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5170. jexster - 10/3/2006 2:57:55 AM ROCKET FUEL
That explains a great deal....like why he beaned Mike Piazza 5171. wabbit - 10/3/2006 4:27:36 PM Florida Marlins manager Joe Girardi was fired Tuesday, a move that had been expected after his rift with owner Jeffrey Loria boiled over in an on-field confrontation two months ago. Girardi lost his job even though he's considered a strong candidate for NL manager of the year. The Marlins had baseball's youngest team and lowest payroll at $15 million, but Girardi led them to a 78-84 record, and they were in contention for a playoff berth until a late-September fade. * Dusty Baker's four-year run as manager of the Detroit Tigers ended Monday when the team declined to renew his contract, ending a tumultuous span of less than 24 hours for a franchise that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. One day earlier, team president and CEO Andy MacPhail resigned after 12 years. * The San Francisco Giants cut ties with manager Felipe Alou on Monday, a day after the team finished its second straight losing season. San Francisco is committed to moving forward with a younger roster, and likely a younger manager.
Joe Mauer became the first catcher to win the American League batting title, going 2-for-4 for the Minnesota Twins on the final day of the regular season to hold off the New York Yankees' Derek Jeter. Mauer doubled and singled against the Chicago White Sox, leaving his average at .347 down from a high of .392 on July 1 but good enough to best Jeter, who went 1-for-5 against Toronto and wound up at .343. Mauer became the first catcher to win a batting title in either league since Ernie Lombardi hit .330 for the 1942 Boston Braves.
Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki led the majors with 224 hits. With seven straight 200-hit seasons, Suzuki matched Wade Boggs for the second-longest streak behind Willie Keeler's eight in a row from 1894-1901. Boston's David Ortiz led the AL in home runs (54) and RBI (137).
Pittsburgh's Freddy Sanchez won the NL batting title for the first time, going 2-for-4 against Cincinnati to wind up at .344, five points ahead of Florida's Miguel Cabrera.
ESPN's MLB stats index 2006 5172. wabbit - 10/3/2006 5:03:06 PM Let the denials begin. Andy Pettitte, who has followed Roger Clemens’s workout routine since they became teammates with the Yankees in 1999, called Jason Grimsley a good friend, but said he never worked out with him. Clemens also said he had never worked out with Grimsley, who played for the Yankees in 1999 and 2000. The Los Angeles Times reported late Saturday that Clemens, who is a probable Hall of Famer, was one of the six players whose names had been blacked out of an affidavit filed in federal court. In the affidavit, Grimsley, a journeyman pitcher and a former teammate of Clemens’s with the Yankees, reportedly named Clemens as one who used performance enhancers. Astros pitcher Pettitte, another former Yankee who is close friends with Clemens and shares the same personal trainer, and Baltimore Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada were also among the players whose names had been covered in black ink on the affidavit. Pettitte, 34, who won four World Series championships with the Yankees, said that he had "absolutely killed" himself to succeed in the majors and has "done it natural." He described himself as being “stunned” by being named in the affidavit.
In other news:
Pete Rose says he took "greenies" in his playing days, if only to lose a few pounds. Oh, and he doesn't bet on baseball anymore, but if he did, he'd pick the Twins and the Padres.
In an appearance on the Late Show taped Monday, Rose was asked by host David Letterman whether he ever used any performance-enhancing drugs as a player. Rose said he never did, but when prodded about "greenies," explained that he used them -- though they were nothing more than "diet pills."
"Well, I don't think greenies would ever help you do anything," he said. "You know, I took greenies before in spring training only because I tried to lose some weight, see."
Letterman then asked whether the pills ever helped him ward off fatigue.
"No, not like steroids," Rose replied. "If I took steroids, I'd have gotten 5,000 damn hits."
Neither Letterman nor Rose used the word "amphetamines," which were commonly nicknamed "greenies" at the height of their supposed popularity in baseball. The sport added amphetamines to its list of banned substances last year...
5173. jexster - 10/3/2006 8:48:01 PM Quote of the Post-Season
Jon Miller berating Joe Morgan for failing to include Marco Scutaro (A's ss) as one the keys to Game1 with the Twins.
"Well I got 2 out of 3"
"You don't get paid the big bucks to tell us that Frank Thomas is a key to the game" 5175. jexster - 10/5/2006 3:44:08 AM Damn my bad Wabbit.
Delete please..
