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Thu. - Sat.. Jan. 29-31 Will Yankees Go After A-Rod?
Three Stooges
Stuck in the Middle (You Lose) (lyrics to Stuck in the Middle with You)
Well I don't know why they named
him that night
Yes A-Rod's stuck back in Texas
(smooth move)
Clown to the left of him
Well you started off with millions
Tried to make some sense of it all
Yes he's stuck in last place with
Buckaroo
"I guess I'm probably kinda sorta pretty
sure it might work
Dewey Defeats Truman
NFLShop.com Jinx
Yep, They're Selling It Online. (Yes we know you can dig around for the Patriots DVD box too, yeesh, no fun) Wed. Jan. 28 Danny Strange
Belichick's No Microphony But Let's Get this Show on the Road Already. Tues. Jan 27 Martinez Muscles Up
Positive Reports on Pedro's Shoulder from Miami. Mo Gone
Retirement. Right from the Horse's Mouth. Schilling on the Spot in Boston
Thurs. Jan. 21 - Mon. Jan 26 *Nine Out of Ten Dentists Agree
The A-Rod Deal Bears Its Teeth One More Time Before Spring Training (*The tenth dentist has been identified as Dr. Charles Steinberg, 4 Yawkey Way, Boston) "The strength of the wolf lies in its pack." - Bill Belichick "Get Rid of Steroids Now!"
President says using steroids sends the wrong message that a "shortcut to accomplishment is more important than character," urges teams and players to get them out of baseball. (The President is not expected to intervene in the A-Rod trade talks at this time.) "Product Marketing Mistake" Sox Fan Wants Her A-Rod Jersey 1.21.04: "Back to the whole jersey thing. I was one of the unfortunates who actually purchased one yesterday. I got a conformation number and my credit card had a pending charge to Digital River-MLB for $101.95. I just got off the phone with MLB.COM about this. At first the guy played dumb like he had no idea what I was talking about. Then he said "it was a product marketing mistake" and "they could not get the jerseys from the vendor" he also said no one hacked into their site and that my credit card would not be charged. I want to know what product marketing mistake is and I WANT MY JERSEY." MLB.com removes Red Sox A-Rod Replica Home Jerseys from ShopMLB.com at 11:11am, 1.20.04. Thank God for screen grabs:
Or Get the Boston Red Sox Alex Rodriguez Red Retro Cooperstown
Jersey for
ESPN.COM
LOSES ITS SHIRT ON
Wed. Jan. 20 NO HOAX FOLKS
ESPN.COM
LOSES ITS SHIRT ON 1.20.04 Dan Patrick on SportsCenter: "There's certainly movement on the A-Rod to Boston deal online. A person with access to create a page on MLB.com posted a link to the websites online shop that offers fans an opportunity to purchase an Alex Rodriguez replica Boston Red Sox jersey for a mere $99.95. The page eventually appeared on a Red Sox fan site (hello). A source close to the situation said the link was up for minutes and the same person who posted it apparently took it down."
