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For three years, John McLaren has waited for his next opportunity to manage a major league team. Friday, he'll get that chance - but it likely will be a short-lived tenure.
Following the resignation of manager Jim Riggleman on Thursday afternoon, McLaren was expected to be named the team's interim manage. But sources indicate he may only manage through the series against the White Sox in Chicago.
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The Seattle Mariners fired general manager Bill Bavasi on Monday. Manager John McLaren was let go Thursday.
Who's next?
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Less than an hour before the Washington Nationals took the field to play the White Sox on Sunday afternoon, general manager Mike Rizzo addressed his team. Three days of uncertainty behind them, Rizzo spoke of the Nationals' past and its future. Davey Johnson would be their new manager, he told the players, and then he thanked interim manager John McLaren.
Applause was audible from outside the closed clubhouse doors.
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FORT LEE -- Col. Mark Corson, commander of the 94th Training Division at Fort Lee, was promoted to brigadier general on Saturday.
Corson received his first star during a ceremony at the Army Logistics Management College that was hosted by 80th Training Command commander Maj. Gen. John McLaren Jr. hosted. A reception at the Fort Lee U.S. Army Women's Museum followed the ceremony.
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NEWS SERVICE REPORTS
SEATTLE -- Mariners manager John McLaren will have an almost completely new coaching staff in 2008.
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[Thomas B. Valentine] gave the island its evocative name and helped create the Belvedere Land Company in 1890. M.M. O'Shaughnessy, the engineer who had devised Mill Valley's unique footpath-and-staircase setting, laid out the new town with hill-hugging roads, stone walls and country lanes; then the slopes were terraced and subdivided, 3,500 trees were planted and the likes of Willis Polk, Julia Morgan and Golden Gate Park landscape architect John McLaren designed a glorious mishmash of Mission Revival mansions, Norman manor houses, Queen Anne gingerbread, Mediterranean villas and the occasional pagoda for wealthy San Franciscans in search of country living. (One Classical Revival estate was even shipped by barge from Pacific Heights to West Shore Road.) Lacking any easily accessible cul...
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* Message? What message? The Mariners beat the Angels, 6-5, in a spring game last week, and Seattle manager John McLaren declared that a message had been sent. His brand-spanking-new ace, Erik Bedard, went a whole three innings and the regulars played a whole six. "They are the team to beat, let's face it," McLaren says. "It was a spring training game with a regular-season feel to it" Angels manager Mike Scioscia's breathless assessment: "We got our work in.
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SEATTLE We're going to do this a little different, Mariners manager John McLaren announced at the outset of Wednesday's post- game press conference.
By all means, please. Anything to change up what is rapidly becoming the most dreadful season in Mariners history.
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SEATTLE -- John McLaren is the latest member of the Mariners to get cut loose. He probably won't be the last.
On the day McLaren was fired as manager, Seattle executives said they agree with franchise cornerstone Ichiro Suzuki that players should also be jettisoned from the team with the worst record in the majors.
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SEATTLE MARINERS The most difficult decision new manager John McLaren has made so far is to sit IB Richie Sexson indefinitely.