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Tie Game I figured it would take more than 1 run to win.

rafacosta, who's your ptc? I have Frank tonight

Damn broke up the no-no

Pitch hard Mark, that may be all you get

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.

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***.

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

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.

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. One game winning streak

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.?

Wasn't that the year that Wilburrrr pitched both games of a double header? I think it was against Detroit.

I'm in, time for a little research.

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.

Is it time to b**** about him doing too much

Lee

Frank

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

Infamous moments in JR family history. "I think we may need to fire the Captain?"

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.

what's the url? I couldn't find the area within Yahoo

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. AP Photo 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.

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 . . .

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 Advertisement Orbitz 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. 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