Steff

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 09:40 AM) And I don't either. Urbina has really struggled at Citizens giving up the longball, and the only other closer option would be Vicente Padilla, but that's taking away a starter. Wagner is a rare commodity, a great closer who throws heat. The Phillies should just hang onto him and trade for a Gil Meche or somebody like that if they want a starter. Exactly. Wagner is all that is keeping Wade his job. I will be extremely shocked if Wagner moves.. even for AJB.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 09:36 AM) Philly is not going to accept a Brian Anderson / Ryan Sweeney plus Jeff Bajenaru for Billy Wagner deal. They already have Pat Burrell and Bobby Abreu in the outfield, Ryan Howard could move there next season if he's still stuck behind Jim Thome (which is what all indications point to). They want to win now (well Ed Wade does because his job is on the line). At least throw a Contreras or Hernandez into the deal to get the ball rolling. I still don't think he deals Wagner.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 08:58 AM) Cleanup in aisle 5! I don't really see what being in the same division has to do with anything.. But I wouldn't really hang on too tight to a deal with Tampa. They want the moon and the stars.. and in return are willing to give you a kaleidoscope.

No... Wille Harris = MVP Now it has everything.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 07:25 AM) I don't see how it's stupid now. The alloted time spent critizing Hawkins is exactly the issue at hand here. It wasn't simply loud booing, as was expected, but continued heckling for the entire inning. Both circumstances involved booing former players, yes; but the difference between them should be noted. I wasn't debating the time.. I was stating my opinion that it's both classless no matter how long or short. I never said anything about the time, or the treatment.

Oye ve... :banghead

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 07:19 PM) In other news: The sun is still hot. The planet Pluto is very far away. and in entertainment news: Milli Vanilli did not sing on their Grammy-award winning album.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 03:50 AM) He's scheduled to start Tuesday. Wow...

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 05:05 PM) Damn, Steff, I live 10 minutes from the plant... you always forget about me. You're rigt kap... and I apologize..

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 06:34 PM) Ok but which is worse... a few scattered fans saying you suck Magglio or a 30,000 fans chanting You Suck Latroy..... I dont see how my point is stupid when you compare the homecomings of both players.... Apparently there is a comprehension issue here.... They are BOTH classless. Your point is stupid, IMO.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 04:57 PM) He's not a regular like Sanberg but he has written a few columns. They have like 20 ex MLB players writing for them. Oh.. Like BlackJack did last year I assume.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 04:56 PM) Doug Jones is on the Sox? Eh.. nope.

QUOTE(HSC's Biggest Fan @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 04:54 PM) He will be productive for us by the end of the year. How Wille Harris (BA about .220) and Vizcaino stick arund and he is gone is a complete mystery. Hu..?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 04:52 PM) I believe he's writing columns for yahoo sports. Seriously..??

Tex.. I haven't seen any updates since this happened. Are they talking about it down by you..?

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 04:49 PM) His control was not what it was last year. If he gets that back, and he did have it back for a while this season, he still would be fooling hitters. His strikeout rate is still pretty high. IIRC its still over 1 an inning, and considering he throws nowhere near 95, the hitters don't have him totally figured out. Doug Jones went through a year or two of being tatooed and he was the same kind of pitcher Shingo was. He came back, I believe Shingo can as well. Doug Jones.. where the heck is he these days..?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 04:41 PM) Sucks to be them, because he will be good again, he is a true pro with years of experience. He will. Heck.. ELo even came back.. sorta.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050728/od_nm/...DRpBHNlYwM3NTc- RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A dead woman lying in her casket was hit by a stray bullet during a wake in Rio de Janeiro and mourners fled in panic, police said on Wednesday. The bullet, fired in a shootout between a drug gang and police in a slum adjacent to the cemetery Tuesday, pierced the casket inside the cemetery's chapel and got lodged in the corpse's pelvis. Clenilda da Silva, 49, a babysitter, had died the previous day of a heart attack. The bullet was not removed before burial. "This is just too sad. My God, to get shot after death," Extra tabloid newspaper quoted da Silva's sister, Maria de Lourdes Pereira, as saying. The newspaper said another bullet broke a window in a neighboring chapel and bullet holes could be seen on many trees and cemetery walls. Standoffs between drug gangs and police or just between rival gangs often claim innocent lives in Rio, which has one of the world's highest murder rates

