SouthSideRyan

With half the Newark Bears.

He is? Certainly spoke it well enough to do hundreds of interviews about hitting HRs with Big Mac in 1998. I have the "Home Run Chase" VHS at home if you want me to send it to you. Big difference between some relatively inconsequential interviews with sports media and speaking in front of government officials in the situation he was in. I speak Spanish very fluently, far better than Sammy speaks English, and even I'd feel extremely uncomfortable put into a similar situation in a Spanish speaking country. I always got the impression that he'd always have problems speaking and understanding English whenever he was in front of hostile reporters and members of Congress. It seemed really convenient, you know? When he had people who were tossing him softballs, he'd speak English as well as anyone. But once the tides turned, suddenly he couldn't understand or speak it. Granted, it's a very good way to make sure you don't misspeak. However, on the other hand, it can make someone come off as being very evasive. I can't believe as a lawyer you would advise your spanish speaking client speak his 2nd language because it might make him look evasive. You know what else makes you look bad? Misspeaking and then having to go back to change your answers because it's not your native language. Sammy wasn't Alfonso Soriano behind the mic, but he wasn't Ozzie Guillen either. He barely strung more than 1 or 2 sentences together, and as you said they weren't the most hard-hitting of sentences he would deliver.

You know this? Again, gun to my head, most any professional athlete I'll bet is a bad person, but really? Bailed on his team, rum bottle, used charity to funnel money to his family. Isn't that a who cares, and a couple heresays?(I think the rum bottle turned out to be BS)

I can't believe everybody's bought into DeJuan Blair. Or that people aren't laughing at Raisin about Hansborough.

You know this? Again, gun to my head, most any professional athlete I'll bet is a bad person, but really?

You should shoot Sammy Sosa instead, the liar and cheater.

Sammy Sosa was an excellent ball player who is hated on by buffoons who don't appreciate what he did for the Cubs organization. Sammy Sosa was a ball player who's stats were aided by performance enhancing drugs. There are "buffoons" who will still ignore that fact. The fact that he plays for "your team" does not make it acceptable. He is a cheater and a liar, plain and simple. Alll the scorn and hateful comments directed toward McGuire and Palmiero and Giambi can now be applied to everyone's favorite RF. I forgot about the corked bat, also. But that was just a batting practice bat that happened to make it into the game supply. Oh that's right, it doesn't apply here because he played for the Cubs. Yeah and only idiots had the scorn and hateful comments towards those 3 too. Hank Aaron cheated too ya know. I hope he burns in hell with the rest of them

I assumed as much. I've always said gun to my head I'd say most any player was on some form of illegal PED at the time. I don't have the energy to care when a guy is outed. Only thing about it that brings any emotion out of me is pity for the AAA guys who didn't take PEDs, and lost out on money and part of their career because of guys who did. Everyone else, whatever.

Well Christ Kyle, if you're going to go all Kyle on us, then every major leaguer has evidence against him due to their association with steroid users.

I'm interested in seeing if there'll be any response to this from the Sosa camp. I'm not part of the 50% of people on here that are lawyers, so let me know if I'm wrong, but this is leaked information, that is supposed to be anonymous. What is the harm in Sosa denying any of this is true? It's his word vs. anonymous lawyers, and I'm sure the court of public opinion is going to favor the nameless lawyers, but if he can convince even one person otherwise, what's the harm?

Sammy Sosa was an excellent ball player who is hated on by buffoons who don't appreciate what he did for the Cubs organization.

They can't release names until people leak them. You think some sportswriter is sitting out there with a full list and is sitting on it rather than scooping everyone?

I didnt realise that not being of any use to the team was considered a medical issue. If so, Aaron Miles better get to the doctor STAT I understand you are joking, but you realize you are making a joke about the guy having some kind of medical issue thats non baseball related? For all we know the guy could have cancer or something like that, the jokes really arent needed in my opinion. What if it's anal fissures? Then you'll be sorry you didn't make jokes.

He is? Certainly spoke it well enough to do hundreds of interviews about hitting HRs with Big Mac in 1998. I have the "Home Run Chase" VHS at home if you want me to send it to you. I don't think baseball been very very good to me would work in front of the buffoons in Congress.

He is?

Pretty sure it hasn't been 10 days yet. Has to be DL.

And you'll wind up with a [expletive] location unless you keep it in the same footprint in which case you have to play elsewhere for a season or 2, and wind up with the same [expletive] clubhouse, the same obstructed views, the same [expletive] parking. So what do you want to do? Build a new ballpark in the middle of a field out in Naperville? Absolutely not, but people are saying, oh just gut the inside, keep the bleachers and scoreboard, and have it ready for opening day 2010. Oh, and while you're working on it, make sure to build a nice clubhouse, more comfortable seating, and a ton of bathrooms. It's just not do-able in its current location. And if you're not adding all the nice stuff, then why are you building a new ballpark?

And you'll wind up with a shitty location unless you keep it in the same footprint in which case you have to play elsewhere for a season or 2, and wind up with the same shitty clubhouse, the same obstructed views, the same shitty parking.

Oh, and there's no money anywhere to spend 800M on a new stadium.

The footprint isn't big enough to allow for unobstructed views.

I wouldn't be at all hurt if they rebuilt Wrigley between the foul poles. But I'm talking about a same footprint, small park and keep the obstructed view seats and support girders. Do it cheap like St. Louis and Cincinnati. We don't need to spend a billion + dollars to have marble floors and gold plated faucets like the Yankee Stadium III. That's pretty much how it has to be done if it's done in the same spot. You can't fit nicer amenities/more seating into the Wrigley footprint. It's tiny.

Was that an exhibition game?

It's been driving me nuts.

And neither is North. Wouldn't it make more sense to think he got lucky with perfect timing that one time than think he's some sort of shrewd businessmen and that it's shocking he would get involved with a fraudulant huckster's scam? I don't understand how somebody could think Mike North is shrewd, and be surprised that a venture he was involved in starting came to a crashing hault months into it's existence. I mean, it actually makes more sense to me that the only type of person that would actually hire a guy like Mike North as an "executive" at his company is somebody who declared bankrupty multiple times. Seriously, if he was shrewd, why would he even get involved with somebody like that? There's a boat load of shrewd business men/woman who got involved with Bernard Madoff... That's not really comparable.

North wasn't even pulling in great ratings. The 1.5M contract was absurd the second it was signed.