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Not foolish at all,the Selig family probably owned the team then,things seem different with this franchise now...not saying that Bud was a terrible owner but..

What a cool GM Omar is,know what I mean?

Excellent KTE. Wright is hitting .375 since he shaved the head,like that means anything...saw Prince Fielder chugging around the bases last night and he beat the tag at home,he's as big as Mo Vaughn.

I like what Francona said. ] Schilling puts sock in it Backtracking on Bonds barbs THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Curt Schilling apologized yesterday for criticizing Barry Bonds and was advised by his manager to keep some of his opinions to himself. The Red Sox pitcher leveled the criticism Tuesday on a radio show then backed off his remarks yesterday in an entry entitled "Public Apology," on his blog. "Everyone has days and events in life they'd love to push the rewind button on, yesterday was one of those days," Schilling wrote on the blog, 38pitches.com. "Regardless of my opinions, thoughts and beliefs on anything Barry Bonds, it was absolutely irresponsible and wrong to say what I did. I don't think it's within anyone's right to say the things I said yesterday and affect other peoples lives in that way. "As someone who's made it very clear I have major issues with members of the media that take little or no pride in their work it's the height of hypocrisy for me to say what I did, in any forum." On Tuesday morning on WEEI radio, Schilling criticized the San Francisco Giants slugger, who is 10 homers short of matching Hank Aaron's home run record of 755. "I mean, he admitted that he used steroids," Schilling said on the show. "I mean, there's no gray area. He admitted to cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes and cheating on the game, so I think the reaction around the league, the game, being what it is, in the case of what people think. Hank Aaron not being there. The commissioner (Bud Selig) trying to figure out where to be. It's sad. "And I don't care that he's black, or green, or purple, or yellow, or whatever. It's unfortunate," he said. "There's good people and bad people. It's unfortunate that it's happening the way it's happening." Boston manager Terry Francona said before the Red Sox game in Toronto last night that he urged Schilling to use more discretion. "Schill came to me," Francona said. "We talked a little bit and I said, 'You probably just need to stay away from some of those things.'" He said he'd let Schilling continue writing his blog. "I don't care, as long as he stays away from certain things," Francona said. "It doesn't make sense. If you want to run for office some day and solve the world's problems, go ahead. Just not while I'm the manager." He also said he didn't know what a blog was until Schilling's stirred controversy and doesn't plan to read it. Schilling said on his blog that his comment about Bonds "was a callous, reckless and irresponsible thing to say, and for that I apologize to Barry, Barry's family, Barry's friends and the Giants organization, my teammates and the Red Sox organization as well as anyone else that may have been offended by the comments I made." Daily News Specials

Hardly surprising,he's a crook and an arrogant prick.

This could be a classic shake down by Jackson,I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the Braves made a "contribution" to Jackson's Rainbow-PUSH Coalition .

A sensible approach by the Brewers. ] Brewers won't enact clubhouse beer ban ESPN.com news services Teams throughout baseball have changed or are mulling changes in their clubhouse alcohol policies following the death of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock. And the Milwaukee Brewers are among teams who looked at their policy and decided no change was needed. The Brewers said Wednesday they will continue to allow beer in their clubhouse during home and away games. Pitcher Chris Capuano, the Brewers' representative to the players association, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that the decision was consistent with the way the club treats its players. "For the most part they treat us like adults. There's no curfew on the road. You're expected to handle yourself professionally," he told the newspaper. "Guys are not going to sit in the clubhouse and drink four and five beers and then drive. We would never do anything like that. But it's nice if a guy wants to have a beer after a game that the team is OK with it." Alcohol played a role in Hancock's death in a one-car accident, as an autopsy showed he was over the legal blood-alcohol content limit of .08 at the time his rented SUV crashed into a parked flatbed tow truck on a St. Louis-area interstate highway. Following his death, the Cardinals banned alcohol in their clubhouse, the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees extended their home clubhouse bans on alcohol to visiting clubhouses, and several clubs said they were examining their clubhouse alcohol policies. The Brewers have special reason to be sensitive about alcohol issues. The team is named for the city's brewing heritage and honors that history down to the sheath of wheat underscoring the script "M" on its hats. Several years ago, the team ended the practice of its lederhosen-clad mascot, Bernie Brewer, descending a giant slide into an oversized mug of beer after Brewers home runs. The club is in the second year of a seven-year marketing and promotions agreement with Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co., which paid $41.2 million to put its name on the Brewers' stadium through 2019. Julian Green, a Miller Brewing spokesman, told the Journal-Sentinel that the company is not involved in stadium operations at Miller Park, and was not consulted about the clubhouse decision. After Thursday's 3-1 victory over Washington, the Brewers assured themselves of having the best record in baseball (24-10) for a fifth straight day.

