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I was on the fire JM and KW bandwagon last month, now I 'm not so sure. These players are idiots. Can't run, can't cover a base, errors, etc.
I don't think firing him is going to make a damn bit of difference.
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It is because he is a frickin star in the NL. If it was any other star it would have been the same thing whether the player was asian, south american, or italian. Of course if he was polish the jokes would have been better.
If Shammy was just some two bit bench warming, struggling to stay on a roster there wouldn't have been much of anything.
I really hate that bulls***.
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What should Shammy do with his upcoming vacation?
I had a couple ideas.
Relaxing trip to wine country to try and sell the gross of corks he has left over
Build a nice armore with his wood working tools
Trip to Tijuana to resupply for his new "weightlifting" program
Call up Grace, shoot the s*** over some rum and cokes
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I finally sucked it up and looked at the standings. How is it we played absolutely suck ass, piss poor, baseball and we are only 7.5 back? I hit refresh three times. Hell we could make this interesting with a little win streak. Both team in front of us basically are average to good.
I'm pumped
Of course by midnight tonight it could all suck again.
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Another oxymoron.
Mark Grace's actions with the "corked" bat showed a total lack of respect for Sosa on Grace's part.
And I'd be willing to bet, that was exactly what Grace intended.
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I tried to get on this morning with Mike & Mike but they never take calls so it was impossible to get through. I wanted to talk about pussy boy Pedro and his whining. Little asshole. WTF hasn't baseball and America done for those 2 f'ers??
I might be inclined to call today. I can't believe Sosa would ADMIT he cheated.. but not take the punishment like a man? WTF is his excuse..? I didn't do it??
What a f***ing joke!
Its crap because he is manipulating the system. He is appealing so that he can play this weekend, then after this weekend he drops the appeal and starts to serve his suspension. So he gets to be in the spot light on the national stage. And then after he manipulates the system he gets to play. It makes a mockery of it all. I say that if he appeals, he can't drop his appeal. That he has to serve his suspension whenever the disipline office hears his case.
If Shammee didn't have an appeal, MLB would have waited until Monday to make their decision. You're not going to f*** with the Fox game of the week on Saturday and the ESPN Game of the Week on Sunday.
On a personal level, it sure does suck when the second best baseball team in Chicago is on my tv in South Texas all the fricking time and I get one Sox game this year and it was frickin called in the 5th on account of rain.
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WHy would he be stupid enough to HAVE more than one corked bat? I mean that would be ignorant. People ARE really stupid.
Why would he have more than one corked? IF his story was true, wouldn't it disappoint the fans if his corked bp bat broke? Of course he would want a backup.
Why do players have hundreds of bats to begin with? Feel, weight, balance, subtle differences. I'm sure he corked a bunch to get just the right results. You wouldn't want to disappoint the fans
I'm equally sure that many of his bats were removed before mlb got to his locker. It doesn't matter if he had 1 or 100. He cheated.
BTW do you think the corked bat is heading to the Hall of Fame? It's soemthing I would like to see. I've never visited are there displays of events like Disco Demolition, Fre(almost) Beer Night, etc.?
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Mine was probably the 1972 Sox, with some of my all-time favorite Sox players:
Dick Allen
Bill Melton
Jorge Orta
Rich Gossage
Terry Forster
Wilbur Wood
Jay Johnstone
Carlos May
I can still remember going to REAL Comiskey and smelling the cigar smoke ( second-hand smoke will KILL ya, kids ) and watching games from that little fence area in the left field wall - good times....
That team finished in 2nd place, with a record of 87 and 67.
Wasn't that the year that Wilburrrr pitched both games of a double header? I think it was against Detroit.
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77; I just got my drivers license and could go to games. Absolutley rockin'. Veeck made it a party, the players looked to be having fun.
2000 Whatta surprise. Seemed like I woke up one day and we were winning.
2003 I'm going to remember these f***s for a very long time.
Great post, thank you. And good timing since we just one a game.
