Steff

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QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 10:40 AM) The Rangers have no say except to write the check to the Yankees. You keep claiming the Ranger check follows ARod. The Rangers agreed to pay $67 million dollars of his contract. I think to almost all of us that means that they will pay $67 million of the contract no matter who the middle man is.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 10:18 AM) I'm honestly not trying to start anything, but I have to say that the lineup for those two days talked me out of even signing up for the free trial. There's nothing there that I want to listen to, although I'd imagine that there's something on other channels I'd probably like. I just don't listen to enough radio anymore to justify paying for it. There are 73 other channels to choose from on the trial.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 10:25 AM) Exactly, they will have to send cash to get the deal done. The amount is negotaible. It could be more or less than what is left owed by the Rangers. That is not at all what he is saying. And why do you keep insisting the Rangers have something to do with anything over the funds they agreed to pay...?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 09:52 AM) If the Yankees are not responsible for 100% of the contract then why are the Rangers sending the money to the Yankees? Wouldn't they be sending it directly to Alex? If the Yankees were 100% responsible they wouldn't be getting ANYTHING from the Rangers. I don't work for MLB so I have no idea why they are not sending it directly to him. But the fact is that they ARE responsible for compensating him via the Yankees. As a matter of fact.. you agree to it! QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 09:30 AM) They are receiving payments from the Rangers to compensate tem in part for that contract. Agree? QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 09:45 AM) Texas is responsible to the Yankees for those payments. The Yankees are responsible to pay Alex. The next team will be responsible to pay Alex. Rangers send money to Yankees >> Yankees send money to new team. The amounts can be different. That is all I have said. How is that so hard to understand? Because by all accounts the amount coming from the Rangers, which is what was SPECIFICALLY being questioned earlier in this thread, will NOT change. I suppose now it will become some other amount you were referring to.

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QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 09:30 AM) Let's make this simple. The Yankees are currently 100% responsible to make certain that Alex gets his money. Agree? They are receiving payments from the Rangers to compensate tem in part for that contract. Agree? The next team will also be 100% responsibile for Alex's contract. Agree? They will also, in all likelyhood be receiving money from the Yankees as part of the deal. Agree? The Yankees, IMHO, can send as little or as much as both teams agree on. Agree? The Rangers will continue to send payments to the Yankees. Agree? No Yes No No For the REMAINDER of the money owed to Alex, yes. If he ramains a Yankee, yes.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 09:30 AM) Two different issues. Two different trades. Show me where I ever said that Alex would not receive his full contract? LOL, of course ARod receives his entire contract from the team that is employing him. If the Yankees trade him, the new team pays him. We all know that whomever he gets traded to will want cash along with ARod. The amount that the Yankees choose to include will be negotiated between those two teams. The Yankees are not obligated to send the exact amount or more of the Ranger money. The Yankees may, for example, only send $25 million and not the full $26.4 million remaining. So if some very stupid team wanted ARod and no money from the Yanks, then yes, the Yankees would continue to receive the money from the Rangers. Remember the deal was for players and money. The players that went in the deal don't have to follow, why should the money? Absolutely 2 different issues. Why you are trying to combine them is beyond me. The money follows the player. A contract was signed. Texas agreed to pay a part of it. Alex will get it. What the Yanks do with the part THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE for has nothing to do with what TEXAS is responsible for as stated in the link YOU provided as well as the 2 I provided. Good grief.. :wall And to comment on your question "Show me where I ever said that Alex would not receive his full contract?" from above: QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 09:08 AM) All of the links mention the Rangers paying the Yankees, nowhere is it mentioned that if the Yankees trade him, that the money they are receiving, has to follow the contract. So despite 3 links provided IN this thread stating that Texas is responsible for $67 million of the initial contract... you somehow still think NY can opt to not pass it along to him. Somehow if the Yanks trade him the deal is off...? Is that what you are attempting to imply...? Regoddamndiculous.