"An authorized person
conducted an unauthorized hoax"
"Dirt on the Shirt. A-Rod Jersey a Hoax." ESPN.com news services - Tuesday, January 20, 2004 (our comments in parenthesis). A person who has access to create pages on MLB.com posted a link to the Web site's online shop that offered fans an opportunity to purchase an Alex Rodriguez replica Boston Red Sox jersey for $99.95. (Nope. No link, the pages were embedded into the ShopMLB.com database. That was one sample product and size. There were three A-Rod Red Sox jersey styles that went live on ShopMLB.com on January 16th -- Sox fans discovered pages last night when the images went up here. The jerseys were loaded into MLB.com's searchable database as attested to by many fans on the redsox.com forum, redsoxnation.net, SoSH, and other discussion boards last night. The red Cooperstown jerseys were going for $200.00 each and some people were actually able to backorder it, as they were already out of stock. See warm up shirt above.) An image of the page appeared on Red Sox fan site www.bostondirtdogs.com. (Correct, and I should have grabbed the other two products -- Cooperstown and warm up jerseys -- as well had I known about this sketchy spin). The file containing the A-Rod jersey image was uploaded to bostondirtdogs.com on Friday and was accompanied by the text "Boston Red Sox Alex Rodriguez Replica Home Jersey." (Nope. The images and screen grab were saved last night when Red Sox Nation online discovered the gaffe of releasing these shirts to the live shop database early instead of leaving the pages in the testing area.) "Be one of the first to own a jersey customized with the name and number of the newest Red Sox, Alex Rodriguez! $99.95." (Again, that was just one size, one style -- there were three.) A source close to the situation said the link was up for several minutes and the same individual who posted it apparently removed it from MLB.com. ("Several minutes" my donkey. A simple peruse here, January 19, 4:13pm, and here "three different ones?" will prove otherwise. This gaffe was just discovered last night. Pages on MLB.com were live since January 16th. "Minutes" to pull it down maybe after Dr. Steinberg called and said MLB Advanced Media has to take the fall for this one -- the Sox took the heat for bannergate just two weeks ago right?) "An authorized person conducted an unauthorized hoax," Jim Gallagher, spokesman for MLB Advanced Media, which runs MLB.com and 30 team Web sites, told ESPN.com. "We take this situation very seriously and we are currently investigating." (Yeah right, an authorized person made three different sample A-Rod shirts, built the pages with sizes and pricing variables, put them into the database, and launched them all live... for a joke. Are you related to Gene Mota Jim? We've got guys that bought the shirts Jim. You took credit cards on those shirts, bottom line.) MLB.com Advanced Media editor-in-chief Dinn Mann was not available for comment. (Smart move Dinn) -- Darren Rovell, ESPN.com (Quit your day job buddy but run a correction first.) "Of course it can get done... done in private without a whole lot of media scrutiny... privacy will rule the day if this trade ever has a chance." - Jeff Moorad "You're (ESPN) jumping the gun." - Scott Boras ESPN on AROD 1.20.04 Dan Patrick, ESPN SportsCenter: "Earlier today a major league baseball official confirmed to me that trade talks between the Boston Red Sox and Texas Rangers centering around Alex Rodriguez are still being explored. The source was quick to point out that no deal is imminent, and given the much publicized talks of last month, both sides have gone about their business in a covert manner. Money has been the major stumbling block in the A-Rod deal getting done." Bruce Levine, ESPN radio 1000: "If you talk to the people involved right now they'll tell you the story is totally incorrect and that there's no meeting but Texas people did verify that Texas people will be in New York (NY baseball writers dinner/MVP presentation)... but if a deal like this is going to get done, certainly the media is not going to be reporting on it. This was a good source, two good sources that I had on this, and they said, you know, you're going to have to sit on this thing because, Dan, no one is going to talk about this until it gets done. None of the teams can absorb the type of publicity involved here if the thing doesn't get done this time." Rangers-Red Sox Offer Strong Denials This Time Around Negotiations to Stay Out of the Media for Round Three "This deal is dead. Honestly. There is no chance of this happening. Don't read anything into some of those people being in New York." - Rangers statement, 1.20.04 "The reports are completely baseless. There are no plans for us to meet with anybody. We just learned about it. I was surprised by it, John Henry was surprised by it, Larry Lucchino was surprised by it, Tom Werner was surprised by it. It's unfortunate that someone can apparently fabricate a story and then Nomar Garciaparra and Manny Ramirez have to read about their futures again in the press. It's completely baseless, it's not true. The healthiest thing is just to move on. This story has been behind us for several weeks now." - Theo Epstein, General Manager, Boston Red Sox, 1.20.04... but is it deja vu all over again?... "It's baseless" - Theo Epstein, General Manager, Boston Red Sox, 11.12.03 THE WHOPPER OF A DEAL IS ALIVE
(Elvis says "Hey Baby" from Burger King) AND IT IS ON
NOW CLOSE IT
Teams Learn from Past Mistakes
1:20:04, 1:17pm: ESPN radio's Bruce Levine on Dan Patrick's radio show is now saying that talks on the Manny-for-A-Rod trade heated up this past week and John Henry and Tom Hicks either met last weekend or will meet this coming weekend. Patrick says A-Rod was bending Bud Selig's ear about the trade at Sammy Sosa's birthday party in the Dominican a while back and is pressing hard for the deal. According to Levine, who says the deal will happen according to his sources, all parties still want the deal to go through, and Selig's comment was to "get the deal done then call me only after everyone has approved the trade." Patrick says the deal will get done most likely by "this weekend." Alex has not spoken to manager Buck Showalter since the trade talks stalled in December.
