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Even the optimistic numbers are a 15-20% drop in HR. Which is also a drop in runs scored. Don't forget Maggs was are most consistent (.300+ avg.) hitter. We need guys to get on base. Let's say that the first part of the equation is happening, guys are getting on base and advancing. Pitchers are less likely to challenge the hitters with 1st base open than with no one on base. All of a sudden those 2-2 fast balls out over the plate, become corner nibblers and breaking balls. This changes more than just adding and dropping power numbers.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 01:42 AM) Seriously, this shows me enough. If anyone ever doubted it, there is no doubt anymore, Boras is the best freaking agent in all of sports. He could represent me anytime. How the hell did he get Maggs 15 mill a year, I'll never now, but good god he did the job. Maggs should be excited as hell. Obviously he should of still taken the Sox deal (cause they are a better team then the Tigers) but this is definately a quality backup plan. I think the Tigers are a nice franchise who have won two World Series in my lifetime. I am honestly surprised at this contract. I really think he could have gotten $100 mil if he hadn't been injured.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 09:49 AM) Jose Canseco is the male equivalent of an aging bimbo who can't deal with the fact that nobody fawns over her anymore. He's a pathetic attention whore. As much as I love a good "he's dirty" story, it takes more than Canseco's testimony for me to believe.

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QUOTE(3 BeWareTheNewSox 5 @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 12:24 AM) I use ********* Are you sure knightni? I don't think there's anything wrong with it, I know lots that bet with that site It is definitely illegal to gamble in the US. Enforcement is next to impossible, so it goes on. I am amazed that they allow advertisements to be aired.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 10:44 PM) Just what I was thinking... The Tiggies have one void in this contract. One. So, if Magglio makes it through this year, everything else becomes guaranteed (or at least up until the option years?)??? It could get real ugly if the two sides start pointing fingers at each other mid-season, meaning -- Maggs thinks he's OK to go on the knee, the Tigers want him on the DL -- it might get real, real messy... That's why there are team Doctors. I am certain there is some mechanism in the contract to protect both parties.

I signed up last season and for the most part it works well. When it doesn't, it really sucks. I have a cable modem and wireless network.

Looking it over, if Maggs is seriously hurt, the Tigers are out $12 mil. Not a lot of guaranteed money. If I was an All-Star, Boras is the guy I would want negotiating my contract.

Probably as fast as Sox fans concluded he was a no talent greedy jerk.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 07:51 PM) Beltre was paid soley on this year and his career year blew out of the water what maggs has ever done. I loved maggs when he was here also but you're sorely overrating his value. One guy has 5 years of .300/30/100 vs. a guy with one great season. Baseball salries are insane to begin with, but Maggs earning more than a guy with one great season behind him makes sense. If Maggs hadn't been injured, he would have been closer to 6/90

Beltre has had exactly one season over .265 avg., over 80 rbi, .426 slugging, and over 23 HRs. Beltre signed for 5 years $64 million. Tell me Maggs is worth less than Beltre. GMAB. Maggs averaged for 6 seasons over Beltre's one career year. With protections in place in case the Doctors here are right and he loses major time, something over $64 million is within the insanity that is baseball salaries.

Salaries increase every season. 15 in 2009 is far different than 15 in 2005. Career .300 hitters with some pop in the bat make a lot of money.

What Nuke is trying to explain is MAN decides what is murder, not GOD. Duh. The US Government defines morality. If the government decides someone should be dead, that is their right and it isn't murder. Thou Shall Not Kill really means Thou Shall Not Kill unless your government tells you to. Of course GOD only gave this right to the US, not anyone who we disagree with. Of course what Sadaam did was murder.

A contract between Beltre and Beltran is about right. How many other guys put up that many seasons over .300, 100 rbi, 30 hr? If he returns and puts up those numbers, they received a bargain. If he cannot play, they are protected.

From CrimsonWeltall in the thread about the teenagers who were sued for delivering cookies at 10:30 PM and scaring a woman.

Of the billion plus humans on the planet, these two wastes of oxygen, make up such a small, small, percentage. Let's remember that most parents would gladly give up their own loves for their children.

Learn to speak Texan phrase #173 "I'm off like a prom dress . . ."

How about Don Rickles?

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 01:33 PM) Those people could have easily choked on those cookies. Then we'd have a cereal killer on our hands. Especially if they were Rice Krispy Treats

I forgot about him until you mentioned it. I was more wondering how Lorne Greene was feeling.

John Vernon, Ossie Davis, and ?? Celebrity deaths always come in threes? Who is it going to be?

:headshake

Wait until we trade for him again. He'll wind up like Baines and have three or four stints with the Sox.

RIP.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 09:23 AM) Now that this has come out are you people gonna lay off Rummy? by "you people" I assume you mean Americans?