The Morning Friar – 3/7/11

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Sportsnet has learned that San Diego Padres catcher Gregg Zaun is set to retire from Major League Baseball.

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Kicking the dog isn’t Chase Headley’s style when he’s mired in a slump. Neither is destroying a clubhouse toilet with a bat or dumping the postgame buffet.

“No,” said Casey Headley, Chase’s wife of two years. “Chase goes quiet.”

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San Diego Padres baseball single-game tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.

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Gleaming green fields spread before Darrel Akerfelds. He sits at a picnic bench under a canopy behind the spring training clubhouse of the San Diego Padres, where he has been the bullpen coach for a decade. He gazes at the reassuring sights — mounds and batting cages, grass and dirt — and it seems as if he might cry.

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The San Diego Padres hope center fielder Cameron Maybin can return to the lineup Monday after missing five games with concussion-like symptoms.

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“Mat again was a little too erratic,” said Padres manager Bud Black. “He doesn’t look comfortable. We’ve got to make sure we iron some things out next time in the bullpen.”

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“I was really nervous,” Bell said. “I just felt like it was a long day and a long game, and just like, ‘blah.’ But I went in there and kept the pitches down, and that’s how you pitch.”

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