Townsend and Daultry are friggin amazing. Live Teenage Wasteland ETA: Pete backed off the interview because he was afraid Howard would ask him about the pedo charges. Daultry admits to "smoking" with Hendrix.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 09:08 AM) All of the links mention the Rangers paying the Yankees, nowhere is it mentioned that if the Yankees trade him, that the money they are receiving, has to follow the contract. If I missed it in my careful reading of each link, then you are a better reader than me. Until I see a quote otherwise, I'll stand by my interpretation of the facts that the Yankees are free to include as little or as much cash into any ARod deal as both teams agree on. And Steff, you are never done. You'll either extract your revenge here or in another thread. I look forward to it. So if the Yanks trade him they KEEP the money?? They don't have to give it to ARod? Are you f***ing kidding me? And no, I couldn't be done with this glowing opportunity to point out some stupidity.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15405966/ By Lacey Rose A nail in the casket is hardly the end for some stars. Instead, their work, as well as their iconic images, continues to appeal to fans who remember them, and to those born long after they died. The 13 icons on our sixth annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list collectively earned $247 million in the last 12 months. Their estates continue to make money by inking deals involving both their work and the rights to use their name and likenesses on merchandise and marketing campaigns. To land on this year’s list, a star needed to make at least $7 million between Oct. 2005 and Oct. 2006. How does a posthumous star land — and stay — on our list? Solitary events — a successful film release or an estate sale — won’t necessarily do it over the long term. Staying power comes from a body of work — or simply an iconic image — with long-lasting appeal. Elvis Presley has both, which has kept the King near the top of our list every year. And last year, entertainment mogul Robert Sillerman’s CKX paid $100 million for an 85 percent share of Presley’s estate. But a one-off event can catapult a star onto the list. Or, in the case of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, to the top. While his music continues to sell, his debut atop the list is largely due to his widow, Courtney Love, who sold a 25 percent stake in his song catalog to publishing company Primary Wave for a reported $50 million. Thanks to this deal, audiences will be hearing much more of the angst-ridden rocker as his library graces the big and small screens. And, in a turn the rock star likely never imagined in his lifetime, his music may one day be used in advertising campaigns. Other stars’ fortunes fluctuate a bit depending on how active their handlers have been in the past year: Music legend Johnny Cash released two new albums this year, and Bob Marley’s team continues to find new ways to repackage his reggae catalog. Former Beatle John Lennon could see a significant increase in income in coming years: His widow Yoko Ono is involved in two lawsuits against record label EMI Group for unpaid royalties. Looking ahead, the future looks bright for late-night legend Johnny Carson, whose personal library of 4,000-plus “Tonight Show” hours could make millions in the YouTube era. Sadly for his fans — and his estate’s finances — less than 20 hours have been released thus far. Of course, with emerging technology, the public will likely get an opportunity to hear — and see — a lot more of many deceased stars, often as they’ve never been seen before. Already, voice modeling and computer-generated imaging can bring posthumous stars back to provide authentic performances for videogames, films and advertisements. You need only flip on the TV to see Audrey Hepburn dancing about in the Gap’s skinny-black-pants advertising campaign.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 08:56 AM) Steff, I love the sigh . . . I was thinking the same thing when I saw you replied. I don't understand if the Yankees are legally bound to send every penny with the contract or if they have some flexibility in sending less if that's what is in both teams best interest. A couple people believe that *all* that money *has* to follow the contract. I was just wondering if that is accurate, and why that language would be in there. I don't see where the Yankees are legally bound to pass on that money, which was my one and only point. And as I have mentioned numerous times, it is a very minor thing. More a technicality and an interesting nuance in baseball's biggest contract. Perhaps if you read the links provided, by yourself no less, you would. In any event. All done. I'm gonna stick with the facts on this one.

Sigh.... http://www.easttennessean.com/media/storag...ttennessean.com http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/base...kees/index.html And this is from the link you provided.. He is owed, in effect, $66.6 million by New York over the last four seasons of his record $252 million, 10-year contract. Rodriguez receives $95 million, with the Yankees getting $28.4 million from Texas to offset part of that. It's clear as day in black and white so exactly what part of the money comming from the Rangers do you not understand...?

