Im bored

I hate it when I get excited for a new episode and it is just a best of collection of previous episodes

Yup. Didn’t taste too good.

6-10 pages on the US involvement in Somalia from 1992-1994. Done with 2 pages, its due at 11am.

Sports Illustrated recently conducted a poll of 215 Major League players to determine baseball’s meanest player. The results were given in the form of a slide show, but here’s how the voting went.

1. A.J. Pierzinski
2. Chase Utley
3. Milton Bradley
4. Carlos Zambrano
5. Vincente Padilla
6. Alex Rodriguez
7. Chris Carpenter
8. Albert Pujols
9. Nyjer Morgan
10. Kevin Youkilis
11. Josh Beckett
12. Kyle Farnsworth
13. Prince Fielder
14. Jason Kendall
15. Mark Teixeira

Comment from "lost hat sports blog":

    Mostly predictable selections I would say, although I had no idea players felt that strongly about Utley. I’m not at all surprised to see Milton Bradley and Carlos Zambrano holding down the next two spots. My overall reaction is that the list seems more made up of players you would probably have success getting results for if you typed their name into Google followed by the word “jerk” than of ones that are flat out mean. That being said I’m obviously not a player and don’t have the type of interaction with those listed as the guys who voted so I’ll take their word for it.

    Outside of the Orioles the White Sox are the team I follow the closest and I’d have to say I agree with A.J. Pierzynski being #1. He’s been known to get into scuffles with teammates so I would imagine he wouldn’t be thought too highly of by opposing players. His manager, Ozzie Guillen, seems to be a part of the majority.

“If you play against him, you hate him. If you play with him, you hate him a little less.”

    It goes without saying that Michael Barrett approves of the results.

[GrahamCrakalaka commented:
NO MATT CAIN?!!?
Fielder and Tex kinda surprise me, though.

Which I agree with.]

I’m sure jponry would love to get this for Christmas.

Payroll in 2012 will be $130 million, up marginally from the $124 million final total for 2011 but substantially more than the $97 million paid to the 2010 title team.

…the Giants hope a healthy Buster Posey and Freddy Sanchez, plus new outfielder Melky Cabrera, can extend a lineup that hit sufficiently to win a World Series. Now, they are seeking depth that they lacked last season.

The Giants pursued Willie Bloomquist, because he can play short and outfield, before he re-signed with Arizona for two years at $3.8 million. Reports tie the Giants to oft-injured center fielder Grady Sizemore, who could have a big upside if healthy.

“We’ll consider anybody,” Baer said, “but we’re very mindful of focusing on folks that we’re going to want to keep, people like Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval and Brian Wilson. These are all people who are going to be discussed.”

The Giants have not signed any player for more than two years since 2008, but Baer said that was “not an ordained structure or rule,” and he expects the team to offer longer deals to Lincecum and Cain.

Both are priorities this winter, Lincecum because he could fetch gargantuan numbers in arbitration, Cain because he can walk as a free agent after next season.

Baer said season-tickets prices will rise an average of 5-6 percent, though he acknowledged that a handful of customers will see double-digit increases because the team determined that those tickets were undervalued. He said single-game ticket prices will be “pretty much in line with last year,” though they will fluctuate with dynamic pricing.

Link

Jon Heyman of SI.com tweets that the dollar amount on the Marlins’ nine-year offer to Pujols is believed to be “well below” what the Cardinals offered prior to the season.

Tim Brown:
According to one source, at least three teams are actively jockeying for Pujols. The Cardinals and Marlins we know about. The third could be the Chicago Cubs or Texas Rangers. And the list likely will grow.

Many people around the industry are skeptical about whether the Marlins are sincere about their intent to go all-in on free agents this offseason, says Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. However, manager Ozzie Guillen wants to assure any doubters that the Marlins are “dead serious” about making a splash.

"This is for real," Guillen told Rosenthal. "I don’t think this is a marketing thing. This is what [the Marlins] want. They’re trying to improve as quickly as they can…. It’s not to show, ‘We’re trying, but we’re not going to do anything.’"

Rosenthal confirms yesterday’s report that the Marlins offered Albert Pujols a nine-year contract. While he’s not sure about the dollar amount, he hears it’s “substantial.” Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Post reported this afternoon that the total amount of the offer is under $200MM.

There are eight teams chasing Furcal, four of them want Furcal at second base and four are interested in him at shortstop, agent Paul Kinzer told Jim Bowden (via Twitter) on MLB Network Radio.

3:01pm: Interest in Furcal is heavy enough that the veteran should be able to get a deal to play shortstop, tweets Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports. The Tigers, Blue Jays, and Rockies all like him at second base.

