No closer, no worries for Rays

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• That the Red Sox have rolled back a plan to raise ticket prices sent a ripple throughout the sport Wednesday. "If the Red Sox [freeze ticket prices] -- the Red Sox! -- what does that say about where the rest of us are going to be in a few months," said one general manager. Said another GM: "I think by the end of the winter, I'd say 20 teams are going to be impacted by this [in on-field personnel decisions]."

Dan Shaughnessy says this decision by the Red Sox was a good idea. Larry Lucchino explained the decision to Richard Sandomir.  
 

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    Buster Olney is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He began covering baseball in 1989, as the Nashville Banner's beat reporter assigned to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. Later, he covered the San Diego Padres (1993-94), the Baltimore Orioles ('95-96), the New York Mets ('97) and the Yankees ('98-2001). Olney joined ESPN The Magazine in 2003, after six years at The New York Times, and he's the author of the Times' best-seller "The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty," a book about the Paul O'Neill-Tino Martinez Yankees dynasty of 1996-01.

    He grew up in central Vermont collecting baseball cards and listening to Red Sox, Expos, Phillies and Pirates radio broadcasts, and was a rabid fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He graduated from Vanderbilt University the same year as hoops legend Will Perdue, and ranks among the all-time leading scorers in pickup basketball at Memorial Gym. He claims to have witnessed the Commodores' winning football season in 1982 (although anthropologists have not yet confirmed this).

    Olney also contributes to ESPN.com, ESPN Radio, ESPNEWS, "SportsCenter" and "Baseball Tonight."

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