Florida's campus killer calmly awaits execution POSTED: 5:46 p.m. EDT, October 24, 2006 GAINESVILLE, Florida (AP) -- Danny Harold Rolling, Florida's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy, was "remarkably calm" as he awaited his execution for the grisly 1990 slayings of five college students in Gainesville, his attorney said Tuesday. Rolling's lawyers filed papers with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a stay of execution. The Florida attorney general asked the court to reject Rolling's application. Rolling, 52, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Wednesday for a reign of terror that paralyzed Gainesville as the University of Florida's fall semester was beginning 16 years ago. "He was remarkably calm. He is a lot calmer than his lawyers are," said Baya Harrison, his appeals lawyer. He said that Rolling told him: "I don't want to die, but it looks like I'm going to die." His execution is reopening old wounds for some of the victims' families. Several relatives plan to watch the execution at Florida State Prison in Starke, including Diana Hoyt, the stepmother of Christa Hoyt. "This is a tough thing, but is a necessary thing to go through," she said. "This is the final thing we can do for Christa and for my late husband and her dad, Gary." "It is very hard for us to see someone else die," she said. "But, he deserves it." Ricky Paules, the mother of victim Tracy Paules, will be joined by another daughter: "If you see us crying, it is not for Rolling, but for Tracy." The students' bodies, some mutilated, posed and sexually assaulted, were found over a three-day period in August and September 1990. The killing spree touched off a massive manhunt, causing students to cower in fear and purchase weapons as the killer remained unidentified. (Full story) Rolling was in jail for a supermarket robbery when investigators used DNA to link him to the killings months later. When he was finally scheduled to go on trial in 1994, he shocked the courtroom by pleading guilty to the five slayings. Rolling's remaining appeal contends that the chemicals used in Florida's execution process can cause severe pain. It is before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has turned down the same arguments in two other Florida executions this fall. Harrison does not believe he will be able to halt the execution. "It's tough, we are down to the last effort," Harrison said. "I'm not hopeful, to tell you the truth." Crowds are expected outside the prison Wednesday, with possibly the largest turnout since Bundy's execution. Bundy was suspected in the deaths and disappearances of 36 women across the country. He was electrocuted January 24, 1989, in the same death chamber where Rolling will die by lethal injection. That case was still fresh in the minds of many when Rolling's killings began the next year in roughly the same area as some of Bundy's. Sonja Larson, 18, and Christina Powell, 17, were stabbed to death on a Sunday afternoon in 1990, in a townhouse just off the University of Florida campus. The 18-year-old Hoyt, who had been decapitated, was found the next morning in her isolated duplex; and Tracy Paules and Manny Taboada, both 23, were discovered dead a day later at Gatorwood Apartments. Authorities in Rolling's hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, investigating a triple slaying that they believe he committed, later suggested to a task force that it should check out the drifter and ex-con. The DNA left at the crime scenes in Gainesville matched genetic material police recovered from Rolling during some dental work. Throughout the years, Rolling has insisted he was not as atrocious as many thought. In a letter to The Associated Press in 2002, Rolling wrote, "I assure you I am not a salivating ogre. Granted ... time's past; the dark era of long ago -- Dr. Jeckle & Mr. Hyde did strike up & down the corridors of insanety." Rolling claimed he had good and bad multiple personalities. He blamed the murders on abuse he suffered as a child from his police officer father and his treatment in prison. He said he killed one person for every year he was behind bars. He served a total of eight years in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi before the Florida killings.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/24/los.alamo...s.ap/index.html Los Alamos nuke documents thought found in drug raid POSTED: 9:01 p.m. EDT, October 24, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A drug raid on a Los Alamos scientist's home in New Mexico turned up what appeared to be classified documents taken from the nuclear weapons lab, the FBI said Tuesday. Police discovered the documents at the scientist's home while making an arrest in a methamphetamine investigation, according to an FBI official in Washington who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case. The police alerted the FBI to the documents, prompting a federal search of the unidentified female scientist's home. The official would not describe the documents except to say that they appeared to contain classified material. Asked about the raid, FBI special agent Bill Elwell in Albuquerque, New Mexico, confirmed that a search warrant was executed on Friday night, but he refused to discuss details. "We do have an investigation with regard to the matter, but our standard is we do not discuss pending investigations," Elwell said. A spokesman for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, declined to comment. Past problems at Los Alamos Los Alamos has a history of high-profile security problems in the past decade, with the most notable the case of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. After years of accusations, Lee pleaded guilty in a plea bargain to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets at the lab. In 2004, the lab was essentially shut down after an inventory showed that two computer disks containing nuclear secrets were missing. A year later the lab concluded that it was just a mistake and the disks never existed. But the incident highlighted sloppy inventory control and security failures at the nuclear weapons lab. And the Energy Department began moving toward a five-year program to create a so-called diskless environment at Los Alamos to prevent any classified material being carried outside the lab. Even though Los Alamos is now under new management, Danielle Brian, executive director of the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight, said the lab has not done much to clean up its act. "Los Alamos has always seemed to be rewarded for its screw-ups," Brian said. "We're waiting with bated breath to see if anything has changed." The idea that police found classified documents in a drug lab is disturbing, she said. "The problem is when you actually have those materials that are supposed to be protected inside the lab and you find them outside the lab in the hands of criminals that should worry everybody," Brian said. The FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Albuquerque were "evaluating the information obtained as a result of the search warrant," Elwell said. The federal charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.