I may have.

Excellent movie but I can see how some of the inaccuracies would bug people.

The one that bug me the most is how the movie played up Damon. He was not very good as an A’s, played for the A’s for one year, was paid a lot as an A’s, and was well worth his contract for the Red Sox. But yet he was pointed as this big and tragic loss.

(AP) – Venezuelan authorities formally charged eight suspects Wednesday in the kidnapping of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos.

The charges against include kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms, using a stolen vehicle and criminal association, prosecutors said in a statement. Those jailed include six men accused of directly participating in the abduction and a 59-year-old woman and 74-year-old man who are charged as accomplices for allegedly providing food to the group.

Authorities said four men were arrested at the abductors’ hideout but other suspects escaped the police raid. On Monday, police arrested a Colombian and a Venezuelan as alleged participants in the kidnapping. The older man and woman were detained before the rescue.

Ramos said after his release that his kidnappers had carefully planned the abduction with the help of an informant who had studied his movements. Ramos said his abductors told him they were going to demand a large ransom.

“What they did was laugh, joke about my pain,” Ramos said in brief remarks on television Tuesday.

The 74-year-old suspect, Aristides Sanchez, was granted house arrest by a court as permitted in Venezuela for suspects older than 70. However, officials said he will remain jailed until authorities confirm his age.

Sanchez is the father of another jailed suspect, 26-year-old Alexander Sanchez, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.

Ramirez identified the Colombian arrested on Sunday as 26-year-old Alexander Moreno Bolanos, saying he is “linked with paramilitary groups.” Ramirez didn’t elaborate.

The other suspect, 32-year-old Venezuelan Arturo Francisco Rojas Yepez, is from the town of Tovar in the western state of Merida, Ramirez said.

He said authorities are searching for several other Colombians and have physical descriptions of some of the suspects as well as their nicknames.

“We’re coordinating with Colombian authorities to acquire information” to help identify the men, Ramirez said.

HBT:
They didn’t wear masks, allowing composite sketches to be made. A car was found, helping authorities ID the suspects. The time of day of the kidnapping meant that there were lots of witnesses. Master criminals they were not.

San Francisco Giants’ president Laurence Baer talks about the Melky Cabrera trade and his club’s offseason needs

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=19997311&topic_id=&c_id=mlb&tcid=vpp_copy_19997311&v=3

“We’ve gotten Melky Cabrera in a trade which we’re very excited about we can fill at the top of the lineup”

“We’re just looking at other things, some utility players some other opportunities we’re not necessarily shopping per se.”

I want it.

Good rundown on Timmy and Matt:
http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111116&content_id=25990000&vkey=news_sf&c_id=sf

Why would I buy Kenshin a hat?

http://www.csnbayarea.com/pages/video?PID=XFa8qUOlimYRRIR_rgJgvLwrDEZSg92L

Andrew Susac!

This would make an excellent Christmas present for someone. Perhaps your favorite mod?

What size is it? I want to ensure it fits jponry.

Residents in the Deep South are taking stock of the damage this morning after Wednesday’s storms. At least six people were killed by the violent storms that raked Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina. The low that helped trigger those storms is now in coastal North Carolina, and it’s lost much of its punch. No severe weather is expected today.

This will be a rainy day along parts of the Eastern Seaboard, from Boston down to Florida. In areas where the cold front has already passed, cold air is streaming in. Highs in the 20s and 30s for the upper Midwest, 40s for most of the Great Plains and Ohio Valley, and low to mid-50s for the South.

Another low seated just north of Lake Superior is poised to bring lake effect snow to Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

In the West, winter storm warnings are up for parts of Idaho and Montana, where a storm system is forecast to drop six to twelve inches of snow on the mountains, with two to six inches likely for lower elevations. Winter weather advisories are up for Washington, Oregon and the higher elevations of northern California, with snow and gusty winds expected. Rain along the coast from the Olympic Peninsula to about Cape Mendocino.

A mild day is in store for the Southwest, with fair skies and highs mainly in the 60s.

Our pick city of the day is Leesburg, Georgia, Buster’s hometown. Mostly sunny and mild today, with highs near 68.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/17/4060904/talks-on-a-new-contract-can-wait.html

This would make an excellent Christmas present for someone. Perhaps your favorite mod?

Pete or Roger?
RIP Reg King

After a yearlong wait, In-N-Out Burger has finally secured approvals to begin leveling a former Macaroni Grill restaurant and start construction on its newest Sacramento site – at 2001 Alta Arden Expressway.

So don’t go anywhere near that area in 4-6 months