January 2009 will mark the first anniversary of Apple's switch in positioning Apple TV from something that transferred computer-based content to a PC to a video vending machine that allowed direct ordering over broadband.

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In fact, when the pair and fellow outfielder Ichiro Suzuki saw reporters studying their positioning today, they conspired to switch things up and play Ichiro in center and Gardner in right, "so you guys would really figure something weird was going on, " Gardner said with a laugh.

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