BASEBALL DAILY REPORT

Phillie bullpen stopper Mitch Williams, when asked if he considered sneaking into the Madonna concert across the street at the Spectrum during the rain delay: “I wouldn’t go over there if they sent me a limo and I got in free. You kidding me? I’m a country music fan. That’s not even music.”

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Williams on having a fiancee whose father owns a bowling alley, when bowling is his favorite pastime: “You don’t know how hard it is to find a girl whose dad owns a bowling alley. It’s great. Of course, before I tried to find a girl whose dad owns a diamond mine.”

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The Blue Jays are irate that they were forced to scramble for a hotel in the Philadelphia area after their reservations were canceled at a hotel near Veterans Stadium. They now are stuck in a hotel in West Conshohocken, about 25 miles away from the stadium. “You can’t go anywhere without it costing you $100,” Blue Jay second baseman Roberto Alomar said.