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Article: BASEBALL OFFICIALS SHIFT FOCUS TO SAFECO BEESTON VOWS TO HELP SEATTLE `DO THE JOB RIGHT' FOR 2001 GAME.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- July 12, 2000
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This didn't have quite the stature of, say, extinguishing the flame at the end of the Olympics, symbolic of the ending of the games of one Olympiad and the start of the countdown for the next.
But baseball's Chief Operating Officer, Paul Beeston, and a host of his lieutenants met with Mariners boss Howard Lincoln yesterday to focus on the 2001 All-Star Game, which will be played at Safeco Field.
With the game in Atlanta still 12 hours away, Beeston proclaimed that the Seattle game had a chance to be the best ever.
``Between Major League Baseball and the Mariners, we're going to make this memorable,'' Beeston said. ``We're going to take it to a ...