(Hey, it beats Terry Shumpert talk) TROT GETS ONE YEAR DEAL, KIM SIGNS FOR TWO He's Back!
A-Rod Red Sox Home Jerseys On Sale (MLB files uploaded Jan. 16, 2004; MLB dropped page, 1.20.04)
"Boston Red Sox Alex Rodriguez Replica Home Jersey. Be one of the first to own a jersey customized with the name and number of the newest Red Sox, Alex Rodriguez! $99.95" ESPN Radio's Bruce Levine, who broke Pettitte to Astros, Roger too, reports of "secret talks" scheduled this week between the Red Sox and Rangers. Does MLB Know Something We Don't Know?
It's Good to Be ALIVE! Sun. Jan 18, Mon. Jan 19. SUPER ROLL
PATS OUTGUN COLTS
You Can't Break the Law in Foxboro AFC Champions 24 Colts 14 (Carolina, You Have A Problem) That's Manning Being Manning
Foxboro is Not Peyton's Place Four Interceptions = Fourteen in a Row for Patriots. Colts Go Pony Up!
Pats Fans are Houston Rockets Gillette's Go Pats
It's Patriots Day Sat. Jan 17 Boo Hoo Gillette's Go Manny!
Ramirez Allegedly Afraid of Fan Blitz While Nomar Calls an Audible for Pats Game and Goes Back to Phoenix. "They boo because they want to cheer you." - Mike Timlin
Eskimo Up! Get on the Plane to
Foxboro Manny. "I think Manny will be met with a mix of jeers, boos, and half-hearted cheers. But the place will positively erupt if either he or Nomar hits a dinger, much more so, I predict, than if, for example, Kevin Millar or Bill Mueller homered. Manny isn't unequivocally a villain in the the eyes of Red Sox Nation. But he's a mix of great characteristics and confounding and aggravating characteristics. On rare occasions, the aggravations rise to be real problems (like when he wheeled out of the batters box or refused to pinch hit), but those are rare. Most times, the guy performs like a monster and has fun with this teammates. His bosses hate him, but I'm not his boss and I could care less if he or anyone make their jobs more difficult if Manny produces. In the race thread, someone described Boston as a liberal city. I disagree. There is a small academic community that grabs headlines and attention, but Boston is very much a blue collar, working class city, much like Chicago. And I think that the people of Boston like their heroes in their own image - flawed in some way, with contradictions, and rough edges. I think that was part of Bird's appeal. I also think that's why Tom Brady is really, really, really well-liked, but not beloved or adored. Quite frankly, I think white-bread A-Rod (he may be "a person of color" but A-Rod is pure Wonderbread) would get the same reception." - dag2000, redsoxnation.net What's the Mato Here?
Manny's Agent Spins
Guilt Trip on Gordon Edes.
Return address correct By Gordon Edes, Boston Globe Staff, 1/17/2004 "Ramirez bought a plane ticket and planned to fly up from South Florida to attend tomorrow's AFC Championship game with Mato, but as of yesterday, Mato said, Ramirez had a change of heart and is probably going to stay home."
"He's afraid that if he goes to the game and they show him on the scoreboard, everybody will start booing him," Mato said."
"And that would be unfortunate, the agent said, because despite whatever people may believe at this stage, Ramirez is glad to be coming back to the Red Sox this season."
"As evidence, Mato cites the date, Dec. 6, when he and Ramirez placed a phone call to Red Sox owner John W. Henry, in the midst of the trade talks that would have sent Ramirez to the Texas Rangers for shortstop Alex Rodriguez. "He called John Henry and told him he didn't want to be traded," Mato said."
"John's been great with Manny. Manny likes him a lot. Manny doesn't blame John for anything."
"Yes, Alex Rodriguez is a great player, but he's already proved he can't do it alone. Why break up the great chemistry that team had?