From a blog on North Jersey.com ] But it's only almost perfect here. When Jose Reyes led off the game, the scoreboard showed his name, his stats and a photo of a Jose Reyes, but not this Jose Reyes. Instead, they dug up a photo of Jose A. Reyes, the Mets minor league catcher who is playing for Binghamton. Funny.

Delgado - 2 Wright - 3 Maine - 1.5 Gotay - 1 Heilman - 0.5 Wagner - 1 Schoeneweis - 1

Starting to like Green a lot...seems to have a decent bit of humor in him. ] SAN FRANCISCO -- It was the morning after the night before, and Shawn Green was suffering with hair hangover. The Mets right fielder, aka Shorn Green, was no more comfortable with his new and unwanted buzz cut Wednesday morning than he had been Tuesday night. "I had to do it, right?" he asked, second-guessing his own submission to the powerful peer pressure that existed before the Tuesday trimming. "It's not very good, is it?" When Green returned to the team hotel Tuesday, his wife, Lindsay, had been forewarned. Her reaction: "A painful laugh," he said. By Wednesday morning, she had become more accustomed to the change. But she spoke some words her husband found ominous: "You look more European now. We'll have to change your wardrobe." And Green said, "She wasn't kidding."

Nymr83 wrote: which has zero to do with athletes, unless you are actually seriously suggesting that any of the owners could be playing instead Jim Dolan trying to guard Jordan would be more exciting than some of the crap out there... back on track here,I do take your point about why they don't go check out the NBA...

Nymr83 wrote: ="Willets Point"]That's because there are lots of white dudes in the NBA including the guy who's won the MVP for two years running. the underrepresentation of whites in the NBA is probably alot greater than that of blacks in MLB. Whites in the NBA are called owners.

Fucking brilliant by Willets,not half bad by Delgado either.

Dude,where's my Björk Guðmundsdóttir thread,no one posted in it for weeks then BAM...then you did what to it again? I found it.

Willets Point wrote: ="metirish"] Would it be OK if I used this image as my new sig line?. You'd need to scale that mutha down a whole lot. You didn't really think I was serious...of course taking the piss online can be a difficult chore.

Yeah,no idea how I made that mistake.

Would it be OK if I used this image as my new sig line?.

Any word on weather Madame Tussauds did a job on Wright?..

Keith Hernandez seems to take this superstitious stuff seriously,if Maine gets beat today he will blame the buzz cut.

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Yeah. I was kind of surprised at Irish's "yes." Ha,taking the mickey outta me.....

Yes,the only people who did not are Sele,Reyes,Willie and I guess Manuel,both trainers did it.

Centerfield wrote: I'm surprised Reyes held out. I would have guessed he would be one of the ringleaders. I'm worried about Beltran's quad. That surprised me too,even Jay Horowitz got buzzed,Glavine said that there was a better chance of him striking out 20 than Peterson getting the buzz.

I didn't fool anyone with this did I, last year a Jose Antonio Reyes broke his leg playing for Arsenal,that headline would have been more believable.

Teams starting to ban beer in the home clubhouse,course they won't ban it in the stadium. ] Beer Banned In Orioles Clubhouse Kathryn Brown (WJZ) BALTIMORE A ban of a different kind has the Baltimore Orioles aiming to keep their players from getting hurt or even killed. The players at Camden Yards will no longer be able to enjoy a post-game beer or any other alcoholic beverage. Kathryn Brown reports the decision to ban beer inside the players' clubhouse came just five days after a Cardinals pitcher died from drinking and driving. Baseball and beer. The combination is as old as the sport itself, but team executives with the Orioles say it's also lethal. In a move that's drawing a mixed reaction from players, they are no long providing alcohol in the clubhouse. For some, cracking a cold one after the game is a treasured ritual, part of the culture of baseball. "My thing is, you gotta use common sense. They ban it in here in the clubhouse, but they sell it out there to the fans. You gotta know when to say when," said pitcher Jamie Walker. "Most of us are adults over 21 and it's, I think, our responsibility to monitor how much alcohol we consume at any point in time," said outfielder Corey Patterson. The ban comes in the wake of a fatal car crash involving Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock. Reports show he was drinking and driving. O's players learned about the decision after Friday's game. "In light of what happened with the Cardinals and their player getting killed, we thought it was the right time to do it," said Jim Duquette, vice president of baseball operations. Duquette made the same decision to ban alcohol from the clubhouse several years ago when he was general manager of the New York Mets. "The players, as you would expect, some it doesn't really affect them all that much and some were surprised by it because it's been a part of the culture in baseball for so long," Duquette said. "I don't want to say it's right, but it's not wrong either. But I think everybody around a major league team is a grown man," said catcher Ramon Hernandez. "In a way, it's a good decision because it prevents things from happening," said outfielder Nick Markakis. Six clubs in baseball now have alcohol bans in their clubhouse. Alcohol is still made available in the visiting clubhouse. (© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting I another article says the six teams are.... The Yankees, Mets, Twins ,Pirates and Oakland. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/05/06/SPGIDPLSJF1.DTL