Sport of Sex Thread 5176. jexster - 10/7/2006 6:07:02 PM Waiting At the Dock of the Bay for Deetroit
and Their Filthy Cap'n
Won't make it back alive
HARRRRRRR 5177. arkymalarky - 10/8/2006 7:10:54 AM How 'bout them hawgs. 5178. jexster - 10/8/2006 3:02:46 PM I was the first to sing the Praises of the Pigs!
And the scrumtuous piece of hag maw...
Mitch Mustain!!
Maf54 (7:55:51 PM): cute butt bouncing in the air
Maf54 (8:08:31 PM): get a ruler and measure it for me
5179. jexster - 10/8/2006 3:05:10 PM 
5180. wonkers2 - 10/8/2006 6:01:24 PM Jex, watch out for the Tigers! They're going to eat the little pussies from Oakland up real quick. 5181. robertjayb - 10/8/2006 7:03:32 PM Yes indeed! Soooeee Pigs! Much obliged to the Porkers for knocking off No. 2 Auburn and making room for No. 7 Texas, 28-10 winners over luckless No. 14 Oklahoma, to move up in the rankings. 5182. jexster - 10/8/2006 7:15:05 PM Texas in a hot race for the Mexican League championship 5183. jexster - 10/8/2006 7:17:12 PM You'd best steer clear of the Dock of the Bay Cap'n
HARRRRR
 5184. jexster - 10/8/2006 11:52:14 PM Springdale Bulldogs...
Arky ...what is the age of consent down your way - 12?
 5185. wabbit - 10/9/2006 3:03:00 PM  No. 13 Tennessee became just the second team to put up 50 points on Georgia between the hedges, coming from behind for a stunning 51-33 victory Saturday night that defied the norm in the defensive-minded Southeastern Conference. The 10th-ranked Bulldogs had certainly relied on defense while trying to sort out a muddled quarterback situation. They were allowing a nation's-best 6.8 points a game -- just 34 all season, including a pair of shutouts.
Arkansas made the first major upset of the college football season look easy. With a swarming defense and unstoppable tailbacks, the Razorbacks knocked off No. 2 Auburn in a stunningly one-sided 27-10 victory Saturday that will rearrange the top of the rankings. Arkansas (4-1, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) entered as 15-point underdogs and left with the SEC West lead.
The No. 23 Missouri Tigers' defense, which came into the game ranked No. 10 in the nation, set up most of the scoring in a 38-21 win over Texas Tech on Saturday night. But questions about the strength of Missouri's schedule had some wondering whether the defense had really been tested before playing Tech. The answers came in four turnovers - two interceptions and two fumbles - by Tech quarterback Graham Harrell , which led to 28 points for Missouri.
NCAA Football scores
5186. wabbit - 10/9/2006 3:05:19 PM  The tension from Chris Carpenter's shaky beginning, the angst of the St. Louis Cardinals' late-season swoon, all had evaporated. They're going to the NL championship series for the third straight season. Carpenter recovered from a bad first inning to gain his second victory of the series, Juan Encarnacion hit a tiebreaking triple and the Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 6-2 Sunday night to win their best-of-five first-round NL playoff 3-1. Back in the NLCS for the third straight year, the Cardinals open the next round Wednesday night at the New York Mets, who won the season series from St. Louis 4-2.
The other New York baseball team is playing into late October this year. While there's turmoil in the Bronx following the Yankees' first-round elimination, the Mets will be ending their season after the Yankees for the first time since 1988. In 2000, when they met in a Subway Series, the Yankees won in five games. After fighting for attention for so long, the Mets were a little giddy following their first-round sweep of Los Angeles, which they finished off with a 9-5 win Saturday night.
Ten of Oakland's top decision makers held a closed-door meeting in the manager's office Sunday and cast their votes on who should start for the Athletics in Game 2 of the AL championship series -- Rich Harden or Esteban Loaiza. The tally: Harden 5, Loaiza 5. Loaiza won the tiebreaker based on his health, recent results and reliability. Harden has only pitched three times since missing more than three months with an elbow injury. As expected, the A's named left-hander Barry Zito the starter for Game 1 on Tuesday night in the Coliseum against the wild card Detroit Tigers, who lost the ALDS opener before rallying to win three straight and eliminate the New York Yankees on Saturday.
