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i've been trying to explain the whole stadium debate history in a nutshell to a person who doesn't live in south florida and have no clue about the details of the debate. i've been getting bits and pieces on this forum, but i haven't found a brief rundown of the debate history from the very start, the major issues and dates and that sort of stuff. can someone help me out on this issue? thanks.

for those of you with macs, i put up an ical calendar of all of the fsn/sun sports games. the rays schedule is going to come on when i get it, and please pm me if you find an error. thanks. put in the following below: webcal://icalx.com/public/furcalchick/2008%20FSN%20Florida-SUN%20MLB%20Schedule.ics

Brian McNamee told Congress he injected Roger Clemens' wife By RONALD BLUM, and February 8, 2008 AP - Feb 8, 4:32 pm EST More Photos HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's become a daily routine: A new element of Brian McNamee's "I injected Roger Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone" story emerges -- and Clemens' attorneys call the pitcher's former personal trainer a liar. The latest, and quite possibly oddest, twist involves Clemens' wife. McNamee told congressional investigators he injected Debbie Clemens with HGH -- at the seven-time Cy Young Award winner's direction -- before the couple posed for a 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition photo shoot, a lawyer familiar with his testimony said Friday. The lawyer spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details of Thursday's testimony have not been publicly released. McNamee's statements about Debbie Clemens were first reported by the New York Daily News on its Web site Friday. Roger Clemens and McNamee are scheduled to testify publicly Wednesday at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. McNamee told baseball investigator George Mitchell that he injected Clemens at least 16 times with steroids and HGH in 1998, 2000 and 2001, allegations the star pitcher repeatedly has denied. Clemens did not comment on the latest accusation, which came out as he wrapped up a second day of face-to-face meetings with members of Congress. Clemens' lawyers, Rusty Hardin and Lanny Breuer, did not directly address the issue when asked about it. "Did Roger get the Cy Young 'cause his wife took the HGH?" Breuer asked. Referring to McNamee, Hardin said: "This guy is a colossal liar, and he has absolutely no shame." Asked specifically about the portion of the report that said Clemens played a role in what happened, Hardin said: "To say that Roger directed that kind of thing is a colossal lie." Members of the committee and their staff are not supposed to discuss what is said at a congressional deposition; a witness and his lawyers may. "I will not confirm or deny it. I think it's inappropriate for any purported testimony from yesterday to be revealed," said one of McNamee's lawyers, Richard Emery. "The issue in this case is Roger Clemens' use of steroids and his failure to own up to it." The committee's Republican general counsel, Keith Ausbrook said: "I have no reason to believe anybody on the committee leaked that, and I have no comment on the content." Clemens delivered his sworn testimony over five hours Tuesday, then spent Thursday and Friday doing his best imitation of a K Street lobbyist. He met with 12 lawmakers Thursday, then another seven Friday, meaning Clemens has spoken with nearly half of the committee's 41 members. After McNamee's seven-hour deposition Thursday, his lawyers showed reporters two color photos they brought to the committee, showing items such as needles and steroid vials they say McNamee saved for several years and, when tested, will link Clemens to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. "That was sort of weird, you must admit," New York Democrat Edolphus Towns said after his Clemens session Friday. "For seven years, you hold onto it? That's longer than Monica Lewinsky kept it." With his lawyers and a PR person in tow, Clemens made his way to the office of Rep. Danny Davis, an Illinois Democrat, shortly after 9:30 a.m., and the Rocket did not leave Capitol Hill until about 4 p.m. "It's highly unusual, and that's why I think one would try to determine the rationale for it. What is he trying to accomplish?" Davis said in an interview with the AP before Clemens arrived. "I am willing to hear him out and hear what he has to say." And while Clemens was heading home to Texas on Friday night, his camp mentioned the possibility of a news conference Monday and more congressional visits Tuesday. "I've met a number of the congressmen before," Clemens said at one point in the morning. "It's been great. It's not my first trip to Washington." Several lawmakers characterized the sessions as more social than substantive, noting that Clemens discussed his charitable work. Others brought up that Clemens or his lawyers disparaged McNamee. "The meeting was at his request, and only as a matter of courtesy did I meet with him," District of Columbia Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said. "I don't usually meet with witnesses. I don't understand that they serve a purpose, because we don't do a hearing in advance of a hearing." Also on the witness list for Wednesday are New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, who acknowledged using HGH; former major leaguer Chuck Knoblauch; and former New York Mets clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski, who was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to five years' probation after cooperating with Mitchell. Radomski pleaded guilty in April to distributing steroids and money laundering, and he led investigators to McNamee. After his sitdown with Towns, Clemens waited around for a photo op, shaking hands with the congressman but not taking questions from reporters. Before Clemens could leave Towns' office, two members of the representative's staff stopped him to pose for pictures. A few times during the day, as Clemens walked from the Rayburn House Office Building to Cannon HOB and back to Rayburn, he was asked to sign autographs by people in the hallways. The 45-year-old Clemens, who pitched for the Yankees last season and ranks eighth in baseball history with 354 wins, carried a black three-ring binder as he made his rounds. "For me, the question is still out. The verdict is not in," Davis said after his 30 minutes with Clemens. "I'm not certain if he did or if he did not" use steroids. Blum reported from New York. Fendrich reported from Washington. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-s...p&type=lgns this thing gets creepier and creepier by the day. if the wife was using HGH, i don't want to know about the children. i'm hoping koby isn't, i met him once, but didn't seem like the roiding type.