"Manny seems to be real excited about this year. He started working out about three days after the Red Sox lost to the Yankees, and he's probably in better shape right now than he was at any time last year."
"Get ready. Get ready for this year. He is going in angry."
"Mato said Ramirez would not consent to an interview at this time, though he urged the player to do so just the day before. "If he says something," Mato said, "he feels it will be taken out of context. People misinterpret him, so he says let people think whatever they want."
"Nobody's heard Manny's story," Mato said. "They just say Manny wanted to leave, but that wasn't the case. There were times he did want to leave. That is true. But one thing that also is true is that when the A-Rod rumors first started, he called John Henry to let him know he wanted to stay in Boston."
"He doesn't deny complaining several times throughout the year. There were certain issues. He doesn't deny saying he wanted to be traded at some points. But it had nothing to do with the fans. He loves Boston. But he's an emotional guy. Things developed, and he wanted to get out."
Mato acknowledges that Ramirez's emotions were running high when the Sox hosted the Yankees over the weekend of Aug. 29-31, especially after media reports that a supposedly ailing Ramirez had gone out to eat with Yankees infielder Enrique Wilson, a longtime friend.
"Though the players did see each other that Saturday evening, Mato insists the two did not have dinner. "People say Manny didn't want to beat the Yankees," Mato said. "Nobody wants to beat the Yankees more than Manny."
"Manny lives at the Ritz-Carlton. Enrique went to see him. He came downstairs to see Enrique because he doesn't want anyone in his home. He saw Enrique about a half-hour. They never had dinner. I wasn't there, but according to Manny, he started feeling sick when he was with Enrique. He went back to his room that night feeling real bad and when he woke up the next day, he felt terrible."
"They [the Red Sox] knew Manny wasn't going [to the park on Sunday] -- I spoke to them," said Mato, adding that he couldn't recall which Sox official he spoke with. "I told them he was sick. They wanted him there regardless. They disagreed on whether he wanted to be there or not. One of the things I told Manny is they wanted him to be there."
"Still, when the season ended, Ramirez was placed on waivers, but no team claimed him for the $20,000 waiver price. Mato said Ramirez became upset that the process became public and that the Red Sox did not offer any public explanation (Sox officials said baseball rules prevented them from commenting on the waiver process)."
But whatever distress Ramirez felt at the time, Mato insists, is no longer an issue. "What bothered Manny most was what [Kevin] Millar said," Mato said, referring to interviews in which Millar came out in favor of the Rodriguez trade. "But Kevin has reached out to Manny and they've worked it out. Kevin was put in a bad situation. Kevin didn't mean any harm by it, but what's done is done, and they've already worked it out."
"There is no animosity, Mato said."
Gene, Gene the Lying Machine
Mato Could Be More Disingenuous
than Moorad, "He told one group of reporters that his grandmother was ''kind of sick,'' another group that his grandmother had died, even going so far as spelling his grandmother's name for one reporter and giving her age to another. He said he felt obligated to come because he was the only Sox representative." "But his agent, Jeff Moorad, and Moorad's associate, Gene Mato, had said nothing about Ramirez's grandmother Monday, when they offered the explanation that Ramirez had skipped the flight the Sox had arranged for him on Sunday night and flew out on a private plane on Monday in order to tend to some personal business that involved a stopover in New York. Yesterday, Ramirez didn't arrive at the ballpark until almost 2:30 p.m. and said that he had flown to Miami, contradicting his agents." - Ramirez Mystery, Boston Globe, July 2001 "His agent, Gene Mato, said that the rising star, facing astronomical prices in Boston, won't be looking for a penthouse apartment or even a house, just "something simple, in a quiet area." - AP 12.18.00
"TAKING A SWING AT THE MARKET? And speaking of baseball players, slugger Manny Ramirez's penthouse condo in the Ritz Towers has been the subject of more trade speculation than he has. The condo, when we checked this week, was not on the market, although it had been briefly, in a very quiet way." - Boston Globe 12.28.03 Williamson Signs One Year Deal. Trot Close to Three Year Package. Terry Shumpert alive and signs a non-guaranteed contract with Sox. A-Rod Deal Could Be Given Last Rites Soon. Millar Gets Back on Campaign Trail
Fri. Jan. 16 THEY'LL WIN, CHILL
Pats Kick Colts Ass on Sunday Ghost is Back in the Machine
Grady lands job as Cubs' reporter. Big Dan on Campus
Duke Waves Goodbye to MLB EgoManiac Names New Berkshire Collegiate Team After Himself. Was this John Flynn's idea?