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainanimals...HBhBHNlYwM5NjQ- Foul-mouthed British parrot banished by embarrassed keepers Tue Jul 26, 3:36 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - A foul-mouthed parrot previously owned by a lorry driver has been banished from public areas in a British animal sanctuary after repeatedly embarrassing his keepers, they said. Barney, a five-year-old Macaw, is now kept indoors at Warwickshire Animal Sanctuary in Nuneaton, central England, when outsiders visit after abusing dignitaries with swearword-littered insults. "He's told a lady mayoress to f..(expletive) off and he told a lady vicar: 'And you can f... off as well'," sanctuary worker Stacey Clark said. Nor did the forces of law and order escape, she added. "Two policemen came to have a look at the centre. He told them: 'And you can f... off you two wankers'." Clark said sanctuary workers believed Barney either picked up the phrases from television or was taught them by his previous owner, a lorry driver who emigrated to Spain. "He does say 'Hello, big boy' and 'Thank you' when you give him a biscuit," she added. "But it's mainly naughty words and always to the wrong people. We're trying to teach him not to swear. Macaws are very intelligent birds."

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 04:21 PM) ____________________________ I knew there was no way in hell I'd be able to beat Tex or Jim so I didn't even attempt one..

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 04:08 PM) I dont know where you find all these great links Steff, but keep em coming. I had that "Ken, by request" album cover as my desktop for months i thought it was so funny. I have 2 friends who literally do nothing all day but answer phones and transfer calls.. the spend 8 hours a day scoping the net for weird stuff... then send it to me.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050728/ca...GNqBHNlYwM3Mzc- Bomb threat temporarily shuts down several Toronto subway stations 41 minutes ago TORONTO (CP) - A false bomb scare sent police and bomb-sniffing dogs into subway stations across Toronto on Thursday, exactly one week after failed bombings in London's underground train network. Police found nothing suspicious after shutting down parts of two subway lines for about an hour just after 10 a.m., sending about 60,000 commuters onto the streets and crowded shuttle buses. Officers and transit officials scoured 18 stations that run through the city's core and deemed them safe, said Marilyn Bolton of the Toronto Transit Commission. Police immediately characterized the threat as a copycat and feared more would emerge. "These types of calls obviously increase when things around the world happen," said Const. Wendy Drummond. "We have a fear that we're going to get copycats and this is going to continue tying up resources and whatnot that might be better utilized elsewhere." Drummond said police received a phone call alerting them to the threat, but would not elaborate on the nature of the call. The call was made to a local media outlet warning that a device would be detonated on the Yonge Street line at 10:30 a.m. Police officials said they routinely investigate any and all threats. "The Toronto Police Service believes that it's better to err on the side of caution and we take all these calls very seriously," said Const. Kristine Bacharach.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050728/wl_can...e_dinosaurs_col Oldest dinosaur eggs yet held hapless babies-study By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent 1 hour, 34 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unhatched dinosaur eggs dating back 190 million years carried fully developed embryos that would have been born clumsy and helpless, scientists said on Thursday. Their finding, published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, suggests even the earliest dinosaurs tended carefully to their young. It also raises questions about how the giant four-legged dinosaurs called sauropods evolved. "These animals do not have any teeth, and since they are ready to hatch, that is strange," said Robert Reisz of the University of Toronto at Mississauga in Canada, who led the study. "The only explanation for that is they must have been fed by the mother. That would be oldest evidence of parental care in the fossil record," Reisz added in a telephone interview. "We are looking at the very beginning of dinosaur evolution." "It does support the idea that parental care and possible altricial (helpless) young existed throughout the reign of the Dinosauria," paleontologist Jack Horner of the University of Montana agreed in an e-mail. The eggs come from a dinosaur called Massospondylus, one of a group called prosauropods that later evolved into the giant sauropods such as apatosaurus, previously known as brontosaurus. "Most dinosaur embryos are from the Cretaceous period (146 to 65 million years ago)," Reisz said in a statement. The fossil eggs were found in South Africa in 1978, but scientists have only now been able to open and study them properly. Reisz's team used tiny tools to do it. "We have essentially miniature jackhammers. They are pencil sized," he said. "And we use very delicate dental tools." Working under a powerful microscope, Reisz's team had to design a vibration-free table to work on. "When somebody slammed a door in the building, my technician who preparing this felt that," Reisz said. When they got the eggs open, they could see the baby dinosaurs were just about to hatch. In fact, egg fragments were all around, suggesting that at least one did. And the babies did not look like the parents. Adult prosauropods were slender and two-legged. The babies looked more like the dinosaurs that developed later, and they looked like the babies of animals such as birds and mammals, as opposed to the small but adult-proportioned young of reptiles. "The head is quite large. The pelvic girdle is very small. That's where most of the muscles that would be used for locomotion are located," Reisz said. "So we are suggesting this was a relatively helpless little hatchling." Very few animals develop as this one appears to have, Reisz said. "It starts out as a quadriped and becomes, as it grows up, as a biped. There are very few examples in nature that do this," he said. One example, however, is a human baby. "We start out as an awkward quadriped and we manage to become bipedal," he said. Now the researchers can use computers to work out how these animals grew from a 6-inch (15-cm) long embryo into a 15 foot-(5-meter) long adult. "This discovery is exciting in providing a major piece of the puzzle of how sauropodomorphs grew and reproduced," said biologist James Clark of George Washington University in Washington.

