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We all remember the game. The game when the G.O.A.T. looked in the eye of the debilitating flu and said, Not Tonight. The game where despite being sick as a dog, Michael Jordan had 38 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists. The game where Jordan, fatigued from illness left the court in the arms of Scottie Pippen. One of the most remembered games in the NBA…The Flu Game.
The shoes from that game, which MJ signed for a ball boy, were just bought by auction for $104,000.


 

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I really like this for the Giants. If he can stay healthy, he can provide them with some pop, which they have been sorely lacking.

Looking to get his career back on track following a terrible season split between two teams, Michael Morse has [ame="[MEDIA=twitter]411143289975615488[/MEDIA]"]agreed to a one-year deal[/ame] with the Giants.
Morse got off to a great start this year, but then hit just .201 with five homers and a .584 OPS in 64 games after May 1 while missing time with a wrist injury. Andrew Baggarly of CSNBayArea.com [ame="[MEDIA=twitter]411148007657459712[/MEDIA]"]reports[/ame] that the Giants have promised Morse the everyday job in left field, which means Gregor Blanco is headed to the bench in a power-for-defense swap.
If healthy Morse is a good bet to bounce back at age 32, although he’s always going to be a brutal defensive player who gives back a lot of runs with his glove. However, from 2010-2012 he hit .296 with an .861 OPS in 346 games for the Nationals, averaging 30 homers per 150 games.
UPDATE: Buster Olney of ESPN.com [ame="[MEDIA=twitter]411151353033936897[/MEDIA]"]says[/ame] Morse will get $5 million in guaranteed money, plus incentives. So it sounds like a similar, but slightly lesser deal than Corey Hart got from the Mariners.
 
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I know I will be both looking for and rooting for this guy. Baseball needs more knuckleballers!!

The Blue Jays already have one knuckleballer with 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey and it sounds like they are about to add another one to the mix.
Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca [ame="[MEDIA=twitter]410977039454584832[/MEDIA]"]reports[/ame] that the Blue Jays have reached a verbal agreement on a minor league contract with Tomo Ohka, who has reinvented himself as a knuckleballer since he last appeared in the majors in 2009. The expectation is that he’ll begin the year with Double-A New Hampshire.
Ohka, now 37, had a 4.26 ERA over 10 seasons in the majors from 1999-2009 while making stops with the Red Sox, Expos, Nationals, Brewers, Blue Jays and Indians. He returned to Japan to pitch for the Yokohama Bay Stars from 2010-2011 before requiring shoulder surgery. MLB Trade Rumors relayed a story from NikkanSports.com last month that Ohka has been developing his knuckler ever since and came to the United States in October to begin training.
If Ohka is going to make a comeback as a knuckleballer, he might as well be as close to Dickey as possible. It should be a fun story to monitor in 2014.
 
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Giants signed Michael Morse to a one year deal, no word on the $$.
Meh. Winter meetings are slow moving.

Edit: was posting while you posted, Big D.
Guess I'll have to wait & see how this one turns out. Platoon in left still seems to be the company line.
 
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AGENT FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really. Seriously.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The most exciting moment of the 2013 winter meetings took place in the self-parking lot outside the Walt Disney World Dolphin hotel at 12:03 p.m. local time Wednesday. Forget trades, free-agent signings and rumors. Two men tried to beat the crap out of each other, witnesses said, and one of them threatened to burn the other’s house down.
Suffice to say, these will not go down as the most memorable winter meetings, barring a big signing or an out-of-nowhere trade materializing late Wednesday or early Thursday. This was the winter meetings where the two biggest contracts went to a player who wasn’t even a free agent (Charlie Morton’s $21 million extension) and a player who looks like he ate a free agent (Bartolo Colon’s $20 million deal with the New York Mets). Sure, a three-way trade happened, and those are always fun, but sorry, Mark Trumbo and Co., you simply cannot hold a candle to an old-fashioned arson threat.

