RyDogg66

Morbid curiosity makes we want to see him go until 152, at least.

Yeah their pitchers can hit better than our team!

What do you think he will get then? He's not going to get more than 18-20 per! He's not Santana... He hasnt proven that he can stay on the mound a whole season... A team will pay him, but not what your thinking. He hasnt? What did he prove in 2001-2004? He has proven he can stay on the mount a whole season.

With all due respect Aracko, Sheets has been great when he has been able to pitch + his injuries were more of a "freak" nature and never about his elbow or shoulder. I said all along that our best time to resign Ben was this offseason, 5 years 65 million or so, and that if we didnt he was gone. We didnt, and now, he's all but gone. I never knew why so many people here and in general were down on Sheets. He always, always pitched well, it wasnt like he was trying to get hurt, or was wimping out and not wanting to play or that he had a contract year in 2004 and then mailed it in for 4 years. But yet so many seemed to actually dislike him personally. I know you cant count out Boston, Chicago, etc. etc., but I think it will be New York or Atlanta.

I got to thinking about where Sheets will end up next year. As much as I hate to say it, I think it will be with the Yankees. I know that they are trying to skew younger, but they have some enormous contracts coming off the books this season. The lose Mussina (13 mil?) Giambi (21 mil) Abreu (18 mil?) Pettitte (if he retires). The other destination that makes sense is Atlanta. From what I can remember their FO has loved him for a while, and there is a chance they lose Glavine, Hampton and Smoltz at the end of the year, all due to retirement. Plus Benny is a southern guy. Id put Braves/Yankees at even to land him, somewhere in the neighborhood of 18-20 million a year.

Also, after the exhumed the Ortiz jersey, Papi has started to come out of his slump.

Well I know it is easy to speak out of frustration during a game like this, but we are going to lose at least 65 more of these , probably more, and even though Braun, Fielder and Hardy havent been hitting at all we are 8-5. Id be more worried about the fact that we make below average right handed pitchers look like Roger Clemens.

Personal attacks? I just stated that after reading a stream of your posts that you dont seem like you like any of the players. Hardly a personal attack.

We get it, you arent really a fan of any of the players on this team. And you got that from where exactly??? Well, maybe it wasnt you who said it, but you think Braun is a cocky player who cant back it up and isnt doing what a ROY should do (after 12 games). you hate Turnbow. You think Hall and Weeks and Hardy should benched in favor or COunsell, Dillon and Irribarren.

I'm with you for the most part, but Fielder's been putting the ball in the field, though some spectacular defense has stolen some hits. I'm not too worried yet about the no HR thing. And I think Rickie's doing what he's supposed to do: He's getting on base, whether by HBP, hits or BB. But yeah, Bill can sit too IMO, though our defense has been bad enough... Im so glad you dont run the team, you'd release anyone who went 1-12 over a three game series.

We get it, you arent really a fan of any of the players on this team.

For the record, I agree with you NDOG, Yost rests too many, too early.

I'll try to remember to tune in, I am awake then and sometimes tune in to WPR

That picture doesnt tell much. He looks noticeably fatter. Like Orca Fat.

For the first time, to me, Prince actually looks fat. He looks really out of shape. Before I would have called him a cross between barrel chested and stocky. Not today, today he just looks fat.

Ive stated in this thread my preference for Arizona, it seems many would like to have a 5 day family vacation and catch one Brewer game in between Disney trips. If I am going to go to Spring Training, family or not (and I do have one), I want to watch baseball as much as I can. Im not hauling my family around Florida to follow the brewers, but everyday in Phoenix the team is relatively close to you, home or away. If they move to Florida I would be less likely to go because I simply wouldnt want to drive around Florida to watch the team. I will say I am more open to the idea of Florida than I was in the beginning. Im more "I just dont really care" than mad or disappointed. I prefer AZ, but if its Florida, ok, fine.