yippie.

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met fans shouldn't get happy yet. reports say that the whole deal could go down the toilet if santana isn't signed to an extension by 5 pm tomorrow. Sources: Mets likely won't reach deal with Santana until Friday, if at all By Jayson Stark ESPN.com It appears the Mets' negotiations with the agents for Johan Santana won't be over quickly. Sources familiar with those discussions said Thursday that while the talks may not go right to Friday's 5 p.m. ET deadline, the two sides were still far enough apart that it was unlikely any deal could be reached before Friday morning at the earliest. The sources also left open the possibility that the talks could collapse without an agreement, though the odds of that appear remote. Santana's agents, Peter and Ed Greenberg, are believed to be looking for a six-year extension in the range of $150 million -- a figure that would include an upfront payment that would boost Santana's 2008 salary ($13.25 million) to beyond $20 million. The Mets, not surprisingly, differ on the dollars. But the biggest obstacle appears to be the length of the deal. Indications are that the Mets want to limit the guaranteed portion of the extension to five years, not including Santana's current contract, which expires after 2008. So if Santana's side is adamant that the deal extend beyond 2013, it's believed the Mets would insist that the back end of the contract not be guaranteed, but could include at least one vesting option year. In the meantime, there are signs that the Mets continue to express interest in free-agent pitcher Kyle Lohse. Lohse was viewed, essentially, as the Mets' backup plan in case they weren't able to trade for Santana. But when one baseball man who had spoken with Mets GM Omar Minaya was asked if the club could end up with both Santana and Lohse, the reply was: "Absolutely." http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3224116

i thought he was a mut already. i hope this just stays as a trade idea and is never real.

i think eli will finally shut up the haters, and make it two mannings in a row for super bowl mvp's. he really has grown.

18-0...yea. hope they lose in the super bowl.

i'm not so sure about this macbook air...but i bet it sells well for some niche market out there. in the meantime, there's this. and to sum up macworld in one minute...

looks like the packers plan backfired... No "Seinfeld" for Eli? Jerry to the rescue following TV prank By DINESH RAMDE, Associated Press Writer January 18, 2008 MILWAUKEE (AP) -- For a show that was about nothing, the hubbub around it has certainly turned into something. A Green Bay television station decided to have some fun this week after employees discovered that Giants quarterback Eli Manning's favorite show is "Seinfeld." Station officials decided to pull the episode scheduled for Saturday afternoon and replace it with a different program chosen by viewers. Manning and his New York teammates will be in town to play the Green Bay Packers in the NFC championship game Sunday afternoon. News of WLUK-TV's decision apparently reached Jerry Seinfeld himself. "I'm going to send Eli a complete collection of 'Seinfeld' DVDs and a partial collection of 'Hogan's Heroes' for inspiration," the comedian told the New York Post on Thursday. "You think I'm going to take that sitting down?" Jay Zollar, the Fox station's general manager, laughed when he heard of Seinfeld's response. Zollar joked that the offer actually plays into the station's master plan of preventing Manning from being master of the domain on Sunday. "Now he (Manning) will be up all night watching 'Seinfeld' -- there will be no sleep for you," he said, parodying the Soup Nazi episode in which a server admonishes noncompliant customers with, "No soup for you!" Manning said Friday the whole affair was amusing. "Yeah, it's pretty funny," he said. "You've got to enjoy it." Manning added that he already has the entire "Seinfeld" collection. "I've seen every episode anyway, so I'm not going to miss anything on it," he said. "Again, you take it all in, you smile at it and you don't really give it a lot of thought." A message from The Associated Press relayed to Seinfeld's publicist through his lawyer was not immediately returned Friday. The station let viewers vote on the show to replace the pulled "Seinfeld" episode. Of about 3,700 votes cast, some 60 percent were for a 30-minute special about former Packers coach Vince Lombardi called "God, Family and the Green Bay Packers." The other choices included a rerun of "The Donald Driver Show" from Monday, "M*A*S*H" and an infomercial starring former Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith. The pre-empted "Seinfeld" episode is "The Mango" from Season 5. In the show Cosmo Kramer gets booted from a fruit store for trying to return a bad peach, George Costanza suffers impotence, yada yada yada. Zollar said most people realized his station's move was in jest, but some thought the station should be treating the Giants better. "Some people think we're mean," he said. "Some say we're not welcoming, that we should be gracious hosts, we should invite them in and be nice to their quarterback." He said he doesn't understand how people could interpret the move as a sincere attempt at sabotage. "Obviously, Eli coming to Green Bay, coming to watch a TV show at 5:30 p.m. the night before the game, it's pretty unlikely," he said. Associated Press sports writer Tom Canavan in East Rutherford, N.J., contributed to this report. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-n...p&type=lgns

