any time we don’t win a World Series. You always want to be that team, the last one standing. That will be our goal again this year.”Judge said he hasn’t heard about any proposals for a long-term contract.“I’m focused on the season,” Judge said.Judge also said his shoulder, which was operated on during the 2017 offseason, and wrist that sidelined him last season are both 100 percent.“That’s the thing I kind of was looking for,” Judge said. “Getting a chance to actually have a normal offseason because the year before http://www.rockiesfanproshop.com/authentic-chad-bettis-jersey , going into ’18, dealing with shoulder surgery and the majority of my time was spent rehabbing that.”Judge didn’t start swinging a bat last year until arriving in Florida.Judge will be working for the second straight spring training on hitting with former NL MVP Giancarlo Stanton.“The biggest thing is his approach,” Judge said. “That’s one thing I really enjoyed watching. You see why he won an MVP, why he’s an All-Star. That’s the biggest thing I got from ‘G,’ was different approaches.”“I’d try and share them, but I’ve got to keep a couple secret,” a smiling Judge added.FARQUHAR MOVING FORWARDReliever Danny Farquhar, coming back from a brain hemorrhage stemming from a ruptured aneurysm last April 20, has started throwing to hitters. “Can only imagine the emotions running through him,” Boone said.MLB MEETINGBoone said MLB executive and former Yankees manager Joe Torre will be at camp Wednesday. The manager plans to talk with Yankees’ pitchers about the 20-second pitch clock to be used at spring training.