Rest Of Baseball Offseason Talk

[MURP]

Mets money article

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Konerko re-signs with the ChiSox for 5/$60m

[MDS]

thome jizzes pants

[henchmanUK]

thome jizzes pants

Thome's not the only one!
WOO HOO!

[Rome]

Reason # 1,234,567 to hate the friggen Red Sox...

Updated: Dec. 1, 2005, 9:57 AM ET
Red Sox sue to keep ball that made '04 Series final outAssociated Press


BOSTON -- The Red Sox have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to keep the ball that Doug Mientkiewicz caught for the final out to clinch Boston's 2004 World Series title, The Boston Globe reported Thursday.


Ownership of the ball has been in dispute during the 13 months since pitcher Keith Foulke flipped it to Mientkiewicz, giving Boston a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals and its first World Series championship in 86 years.


Who should get to keep the ball from the final out of the 2004 World Series?
Doug Mientkiewicz
Boston Red Sox



Mientkiewicz, who clutched the ball in his glove and joined teammates in celebration, later put the ball in a safe deposit box and claimed ownership when the Red Sox asked for it.

In January, days after he was traded to the New York Mets, he agreed to lend the ball to the Red Sox for one year. He would get it back "unless the ultimate issue of ownership has been otherwise resolved," the agreement said.

That clause, The Boston Globe reported, led team lawyers to Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday. The suit asks the court to place the ball in a "secure location" until ownership is decided.

The team's lawyers argue that Mientkiewicz gained possession of the ball only because he was a Red Sox employee, and that the ball is team property.

"From our perspective, it is very important that an artifact with this much history, it was 86 years in the making, be part of the club archive and be available for fans to experience," Lucinda Treat, the team's chief legal officer, told the newspaper.

The Red Sox made quite a splash once they got the ball on Feb. 3, when it was driven to Fenway Park in a Brinks truck. The ball joined the World Series trophy on a tour of Massachusetts cities and towns.

Neither Mientkiewicz nor the players' association were reached for comment, the Globe reported.

When he agreed to lend the ball to the team, Mientkiewicz said: "I want the fans to see it, and that's what both the Red Sox and I agreed on."

At that time, he said it was "very cordial, and we worked something out." He also said he "probably" would get the ball back after a year.

Their agreement said proceeds directly derived from exhibiting the ball would be donated to the Red Sox Foundation, the team's charity organization.

Arrogant iceholes.  I hate Boston almost as much as I detest the Yankees at this point.

Hang on to that ball, you queers... it's probably the last chance you'll ever get to see a World Series ball for another 100 years.

 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Who cares?  It's just a farging baseball.

[Rome]

Who cares?  It's just a farging baseball.

You cared enough to reply, asshat.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Don't take it personally, daddy-o.

[BigEd76]

Twins interested in Luis Castillo

[BigEd76]

Tim Worrell returns to the Giants....2-year deal.  Arizona gets draft picks for him, and we get Matt Kata....

[MDS]

Tim Worrell returns to the Giants....2-year deal.  Arizona gets draft picks for him, and we get Matt Kata....

another example of the brilliance of ed wade

[mcnabbmvp]

Mets | Team Could Deal Benson to Baltimore
Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:02:39 -0800

The New York Post's Kevin Kernan reports the New York Mets could trade SP Kris Benson to the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for RP Jorge Julio at next week's winter meetings.

[SD_Eagle5]

Pads keep Giles

I heard on XM radio this morning the Dodgers were trying to sign him and that's why the Pads up their offer.

[BigEd76]

The Brewers unveiled their new Sunday Retro jerseys, which will be worn for all Sunday home games:

[MDS]

Over 13 million a year for: Rafael Furcal

Congrats LA, you win the stupid award for the offseason

Source: LATimes.com

Furcal a Dodger: 3 Years, $40 Million
By Steve Henson, Times Staff Writer

Free agent Rafael Furcal has agreed in principle to a three-year contract with the Dodgers that would make him one of the highest paid shortstops ever, a source close to the negotiations said Saturday. The deal would guarantee Furcal, 28, nearly $40 million.