Texsox

QUOTE(3E8 @ Jan 31, 2005 -> 04:55 PM) In a related story, MLB has a new steroid policy this year. Bingo. I was wondering the same thing. Moodiness in his earlier years, off season weight loss. I hope it isn't true. I'm really hoping for a season to forget Maggs from Carl.

Heart disease is scary.

QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 31, 2005 -> 03:01 PM) If they paid, they are active. Apparently, this time around they are talking about hundreds of kids on the rolls named "Doe, John" That would take some explaining.

QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 31, 2005 -> 12:56 PM) I heard something about some controversy the other day regarding the Boy Scouts padding numbers to get more cash from charities like the United Way. Anyone else hear anything like this? This is the second time it has come up. I honestly cannot tell if it is sloppy record keeping by volunteers at the unit level or sinister fraud higher up, or an unavoidable reporting situation. For example, I currently have over 40 boys on the membership list. About 10-15 have not been active for months. When school starts some are playing football, basketball, band, etc. They will stay on my roster until my annual recharter date. Sometimes they return, sometimes they don't. They paid for the year, so they stay on the roster. If an auditor asked me to "pull them out of the backroom" so to speak, I couldn't. Bottom line I have 45 paid Scouts, and 30 "active". Which number should be reported?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 31, 2005 -> 08:48 AM) No doubt about that.... Labatt's 50-50's rule I'd rather have a Moosehead

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../30/wgerm30.xml

Patches is the coolest!! The owners on the other hand are very weird. Notice the lack of women in their lives?

Pinewood Derby, what once was a great father-son event is now a bidding contest on eBay. Championship Cars only $100

This should be entertaining, someone tell me why a foreign country is being judged by whether or not they carry Fox News? Y'all are joking right? Are they also in trouble if they don't carry the Food Network and MTV?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jan 29, 2005 -> 07:12 PM) This is from a country who, until very recently, allowed Al Jazerra on its airwaves and banned Fox News. f*** them. Fox News "THE Official voice of America"

QUOTE(Man Of Steel @ Jan 29, 2005 -> 05:43 PM) hm nope... still think its the best evar I like the other logo better

QUOTE(JimH @ Jan 29, 2005 -> 04:54 PM) Tex, either they're good enough to be a regular or they're not. Not necessarily their fault if they're not. But if someone is brought in to be the #1 guy and you're told you're a reserve, play hard and compete but accept your role. There's a fine line we're talking about here. Doesn't sound like Harris gets it, just my opinion. It is a fine line and it can be drawn in different places depending on the player. Players decline, players improve. The only way a guy will become a starter is if he thinks he should be a starter. If Harris, at his age, accepts that he is #2 to a guy who has never played game 1 in the MLB, then Harris is not a competitor. Harris is not some 35 year old veteran, easing into retirement. He's building his career, and just handing over a starting job without a fight is accepting defeat and not IMHO a winners attitude. And I will repeat, the role of a reserve is to push the starter so everyone gets better.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 29, 2005 -> 02:52 PM) ANy team that gives ANY player a 7 year deal are fools. THere are so many things that can happen in a 7 year stretch (injury, salary cap, decline in production). If I am a team and a client demands a 7 year deal, it is a 4 or 5 year deal with team options for the remaining years of the contract. So you wouldn't want a player wanting to show his loyalty and sign a career type contract?

QUOTE(Man Of Steel @ Jan 29, 2005 -> 03:56 PM) Dolphins... best logo ever... Yes, the terror of flipper . . .

Example #2 Damn, I knew I'd stand out in this green parka!

To get it started

Using this photo

I think I found the original picture

I always wonder if this was staged or real.

QUOTE(JimH @ Jan 29, 2005 -> 12:03 PM) Generalization, big time. Players need to know, learn, and accept their roles. Nothing wrong with aspiring to be more. But understanding your limitations on a baseball team, and hence your role, does not a loser make. Is the role to sit on the bench and wave a pennant or push the guy in front of him? What limitations do you want them to accept? Hitting for average? Fielding? Baserunning?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jan 29, 2005 -> 01:16 PM) There are quite a few players last year who put up those type of numbers making under 11 mill per year. Your right, that maggs does have the consistancy thing going for him, like I said 11 mill seems like a fair price for a healthy maggs, I just don't see how it's a bargain. The key is name a player who has put up those numbers *then* signed a contract for less. Of course you have guys who are new, signing their first contract, then reach stardom.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jan 29, 2005 -> 12:24 PM) How's 11-12 mill for 5 years a bargain??? Maggs is a great player but even when healthy I think maggs is worth 10-11 mill and 5 years is an awful lost of year, I just don't see how that can possibly be a bargain. Last 5 full seasons 30+ Home Runs .300 + Average 100+ RBI $11,000,000 name another guy with that offense that will sign for less in any of the next 5 or 6 years.

QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 29, 2005 -> 12:30 PM) I bet the left one is upside down. I gave my right one for a really cool car . . .

Maggs will have to pass a physical. If he's 85% to 100%, some team is getting a bargain.