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Bobby Murcer will be present in the YES Network broadcast booth for the first time this season on Friday. It's a safe bet, if Murcer's face should flash on the video screen in right-center field, that the crowd reaction will be louder and more heartfelt than anything that occurs in the game.

The Yankees took rookie starter Ian Kennedy off the hook after he left trailing, but Ramon Santiago ripped a two-run triple and Miguel Cabrera homered off Jonathan Albaladejo as the Tigers rallied to an 8-4 victory over New York on Thursday at Yankee Stadium, securing a series sweep.

Peter Burrows (BusinessWeek) notes that customer enthusiasm is pushing more and more Macs into the Enterprise and that “the call is coming from mainstream users, people who may have started off with an iPod, then bought a Mac at home and no longer want a ‘Windows-by-day, Mac-by-night’ existence.”

PC Magazine awards 4/5 stars to the new 24-inch iMac, calling it “the iconic all-in-one desktop that others try to emulate.” Praising its energy efficiency, lack of pre-loaded “bloatware,” and space-saving design, reviewer Joel Santo Domingo concludes that “even though there are a slew of new competitors to the iMac, none of them have quite enough innovation or execution to dethrone the king of the all-in-one desktops.”

Awarding the new 24-inch 2.8GHz iMac an Editor’s Choice, CNET gives it an 8.5/10 score and says, “Given its strong application performance and competitive price, we give the iMac a strong recommendation as a mainstream desktop in addition to being best in class in the all-in-one niche.”

Yankees Minor League left-hander Angel Reyes was suspended for 50 games on Thursday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.

With Alex Rodriguez sidelined for at least two weeks with a Grade 2 strain of his right quadriceps, Shelley Duncan assumed duties batting No. 4 in the Yankees' lineup on Thursday against Tigers left-hander Nate Robertson.

A secondary examination on Yankees right-hander Phil Hughes revealed a stress fracture of his ninth rib on the right side, which will put the 21-year-old rookie out of action until at least July, general manager Brian Cashman said Thursday.