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Snowstorm forces Rockies indoors
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More from MLBTwo thoughts crossed Todd Helton's mind when he awoke to a snowstorm Sunday.
"Good hunting weather," the Colorado Rockies first baseman said. "We don't have to go out on the field and practice today. That was my only other thought. It will be a short day for us, a good day. A good day to sit on the couch, I know that."
The snowstorm forced the Rockies indoors for their next-to-last workout before flying off to Boston for the World Series that starts Wednesday night.
Batters took their cuts in cages beneath the stands at Coors Field, and pitchers split up and threw off the indoor mounds next to the home and visitors' batting cages.
The snowfall isn't necessarily a pretense to what the teams will face when the World Series returns to Denver on Saturday night.
"Well, we don't play here for another week and you know how the weather is here," Helton said. "It could be 80 degrees in a week, so I'm not concerned about that."
Yankees to start interviews for Torre's replacement: Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was due in Tampa, Fla., today to start interviewing candidates to replace Joe Torre as manager.
Former Florida Marlins manager Joe Girardi, Yankees bench coach Don Mattingly and New York first-base coach Tony Peña were the first three candidates invited to interview for the job, which opened last Thursday when Torre refused the Yankees' offer of a $5 million, one-year contract.
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