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Phillies president: Allowing Myers to pitch 'was wrong'

Updated: July 1, 2006, 5:16 PM ET
Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA -- The president of the Philadelphia Phillies says the team made a "mistake" when it let Brett Myers pitch a day after being arrested and charged with hitting his wife on a Boston street.

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Club president Dave Montgomery, in interviews with two Philadelphia newspapers on Friday, said the team mishandled the situation.

"The decision to allow Brett to pitch was wrong," Montgomery told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "And the reason I believe it was wrong was that an ...

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