For out West Coast fans, is TiVo or DVR a possibility for some of those games? If you dont get home until 6:00 Pacific time, just dont log onto the computer or watch highlights, eat dinner and sit down at 7:05 your time and watch it. Again, not sure of DVR works for those channels though.

What is a doggy doo business?

Negligent Supervision Negligent Hiring, etc. The hard part is damages. You might have a tort theory that makes sense, but proving the Yankees were damaged would be the killer.

Come on, there is no basement in the Alamo.

Bob Hamelin?

Being creative, what about Dimunition of Property? Would Yankee Stadium as a whole be less valuable with this jersey buried in there? To some, yes, but for others, no. In that case, the measure of damages would be the smaller of the cost to remove or the actual dimunition of the value. It would be hard to prove dimunition though.

I think we have all heard about the guy who put a Red Sox jersey into the cement beneath the vistor's clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, right? Well they dug it up (why, I have no idea) and now there may be criminal charges, or a civil suit. Again, I dont dabble in criminal law at all, and this type of issue is way to obscure to even be covered in law school, but how could this guy be criminally charged? I know that pretty much anything falls under the broad range of "criminal mischief" or "disorderly conduct" but burying a cloth shirt in cement? And civil charges? What are the damages? The Yankees had a slab of concrete that was presumably laid correctly. They chose to dig it up and re-do it. I would guess they would have to hire some sort of expert to testify that the concrete was not sound or that the useful life of the concrete would be shortened by the shirt being buried in there. My guess though would be that a slab on concrete with some cloth buried in there somewhere = slab on concrete without the shirt buried in there, and that the Yankees caused their own damages.

it isnt the 3000 calories per serving that is the killer there, it is that like 3 chips = a serving.

Would "tell us you did it or you'll spend the rest of your life in prison" count as coercion? If you do you'll just get 20 years. Would "tell us you did it or you'll get the death penalty" count as coercion? If you do you'll just get 40 years to life. If not Maroon 5, then how about Beatles lyrics, they have been around since 1966 as well. Deception toes the line on coercion. If you tell someone who is actually innocent (and that you have a hunch is guilty) that you have an eyewitness, a fingerprint, some bloody clothes that all point to the detained person and in reality you have none of that, and that you plan on asking for death penalty, but if you confess now we'll give you 20 years, some people are going to confess - and that isnt deception, that is intimidation and coercion. Deception is when you ACTUALLY have those things and you know or are 99% sure that the person is guilty BECAUSE of that evidence so you deceive them to try to get a confession, which will seal the deal at trial. rawbecht summed it up better than I could. Yes, many or most know or can recite the Miranda rights, but few know what they actually mean. Also, if you arent guilty, you would probably be less likely to ask for a lawyer because 1.) you have nothing to hide (or at least believe you do not) and 2.) most people trust and believe the police officers - which they shouldnt. I dont think it is crazy, unrealistic or baffling that an innocent person with average IQ could be questioned about a crime, figure they were innocent and shouldnt have to ask for a lawyer and then when the you-know-what starts getting thick, trust the police to just assign them a lawyer when they are entitled to one. My guess is that it would take a rather smart person or career criminal to be detained by police, interrogated and then have the knowledge and/or guts to tell the cops the either get him a lawyer (of if no Miranda Rights/no arrest) to let him walk out of the front door. So to bring this full circle, I can see a scenario where DEF2 witnesses a struggle between DEF1 and VIC and it WAS self defense, but after a few hours of being grilled by the police and being told that he is going to spend the rest of his life in prison, no parole, no nada and that they have all the evidence to prove it - or the classic, "your buddy already told us that it was intentional" that DEF2 pleads guilty out of fear and to at least have a life after the age of 40 rather than get an automatic no questions asked life sentence and never get out again. I was just wondering, if DEF1 then goes to trial and a fact-finding jury finds that it was self defense, what sort of recourse or appeal rights the DEF2 has. It seems likely that the result is that DEF1 gets nothing or much less while DEF2 is punished.