"This president, to show his love of Florida waters -- well, he rolled back the cleanup requirement for rivers, lakes and estuaries," Mr. Kerry said.
Several lawmakers said that aides to Mr. Bloomberg, who had backed the cleanup plan, expressed deep unease about the possibility of an early-morning fracas.
Manager Terry Collins, who has mostly batted Davis sixth season, would not go that far, but only because he does not want to bat Davis back-to-back with the cleanup hitter Lucas Duda, who is also a left-handed batter.
After making some lineup adjustments this week, Collins said he would put Ike Davis (batting.187 with four home runs and nine runs batted in) back in the cleanup spot.
"They get four or five hours of sleep and they are back organizing the cleanup or funeral arrangements or death certificates".
Owners have announced that they will keep paying their employees, and some have invited them back to work on cleanup, for now.
But he did say he expected to put Rodriguez back in the cleanup spot in the Yankees' batting order when he returns, despite the power production they have received from Mark Teixeira (31 home runs) and Curtis Granderson (28).
But the slumping Davis, who had been moved back to the cleanup spot by Collins, could not make contact and chased a curveball in the dirt for the final strike.
Mrs. Whitman also met for the first time with environmentalists who for months had sought an audience to express opposition to any scaling back of the cleanup proposed last year.
While we were all distracted by top kills, containment domes, and other measures to plug or catch it, a hundred million gallons of oil slipped 'round the back and… Cleanup crews and radar images earlier this week reported the same surprising news: The oil seems to be disappearing.
