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@wandeljw,

"One time, I got pulled over at four a.m. I was fined seventy-five dollars for being intoxicated and four-hundred for being with the Phillies."

more uekisms --
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quouec.shtml

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"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time
because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up."

Laughing

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The Arizona Diamondbacks are playing this afternoon in Chicago against the Cubs. There is supposed to be a protest against Arizona's new immigration policy at Wrigley Field.

http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/daily-pitch/2010/04/29/wrigley-field-protestx-inset-community.jpg

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@wandeljw,

that seems kinda weird and misplaced, jw.

are you sure they are not protesting Zambrano's demotion to the pen...?

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@Rockhead,

No.

It's political. Can't you see from the photo how tight the security is?

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@wandeljw,

Quote:

As of Thursday morning, 790 people said they planned to attend a protest outside of Wrigley Field as the Chicago Cubs take on the Arizona Diamondbacks Thursday afternoon, according to a Facebook event page for the protest.

"We are going to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a message to send back home," the event's organizers wrote on the page.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/protest-planned-at-cubs-d_n_556911.html

as if the state's baseball team has anything to do with it... how asinine...

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@Rockhead,

Well, I already signed the petition to move the 2011 All-Star game out from Arizona.

http://www.change.org/petitions/view/move_the_2011_all-star_game_out_of_arizona

Not that it will do anything...

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@fbaezer,

now that sounds like a protest with teeth...

i'm in.

(sorry i waited till this week to implode my pitching staff, btw) Wink

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Joefromchicago is at Wrigley Field right now giving a long, boring speech about the limits of free speech.

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@wandeljw,

ahhh. that explains the security.

I'll look for a pink shirt...

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@fbaezer,

fbaezer wrote:

Well, I already signed the petition to move the 2011 All-Star game out from Arizona.

http://www.change.org/petitions/view/move_the_2011_all-star_game_out_of_arizona

Not that it will do anything...

I wouldn't be so sure. The NFL moved the Super Bowl from Arizona in response to that state's failure to designate MLK's birthday as a holiday.

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Damn. a little bit of baseball passed away today...

RIP Ernie Harwell.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-obit-harwell

Harwell’s body will lie in repose at Comerica Park on Thursday beginning at 7 a.m. and “until the last person who wishes to pay their respects” has done so.

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A-roid prompted this article about the "unwritten rules".

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/The-Code-Ten-unwritten-baseball-rules-you-mig?urn=mlb,238853

thought it was kinda interesting...

"The Washington Post once reported that Don Baylor "was hit by 267 pitches yet never rubbed, even once. Of course, several of the balls had to be hospitalized."

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@Rockhead,

Yeah.
Never heard of most of them, though.

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@Rockhead,

Quote:

Some savvy teams go so far as to post headshots and bios in the clubhouse for the umps working that day's game,
so that players can butter them up a bit.

never ceases to amaze what lengths a team will go to in an effort to gain even a slight edge...

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@George,

they are mostly players' rules.

more of an etiquette code.

here's something that kinda surprised me.

Milton Bradley might be turning a corner...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-marinerslineup

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@Rockhead,

that's a good first step, but he's got quite the journey ahead of him...

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@Rockhead,

Rockhead wrote:

Milton Bradley might be turning a corner...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-marinerslineup

What? You mean all the vicious racists who ran Bradley out of Chicago didn't follow him to Seattle? Color me surprised!

I found this quotation from the news story pretty accurate:

Quote:

Wakamatsu and general manager Jack Zduriencik said Wednesday that their fiery slugger is out indefinitely until he receives an outside assessment and a plan to address his issues.

“It’s come to a head,” Zduriencik said.

Yeah, I'd say it was always about that.

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@Rockhead,

Quote:

Of course, several of the balls had to be hospitalized."

I thought players wore a cup.

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@panzade,

ouch

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