While it remains unclear who the men were, context clues from two witnesses to the altercation indicated that the fracas, which featured at least one kick, a handful of wild haymakers and intervention from both a local sheriff and hotel security, happened after one player agent accused another of trying to poach a client.
Stay the [expletive] away from my guy!” one man yelled, according to witnesses who described the chaotic – and amusing – scene to Yahoo Sports in exchange for anonymity.
One of the witnesses had pulled into a parking spot at the Dolphin and exited his car to the sound of words being exchanged. A family member suggested he take out his phone and record the incident, and what came of it is a 22-second snippet of a fight that the other witness believes lasted twice as long.
There was lots of yelling and pushing, including the angrier man upping the ante significantly when he said, according to the witnesses, “I’m gonna burn your [expletive] house down!” One of the men, said the witness recording the video, seemed to be apologizing – and then threw a punch to restart the fracas. The video, with the two men fighting in the distance, shows some scrapping, one man throwing a kick and the other winding up for a punch a la Super Macho Man in Mike Tyson’s Punchout.
The tussle continued until a local sheriff, who happened to be roaming through the parking lot, intervened, the witnesses said. After that, hotel employees – including Dolphin director of security Eric Clay, who did not return a message seeking comment from Yahoo Sports – showed up and ended the fight, which left one of the witnesses disappointed.
“It was pathetic,” he told Yahoo Sports. “It was the worst fight I’ve ever seen.”
An apt metaphor, actually, for winter meetings without much action. Yes, Major League Baseball ostensibly banned home-plate collisions, and, sure, the league also reached an agreement that would radically overhaul the posting of Japanese players, and, hey, it showcased instant replay for a number of executives and managers, preparing those inside the game for what is to come.
The hot stove portion of the proceedings, on the other hand, fizzled. Though by the end of the day Wednesday, the industry didn’t mind. The lobby at the Dolphin was abuzz with speculation of who the alleged agents might be. Twitter pulsed awaiting a clip of the fight, obtained by Yahoo Sports. And the boring winter meetings finally had a memorable moment.
And, thankfully, no fires.
 

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Though there’s certainly no indication he plans to switch sports any time soon, Seahawks QB Russell Wilson was selected off the Colorado Rockies’ minor-league roster by the Texas Rangers during Thursday’s MLB Rule 5 draft.
Wilson, who played second base, was taken twice during the MLB amateur draft — once in 2007 by the Orioles before opting to attend college, then as a 2010 fourth-rounder by the Rockies. He played two seasons in Colorado’s minor-league system, one with the short-season Class A Tri-City Dust Devils and another with A-ball’s Asheville Tourists.
Wilson hit a combined .229 in that time, while also playing college football first at N.C. State and later at Wisconsin. He added five home runs and 19 stolen bases.

In 2012, though, after guiding Wisconsin to the Rose Bowl, Wilson informed the Rockies that he would be hanging up his glove to pursue a pro football career.
“We thought his future would be better in baseball, if he chose to pursue it,” Bill Schmidt, the Rockies’ vice president of scouting, told the Associated Press at the time. “But we always knew that football was there. We would’ve liked to have seen him stick with it a little longer and seen where it would’ve taken him. But I fully understand where he’s coming from with football.”
The Seahawks drafted Wilson No. 75 overall (Round 3) of the 2012 draft, making him their starting quarterback shortly thereafter.
It is not uncommon for MLB teams to draft two-sport college athletes, especially since baseball’s draft runs for 40 rounds. In fact, just this past draft, the Rangers also used a 15th-round pick on current Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston. Last season for the Seminoles, Winston batted .235 with nine RBIs while splitting time between left and right field. The Heisman Trophy finalist also made 17 appearances as a relief pitcher, posting a 1-2 record.
Players selected in the main portion of MLB’s Rule 5 draft must stay on their new team’s major-league roster all season or be offered back to the original club. Because Wilson was taken in the AAA-level section of the draft, the Rangers can stash him on their roster, in case he ever stuns the football world by bailing for the diamond.
 

