Forum: Around The Majors

Ken Rosenthal mentions the age of some of the Greats when they first made the WS in comparsion to Barry and some who are playing today who may never make it. www.sportingnews.com/voices/ken_rosenthal/20021014.html

Instead of the scattered post du jours, I'm hoping to lump everything in here. First off: Wednesday, October 9 Baker apparently 'intrigued' by Mets' opening ESPN.com news services The Giants have said they want manager Dusty Baker to return to the organization no matter how the team does in the postseason.

Twins up 1-0 top of 2nd with man on 2nd and 1 out. Don't know how the run scored. GO TWINS! OK - walk, WP, double scored 1st run.

Joe Buck and Tim McCarver also told a story about how Flynn had told Kannon to tell each Cardinal not to give up. They then said that that is what his father would've said. :) They had some nice shots of him enjoying himself in the dugout. It was nice to see. :) Kannon Kile: 'One of the family' Darryl Kile's young son lifts Cards' spirits in Game 3 By Paul C. Smith / MLB.com http://yankees.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20021012&content_id=156285&vkey=cs2002news&fext=.jsp...

Rumors has it that when he was a Red Sox player he got very mad one day or something like that and threw in the river a piano, for which he loved to play. Thus that is where and how the curse of the Bambino lies. It also has it that scuba divers are in the river looking for this paino so that maybe the curse will finally come to an end. Has anybody else heard of this?

I guess I'll start this one. Go Twins! They go down 1-2-3 in the first. :(

Justice plans to retire BY MIKE WELLS Pioneer Press http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/sports/4227994.htm OAKLAND, Calif. — After a 14-year career during which he had played in the postseason 10 times and won two World Series championships, Oakland A's outfielder David Justice said he's 99.9 percent certain he will retire. Justice made the comment Sunday following the A's 5-4 loss to the Twins in Game 5 of the American League divisional series. "I'm sticking to what I've...

It's on right now, so people should just check in, post away!!! We've got a game thread here, folks!!! http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/live/MLB_20021012_STL@SF http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/gameUpdate?gameId=221012126

GAME 3 PREVIEW: Twins go ape to see monkey BY GORDON WITTENMYER Pioneer Press http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/sports/baseball/mlb/minnesota_twins/4257349.htm ANAHEIM, Calif. — Bring on the Rally Monkey. The Twins want to see it. They want it to jump and screech on Edison Field's big screen the next three games, inciting the crowd to roar and wave thousands of toy monkeys.

This was nice: ==================== ARLINGTON, Texas -- Billy Koch was walking up the tunnel from the A's dugout Saturday when he overheard someone talking about the Cy Young race. Koch stopped in his tracks when he heard someone say Pedro Martinez looks destined to win it. "Pedro is a wuss," Koch said. "If he hadn't won his 20th already, he'd be making his last start. I guarantee he would. He's a selfish player because he wants to sit on his numbers." Wow. Koch was given a chance...

Owner Taylor wants to keep teams in Minnesota http://espn.go.com/gen/news/2002/1011/1444377.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor said in an interview published Friday he's interested in buying both the Vikings and the Twins, although he said he's not sure the baseball team is truly for sale. Taylor, a Mankato billionaire, told the Star Tribune on Thursday he...

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My votes go to: AL MVP: Alfonso Soriano NL MVP: Albert Pujols AL Cy Young: Barry Zito NL: Cy Young: Randy Johnson

MLB.com: Baker, La Russa fined for fracas ESPN.com: Baker, La Russa fined after Game 1 dustup Sportsline.com:

ESPN Classic/Sports Century Wed, 10/16/02, 8pm and 11pm ET. 1 hr. If you were caught up in Nike's "Bo Knows" commercial f/all sports, and realized that according to one very famous blues guitarist, he "Don't Know Diddly", you can look back at the first two-sport athlete's brief career of 8 MLB seasons, plus his NFL career. Bo knows stardom and disappointment By Ron Flatter Special to ESPN.com

I'm unsure if this belongs here or in JC, but I'll let Jim and the Mods decide. In either case, he's talked something about giving back, so this looks like a great start to me!!! Rodriguez donates $3.9 million to University of Miami Oct. 10, 2002 SportsLine.com wire reports CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Alex Rodriguez grew up near the University of Miami campus, spending nearly every weekend at Mark Light Stadium where the Hurricanes played. He shagged balls, took batting practice...

So some of you guy`s can cross Kerrigan off your wish list whem Mel goes.

He went 0-5, struck out three times. The night before he became the first Japanese player since 1986 to hit 50 homers in one season. His BA dropped to 334 with a 107 rbi`s.Godzilla is ready for LF position, hitting in the 5th slot in the 2003 Yankee lineup.

Why not just cut off their heads and get it over with, since the end of the "Head Game" in pitching seems to be drawing near? There are two major components to pitching - that infamous and ill-defined thing that has been capsulized as "stuff", and that other thing which is even more difficult to define, but which Roger Kahn called "The Head Game". It is in the latter that I believe the "art" of pitching lies, and it is that which made me absolutely fall in love with the game. Before I...

MLB official: Cuban pitcher subject to draft Cuban pitcher wants to be free agent By Tom Farrey ESPN.com http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/2002/1010/1443935.html MIAMI -- Jose Contreras, the star pitcher of the Cuban national team who recently defected to the United States, will be placed in Major League Baseball's amateur draft next June unless he can arrange paperwork as a legal resident of another foreign country, said baseball's chief lawyer. Frank Coonelly, Major League Baseball's top...