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Post by summerose on Sept 11, 2007 21:02:33 GMT -4
I am so disappointed that the Braves didn't do as well as usual this year!
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Post by shortcircuit on Sept 11, 2007 21:03:52 GMT -4
Me too Rose, I'd love to see Bobby Cox lead them to another world series victory. The rumor is that next season will be his last as their skipper.
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Post by summerose on Sept 12, 2007 9:10:12 GMT -4
I hope Bobby doesn't leave. He is a great coach!
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Post by shortcircuit on Sept 12, 2007 16:18:22 GMT -4
He has been a good one. I wouldn't be surprised to see Terry Pendleton become their next manager.
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Post by shortcircuit on Sept 21, 2007 21:05:28 GMT -4
The San Francisco Giants won't be bringing back Barry Bonds for 2008, the team announced in a news release Friday.
The slugger first reported he won't be returning on his Web site. The Giants planned an 8 p.m. ET news conference Friday to announce the decision.
"Although I am disappointed, I've always said baseball is a business -- and I respect their decision," Bonds said on the site. "However, I am saddened and upset that I was not given an earlier opportunity to properly say goodbye to you, my fans, and celebrate with the city throughout the season as I truly believe this was not a last minute decision by the Giants, but one that was made some time ago."
Bonds, 43, said on the site that he was told Thursday by owner Peter Magowan the team would not be re-signing him despite his performance having "far exceeded any expectations the Giants had."
Bonds' career as a Giant ends after 15 seasons, the last during which he surpassed Hank Aaron for the all-time home run record. The 22-year veteran sat at 762 entering the Giants' Friday night game against the visiting Reds.
"I would have loved nothing more than to retire as a Giant in the place where I call home and have shared so many momentous moments with all of you, but there is more baseball in me and I plan on continuing my career," Bonds said. "My quest for a World Series ring continues."
Bonds, who received a $15.8 million, one-year contract this season, has been out since Saturday with a sprained big right toe, though he was expected to play in the four-game series with Cincinnati, which began Thursday.
The Giants host the Padres for a three-game set beginning Monday before closing 2008 on the road with three games against the Dodgers.
"No one is more aware of what Barry has meant to the Giants and San Francisco than I am," Magowan said in the team's release. "He gave our ownership group instant credibility when we bought the team in 1993 and he helped transform the Giants into a consistent winner."
Shadowed by steroid speculation for the past few years, Bonds has hit 28 homers this season. The seven-time NL MVP is batting .279 with 66 RBIs.
Bonds has been mostly healthy, playing 125 games. The left fielder had 2,935 career hits entering Friday.
Despite Bonds' personal achievements, the season has been a disappointing one for the Giants, who are mired deep in last place in the NL West.
"We've heard for a long time that the Giants are an old team and want to get younger, so we're not surprised,'' said Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris. "Barry is their oldest player, but qualitatively, he's their best player.''
"He's still planning on playing next year, irrespective of whether it's an AL or NL team,'' he added.
Bonds has long denied using performance-enhancing drugs, but fans across the country have greeted him with placards inscribed with asterisks -- baseball-fan shorthand for the belief that his record is hopelessly tainted by allegations of steroid abuse.
Even the person who paid $752,467 for Bonds' historic 756th home run has threatened to stamp it with an asterisk.
The mark was broken on Aug. 7 in San Francisco, where Bonds had become entangled with federal prosecutors and with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab at the center of the steroids scandal in professional sports.
The perjury investigation is focused on whether Bonds lied in 2003, when he told the federal grand jury investigating BALCO that he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds said his personal trainer told him he was taking flaxseed oil and arthritis balm.
His childhood friend and trainer, Greg Anderson, has spent nearly a year in prison for refusing to testify to the grand jury investigating Bonds' alleged perjury.
On the field, a championship is about the only thing missing on Bonds' resume.
He played in his 13th All-Star Game this summer, an event held in his home ballpark. The waterfront stadium was constantly sold out as Bonds moved closer to history, and his drawing power certainly played a role in the Giants re-signing him as a free agent in the offseason.
Bonds has reached the postseason seven times, and a World Series title barely eluded him in 2002. The Giants were just five outs from the title in Game 6 against the Anaheim Angels, but they lost that lead and also got beaten in Game 7. Bonds hit .471 in those seven games with four home runs, and the Angels walked him 13 times.
A day after last season ended, Magowan said that Bonds would no longer be the centerpiece of the organization and that the team would change its formula for winning.
Bonds then checked out the free-agent market, and a couple of teams -- including St. Louis, Oakland and San Diego -- showed early interest. But there seemed to be a pervasive feeling around baseball that Bonds would ultimately rejoin the Giants and he did.
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Post by queenbee on Oct 29, 2007 12:49:06 GMT -4
Well tulip that works for me. My sis-in-law just let's her machine get it and so I sing to her machine.