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Results of the 2013 Rule 5 Draft
Acquiring teams in bold; former organizations in parentheses
Major League Phase
HOU: Patrick Schuster, LHP, Reno (ARI) -- Sent to SD to complete trade for Anthony Bass
CWS: Adrian Nieto, C, Syracuse (WAS)
PHI: Kevin Munson, RHP, Reno (ARI)
COL: Thomas Kahnle, RHP, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (NYY)
TOR: Brian Moran, LHP, Tacoma (SEA)
NYM: Seth Rosin, RHP, Lehigh Valley (PHI)
MIL: Wei-Chung Wang, LHP, Indianapolis (PIT)
ARI: Marcos Mateo, RHP, Iowa (CHC)
BAL: Michael Almanzar, 3B, Pawtucket (BOS)
Triple-A Phase
HOU: Ravel Santana, OF, Trenton (NYY)
FLA: Justin Bour, 1B, Tennessee (CHC)
CWS: Evan Crawford, LHP, New Hampshire (TOR)
CHC: Charles Cutler, C, Altoona (PIT)
MIN: Kevin Thomas, RHP, Springfield (STL)
TOR: Roberto Espinosa, RHP, Altoona (PIT)
NYM: Jonathan Velasquez, RHP, New Britain (MIN)
MIL: Kevin Mattison, OF, Jacksonville (MIA)
SD: Jacob Lemmerman, SS, Springfield (STL)
LAA: Jose Valdivia, RHP, Jackson (SEA)
ARI: Michael Lee, RHP, Mississippi (ATL)
BAL: Julio Borbon, OF, Tennessee (CHC)
WAS: Theodis Bowe, OF, Pensacola (CIN)
CIN: Michael O'Brien, RHP, Trenton (NYY)
TEX: Russell Wilson, 2B, Tulsa (COL)
TB: Enderson Franco, RHP, Corpus Christi (HOU)
PIT: Tyler Sample, RHP, Northwest Arkansas (KC)
OAK: Tim Atherton, RHP, New Britain (MIN)
BOS: Jonathan Roof, SS, Reading (PHI)
STL: Gregory Miclat, SS, Frisco (TEX)
HOU: Carlos Vazquez, LHP, Binghamton (NYM)
MIA: Brady Shoemaker, OF, Birmingham (CWS)
CWS: Omar Narvaez, C, Montgomery (TB)
MIN: James Fuller, LHP, Binghamton (NYM)
TOR: Richard Bleier, LHP, Frisco (TEX)
MIL: Vincent Catricala, 3B, Midland (OAK)
SD: Adolfo Reina, C, Erie (DET)
ARI: Hector Hernandez, LHP, Springfield (STL)
WAS: Martires Arias, RHP, Binghamton (NYM)
PIT: A.J. Morris, RHP, Tennessee (CHC)
STL: Jesus Ustariz, 3B, Erie (DET)
MIA: Tony Thompson, 3B, Midland (OAK)
TOR: Scott Shuman, RHP, Richmond (SF)
PIT: Felipe Gonzalez, RHP, Trenton (NYY)
Double-A Phase
HOU: Blaine Sims, LHP, Lynchburg (ATL)
MIA: Kelvin Castro, RHP, Charleston (NYY)
 

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Sorry this one is better

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no home plate collisions

no hanging on the rim

no end zone celebration

no fucking fun anymore in this socialist liberal world. fuckin a!
 

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no home plate collisions

no hanging on the rim

no end zone celebration

no fucking fun anymore in this socialist liberal world. fuckin a!

but everyone will get a trophy in every sport every year

stop fucking complaining!
 

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It's mean that there has to be a loser in every game.


Stuart Smalley: I deserve good things, I am entitled to my share of happiness. I refuse to beat myself up. I am an attractive person. I am fun to be with. I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
 

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BTW, we took the thread prefix off this thread. Just doesn't make much sense anymore.
 

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BTW, we took the thread prefix off this thread. Just doesn't make much sense anymore.


Whatever you did, it now takes me 2 more steps to find this than it did yesterday.
 
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