Three years after losing 119 games, Detroit moved back among baseball's biggest cats with an 8-3 victory Saturday in Game 4 over the Yankees, whose $200 million payroll couldn't help them against Detroit's pitching. Once a punchline, the Tigers punched out the big, bad Yankees. Jeremy Bonderman was perfect for five innings and sublime until the ninth as the Tigers moved into the AL championship series against Oakland by eliminating A-Rod, Derek Jeter and the other high-priced, high-profile Yankees.
George Steinbrenner, the famously volatile principal owner, is predictably fuming over the Yankees’ first-round elimination by the Detroit Tigers on Saturday. He issued a blistering statement through his publicist yesterday but took no action on Joe Torre, his manager for the past 11 seasons. Steinbrenner has longed in recent years to replace Torre with Lou Piniella as the manager of the Yankees, and the rumors are flying that it's a done deal now.
MLB scores
5187. wabbit - 10/9/2006 3:05:39 PM  With Terrell Owens watching from the sideline, Donovan McNabb turned ordinary receivers into big-time playmakers. McNabb threw touchdown passes of 40 yards to Reggie Brown and 87 yards to Hank Baskett, and Lito Sheppard returned an interception 102 yards in the final minute to seal the Eagles' 38-24 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. As for T.O., the most overhyped homecoming in recent memory was totally ordinary: three catches, 45 yards, 0 drama.
Getting a huge boost from their trademark defense, the Chicago Bears scored the first five times they had the ball Sunday and ruined the homecoming of former coach Dick Jauron with a 40-7 drubbing of Jauron's Buffalo Bills to go 5-0 for the first time in 20 years. Rex Grossman threw two touchdown passes, Cedric Benson scored his first two NFL touchdowns and the Bears capitalized on five Buffalo turnovers as they piled up their biggest points total since 1993. Suddenly, the team that always counted on its defense to make up for an anemic offense in recent seasons is averaging 31 points a game, outscoring even the high-flying Indianapolis Colts through five games.
Asante Samuel intercepted two passes by Joey Harrington after 21 sacks in four games sidelined Daunte Culpepper with a bruised shoulder and the New England Patriots beat the Miami Dolphins 20-10. The Patriots (4-1) had just one takeaway in the first three games and three for the season before coming up with three Sunday.
NFL scores
5188. robertjayb - 10/10/2006 11:07:29 PM R.I.P., Bevo XIII
AUSTIN – Bevo XIII, 22, the longest-tenured mascot in Texas Longhorns history, is gone to the big ranch in the sky.
5189. wabbit - 10/11/2006 12:49:47 AM  More on Bevo XIII - After Nebraska beat Texas in the 1999 Big 12 championship game in the Alamodome in San Antonio, Bevo XIII was walking off the field when nature called.
With perfect timing, he left his mark squarely on the Cornhuskers logo.
Brennes said Bevo XIII will be memorialized in the new Silver Spur/BEVO Center, due to open the first weekend in November at Royal-Memorial Stadium.
 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro's right hind leg has a new cast, a new shoe and is healing well, while his left rear hoof is "gradually" improving from laminitis.
The cast was changed for the first time in six weeks, and Dr. Dean Richardson said Tuesday he was "pleased" with the progress in the leg that was shattered when Barbaro took a horrible misstep at the start of the Preakness on May 20.
Barbaro's left hind foot, which had laminitis, continues its slow healing process.
Bernardini destroyed three over matched competitors on Saturday in the $750,000 Jockey Gold Cup at Belmont Park. The colt drew off to win the 1 1/4 mile race by 6 3/4 lengths. Bernardini will win the Eclipse Award as champion three-year-old and a victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic should make him Horse of the Year.
5190. wabbit - 10/11/2006 12:55:37 AM  Joe Torre will remain as manager of the New York Yankees, finally getting the word from owner George Steinbrenner after the team's surprise elimination from the playoffs last weekend.
Torre spoke with Steinbrenner on the telephone Tuesday, shortly before he walked into the interview room at Yankee Stadium and made the announcement.
"He gave me his support," Torre said. "I'm just pleased I'm able to stay on and do this."
Torre didn't go into detail about his conversations with Steinbrenner.
But Steinbrenner, in a statement issued through spokesman Howard Rubenstein, said he told Torre: "'You're back for the year. I expect a great deal from you and the entire team. I have high expectations, and I want to see enthusiasm, a fighting spirit and a team that works together. Responsibility is yours, Joe, and all of the Yankees.'..."
I'm sure Brian Cashman had some say in this, but I'm happy to see Torre return. He's a class act, imo.
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