John Henry considers changing
name of
"I have a friend who
plays in that league. He says he'll quit if
"The Dukes plan to spend more days in first
place than any other team
Seriously, take a spin out to Hinsdale
this summer, say hi to The Duke, Done Deal on M-Rod?
"We'll have guys there to watch him but that's all I'll say.'' - Theo
File under: close, but no Cuban cigar yet.
Wed/Thu. Jan. 14-15 Yankee Fan Fesses Up
BK to Stay
Kim Byung-hyun to Sign on for 2 More Years, $10 million But Arroyo has shot at 5th spot. No BK Deal Yet Ortiz, Nixon, Williamson, and Kim file for arbitration. "Little Brain"
Kevin Millar explains
why Grady left Pedro Cheatin' and Lyin' in Houston
Pettitte and Clemens together again. Tues. Jan. 13
Mon. Jan 12 The Gr8 One
You had to figure 8 would be hanging from the
rafters. One More Time
Will he be back in Boston in October? Hot Music, Cool Stove
Gammo Stole the Show,
But He Don't Know No Hot Trade Rumors in the House. Mueller on Millar: "We're gonna put duct tape over his mouth when he gets to spring training." Foxbrrro Fanatics
Indy comes to WINdy city after
Fri. Jan. 9 Oy-Rod!
Radio Daze: Theo Cooked on Trade Talk, While Gammons Stirs the Pot Mo Gone
Sumo Slugger to Sit out 2004 season. "It's not about the honeys Dale." Hey Baby, Do You Want Fries with That?
"It's like seeing Elvis at Burger King." - Theo Epstein on A-Rod talk 1.8.04 (Oh, and happy birthday Elvis... wherever you are.) A-Rod has been working all week on the trade, again. - Peter Gammons on WAAF Big O: Is this whole deal with A-Rod dead, can it be revived, should we even speculate, talk about it, waste our time? Gammons: "I wouldn't talk about it because I think it will drive people either insane or ad-nauseam or take away from the Patriots, which I don't think anyone wants to have happen BUT, A-Rod still wants it to happen and he's trying to come up with some ways to see if he can rekindle it, I doubt it will happen, but if he can be successful in getting John Henry and Tom Hicks, Gene Orza and Alex into a suite for a day, maybe it could happen. I think that could happen too (end of 2004 season), just because from Texas' standpoint, the difference between A-Rod's and Manny's salaries gets wider at the end of next season. I'm sure the Rangers would like to revisit that. I think it could still happen. He does like it here. Most everyone wants it to happen, how it happens is the problem they have. They haven't been able to find the tracks to get the train on, maybe they can get it back. I do think that the Nomar/Ordonez thing is still there, so they could probably still do that." Big O: If the Red Sox don't sign Nomar, and I'm not sure since they seem to be far apart that they will going into the last year of the contract, people keep talking about Nomar's feelings. I'm not concerned that he's not going to go out and have a terrific season. He's a professional that knows what he's got to do, especially in the last year of his contract. But doesn't it become such a distraction by us, by the media people, it's constantly going to be asked of him everywhere. We had this stupid thing in the last few days, which was really dumb, the masthead of the website was changed by Major League Baseball and Nomar's picture, who was on it two days ago, was not omitted along with Manny's and now (PG: as was Ordonez in Chicago) and everybody put two-and-two together and suddenly everybody's talking about... the thing is Nomar's in Austin Texas right now apparently, he's not dealing it, but imagine if we're dealing with little idiotic stuff like that on a day-to-day basis, that this is not gonna get to a guy who hates for us to speculate about anything anyway? PG: What I think will happen is that Manny will just shut things out even more, and Nomar will shut things off even more... I have never been to a Red Sox game in which Nomar Garciaparra didn't play as hard as he could and I think he will play that way. I don't know though whether the sensitivity issue will effect him or whether he'll just completely put on the blinders and go out and have a great year and say 'see I told you you should have paid me $16 or $17 million' and then ride off into the sunset. I can't really judge which way it's gonna go, my guess is it's more towards the latter because