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My sympathies extended.

I never did learn how to spell his name.

Beastly, do you have any Mantle cards? I might be willing to do something if you do. If so, let me know what you have and then we'll talk about what I can give in return.

The Wildcats just totally destroyed Indiana 80-41. What an ass whippin'. Go 'Cats!

Good call. I agree. Simon would help the Sox.

I must say, I enjoy reading your posts. You have an articulate and unique way of expressing yourself. Keep it up.

What do you expect? Quality?

I'm sure you'd also get a glowing recommendation from your former employer when you applied for your next job.

Sure Pastime, that happens to all of them. But as long he's still performing better than the average shortstop, which the most recent stats verify, then you have to give him the benefit of the doubt. At least until he shows he cannot be at least average, overall, defensively.

Hmmm. Let's see here. Diamond Mind said he should have won the Gold Glove in 2003, gets to between 30 - 35 more plays than the average shortstop and made 20 errors last year. If you take the "average" shortstop and, for the sake of arguement, assume Mr. Average made no errors, then Valentin still "made" 10 -15 more plays than his counterpart, Mr. Average. How does "quickly fading" enter into this equation?

It's a good thing the season doesn't open on December 21st. Relax. There's plenty of time to fill the holes.

Yes, Alvarez could bring it ... when he was in the mood.

If hope KW's more concerned with 2004 than 2005 at this point.

There are some pretty good pitchers out there.

I'd hate to see it happen, but it's conceivable.

The song "Brothers In Arms" was great, imo. I saw Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins perform together on TV once. Just the two of them, sitting on stools, playing their guitars. It was really enjoyable to watch and listen. To those of you not familiar with Chet Atkins, he was argueably the greatest country guitarist that ever lived.

Apparently, you students are not getting the reason you are being asked to do these assignments. Not only is it to expose you the history and imhumanity of those times, but it is also to get you think about and to teach you how to express yourselves. It's not about taking someone else's sentences and putting them into a poem, or whatever the assignment was. It was all about making you use your brain to try and generate a point of view which you could then express within the context of the assignment. Don't take your education lightly, as it truly is the key to your future. Take it from someone that made the wrong choices at your age in regards to priorities. You life will be so much easier if you take your education seriously and pursue it with vigor.

Wilson Alvarez had all kinds of talent and could really be dominating at times. His problem was that he was lazy. In fact, the one guy that reminds me of Alvarez, as far as demeanor goes, is Bartolo Colon. And I never made that connection before this moment.

I have to admit that I thought the White signing was a good move, too. Oh well.

I like this scenario. I hope Evans and Williams can bury the hatchet long enough to oull this trade off. It can help both teams.

As good as Raffy has been, I believe he is, basically, done.

Cedeno has the baseball instincts of a box of rocks. No thank you.

When I used "mistreated" I was being sarcastic. Forgive my lack of green, but I thought it was obvious within the context it was used.