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WEDNESDAY'S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:MLB: St. Louis at Milwaukee, 7:40 p.m. (FS1)NBA: Boston at Toronto, 8 p.m. (ESPN, NBCSB)NHL: Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m. (NBCSN)
AROUND THE WEB:
-- The Oakland A's attempted to promote the team's upcoming series with the Red Sox by trolling the team with a Deflategate tweet on Tuesday.
But there were some flaws in the attempt.
First of all, an Oakland team was not involved in Deflategate so the joke doesn't make as much sense as would, say, a Tuck Rule Game reference, as that involved the Patriots and the Raiders.
But even that had nothing to do with the Red Sox and didn't even happen in the same sport.
Also, the A's used a picture of Dustin Pedroia to promote the series, but he is on the disabled list and might not play against the A's.
-- A lawyer for late Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez is saying the investigation into the boat crash that killed Fernandez and two of his friends was flawed.
Attorney Ralph Fernandez is claiming in a legal filing that Fernandez was unfairly blamed for the September 2016 crash.
The filing accuses Florida wildlife agency investigators of prematurely concluding Fernandez caused the crash and then altering or ignoring evidence to the contrary.
That investigation concluded that Fernandez was operating his boat when it crashed into a Miami Beach jetty, killing Fernandez, Emilio Macias and Eduardo Rivero.
Attorneys for Macias and Rivero say there is no evidence either of them were operating the boat.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "It's in their DNA. It is. It's hard. I don't want to take away their aggressiveness. But we have to get better and they know it." -- Alex Cora, on the Red Sox getting thrown out on the basepaths