I think, he's actually now in Tempe at that performance institute with Mia working out. His regime for six weeks is just incredible." - Peter Gammons, WEEI, The Big Show, 1.8.04 Peter Gammons was also on WAAF 107.3 FM (plugging the Hot Stove music event) this morning and informed the Hillman Morning Show that A-Rod has been working all week on the trade, again. Greg Hill asked if that was a new break in the current information, he confirmed it was. He said Alex was not talking to the Sox, because he isn't allowed to, but confirmed that A-Rod was working on getting the deal back to the table and trying to get everyone to consider it again. Is Gammo Sick or What? Theoretically Speaking "Sick*... Perverse" Terse Theo Speaks out on A-Rod Deal While Gammons is Talking it Up
On negotiating with Nomar: "It’s tough to put yourself in their shoes when you’re looking at the market, it makes it hard to get together, it remains to be seen (if we can get closer). Let me clarify about saying ‘sick’, if I were a fan, 10-12 years removed, I would probably be thinking about the trade. Let’s just say it would be healthy for us to move on. ...And it’s not just the draft picks you get when you let someone go. You get the skills and impact of keeping them another year rather than trade them and hope you controlled talent. You free up that player slot for $10-$12-$15 million and you can be creative with that slot, get three guys at $5 million, take on a contract to get a young superstar... Organically, players will leave and you get not just the draft picks, but the use of those resources. I don’t expect that we’ll score as many runs but not all players had career years, if you look at Kevin Millar’s career, he actually underperformed. The free agent period in November is when most players resign with their teams. I don’t mind getting close to the free agent period. You don’t automatically trade your free agents the year before to get value for them. There is tremendous value for having that player play for your team for that year while in his prime, you can cheat yourself of that if you trade just to get someone now. Of the seven players we have coming up, someone’s not going to be here. We improved greatly in the off-season with the acquisitions of Schilling and Foulke, filling two needs. We’ll have a talented 5th starter, Timlin, Embree, and Williamson will set up Foulke, Arroyo will be a great swingman and 6th starter, Pokey Reese helps us with our right-side defense, ...he works hard on his hitting. Trot is a great candidate for arbitration… Reserve the Hot Stove, Cool Music CD at www.fenwayrecordings.com … Go Pats!” – Theo on with WEEI’s Dennis and Callahan 1.8.04 * Then Theo softened his stance :-)
Red Sox Admit They "Approved"
(wink) Dumping Nomar and Manny from "Conspiracy buffs were undoubtedly let down early last night with the return of Nomar Garciaparra and Manny Ramirez to the masthead of the redsox.com Web site. As part of an mlb.com-prompted overhaul, the site was revamped Tuesday, with the images of Garciaparra and Ramirez being replaced by Curt Schilling and David Ortiz (and Tim Wakefield). The Red Sox were deluged with inquiries as to whether the overhaul was a message about future happenings. It wasn't, although the club acknowledged that it had approved the Ramirez- and Garciaparra-less look when it was shown to them by mlb.com." - 1.8 Herald, Silverman notebook And if you believe for a second that the flunkies at MLB Advanced Media in New York tell the Boston Red Sox which players to feature on their masthead, well, we've got some CMGI stock we'd like to sell you. ("Charles Steinberg on line one Mr. Rasky"). We were born at night... but it wasn't last night.
Thu. Jan 8 Eskimo Up!
Lobel Coins the Battle-cry as Patriots Fans Leave for Foxboro. (Whiner Line caller stole it from him or here, Borges got from same.) Oops! They Changed it Again Red Sox Respond to Getting Caught Dumping Superstars Online. Dr. Steinberg's Webmasters Scramble to Change RedSox.com Top Banner After Late Night Move Gets Exposed Here. Manny and Nomar Hastily Added Back In, but Wakefield Gets Whacked in New Version.
The edited background and border didn't
even line up.
The Revised Fab Five of RedSox.com Pedro, Nomar, Ortiz, Manny, Schilling Alive?