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Is it time to b**** about him doing too much
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I'm hoping once I get out of the Rookie settings things get better. Way too many homeruns. I also need to figure out the roster switching from the minors to the majors. Although late last night Jon Rauch pitched 6 strong innings against the Yankees
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Infamous moments in JR family history. "I think we may need to fire the Captain?"
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My son will actually let me use one of his game consoles. Has anyone played High Heat MLB 2004? It's looking like the game I'm going to buy.
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Congress to Honor Sosa With Resolution
7 minutes ago
By DENNIS CONRAD, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Several Illinois congressmen are expected to visit Wrigley Field on Friday to honor Sammy Sosa (news), even though the star is facing a suspension for playing with a juiced bat.
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The U.S. House voted 372-0 Monday to congratulate the Chicago Cubs (news) slugger on his 500th home run and praise him as a role model. Friday's ceremony is to present him with a copy of the House resolution.
A day after the House vote, Sosa was found to be hitting with an illegal bat.
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Sounds like a strange fantasy to me
but if you like older women 
Bmr31 is looking for head, perhaps this is a match made in heaven . . .
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You might also try the cUBs shame ticket operation. They may be scalping a few.
Cubs tix ... or tricks?
April 10, 2003
BY GREG COUCH SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
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Do you have any tickets for the Cubs-Yankees games in June? That's what I asked at the Wrigley Field box office, crossing my fingers.
''Sold out,'' the woman said. ''Obstructed view only.''
But just over a block away on Clark is Wrigley Field Premium Ticket Services, a broker in a brown brick one-flat. I'd like two seats for the Saturday Yankees game, please.
''First row, behind the Cubs dugout,'' the guy behind the counter said. ''Fifteen hundred dollars apiece.''
Yikes. What about bleachers? ''We've got all sorts of them. They're $155.''
Darn brokers. They can really stick it to you. The Cubs have been complaining about them for years, and this is exactly why. At those prices, it's impossible for the Average Joe to take his family for a nice day at the ballpark.
It's $1,500 for a ticket that has $45 printed on it. It's $155 for a ticket that says $30. But what can you do? Wrigley Field Premium has a magical supply of tickets you can't get at the Cubs ticket office.
''We're a broker,'' the man at Premium said. ''We're not related to the Cubs ticket office.''
Just what dirtbag owns Wrigley Field Premium? Who has jacked up these prices by, what, 3,000 percent? Who is sticking it to Cubs fans?
It is the Cubs themselves. They own Premium.
The Cubs are trying to cheat their own fans.
They are doing it by pushing numbers from one set of books to another, playing a shell game with your trust. Where is it now? Under Premium's name? Under the Cubs'? Under the name of the Cubs' owner, Tribune Co.?
Last year, the Cubs produced a book called Wrigley Field. A Celebration of the Friendly Confines. In it, Cubs ticket manager Frank Maloney talked about ticket brokers:
''It's like the black market in World War II. It depletes the market. They drain the supply [of tickets]. They force the poor guy from Keokuk, Iowa, to come here and. ...'' It goes on.
But it turns out that while the Cubs were publicly lamenting the scourge of brokers, they were hatching their own plan.
The Cubs have watched other people doing this for years. Now they want a piece of the action.
Here's how the scam works, how the Cubs are able to put tickets on the resale market before they ever have really been sold in the first place--how they can print a price on a ticket but never sell it at anywhere near that price:
For Yankees, White Sox and Cardinals games, prime games, the best box seats are $45. Bleachers are $30. That's what it says on a sign posted outside the box office.
But when the Cubs put their tickets on sale, they held back some unknown number and ''sold'' them to Premium. Now, Premium can turn around and ''resell'' them.
Legal? I don't know. But I know two fans who feel they were defrauded have filed a lawsuit.
And while the Cubs wouldn't comment, citing the suit, they already have explained things fairly well in their depositions.
The Cubs say they are not the ones brokering the tickets, but that Premium is doing it. Yes, Premium was set up by the Cubs, or maybe by Tribune Co.--you really can't tell them apart--as a way to get into the broker business. The Cubs say they set up Premium as a separate business.
Sure enough, they have paperwork to prove it.
But, curiously, the President of Premium is Mark McGuire, who also is a Cubs vice president.
