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The Mike Rizzo Years were 2000-2006

The Draft is important to the Diamondbacks. So what can we learn about strengths/weaknesses of the franchise historically?

If previous years' selections of big Russian wingers are an indication, But will have early first-round suitors.

It produced willie mays. erny banks. tremendous. somehow in the 60s and into the 70s, we lost that. i dont know why. nobody seems to know why. we are going to get it back. we are working is 150,000 kids playing baseball. so i like where we are. as for the front offices, we have three or four minority general managers, but we have assistance and scouting directors, so i think in the coming four, five, six years youll see a lot of progress. >> you see room for improvement? >> no question about it ...

Deficiency, in your view? >> if youll remember, i always said the most powerful and greatest moment in history was jackie robinson coming to the big leagues. it produced great players like henry aaron and willie mays and bob gibson, ernie banks. tremendous. somehow in the 60s and into the 70s, we lost that. i dont know why. nobody seems to know why. but were going to get it back and were really working hard. the inner citys rbi program was 150 million kids playing baseball. in the front office, ...

2,000 people in st. landry parish west of baton rouge have been told to pack up and leave. they have until 6:00 p.m. eastern time. six other parishes in the region are also expected to flood. the evacuations come after the army corps of engineers started opening flood gates on the morganza spillway. more will likely be opened in the days ahead. theyre merging spillways away from new orleans and baton rouge, but that puts nearly 4,000 people in the path of that flood. were joined from s...

officials are focused on this one 26-mile stretch of a dirt road to nowhere. its actually the levee. see the crew on the left hand side, its for the yazoo and mississippi river. this levee is holding it back. however, theres one foot between the level of the water and when it goes over the top. the prediction is its going to go over the top. we were talking with the secretary of state of mississippi, they expect it to happen overnight. water going over the levee is not the end of the w...