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Geowhizzer

#30
April 20, 2005, 10:43:40 PM

henchmanUK

#31
April 21, 2005, 05:24:57 AM
"The drunkenness, the violence, the nihilism: the Eagles should really be an English football team, not an American one." - Financial Times, London

PhillyGirl

#32
April 21, 2005, 02:39:50 PM
"Oh, yeah. They'll still boo. They have to. They're born to boo. Just now, they'll only boo with two Os instead of like four." - Larry Andersen

Mad-Lad

#33
April 21, 2005, 02:42:58 PM
While i don't wish the guy harm, I love seeing bad things happen to the Cubs. 

Sounds like his "I'm gonna sign a one year deal to boost my stock next offseason" isn't gonna work out so well.

Dillen

#34
April 21, 2005, 03:02:25 PM
Quote from: Mad-Lad on April 21, 2005, 02:42:58 PM
While i don't wish the guy harm, I love seeing bad things happen to the Cubs. 

Sounds like his "I'm gonna sign a one year deal to boost my stock next offseason" isn't gonna work out so well.
I cant stand him either.



Taveras and Lane are doing well so far huh ML? :yay

Mad-Lad

#35
April 21, 2005, 03:07:46 PM
Quote from: Dillen37 on April 21, 2005, 03:02:25 PM
Quote from: Mad-Lad on April 21, 2005, 02:42:58 PM
While i don't wish the guy harm, I love seeing bad things happen to the Cubs. 

Sounds like his "I'm gonna sign a one year deal to boost my stock next offseason" isn't gonna work out so well.
I cant stand him either.



Taveras and Lane are doing well so far huh ML? :yay

Yeah, they're playing pretty well.  There are some serious issues with the lack of production offensively, but hopefully it will work itself out.  Oh, and John Franco sucks.

Wake me after the All Star Break.

PhillyPhreak54

#36
April 21, 2005, 06:57:23 PM

Rome

#37
April 21, 2005, 07:25:25 PM



Is this Swoop on Dianabol?   :paranoid

PhillyPhreak54

#38
April 21, 2005, 07:52:45 PM
No. Swoop drank too many Pabst Blue Ribbons and got him a beer gut.

henchmanUK

#39
April 22, 2005, 05:05:54 AM
Ozzie Guillen in foul-mouthed rant at Magglio Ordonez.  :yay
QuoteCurses! Guillen-Ordonez flap erupts
By Mark Gonzales
Tribune staff reporter

April 21, 2005, 10:58 PM CDT

The brushfire between manager Ozzie Guillen and former White Sox player Magglio Ordonez turned into a full-scale inferno Thursday morning after Guillen took exception to his fellow Venezuelan calling him an "enemy."

"He's a piece of [bleep]," Guillen told Sox beat writers after learning of Ordonez's contempt for Guillen and alleging his manager steered him away from the Sox and to Detroit.

"He's a [bleep], that's what he is," Guillen continued. "He's another Venezuelan [bleep]. [Bleep] him.

"He has an enemy. Now he has a big one. He knows I can [bleep] him a lot of different ways. He better shut the [bleep] up and play for the Detroit Tigers."

In a five-minute interview a member of the Tigers staff halted, Ordonez expressed his frustration over his latest injury but was blunter in discussing the lack of a relationship he had with Guillen from the time they briefly played together with the Sox at the end of the 1997 season.

"We never clicked, even when we played together," Ordonez said. "I don't consider him my friend. I have nothing to say. I don't want to see him or talk to him. He's my enemy.

"If he comes to me and wants to apologize, I wouldn't accept it."

Ordonez said later he didn't have a problem with Sox general manager Ken Williams and insisted it was Guillen who got involved with the Sox's decision not to re-sign him.

"I don't talk bad about people when people are hurt," said Ordonez, who is on the disabled list and will be examined Monday in Philadelphia by a hernia specialist. "I'm very straightforward. There are a lot of people who try to push you down and do the opposite and not try to help you."

Guillen became furious at any suggestion that he should apologize to Ordonez.

"Why do I have to apologize to him?" Guillen responded while sitting in his office chair and tapping his right foot frequently. "Who the [bleep] is Magglio Ordonez? Why ever talk about me? He doesn't do [bleep] for me. But if he thinks I'm his enemy, he has a big enemy. He knows me.

"I just take it the way he wants to take it."

Guillen said Ordonez started the verbal battle in February when Ordonez accused him of forcing him to play last season with a left knee injury that limited him to 52 games and convinced the Sox not to re-sign him after they had offered him a multiyear deal last April.

"Why would I get involved with [contract negotiations]?" Guillen asked. "I don't get involved with that."

Ordonez later switched agents, from Tom Reich to Scott Boras, and landed a five-year, $75 million contract with Detroit.

The Tigers, however, can void the contract if Ordonez's left knee causes him to spend at least 25 days on the disabled list or if he finishes the season on the DL.

That would cost Ordonez $63 million, but Guillen insinuated that messing with him would be a greater risk.

"I think Magglio is playing with fire," Guillen said. "I'm not afraid of him. I have nothing to apologize [for]. I have nothing to do with Magglio wearing the Detroit Tigers uniform.

"Every time when he played for me, he played good. But if he thinks I'm his enemy or I have something against him, it's up to him."

Guillen also felt betrayed because he claimed he told then-Sox GM Ron Schueler to put Ordonez on the 40-man roster after he was left off in the mid-1990s.

"I told Schueler this kid is better than you think," Guillen said.

But apparently not as friendly. Ordonez did meet with a few Sox players after Wednesday's game, including disabled slugger Frank Thomas.

And before Thursday's game, Guillen had an animated discussion on the field with friend and fellow Venezuelan Ugueth Urbina.

As for Ordonez, Guillen said: "He never was my friend because I don't know him. If I think what I say hurt him, I don't give a [bleep]. I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to win games. I have a lot of friends. If Magglio doesn't want to be my friend, I don't have to drink with him.

"... A couple people asked me about it, and was nice about his injury and [bleep]. I don't give a [bleep] what he does for the rest of his life. He [bleeped] with the wrong guy."

Copyright © 2005, The Chicago Tribune
"The drunkenness, the violence, the nihilism: the Eagles should really be an English football team, not an American one." - Financial Times, London

Dillen

#40
April 23, 2005, 11:56:29 PM
Astros great hitting game today. 3rd time this year theyve lost 1-0 in 10 innings.  :D

shorebird

#42
April 27, 2005, 12:26:15 PM
Quote from: SD_Eagle on April 24, 2005, 08:59:45 PM


WTF!?!? I know players smack each others butts, but thats taking it a bit too far!

By the way, anyone notice that the Orioles have won 5 straight and just swept Boston? And Sosa hasn't even started to hit yet.

PhillyGirl

#43
April 29, 2005, 09:28:48 AM
"Oh, yeah. They'll still boo. They have to. They're born to boo. Just now, they'll only boo with two Os instead of like four." - Larry Andersen

shorebird

#44
April 30, 2005, 05:56:30 PM
Six in a row for the O's and counting. I'm trying not to get too excited after just twenty or so games, but they're playing some good ball.

Whats even better is Stienbrenner gettin' ready to blow his top.  :-D
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