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I had the pleasure of watching Chris Carter in Kannapolis a lot this past year and I think he is going to be a very very good player. Obviously this is better for the Sox short term being that carter is a couple years away, but eventually both teams will be very happy with the trade.

Hmm.... Hmm....what??? I am sick of these spoiled athletes who act like they are above the law, it is completely out of control! And if people are trying to take my comments to be racist or whatever, it's not meant to be. I might be a little country, but I have a white neighbor that acts the same way and I want to smack the stupid out of him as well, so "these people" was not meant soley towards black people like I think some of you took it. To the person who said it doesn't have anything to do with hip-hop, I meant that the image that is portrayed by a lot of main stream hip hop artists is very similar to the attitudes of a lot of the athletes that I am sick of, certainly not all, but quite a few. Sorry if my views dont match a lot of yours, but I could really care less if I am PC and I am sick of athletes such as Mr. Dukes. Hip hop has nothing to do with any athletes behavior. Country music is the most popular form of music in the world. It stands to reason there's a huge number of athletes that listen and enjoy country music. They may drive trucks, wear cowboy hats, drink whiskey like water, etc. Should we blame Kenny Chesney when someone like Josh Hancock drives drunk and gets killed? Lots of drinking in country songs, after all. Or when Brett Myers knocks around his wife? Or when someone kills there husband-I mean, Dixie Chicks wrote a hit song about killing a husband. You can't lump in an entire musical/cultural genre with a small group of reckless, stupid individuals. It's not hip hop culture that causes athletes to act like idiots no more than country music does. It's a deeper issue than that. There are going to be bad people of all walks, just as there are going to be great people of all walks. For every Elijah Dukes, there's a Tim Duncan or Shaquille O'Neal, or Derrek Lee, or Michael Barrett, or Dwayne Wade-someone who's a terrific human being and fantastic role model for whatever culture or background they come from. You may not personally like hip hop, but that doesn't give you the right to damn an entire genre/culture like you're doing. I didnt mean all of hip-hop, what I said was "the image that is portrayed by a lot of main stream hip hop artists". You are kidding yourself if you dont think that that image exsists. Also what I said is that a lot of athletes are acting similar to that image, where did I say that they are the way they are because of Hip-Hop??? BTW, I do actually like some hip-hop.

Hmm.... Hmm....what??? I am sick of these spoiled athletes who act like they are above the law, it is completely out of control! And if people are trying to take my comments to be racist or whatever, it's not meant to be. I might be a little country, but I have a white neighbor that acts the same way and I want to smack the stupid out of him as well, so "these people" was not meant soley towards black people like I think some of you took it. To the person who said it doesn't have anything to do with hip-hop, I meant that the image that is portrayed by a lot of main stream hip hop artists is very similar to the attitudes of a lot of the athletes that I am sick of, certainly not all, but quite a few. Sorry if my views dont match a lot of yours, but I could really care less if I am PC and I am sick of athletes such as Mr. Dukes. there were several things in the first post that would suggest a lot of racism in your post, "these people" notwithstanding. it's not about being 'pc,' it's about not stereotyping people, and trying to remember that there are people who do bad things, and people who do good things, hard as that may be to do. I will let this be put to rest now, but I am sorry if I came accross that way, I truely did not mean it that way. After looking back at the post I guess I could have expressed what I was trying to say better, but I will not back down from what I said that a lot of these athletes (no matter the race) are out of control. Here is a good quote to sum up how i feel Dwight: And I do not care if that convict is white, black, Asian, German, or some kind of halfsy. I do not like criminals.

I haven't really followed the Rays very closely, but what did BJ Upton do? As for what she did, it had to be something like cheating to set him off that bad, or else he is just really unbalanced.

yyyyyyyyyyyyyiiiiikes At least you can understand what he's trying to say. LOL, this is a message board and I just type my messages as quick as possible, so I apologize if my posts aren't always spelled right or if I have double negatives like I did in the first sentence. It's still easier to decipher than anything Mr. Dukes said.

yyyyyyyyyyyyyiiiiikes Yikes what???

Hmm.... Hmm....what??? I am sick of these spoiled athletes who act like they are above the law, it is completely out of control! And if people are trying to take my comments to be racist or whatever, it's not meant to be. I might be a little country, but I have a white neighbor that acts the same way and I want to smack the stupid out of him as well, so "these people" was not meant soley towards black people like I think some of you took it. To the person who said it doesn't have anything to do with hip-hop, I meant that the image that is portrayed by a lot of main stream hip hop artists is very similar to the attitudes of a lot of the athletes that I am sick of, certainly not all, but quite a few. Sorry if my views dont match a lot of yours, but I could really care less if I am PC and I am sick of athletes such as Mr. Dukes.

I dont care if I am not being politically correct or not, but I am absolutely sick of this hip-hop-above-the-law-thug culture that exsists in sports today. They should have NO tolerance for something like this and he should never be allowed to play ball again, let somebody who is actually a decent human being take is place. And for the love of God, can we get some of these people English lessons!!!!!!!

Nunez made it in there despite the fact that the ball beat him there, it was just a bad job of tagging him out by ARAM.

Wow, they cut their hair together as a team, now they are going to win every game!!!! :roll:

This is great, love the Riot!!!! Come on Lee :(

Way to go Riot, come on LEE

Well, all in all a good inning...should be 2-0 though :(

jones RBI single

I have never seen him play, so I dont know how good his defense really was, but his career line is only slightly better the Royce Clayton's. How is he not in the HOF???? :roll:

I hope that you do not actually like any of those songs/ performers They are my heros, I listen to them everynight before I go to bed. They are great to listen to before a workout, they get you pumped up. I have a shrine to The Spice Girls in my closet.

The Spice Girls- "Wannabe" Britney Spears- "Toxic" NSYNC- "Tearin' Up My Heart" Backsteet Boys- "Quit Playing Games With My Heart" One of the above is my vote!!!!

Good, at least I am not the only one who feels this way.

Am I the only one that could really care less about a bloody sock???

didnt see this anywhere, hopefully he will get better. He is in for an irregular heartbeat. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2845644

I agree, although we will see how things play out once the season starts, our approach at the plate has been a cause for optimisim.

If we are talking about mlb.tv, then they likely determine your zip code based upon ip address. Oh, didnt know that. My tax home is in a black out market (Iowa), but I travel and have the internet setup from wherever I am living (currently california soon to be North Carolina) so that must be why it works for me. Thanks for clearing that up.

also it is just the home games that would be blacked out doing it your current way, I do believe.

if you haven't already signed up, then just put in a different zip code that wont be blacked out.

You got a vote from me, GO CUBS!!!!