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Post by grover on Oct 3, 2006 9:47:49 GMT -5
Let's see who fills that role, and how they work with that great young team they have.
Girardi to the Cubs?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 3, 2006 10:29:24 GMT -5
Thats not happening. I heard the guy pulling the strings for the Cubs is not enamored with him at all.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Oct 3, 2006 10:42:38 GMT -5
that's the worst kept secret in the majors
bye joe.
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Post by Chris on Oct 3, 2006 12:39:24 GMT -5
They're talking Girardi to the Nationals.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 4, 2006 12:07:39 GMT -5
Willie Randolph interviewed for managing jobs FIFTEEN times before landing the Mets job. Here's your list. As an addendum, Ron Gardenhire (Twins) and Ned Yost (Brewers) are the only managers still employed by the same team Randolph interviewed with.
1997 - Toronto Blue Jays
1999 - Brewers, Orioles, Rockies
2000 - Phillies, Reds, Blue Jays, Dodgers, Pirates
2001 - Twins
2002 - Mariners, Tigers, Devil Rays, Brewers, Mets
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Post by 9 on Oct 4, 2006 12:11:52 GMT -5
Wow. I knew it was a lot, but I didn't realize it was 15.
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Post by MSBNYY on Oct 4, 2006 12:47:43 GMT -5
The man is persistent.
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Post by 9 on Oct 4, 2006 13:25:00 GMT -5
How much of a tool could he have been during all those interviews to keep getting shot down. And from what I remember reading, the couple of teams that DID offer him the job (pretty sure Cincinnati was one, Milwaukee might have been the other) were offering him the job at the lowest pay possible.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 4, 2006 13:28:42 GMT -5
Well, he also implied in this story I read that he went in "knowing I was the token interview and had no chance of getting the job." Fact is, if he had this chip on his shoulder, it may have come across and hurt his chances. As wrong as it is for a team to bring him in as a token, its wrong for him to assume this is the case when it may not be. So his interviews may have been awkward to begin with.
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Post by 9 on Oct 4, 2006 13:39:04 GMT -5
Excellent point.
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Post by Chris on Oct 9, 2006 18:55:50 GMT -5
NICE - over the last 50 games of the regular season, only the Tampa Bay Devil Rays lost more games than the Detroit Tigers.
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Post by 9 on Oct 9, 2006 19:01:00 GMT -5
Go Yanks! Way to lose to the hot hand!
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Post by 9 on Oct 11, 2006 11:14:36 GMT -5
This is pathetic:
CHICAGO -- The White Sox will start weeknight home games at 7:11 p.m. as part of a sponsorship deal with the 7-Eleven convenience store chain.
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Post by 9 on Oct 11, 2006 13:27:04 GMT -5
"Our old buddy," Chris Chambliss, fired as Reds hitting coach.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Oct 11, 2006 15:18:04 GMT -5
fired because his hitters couldn't hit jason schmidt
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Post by Chris on Oct 16, 2006 13:37:20 GMT -5
Unless you plan on it being the last job of your managerial career, I have no idea why any manager with a reputation as a good manager (whether or not it's warranted) would ever consider, let alone take the Chicago Cubs job.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 18, 2006 11:01:45 GMT -5
White Sox shortstop Juan Uribe remains a suspect in the shooting of two men in the Dominican Republic. Police questioned him for two hours Tuesday as his image was taking a beating. According to the Associated Press, Uribe shoved a Univision camera and pushed an ESPN cameraman in the face as he left the San Cristobal courthouse without talking to reporters. Uribe, 27, was accompanied by his brother Epidio and friend Jose Manuel Encaracion, both of whom were arrested Sunday in the incident, District Attorney Robert Lugo told the AP. Uribe turned in his gun to police and is scheduled to return to the courthouse by the end of the week, Lugo said.
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Post by 9 on Oct 18, 2006 11:57:33 GMT -5
PHILADELPHIA -- Many crazed baseball fans have said they would die for a championship. And now they can take their devotion to the grave.
A new venture will put Major League Baseball team logos on urns and caskets.
The league and Eternal Image, a company that makes funeral products, will let fans be decked out in their team colors and logos for eternity.
Starting next season, Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers, Phillies, Cubs and Dodgers fans will be able to have cremation urns or their caskets emblazoned with their team colors and insignia.
Major League Baseball has entered into a licensing agreement with Eternal Image, which hopes to eventually make urns and caskets with for all 30 teams.
The company also hopes to have agreements with NASCAR, the NHL and the NFL.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 18, 2006 12:53:10 GMT -5
Curtis Granderson and Joel Zumaya share a 2-bedroom apartment in the Detroit suburb of Troy for $1400 a month. In the offseason Granderson admits he lives "with his parents" and is in no hurry to leave. "No curfew, and its cool being there."
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Post by mac0822 on Oct 18, 2006 13:09:08 GMT -5
They obviously do not play for the Yankees.
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Post by Chris on Oct 18, 2006 13:32:05 GMT -5
One of the funnier lines from 61* from Mickey Mantle:
"Let me get this straight. I got me a big suite at the St. Moritz and you want me to move to Queens?"
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 19, 2006 10:18:49 GMT -5
The Detroit News listed where members of the 1984 Detroit Tigers are now. They couldn't find OF Ruppert Jones, he was listed as whereabouts unknown.
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Post by MSBNYY on Oct 19, 2006 11:10:28 GMT -5
You should cut and paste that article. That would be an awesome where are they now.
Ruppert Jones was a great Yankee. I remember him making a catch and not just crashing into the wall, but rolling into it on the ground like he was on fire. Good old #22. Way to platoon with Bobby Brown and Joe Lefebvre.
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Post by 9 on Oct 23, 2006 11:06:28 GMT -5
I thought the Yankees had the market cornered on 40-plus pitchers: The Phillies signed Jamie Moyer, 43, to a TWO-year extension.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 23, 2006 11:33:36 GMT -5
They were really happy with him. He has become quite a mentor to Cole Hamels, and Hamels was pushing for them to bring Moyer back. What Hamels wants, he gets, if you are the Phillies.
Nothing wrong with this move. Guys that throw slop like Moyer could hang around till they are 50 if they want.
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Post by 9 on Oct 23, 2006 11:41:18 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with it at all. Still surprising that it was two years, but with the slop he throws, he can probably pitch until 52.
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Post by MSBNYY on Oct 23, 2006 12:13:37 GMT -5
I hope he gets rocked in every start and they have to eat that salary.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 23, 2006 13:18:01 GMT -5
He won't. He's a good fit there.
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Post by MSBNYY on Oct 23, 2006 13:32:06 GMT -5
He's too old to fit there. He will fail. And he deserves to fail.
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Post by elliejay21 on Oct 23, 2006 13:35:31 GMT -5
Re: Jamie Moyer One of my favorite John Sterlingisms... up there with Bernie "running around the outfield like a gazelle" ( ) is his comment from 3 or 4 years ago during one of Moyer's starts at the stadium... "Jamie Moyer is cute. Where Andy Pettitte is intimidating and tends to scare hitters, Jamie Moyer is cute." What does that even mean??? LOL
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