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If they give up Xander, then the Phillies have to eat $35 million of the $75 million.

Facts: 1. He used an illegal substance to gain an unfair advantage on the field. 2. He didn't admit it until he was caught and confronted with evidence. 3. His admission was a lie as he changed his admission when forced to testify under oath. 4. He implicated his best friend as part of a deal with law enforcement 5. He made his implicating statements in a affidavit because he did not want to make the statement at the public Congrressional inquiry attended by Clemens My conclusion is that he is not a man of integrity.

If I could only do 1, I would pick A.

His original admission was a lie. He changed his story when he went to Congress. He suddenly remembered that he had used it more than the 2 times he had admitted. Lying in an admission after you get caught isn't an honorable act.

Lee is under contract for a couple of more years. This would not be a rental. We are going to have to pay the price in salary or prospects. The cost will be substantial one way or another.

Pettitte engaged in a criminal act to gain an unfair advantage in his profession. That is cheating. It is not at all like smoking pot. It is more like insider trading. It is indisputable that he is a liar. He completely changed his story depending on the venue and the evidence. Because he lied on numerous occasions anything else he says on the issue has little credibility. I couldn't give a rats ass about his religiosity. I don't count it in his favor or hold it against him. He is a hypocrite nevertheless. The whole act about wanting to be near his family because he was missing precious years with his kids was exposed as complete hypocrisy when he returned to the skanks. His lies and deceit are not limited to PEDs, so he has no integrity. Lastly, he is a despicable rat who turned on his best friend. He was okay with lying to protect himself and his reputation, but the minute he got caught, he flipped on his best friend and mentor. Even then he wasn't truthful. He gave the investigators just enough in an affidavit to get them off his back and put the heat on Clemens. He opted to do an affidavit, because he was too gutless to testify in open session with Clemens present. That was cowardly. Because he is incapable of telling the whole truth, his affidavit was completely watered down, and it did not hold up in Clemen's case. I believe that later he claimed that he could not remember. Let's add to the list of his attributes that he is a rat and a coward. Summing up, he is a lying cheating hypocrite criminal cowardly rat. That is not my opinion. It is all established by facts. A man with all of these bad qualities is a man of low character and untrustworthy. He may not be a murderer, but he is a despicable person.

I am pretty sure that HGH and steroids were banned substances prior to 2005. There was just not an enforcement mechanism for the cheaters. Also, they didn't have a test to detect HGH. Finally, obtaining the HGH was a crime. So let's add criminal to Pettitte's description.

and f*** Maddon just because I hate him.

nava and the ump gave them this game.

Hole in bat

I was thinking the same thing. If he steals second, then try sacrificing him to 3rd.

He was definitely safe and the ump was out of position, but the call never should have been an issue. Going 90 feet on a ball hit 380 over the OFers head is just stupid.

Nava should shut his mouth. He should have scored on the play before that standing up.

Yeah, duh.

You don't?

I haven't seen any reports linking him to the Red Sox.

Pettitte is a cheater, liar and a huge hypocrite. He was a known huge hypocrite long before HGH came into the stor. Remember that he went to Houston to be close to his family. Well, they gave him a big fat contract. TheYankees were scared about his elbow. After that contract was up and his arm was still sound, the Yankees wooed him back with big bucks. Being close to his family had its price.

This deserves its own thread. RIP Boomer. He used to wear this necklace that had what looked like teeth on it. He would say that they were second baseman's teeth from breaking up DP's. What a character.

I think our FO has been pretty terrible at evaluating and drafting pitching talent. That has been going on for a while. I hope that their current scouting department can do a better job than has has been done for several years. As for the guys in our system, the FO can't sit and wait for something that is more likely not to happen. Next season or the season after they will have to add to the staff from outside the organization.

I was always a big Yaz fan. He was one of the two greatest athletes in the history of Long Island. Yaz was a legendary iconfrom Suffolk County, Long Island while jim Brown was all everything in neighboring Nassau County. Boston was always a tough town for it's baseball stars. Yaz had the press and the fans on his back for several years until people started to realize what he had done for the franchise and how hard he worked. He was looked upon as an outsider in the beginning of his career, but he eventually became a Boston/New England fixture and a big part of its folklore.

I missed the game today. How did Lester look? His numbers were good, but how did he look?

Unless Amaro rebuilds his roster, this group will go nowhere next season

If you saved enough bread wrappers, you got a Yaz hat. I had mine until a couple of years ago.

His main objective has always seemed to be to harass me and Jacko. Every time he comes back a group of other posters enjoy that aspect, but even they can't tolerate his antics for very long and inevitably he gets he gets banned. I've notice another pattern with this psycho. Each time he descends into complete stupidity shortly after I put him on ignore and stop engaging him. Sick pup. I do have a question for the mods. We knew for some time that this was Dutchy and we know how it will end. We can probably make a safe bet that he'll be back under is 125th identity before the season ends. Can we just ban him as soon as he is outed? He just clutters the place with stupidity each time. If he gets banned before he gets his yah yahs, he may stop coming back. Emmz can spot this jackass from his first or second post. BTW: I was drunk last night too. Let's not blame the alcohol.

I'd prefer if he posted a picture where he was throwing himself off of a mountain. I would take him off ignore to view that.