Tangled Web May Mean Trades Not Dead
RedSox.com drops Manny and
Nomar from homepage masthead (below). Veteran superstars replaced
with Going, Going, Gone:
(And that's Yawkey Way's decision, not MLB Advanced Media in NYC) Don't expect to see Nomar and Manny on the new pocket schedule either. Inside Out Debuts on NESN: Tewksbury's sportcoat was the big story. "Nothing says they can't revisit this (A-Rod) before spring training." - Gordon Edes, NESN Inside Out New Information:
On December 23rd, the Red Sox wanted all their Aramark
commissions paid up front. They wanted a chunk of cash, and they Boston.com on Bannergate
Throwing Some Wood on the Hot Stove "Have you heard the latest buzz about the seemingly dead Manny-for-A-Rod, Nomar-for-Ordonez blockbuster deal? According to several fan message boards, including sonsofsamhorn.com and bostondirtdogs.com, the official team sites of the Red Sox, Rangers, and White Sox all changed their flags at the top of their sites within an hour of each other at about 2 a.m. today, removing images of the aforementioned players. Spooky! Conspiracy! What do you think is going on???"
Wed. Jan 7 Pats Seeing Red Over Sox Talk "Word around the (Patriots) locker room is that some in the organization are a bit put out by the fact that the baseball team managed to grab the spotlight, the headlines and the hearts and minds of the fans - even after the season was over and they AGAIN finished out of the money. "They walk around like they own the town,'' groused one ex-player. "What have they ever won anyway?'' It's all so sibling-rivalry, isn't it? We hear the pigskin poohbahs were particularly miffed at the way the non-Alex Rodriguez trade managed to steal the Pats' thunder as the team rolled over all comers during their 12-game win streak. "And they didn't even have the deal done,'' moaned one incredulous exec. ``All that ink and they didn't get it done!'' The Pats were particularly peeved by Nomar Garciaparra's famous phone call to WEEI on Dec. 9 - the one during which he reiterated his desire to stay in Boston and his dismay at the A-Rod dealings. Now it's nothing personal with Nomar, mind you, it's just that he called into the station on "Patriots Monday'' - the mop-up after the Pats had just clinched the division title with a 12-0 win over Miami at a raucous Gillette Stadium Snow Bowl. "Richard Seymour and Deion Branch were in the studio, and they made them sit there and cool their heels until Nomar finished,'' said Someone Who Knows. We can only hope the A-Rod deal doesn't crop up again during the Super Bowl." - 1.7 Boston Herald - Inside Track
Tue. Jan 6 Off the Wagon, Sadly
Vinny Losing Battle With Alcohol
Baker Suspended for
"Non-Compliance" for Kid's in the Hall
"It's overwhelming, I'm just
thrilled,
Writers Give Us Eck!
Stud Starter to Rubber-Armed Reliever, Congratulations to our favorite NESN studio analyst.
Mon. Jan 5
Sunday January 04, 2004 "Crank This Puppy Up" "I think we are all frothing at the bit to get to Florida and crank this puppy up" - Curt Schilling Tell 'em: Schill Speaks Up on Signing Garciaparra Will Nomar Dump Tellem and Represent Himself? "Who knows, maybe Nomar dumps Tellem and goes to the Sox and says 'What's it gonna take to finish my career here?', certainly not out of the realm of possibility. Either way this team has the feel of something special." - Schilling on SoSH
DEAD DEAL That's All Folks
John Henry Breaks Silence, Calls Deal Dead, but Won't Explain Luxury Tax Limits, the Public Fiasco that Played Out, or the Critical Players Association Negotiation Mistakes. "I think the post mortem (and it may sound overly simple) should emphasize that the Red Sox were afraid of losing a Hall of Fame shortstop and they were trying to accomodate (sic) another player in exchange for a great Hall of Famer who really wanted to play in Boston. However, 2004 was set up so well that we had to have a deal within particular parameters for it to make sense. Was it a mistake to find out if it could happen? I don't think so. Ultimately, under the terms we were given to make it happen, making a major change in this team would have been a mistake - in our view - particularly in our GM's view. Of course references to the Hall of Fame are meant to refer to future Hall of Famers. Red Sox management had a consistent consensus regarding our parameters and approach. As in all baseball matters the GM here was the lead voice internally and essentially set parameters that made sense. ...The second largest tactical errors I've seen are by those who sit on their duff rather than trying to make things happen. The largest occur when you move forward regardless - "go for it" simply because of momentum, effort invested, impatience and potential disappointment. We are very much at peace with the end result. I hope you can be as well " - JWH on A-Rod saga on SoSH Sox Won't Pay-Rod Henry's answers raise more questions Did luxury tax limit them all along?
