Athleticstalk.com | Oakland Athletics News, athletics Scores, Game Recaps & Commentary - <div>ANAHEIM (AP) A man involved in a fight at Angel Stadium on opening day has died. </div>Police said Brian Powers, 27, of Buena Park, Calif., died Wednesday at a hospital. No arrests have been made. Angels spokesman Tim Mead said the fight occurred Monday night shortly after the game between the Los Angeles Angels and Oakland Athletics . Witnesses told police the man was fighting with someone when a third person came from behind and punched the victim in the head. The man fell and hit his head on a concrete step near a stairwell. Police are unsure what led to the fight and who started it. Joba disses New Yorkers Joba Chamberlain pokes fun at Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra and shows no love for New York City motorists in a police video of his DUI arrest last October. "He might not be as tall as the front of your car," Chamberlain said of Berra to the Nebraska state trooper who arrested him. Chamberlain also says in the video that "opening a door and saying please and thank you" are not part of the norm in New York. "The biggest thing that I've noticed driving here and there is if you let somebody in they open the window and say 'Thank you,'" he said of driving in Nebraska. "In New York, they might hit you. Yeah, it's a joke." Ichiro improving Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki has been cleared to begin playing in his comeback from a bleeding ulcer that caused severe fatigue. Twins' Mauer on the mend Minnesota catcher Joe Mauer is back in the batter's box and crouching behind the plate, moving a step closer to returning from the lower-back inflammation that put him on the disabled list. A's sign Giese The Oakland Athletics claimed right-hander Dan Giese off waivers from the New York Yankees on Wednesday, then optioned him to Triple-A Sacramento. Padres introduce new president Former Arizona Diamondbacks executive Tom Garfinkel has been introduced as the San Diego Padres' president and chief operating officer. Madoff's tickets on sale For $810, you can put yourself in Bernard Madoff's place his Citi Field seats, that is. The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities put a pair of tickets for Monday's Citi Field opener on sale on eBay on Wednesday. As of 5 p.m., the current bid was $800 for the tickets, seats 5-6 in the eighth row in section 11, just to the home plate side of the New York Mets' dugout. There was a deadline of 8:21 p.m. EDT Friday to bid for the seats, which are called Delta Club Gold and come with access to the Delta Club behind home plate. The tickets retail for $525 apiece, and the $800 bid for the pair was the only one that had been made. The next bid would have to be at least $10 more. Lawyer Irving H. Picard worked out a deal with the Mets, returning to the team two $695 seats in the second row, called Delta Club Platinum, in exchange for the pair being sold on eBay. Links for other April tickets to be sold will be posted on Picard's Web site, www.madofftrustee.com . Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz were close to Madoff, who pleaded guilty March 12 in federal court to 11 counts, including securities fraud and perjury, stemming from a Ponzi scheme prosecutors said was worth $64.8 billion. The 70-year-old Madoff faces up to 150 years in prison at sentencing June 16. Wilpon, Katz and many entities of their company, Sterling Equities, and various affiliated foundations are among the swindled creditors. According to a motion filed with the bankruptcy court, Madoff's firm bought two Delta Club Platinum ticket section 16, row 2, seats 5-6 for $80,190. Those tickets are worth $295-$695 per game, depending on the opponent and day of the week, and average $495 the top price in the ballpark. The Mets agreed to exchange them for the Delta Club Gold Seats, which are worth $60,750, a range of $225-$525 per game and an average of $375. The team will refund the $19,440 different between the face values. If the court approves, April seats would be sold for individual games and the rest as a package. The trustee felt the less expensive Delta Gold seats were "more marketable" and gained renewal rights for the purchaser of the bulk of the season plan. The Mets also said they would make the opening bid of 50 percent of face value. Separately, the Mets auctioned 100 tickets for the season opener with a list price of $525 (Delta Club Gold), $315 (Delta Club Silver), $280 (Ebbets Club) and $210 (Metropolitan Box). According to the team's Web site, the winning minimum bids were $860, $760, $470 and $410.