Now I just have to get your phone number, lalalalalalalalal do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ta-
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Post by mac on Oct 29, 2007 21:08:12 GMT -4
How about them dawgs down in the swamp?
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Post by shortcircuit on Oct 29, 2007 21:38:05 GMT -4
Oh yeah! I was afraid to watch the game mac. I would watch it for a couple of minutes and change the channel. The only quarter that I watched all the way through was the fourth when the Dawgs started running away with it. Thanks for joining mac, there's not many others here who like to talk about sports!
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Post by mac on Oct 30, 2007 12:29:19 GMT -4
I love my dawgs.............. on Blairsville.com we had spirited conversations about college football. A certain Gay-tor fan, has not shown up since UGA marched out of the swamp with a Gay-tor tail. Hopefully, we can get this one cranked up. I have withdrawal problems till September every year.
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Post by queenbee on Oct 30, 2007 13:30:40 GMT -4
THE DAWGS GOT SOME GAYTER TAIL. HAHAHAHA
The Vols are tied for #2 (I think).
And the BCS guys eat boogers.
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Post by queenbee on Oct 31, 2007 14:32:38 GMT -4
Richt apologizes for TD celebration
Athens — Calling his direction "inappropriate," Georgia coach Mark Richt on Monday apologized in writing to SEC commissioner Mike Slive for the Bulldogs' bench-clearing excessive-celebration penalty against Florida .
"As a followup to our telephone discussion earlier today, I do want to apologize in writing for what transpired after the first score of the Georgia/Florida game this past Saturday when our entire team left the bench area to celebrate the score," Richt wrote to Slive.
The coach went on to describe how the events transpired and his thought process in allowing his team to celebrate.
"Two weeks ago when our preparation began for the Florida game I told the team that we have got to have more energy and enthusiasm in this ballgame or we are going to get whipped pretty good," Richt wrote. "I said, as a matter of fact, when we score our first touchdown, I expect you guys to celebrate to the point where the official will throw a flag for excessive celebration. I admit this was inappropriate."
The coach first broached the subject to the team two weeks ago, and told the players they were going to celebrate. Then he started to feel as if maybe just the player who scored would celebrate, which he didn't want. He told the players on the way to the game that he wanted it to be a team celebration.
By "team," Richt meant the players on the field, not those on the bench. The players, Richt told the media Sunday, obviously misunderstood and thought he wanted everyone on the field.
"Again, I was expecting the eleven players on the field to be doing the celebrating, not for the bench to clear as it did," Richt wrote in his letter to Slive. "I understand that the entire team running on the field created the potential for an altercation and that excessive celebration is not in compliance with the Southeastern Conference sportsmanship policies and expected standards. My only intention was to create enthusiasm."
Charles Bloom, associate commissioner of the SEC, said Richt's letter also would also serve as the conference's statement on the matter. No sanctions are planned.
"I apologize that I put everyone in that situation and specifically apologize to you, the Southeastern Conference, and the University of Florida," Richt wrote in conclusion. "You can be assured I will not ask our team to do this type of thing again."
Georgia incurred five personal-foul penalties in the first quarter of the game — two on the excessive celebration play. Another flag was thrown when Mohamed Massaquoi did the Gator chomp after scoring on a 84-yard touchdown. The final two were on the ensuing kickoff when Andrew Williams grabbed the facemask of a Florida player. Georgia was penalized 30 yards because the officials determined a facemask infraction occurred during and after the play.
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Post by mac on Nov 1, 2007 5:06:29 GMT -4
LOL................ I loved every single minute of it too Bee, even Andrew's penalty.......... of course I don't thinks it right to call a double penalty, he did it one time not twice, just because they blew the play dead and he still had hold of the face mask is debateable if its one infraction or two. I would be contacting the confrence to get clarification, seems the officials are getting mighty touchy, I didn't see a problem with the gator chomp after the td either.
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Post by queenbee on Nov 1, 2007 8:56:34 GMT -4
Let me tell those officials one thing.
When any team has struggled all year and they score or win they deserve some excessive celebration
I realize it could cause conflict, but I would rather see that adrenaline used for celebration instead of fights.
I use to love to watch the end zone dancing the players in the NFL used to do. Especially the break dancing, it was funny regardless if it was your team or not.
I love the NFL Dr. Pepper ad that has the player dancing, it's great.
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Post by mac on Nov 1, 2007 9:06:42 GMT -4
I like to see the NFL players throw the ball to the fans, they started fining them $300 dollars and they stopped. I don't care what the fine was, I'd still throw it to the fans if I scored one. An in college its just part of the game to celebrate if you score.
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Post by shortcircuit on Nov 10, 2007 18:40:35 GMT -4
The Dawgs are up on Auburn right now 17-10 in the 3rd quarter. This is a crucial game for them.
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