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There have also been the big ticket price increases the past few years to factor in.

You forget where you are... no need to apologize

Exactly. Oh boy the teams with the two biggest checkbooks get to play in the ALCS, whoopie. Just for once I would like to see the two best run teams make it, instead of the guys who can just pay to cover up their mistakes. Yankees/Red Sox? I know I won't be watching.

RIP Ken. But to me this begs the question to everyone who uses this stuff now, is it worth it? Is the guy who is trying to get the big contract going to pay the ultimate price in return for the extra HRs? Hopefully today's young athletes take and learn from this. And hopefully MLB learns from it also, ditches this s***ty testing program, and goes to something like the olympics has where being busted once can result in years worth of suspensions, and forfietures of prizes.

With the wife and cats.

RIP Superman

NCorg?

I totally agree with you. I don't understand what the NFLs motivation is for half of these new rules.

See also Eddie Murray. He was an easy first ballot guy.

Frank will be in the HOF. The only question is will he be a first ballot or not.

Happy birthday all!

Nuke seriously take a look under the hood when you look at the Stratus. The last model I saw, you had to take off a rear tire in order to change the battery. Just an FYI.

Not true in the space shuttles case anyway. They are buying parts that are no longer in productions, because they have never changed the technology. No one makes these parts, so it is impossible to enter into an expensive contract for them.

Elton John snaps on Madonna http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/0...reut/index.html

With fair trades turned off

And after seeing the lengths the Ordonez camp will go to in order to protect his worth, I have no doubts Maggs will go to the highest bidder no matter how bad they are.

Matt Clement... oh wait the Cubs didn't make the playoffs

2.My olympic style testing meant that all drugs are tested for, including all of the growth hormones, and there is a zero tolerance with huge long suspensions issued for violations. Players would forfeit all salary in the interm. 3. Whenever a forgein player wants to be considered for the MLB, he has to enter the draft. Period. It wouldn't be where you could just draft anyone, just players who declare. 4. This is a great idea for the simple fact that the worst teams can't draft the best players out there because they are asking for too much money, so those players fall to the bigger payroll teams, and the circle of crappiness continues. And actually your example of the rate of MLB draft pick failures should contribute to fiscal certianty in the draft, because it would keep the money risked on these uncertianties smaller.

Happy 23rd

It has been ugly lately. Hopefully after the election some of that dies down

I did. Since Carl Everett and Scott Scho weren't options, Timo was my choice. I hate lazy players, especially ones who put up s***ty numbers.

And it ain't the sausage

Why would they? He isn't worth what he could get in arbit. We still have a couple of months to try to pound something out with him if we really wanted too...

If we get Urbina as a closer, this team is set after the 5th inning. I also love the fact that we would be able to use both Damaso and Shingo whenever 6th-8th innings to be able to get whatever key out was needed, while still having Urbina at the end to slam the door.