The manager at Premium doesn't know much about accounting, so he outsourced his books.
To the Cubs. For $1,000 a month.
I didn't realize the Cubs accountants were available for hire. Maybe they can do my taxes.
Last year, Premium bought roughly $1 million of tickets from the Cubs. Later in the year, Premium returned all the tickets it couldn't sell. As for the others, I'm sure Premium cut a check out of its revenues.
Which is sort of like writing a check to your wife. All those tickets and checks and dollars are staying within one big, happy, corporate family.
But where did Premium get its tickets in the first place?
According to McGuire's deposition, the Cubs say Major League Baseball forces them to hold back a number of tickets for VIPs, muckety-mucks who might show up for the game at the last minute.
That's why the Cubs didn't let you or me buy those front-row tickets for the Yankees at the advertised price.
Answer this, Cubs:
How do you know, during the first home series of the year, more than two months before the Yankees are here, that those VIPs aren't going to show up?
Let's hope they don't. I would hate to see President Bush and Mayor Daley standing in front of the Harry Caray statue holding up one finger and yelling, ''Anyone got a ticket?''
Something tells me the Cubs would find that extra VIP ticket, which means those VIP tickets for sale at Premium never were meant for VIPs.
They were meant for you and me.
For $1,500 apiece.
The Cubs claim the plaintiff in the lawsuit works for a broker, and that the brokers are suing because the Cubs have moved in on their turf. The plaintiff's attorney, Chicagoan Paul Bauch, says that's not what's happening.
Look, the Cubs can charge what they want for tickets. They should just print $1,500 on Yankees tickets in the first place. Would that look bad? Maybe, but it's a hell of a lot better than lying, playing bait-and-switch.
I asked the ticket office about White Sox and Cardinals tickets.
''Sold out,'' they said.
At Premium, they had ''plenty'' of Cardinals box seats, starting at $95. Sox bleacher tickets are $90.
How about bleachers for any Saturday throughout the prime dates of June 6 to Aug. 17?
''No, sold out,'' the woman at the ticket office said.
''We have all sorts of them,'' the guy at Premium said.
I'd like to know what ''sold out'' means to the Cubs. The only thing sold out here is the fans.
E-mail: gcouch@suntimes.com
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That may say something about the amount of cheating going on. If they are laughing about it I'm thinking it means a lot more are corking and the attitude is you poor shmuck, you got caught and the rest of the guys haven't. If no one else was I would expect a little more shock and outrage.
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2) Sammy really did do it, and she's so messed up in the head that she decided to stay with him anyway. If that's the case, it's her own damned fault.
Stupid asshole.
huh? He is 100 percent right. If he beat her , and cheats and all that, and shes still with him, shes a dumbass.
Oh Lord help you if you have a sister or a really, really close female friend. I am wishing bad, bad things on you right now...
Steff you seem to have some SERIOUS issues that you made need to address. I have never met another male more into protecting women than me. Sammy Sosa is a piece of s*** for raising a hand to a woman and shes a dumbass for taking it. Its clear cut.
It is hard to have sympathy for her when she stays. It's not as if she wouldn't have the financial means to live. My heart breaks for a mother who's stuck because of financial considerations. She clearly isn't. Personally I think she should have dumped him as soon as the rum bottle started towards her. I wouldn't have waitd for it to land.
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I hope Sammy appeals and gets to face Clemens. I'd bet money Clemens would bean him right between the shoulders, first pitch.
LMAO
But would Roger do that on behalf of NL Pitchers or pitchers everywhere?
You know MLB is going to be certain Sammy plays vs., the Yankees
Actually with him going for 300 he's not going to risk getting tossed
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I clicked through a banner on the Sun Times web site. Sammy Uncorked T-shirts! I love America!
http://www7.footballfanatics.com/?string=s...F0969E33EDFACF7
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oooo sarcasm, good.
We should start putting together the all time Cub team.
Fergie "cocain" Jenkins on the mound.
Sammy "the cork" Sosa
Leon "golden glove" Durham I love that ball rolling under his glove
June 6 game thread
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Pitch hard Mark, that may be all you get