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I thought the rumor was Jay Payton OR Ramon Vasquez. Not both.

The ink is drying. http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb...s_mlb&fext=.jsp

I have not found 1 source yet that confirms this signing. Everyone is saying the contract was offered, but Wells is still talking to other clubs. This is pretty funny though.. These two teams crack me up sometimes. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball...7p-223533c.html

Ahhaha. Ok, Bostondirtdogs is changing his tune. Now the Sox are just "Close" to signing Wells.

Yeah, it's on BDD.... WTF? I hate that fat bastard. The media is gonna rip him to pieces in Boston.

Me too. According to Newsday, he wants 4 years/45 million. After the Sox buckle to Pedro, they won't have enough cash left.

I was thinking the same thing. I hope so.

That's good new for us (Lieber and Leiter). Marlins?? What did they pay?

Haha. 2090 surfs the internet about as well as Kevin Brown beats up walls . Or is it 2090 surfs the internet about as well as Loften catches a fly ball? Or is it 2090 surfs the internet about as well as Rivera can close out a series? Or is it.... ahh. I could go on and on . Anyway.... I think Boras works off commission, so the more he can milk out of the owners, the more $$$ Boras will make - all the while saying it's in the best interest of his client. I'd like to know the percentage he gets.

For about a million, right?

Yes they could. Mounds weren't regulated until they lowered them in 1969. I don't think they raised them across the leagues in '68. http://experts.about.com/q/2552/3388045.htm

I could not agree more. If they choose to keep ignoring the problem (along with the alarming number of pitchers who blow their arms out because of it), they should at least raise the mound back up to where it's supposed to be. I think it was lowered 6 full inches in '67 or '68.

Yeah, I think Millar had to pass through to get to Japan and Theo swooped in. I'm only half kidding about Bellhorn. If you were here at the beginning of 04, he was enemy #1 in my posts. He started to grow on me after about 147 games. I'm all for keeping him around now, so long as it's in the 8 or 9 hole. And please stop kicking yourself in the nuts. That's what girlfriends are for.

Yes, except for that bastard Bellhorn .

By Associated Press Monday, December 6, 2004 BOSTON - The Red Sox have claimed right-handed pitcher Tim Bausher off waivers from the Colorado Rockies. Bausher has pitched 58 games in three professional seasons with the Mariners, Brewers and Rockies organizations. He's 6-and-19 with a four-point-27 ERA for those organizations' minor league teams. Bausher has struck out 203 in 177 career minor league innings. Here are the only stats I could find on him. Seems like a mid 3 ERA starter in the Minors (he got tattooed in (A-) whatever that is). One thing that did stand out... He's never given up a HR???? http://www.brewerfan.net/ViewPlayerProfile.do?playerId=549

Ahh. Yankee fans will boo him because they are bitter. Bitter losers who wouldn't give two craps about steroid abuse if it wasn't involving a guy making 80 million dollars off thier teams owner. Would they be so upset if this were Tony Clark? I doubt it. If I were him, I'd smile at every boo, sit on the bench and collect every single penny owed to me. Then retire. For every Yankee fan who goes out of their way to boo him, if I were Giambi, I'd turn to that person and say "Wow, in the time it took you to yell 'BOO!', I just made $187 thousand dollars.. Ha Ha ha!". Then I'd say "Suck it" and go home to my sex slave wife and my shrunken nuts and party like it's 1999. :harhar:

Any of you guys give a listen to Trot Nixon show on ESPN.com? It's actually pretty fascinating. You get to hear Nixon chat about life as a ballplayer, other players and games. I guess it's part of espn radio once or twice a month. http://espnradio.espn.go.com/espnradio/sto...toryId=1826718# It even steams at 56k perfectly.

It's more like this. tek: (talking to boras) i want this this and this boras: (talking to tek) you only want 27 million over 3 years? Are you crazy??? I know George Stienbrenner, man! If you ask me all owners can spend like George so we'll place your asking price so high that only those teams offer you money! tek: (talking to boras) well then, let's go crazy! I want 4 years at 10 million per! Ahahahahaha, but I want to stay a Red Sox because it builds my legacy. boras: (talking to tek) I hear ya man. But lets do this.. 5 years at 11 million per. Scotty gotta eat, ya know... And we'll throw in a no-trade just to piss them off. You know the fans will force them to make the deal! tek: (talking to boras) but what if the fans and all of New England think I'm a selfish bitch who's asking for more than I'm worth because we just won a World Series? boras: (talking to tek) Screw the fans and the entire game. Scotty gotta eat. boras: (talking to sox) we want this this and this. sox: (talking to boras) we'll only give you this much

Oh man. I got this far in the "Dope on Steroids" article and had to stop.... "What are the side effects of steroids?" The short-term side effects are creepy, but reletively minor. The most striking one occurs when the pituitary gland senses the outrageous oversupply of testosterone in the body and signals the testes to stop making any more. The testicles then gradually shrivel up -- to the size of raisins, if you take steroids long enough. Other well-known side effects include acne, hair loss and, in some users, the growth of female breast tissue under the nipples" Ok, that last part may be kinda cool, but the shriveled nuts make me want to puke.

So what was the hint? None of this makes sense to me unless I know what the hint was...

Well, they already did. There's nothing you can do about them now. It's funny. A lot of people say (myself included) that the Red Sox of 2003 should have won the WS if it weren't for Grady. I still believe that. The offense was so good and starting to pick up. We would have hammered the Marlins if we'd gotten past the Yanks. No question. The bullpen was spotty but the clutchness of the offense under pressure was amazing. I really don't expect to see so many come-from-behind/late-inning wins in a single season again. But we didn't beat the Yankees, in part, thanks to Giambi, and we went out and got Foulke and Schill. Had we won the WS in 03, do you think we still would have gotten Schilling? I doubt it. Sure, Foulke would be here, but I don't think we would have gotten Curt if we actually won the WS in 03. He probably would have wound up in NY. It's just kinda funny how things work out. Back to the topic. Those HRs could be the last great moment in his (possibly) shortened career. As close as he ever got to winning a WS... And he can look back at those fond memories someday and know that he cheated, was given the pennant by the opposing manager, and in the end lost the WS when he had his chance. That's the history, and there's no reason to rewrite it.

... which is why it was funny. Though I can see from a Mods perspective it may not be quite so funny. (Bastard Mods) :damon:

Oh come on. The guy's a riot. If you can't crack a smile after reading some of these, there is something wrong with you.

With any other team, I'd agree. But with the Yankees, money and prospects don't really matter if they have enough cash to fall back on. And they have all the cash in the world it seems. This is another reason I wouldn't mind Pedro going to the Mets. If the Mets can somehow split the market in NY a little more evenly, the Yanks revenue may drop a bit. And CrespoBlows is correct. Diverting him from NY is just as important, if not more important than getting him ourselves.