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Not very secretive since so many people seem to know his exact medical condition. Remember, the team is also facing a PR battle. Losing their best player, and getting zero in return, is not something that helps sell tickets. I can respect the fact that many people prefer to accept whatever the club is telling them, I am not that trusting. I haven't been since the White Flag days. The club has a terrible track record of dealing with Boras and has stated they will not negotiate with him. So they cut themselves off from many top players. Is that to our advantage? How excited are you about profits vs. World Series wins? When they publish the standings based on profits, not wins and loses, I'll care more. If the situation was reversed, and we were buying Maggs, instead of selling, we wouldn't worry too much about what he did and didn't tell KW. Remember this is the same city that embraced Rodman after all the crap he pulled in a Piston's uniform. Until Maggs is an unrestricted free agent, nobody will really know what his medical condition is. Of course with all the Doctors we have here, speculation is probably right. He has rejected the Sox offers and his taking the path he feels is best for himself and his family. He didn't owe us anything beyond the contract he signed. The Club won the PR battle. Sox fans are screaming good riddance to our best player. Gotta love that if you're the club, too bad it doesn't move us up in the standings.

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Times Link More at Link Don't these people realize with 51% of the vote, Bush won in a major landslide, and has a clear mandate to do whatever the hell he wants? Geez, form a conga line behind the President and let's dance!

Since so many people here wouldn't want Maggs after the contract b.s. and not accepting the Sox offer, does that mean you wouldn't want a free agent player coming to the Sox that did that to his team? Y'all would turn down Beltran after he didn't accept theRoyals or Astros offers? Greedy bastard Hang a sign outside KW office, we only want free agents who were not offered contracts by their teams.

11-9: so close. To the undiscerning eye, you look like one of us. ~~Me~~

It is impossible to write anything in English and not have it become bias. We have so many regional phrases. If I mention a water fountain, some of you are picturing Buckingham Fountain, some will be thinking a wall mounted device to drink from. If I start talking about my pop, some are thinking a can of coke, others my father. I couldn't even begin to offer examples of phrases that kids in the Robert Taylor Homes may grow up with that a child from the Appalachian Mountains would have no clue about. Then consider first generation Americans whose native language is not English. I invite y'all to take a standardized test in Mexico after a couple years of Spanish lessons.

Why would a guy with his cash have to pay for it? Think about that for a moment. He'd pay for it one way or another. Dinner, drinks, and gifts with some broad he isn't the least bit interested in or a fast, guaranteed direct exchange of cash for services. Dinner and drinks would cost him more. Plus this way he was able to get his picture taken by the police and everyone gets to talk about him A better question is why a guy with his cash be messing with a $40 street whore, he should have a discreet i.e. Mayflower Madam, name in his wallet for just such errr emergencies, like wanting to be "comfortable".

OK, you want to be an electrician in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). You will do your apprenticeship for Square D in Port Aransas, Texas and if you complete the apprectice program you will be assigned to their crew in Seattle. You will pledge allegiance to Square D, the City of Seattle, and the IBEW. If a non union company or another union shop offers you more money or a chance to move somewhere you want to live, you will turn it down or be called a greedy bastard And I did say, if the real world worked like baseball.

Too bad for her Perhaps he needs to see his Doctor about Viagra. And I wouldn't tell a baseball stadium full of people . . .

yeah, but when I posted it there was a reply Sorry .

Sorry, I missed the medical report, I didn't know he wouldn't be back until 2006. No one else wanted him? I wasn't aware of that. I thought we brought him up from Nashville, was he out of baseball at some time? Imagine if the rest of the world worked this way. You want to be in retail sales? Great. Sears drafted you in the 4th round. You must go to Des Moines, Iowa. You must state that the customers in Des Moines are the greatest anywhere. You must have total loyalty to Sears and Des Moines for the rest of your life. If JC Penny wants to pay you more, you must tell them no, that you will remain loyal to the great shoppers at Sears, or else you are a greedy SOB.

You could take a chance and spend the $40 on drinks but why take any chances that there will not be a horny chick at the bar and just put your drunk ass behind the wheel, head down to some crummy neighborhood, and spend $40 on a sure thing?

Dikta had a drunk driving arrest and broke his hand punching a locker. Just thought I'd toss that out. I possibly could care less about Wally (what the hell kind of a name is Wally for a Manager?) but I don't think so.

IMHO, that is the easiest to read and most entertaining translation and because of that, it misses the mark. Beowulf was meant as an oral history at most, or at least as an oral performance. As soon as it is put down on paper, it loses it's meaning and power. The verse was written not for grammatic or literary purposes, but to aid in the memorization.

Beowulf If this crap was the second oldest work in Old English, instead of the oldest, no College student would ever be subjected to that crap.

I wouldn't want a player who wasn't competitive. If Maggs was such a loser that he would settle for an inferior contract, way less than other players near his talent, I don't want him. "I don't want to make as much as him, I'm not nearly as good. Just pay me a little, and don't expect too much." I want a guy that stands up and says he wants a top contract and says dammit I have the ability to back it up. Settling for less is a loser's mentality and that sucks on a baseball diamond. Winners want to win at everything, including the paycheck. The I'm just lucky to be playing in the MLB, I love Chicago and don't care how much I make, is for losers.

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We scream for Bonds, Sosa, and Giambi to be tested. Does that make us Un-American and Un-Dominican? Cycling has been one of the dirtiest sports internationally. It is almost the assumption you cannot win without blood doping, steroids, etc. Sad. France received a permanent seat for being on the winning side of WW2. The UN was created by the victors to hopefully keep WW3 from ever happening. Of course the same countries who created and supported the organization's inception, received some guarantees that they wouldn't have the world on their asses. This wasn't a world-wide movement like some Coke commercial with everyone holding hands and singing songs. It was the most powerful countries on the planet at that time creating an organization through which they could rule the world. By boycotting French products, you are also boycotting the Americans who buy, sell, and deliver the products here. Your choice, and I respect that. I always try to buy NAFTA items myself, especially Hecho in Mexico near me.

LMAO Cub, do you have anything moore to add??

The election is over, isn't it? Kerry can talk about his plan all he wants, but Bush won and it should be Bush's plan that is implemented. That is what the country wants. Kerry and his 49% of the vote was crushed in a landslide, he and those voters, can and should be ignored for the next 4 years.

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I do hope he has personally contacted all the families and offered our nation's condolences. Whether of not anyone supports our leader's decision to fight this war, we need to respect the sacrifice these men and women have made for love of country. The only one, IMHO who should convey the countries wishes, is the President. I also do not need to see him on the phone talking to the families.

I just went to vote for Artest and noticed he's off the ballot. Damn, I love f***ing with All-Star ballots.