ANAHEIM (AP) A man involved in a fight at Angel Stadium on opening day has died.

Police said Brian Powers, 27, of Buena Park, Calif., died Wednesday at a hospital. No arrests have been made.

Angels spokesman Tim Mead said the fight occurred Monday night shortly after the game between the Los Angeles Angels and Oakland Athletics . Witnesses told police the man was fighting with someone when a third person came from behind and punched the victim in the head. The man fell and hit his head on a concrete step near a stairwell.

Police are unsure what led to the fight and who started it.

Joba disses New Yorkers

Joba Chamberlain pokes fun at Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra and shows no love for New York City motorists in a police video of his DUI arrest last October.

"He might not be as tall as the front of your car," Chamberlain said of Berra to the Nebraska state trooper who arrested him.

Chamberlain also says in the video that "opening a door and saying please and thank you" are not part of the norm in New York.

"The biggest thing that I've noticed driving here and there is if you let somebody in they open the window and say 'Thank you,'" he said of driving in Nebraska.

"In New York, they might hit you. Yeah, it's a joke."

Ichiro improving

Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki has been cleared to begin playing in his comeback from a bleeding ulcer that caused severe fatigue.

Twins' Mauer on the mend

Minnesota catcher Joe Mauer is back in the batter's box and crouching behind the plate, moving a step closer to returning from the lower-back inflammation that put him on the disabled list.

A's sign Giese

The Oakland Athletics claimed right-hander Dan Giese off waivers from the New York Yankees on Wednesday, then optioned him to Triple-A Sacramento.

Padres introduce

new president

Former Arizona Diamondbacks executive Tom Garfinkel has been introduced as the San Diego Padres' president and chief operating officer.

Madoff's tickets on sale

For $810, you can put yourself in Bernard Madoff's place his Citi Field seats, that is.

The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities put a pair of tickets for Monday's Citi Field opener on sale on eBay on Wednesday. As of 5 p.m., the current bid was $800 for the tickets, seats 5-6 in the eighth row in section 11, just to the home plate side of the New York Mets' dugout.

There was a deadline of 8:21 p.m. EDT Friday to bid for the seats, which are called Delta Club Gold and come with access to the Delta Club behind home plate. The tickets retail for $525 apiece, and the $800 bid for the pair was the only one that had been made. The next bid would have to be at least $10 more.

Lawyer Irving H. Picard worked out a deal with the Mets, returning to the team two $695 seats in the second row, called Delta Club Platinum, in exchange for the pair being sold on eBay. Links for other April tickets to be sold will be posted on Picard's Web site, www.madofftrustee.com .

Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz were close to Madoff, who pleaded guilty March 12 in federal court to 11 counts, including securities fraud and perjury, stemming from a Ponzi scheme prosecutors said was worth $64.8 billion. The 70-year-old Madoff faces up to 150 years in prison at sentencing June 16.

Wilpon, Katz and many entities of their company, Sterling Equities, and various affiliated foundations are among the swindled creditors.

According to a motion filed with the bankruptcy court, Madoff's firm bought two Delta Club Platinum ticket section 16, row 2, seats 5-6 for $80,190. Those tickets are worth $295-$695 per game, depending on the opponent and day of the week, and average $495 the top price in the ballpark.

The Mets agreed to exchange them for the Delta Club Gold Seats, which are worth $60,750, a range of $225-$525 per game and an average of $375. The team will refund the $19,440 different between the face values.

If the court approves, April seats would be sold for individual games and the rest as a package. The trustee felt the less expensive Delta Gold seats were "more marketable" and gained renewal rights for the purchaser of the bulk of the season plan.

The Mets also said they would make the opening bid of 50 percent of face value.

Separately, the Mets auctioned 100 tickets for the season opener with a list price of $525 (Delta Club Gold), $315 (Delta Club Silver), $280 (Ebbets Club) and $210 (Metropolitan Box). According to the team's Web site, the winning minimum bids were $860, $760, $470 and $410.