http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl...WS0105/50721005 Severely disabled woman gives birth early in Chicago CHICAGO -- A severely disabled woman who became pregnant in a suburban Chicago long-term care facility delivered a daughter a month early Wednesday after complications brought on premature labor. The lawyer in a civil suit against the facility said Thursday the birth was "touch and go" for the infant and mother and emotionally trying for his client, grandmother Cheryl Hale-Crom of Machesney Park. Chicago attorney Ed Fox said Amy Jo Hale, 23, developed pre-eclampsia, a serious condition that results in high blood pressure in pregnant women. Hale, who was scheduled for Caesarean section in mid-August, instead was taken at 5 a.m. Wednesday to Rush University Medical Center in Chicago where she began having contractions by mid-morning, Fox said. Doctors delayed surgery for several hours, he said, until they could stop Hale's seizures. Hale's seizure disorder left her brain damaged as an infant, and she has resided in nursing homes since she was 3. Hale cannot walk or talk. She wears diapers and eats through a feeding tube. The lawsuit Fox filed on behalf of Hale and her mother alleges that Alden Village Health Facility in Bloomingdale, where Hale lived until June, concealed her pregnancy for months and failed to provide Hale with prenatal care. Fox said Hale and the baby remained Thursday in intensive care, but show no immediate signs of long-term health problems. Medical tests on both would be conducted over the next few days, Fox said. Hale's daughter, Alexis Jo, was born shortly after 8 p.m. and weighed 5 pounds, 3 ounces. Fox said he was with Hale-Crom when the delivery occurred, as were Hale-Crom's sister, niece and mother. Fox described Hale-Crom as "traumatized" and "really stressed out." "She was relieved when her daughter came through the surgery. She was concerned about her daughter making it through alive." The lawsuit contends Alden's failure to notify Hale-Crom of the pregnancy prevented her from having the pregnancy aborted. She told the Rockford Register Star that she'd raise the baby so long as the baby is healthy. She could not be reached Thursday. Bloomingdale police are investigating the case as an aggravated criminal sexual assault.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 03:41 PM) The point is it wasnt half as bad as the treatment Latroy got... Your point is stupid then. Saying a player sucks shows a lack of class regardless if it's done once, or 50 times.. for 2 minutes or 30.