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posted 07-09-2010 23:53
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San Francisco' is in my top 5 but the convention center isn't quite as good as San Diego's and the airport is a long ride from downtown.
Baltimore is great but the only meetings I've ever been to at the convention center have been brutally dull shit like the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society. The only time I stayed in a hotel there was during my HCPro days and they put me in a hooker-murder motel back behind the Ravens' stadium. But I'd like to see more of these smaller meetings go there, especially during baseball season.
My best work trip ever was that heart failure meeting in Toronto where we did a mini thon. But that was at the Hilton, not a convention center and I'll never go there for work in this job. Any meetings in Toronto will be covered by our man who lives in Collingwood, ON.
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posted 08-09-2010 02:15
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Jason Standridge, formerly of the Devil Rays, Reds, Rangers, and Royals, made the start for Hanshin in the opener of a 1st v 2nd tussle in a rainy wind-blown night in Osaka between the Tigers and Dragons against Taiwanese Wei-Yin Chen.
It was a tight, tight, tight, TIGHT one.
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posted 09-09-2010 18:13
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This is weird.
Toronto police say they have executed a search warrant to take evidence from the Toronto Blue Jays in relation to the perjury and steroid case against former Jays’ pitcher Roger Clemens.
“We assisted the U.S. Department of Justice by turning over documents,” Toronto police Const. Tony Vella told the Star Thursday morning.
Clemens last played for the Blue Jays 11 years ago. What could they still have that could be of relevance to the perjury case?
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posted 09-09-2010 18:17
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I don't know but I'm fascinated to find out.
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posted 09-09-2010 18:40
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Currently watching the White Sox v Tigers on TV, and the Sox commentators are easily the most one-sided (they are down 2-5, at Comerica) people I have ever heard.
There was a huge 'YEEEESSSSS' for a single up the middle.
Perhaps they think they have a chance.
Manny at bat. He needs a huge one.
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posted 09-09-2010 18:43
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They are a disgrace to a profession that has generally been without honour for decades.
Hawk Harrelson is probably the worst announcer in all of MLB, and the competition is incredibly stiff. He's also "guaranteed" that the Chisox will beat out the Twins, which ain't looking so good right now.
And I'm sure that Manny would tell that he has a huge one, but that's just Manny being Manny.
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posted 09-09-2010 18:50
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Well, that didn't take long.
Constable Isabelle Cotton, a public information officer for the Toronto Police Service, told The News Thursday that Justice Department officials sought and received assistance from the Toronto police in seizing what are believed to be medical records related to an abscess that appeared on Clemens' buttocks in 1998.
Is this the smoking bun?
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posted 09-09-2010 19:13
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My dear... I would have to be 'smoking' to go near that headhunter's buns...
If he was juiced, and its possible, would it be any worse than the every 10 day cortisone shots that other mature pitchers, still have?
I suppose it depends on the 'juice'.
As David Wells says: "If I was Mike Piazza, that bat would still be up Clemens' ass."
(Sorry about the love-in for Wells, but whether his book is true or not (just bought it again for $3, inc postage) he makes me laugh, and he is the sort of pitcher I can relate to.)
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posted 09-09-2010 19:30
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If you make it to NY, I will gift you a (North American) DVD of Wells' perfecto.
I've had no luck finding a Euro-friendly version, though I'm still looking.
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posted 09-09-2010 20:06
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HEY... I HAVE AN OPEN SERIES DVD!
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posted 09-09-2010 20:06
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or you know, yousend it!
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posted 09-09-2010 20:07
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How did you get it? It wasnt on TV?... ah, ok, that was America (or at least v Minnesota).
Have you got David Cone's?
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posted 09-09-2010 20:14
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I can get a set of six (Larsen, Righetti, Abbot, Gooden, Wells and Cone).
The Larsen one is missing the first inning, but the others are supposed to be complete.
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posted 09-09-2010 22:05
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Umps get things right, too.
Umpire Bob Davidson says he ejected a fan at Milwaukee's Miller Park during Tuesday's game after the use of a homophobic slur aimed at Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina.
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posted 11-09-2010 02:59
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I remember Howard Stern absolutely crushed/pissed/disappointed that David Wells called into the show the morning after his Perfect Game - but an intern picked up the phone, didn't believe Wells that it was actually him, and didn't tell Gary or anyone else that someone saying it was Wells was on the phone. It would've been the first interview given.
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posted 11-09-2010 17:09
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ursus arctos wrote:
I can get a set of six (Larsen, Righetti, Abbot, Gooden, Wells and Cone).
The Larsen one is missing the first inning, but the others are supposed to be complete.
ohmyglod.
I will pay almost any amount (below $50) for the latter two, but give you twice the amount for all of them.
Are you serious?
You have no idea how happy this would make me (and how pissed off my other half would be... )
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posted 11-09-2010 17:10
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jasoń voorhees wrote:
I remember Howard Stern absolutely crushed/pissed/disappointed that David Wells called into the show the morning after his Perfect Game - but an intern picked up the phone, didn't believe Wells that it was actually him, and didn't tell Gary or anyone else that someone saying it was Wells was on the phone. It would've been the first interview given.
Howard Stern also got David Wells to say how many they would beat the Padres in the '98 World Series (after much winding up). Wells said 4-1. He was very wrong.
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posted 13-09-2010 15:55
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I'm absolutely serious. It may take me a while to get them, but I refuse to take money for them.
Bill James with a classic piece on "cheating".
First of all, I have absolutely no doubt that, had steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs existed during Babe Ruth's career, Babe Ruth would not only have used them, he would have used more of them than Barry Bonds. I don't understand how anyone can be confused about this. The central theme of Babe Ruth's life, which is the fulcrum of virtually every anecdote and every event of his career, is that Babe Ruth firmly believed that the rules did not apply to Babe Ruth. I have outlined this argument before, and I apologize for repeating myself, but why was Babe Ruth raised in an "orphanage"? Because he refused to go to school. He supposedly threatened to throw his manager off the back of a moving train—about as clear a symbol of disrespect for authority as one could possibly find. He was caught using a corked bat, which was not a big deal to the league authorities because they didn't understand what you could do with a corked bat, and he very probably continued to use corked bats for much of his career.
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I am not saying that we should not admire Babe Ruth, that we should not respect him, that we should not honor him. What I am trying to get people to face is the cast of mind that made Babe Ruth what he was. It was not very different from the cast of mind that made Barry Bonds who he was, or made Roger Clemens or Ted Williams who they were. I myself am a stubborn, sometimes arrogant person who refuses to obey some of the rules that everybody else follows.
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