Is Manny just "another player" and not "future
Hall of Famer" But didn't Tellem tell you to trade the HOF shortstop you were afraid to lose? Will Lucchino ever return from "family business" in Pittsburgh? Will willing-to-spend-whatever-it-takes-Yankees move in on Alex?
(Tony Mazz is furious that JWH took his case
to the fans via the web again while he's doing ABC's for a Sunday
column. Lobel's Virgin Post Ferrets Henry Out of Boca Bunker
... I always believed that if the Red Sox thought they wouldn't be able to sign Nomar, they would trade him. I think they believe they can't sign him for what they want to sign him for, and will stick to their long held philosophy on Nomar. Hey, it's possible they will be forced to get his contract year farewell performance and a draft pick, but that is not the style of this group. I still believe they have not moved off their intended policy... sign him by (fill in the date before spring training) or trade him." - Bob Lobel, SoSH 1.3.04 Oops! She Got Annulment
Back to Singing Single, Late Night Marriage Gets Nixed. Breaking News: Love on the Rocks... Ain't No Big Surprise. Marriediculous Sun 1.5
Wake Up! Tim Worried About Buckner Tag Puhleeze, first of all Wake we love Buck.
Secondly, Game 7 was over when Grady Manny Nearly Killed Red Sox 2003 Season
That's Entertainment? "The night we lost, Grady said, `You guys have nothing to be disappointed about. You really entertained a lot of people.'"
Hey Grady, if we want "entertainment" in
New York City we'll go to Broadway, Sat. 1.4 "There's nothing going on there" Henry Confirms Cooling-Off Period A-Rod Negotiations Tabled Over Holidays Fri. 1.3 Charlie Hustler
The Blush is Off the Rose The Confessions of Pete Rose - by Fay Vincent
Fri. 1.2 Sheppard: Sheepish on the Internet "Players going on these independent websites is going to backfire on them... I don't know... the ID not being right... don't know who it's being controlled by... a player will say something he normally wouldn't say... there's no follow-up questions... I don't know... those sites don't have information about Red Sox players over guys that cover the team... no locker room access... it's going to backfire on them." - Pete Sheppard, WEEI 12.31 Friday, January 2, 2004 - Exclusive Breaking News Mills Fills Seat on the Bench Brad Mills will be named Tito's bench coach next week. Francona Hopes to Have All-Bald Coaching Staff
Mills, a former All-American infielder at Arizona, appeared in 106 major-league games over four seasons with the Expos from 1980-83. He's best known, however, for the dubious distinction of being Nolan Ryan's 3,509th career strikeout victim, which broke Walter Johnson's all-time mark. Thu. 1.1 New Year's Day All is quiet on New Year's Day
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1.4.03:
"All text in this post is off the record for any media
members browsing this forum (SoSH). I am not
granting permission for this to be duplicated in any
form in any other media forum. BDD (here) can
link to this, but I would ask that to be the only
place something about this post appears other than
here.
"As
for THE DEAL? The trap is there for all of us. Wishing doesn't make
it happen and maybe it is keeping it alive... but I still don't
think that's true... I think it would be easier for everyone to move
on if the Red Sox just said 'hey, we gave it our best shot...' even
if we did shoot ourselves on this one... we need to hear from the
Sox front office on something more than 'nothing is going on'...
just because that is true today, doesn't make it necessarily true
tomorrow.
Brad Mills spent 10 seasons as a
minor-league manager from 1987-1996 before becoming first base
coach for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1997-2000 and advance
scout for the Chicago Cubs in 2001. Mills managed six seasons
(1987-92) in the Cubs system and four (1993-96) in the
Colorado Rockies organization. He was most recently the bench
coach for the Montreal Expos.
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