It's no theory, it's the facts. The $67 million from the Rangers follows him. It's got nothing to do with the Yankees. http://www.easttennessean.com/media/storag...ttennessean.com http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/base...kees/index.html

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 10:46 PM) maybe because ARod is a Yankee and they are the ones trading him? And that has what to do with the money being paid by the Rangers which is whay the question was to start with...

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 07:05 PM) It just seems like more nanny state. I wish parents would be more responsible. I agree with that 150000000%. But sadly we hear every single day about how parents can't be at their kids sides watching their every move 100% of the time.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 05:17 PM) I think it would depend on who the Yankees receive in return. While it would seem nit piking to some, having the flexibility to adjust the dollars based on the talent involved will make the deal much easier to make. Imagine if you had to offer the exact combination of players that would make that exact cash work out. In the end, as I mentioned before, whether the Rangers are sending money to the Yankees or to A-Rod anything could be worked out. ARod's original deal and Boras' ability to sell a player coming off an injury, and unavailable for a workout, to a top 10 contract, proves that. I don't understand why you are tossing in what the Yanks may do. That was not commented on. Mike specifically commented about the $67 million from the Rangers and them passing it on. The Rangers will continue to pay that money per the agreement they along with MLB and ARod agreed to. At least that much of ARod's contract will be paid by someone other than the team he plays for, unless he returns to the Rangers. http://www.easttennessean.com/media/storag...ttennessean.com http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/base...kees/index.html

QUOTE(That funky motion @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 06:03 PM) Sorry! The SOX sent me a vagina! Thats better! Tsk, tsk... "That's..."

QUOTE(OfficerKarkovice @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 04:29 PM) Raines took grounders with the infielders just about every day when they were here in Chicago so either the beat writer pays no attention at all or he is just fishing for stories that make him seem "connected." I'm not saying that Rock not working hard enough isn't a valid explanation but to use the incident in Anaheim as an example isn't correct. Depending on who it is, he may not be privy to the workout here - as the general public is not. I agree that it's BS though.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 04:15 PM) I agree that money would have to follow A-Rod, I just believe it could be more or less than what Texas is paying Or the same. Or let's just nit pick for no good stupid ass reason.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 01:31 PM) It sure fails on the rehabilitate part. Those it would effect don't deserve to be rehabilitated. IMO, of course.

This is how I feel today.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 10:14 AM) But NY is under no obligation to pass that money on if they trade Arod. I'm pretty sure in his deal it does. I'll look for a link, but I recall that MLB approval was based on those funds following the life of the contract.