I'm up to 76 stars or some crap and some of the levels in this game are ridiculously hard. Call me a n00b or whatever, but the controls for swimming are freaking terrible. Aside from that, this game is awesome. Cosmic Comet challenges are frustrating though. Also, I'm at about 90 stars and this game is just frickin' ridiculous in difficulty at this point for me as well. I have no idea how I'm supposed to get 30 more of these. i thought the game was a bit too easy. yeah, there were a few stumpers, but i still though sunshine was a challenge. » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « but after 120 stars, you get to play as luigi.

i'm going all out on this spring training, seeing this could be the last round for me for some time in florida. no schedule or real plans yet, but i'm going to vero on the 7th and orlando the weekend of the 14th. i also hope to hit the west coast for a game or so, but nothing else definite yet.

no seinfeld for you eli. http://www.myfoxnewisconsin.com/myfox/page...mp;pageId=1.1.1

Use of ADD drugs soars in MLB as amphetamines are banned By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer January 15, 2008 NEW YORK (AP) -- ADD is soaring faster in the major leagues than ERAs, according to statistics cited at Tuesday's congressional hearing on doping in baseball. In 2006, there were 35 so-called "Therapeutic Use Exemptions" for drugs, of which 28 were for Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, according to data provided to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee by Major League Baseball and the players' association. In 2007, the exemptions skyrocketed to 111, of which 103 were for ADD and ADHD. A copy of the data was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press "This demands an explanation. There's something fundamentally wrong them going from 28 to 103," said Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of committee that determines the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned-substances list. "If we had this percentage increase in the general population, it would be on the evening news as a national epidemic. It's an outrageous number." The National Institute of Mental Health estimates 3 percent to 5 percent of children have ADHD, according to its Web site. Wadler said the ban on amphetamines in 2006 appears to be tied to the increase. "I can't prove anything. Certainly you put all the facts together, I think that's a reasonable explanation," he said. "Might there be others? I guess so. It could be an anomaly year of some sort." According to the MLB data, 1,354 players were subject to testing last year. That means 8.2 percent received permission from their team physician and Dr. Bryan Smith, baseball's independent program administrator, to use Ritalin and Adderall, stimulants better known as treatments for hyperactive kids. "That would make that almost eight times the normal adult usage in our population," said Massachusetts Democrat John Tierney, who brought up the issue. Baseball already has made changes in the TUE process for 2008. Before a player will be allowed to use a drug, the team physician must send the prescription to the independent administrator for approval before the player uses the substance. "We don't want abuse. We don't want guys taking Adderall to supplant their need for amphetamines," two-time NL MVP Dale Murphy said at a debate on performance-enhancing drugs. MLB plans to convene a meeting of physicians and experts early next month and has approached the players' union about participating. "This is a topic on which we intend to be proactive, to make sure that we're adequately handling the issue of TUEs," said Rob Manfred, baseball's executive vice president of labor relations. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-c...p&type=lgns not sure what to make of this...i'm thinking more players are faking add to access the ritalin and similar type drugs. for those unfamiliar with ritalin, they are similar to amphetamines in nature. and all of them have some nasty effects on the body. this just adds to the whole over-diagnosing add thing we have now, i think.

here's my question...why do singers need roids?

i'm not sure if it was a good trade for us. don't get me wrong, i like kotsay, but i think we would have been better off going with one of the young ones for centerfield instead of an injury risk. i'll reevaluate after spring training. the a's got devine, someone the braves never used for some reason. he pitched just 8 1/3 innings in the bigs last season, with a 1.08 era. bobby probably didn't like him, thus why he was always benched.

awards show cancelled, but there will be an announcement made of the winners.

i think the punishment [for steroids] should be internal. he did it. telltale sign, no real punishment since that means he will be punished. can't believe i actually have a signed ball from him...

it was okay, nothing like the old ones. too much dramatics in the events (music, camera angles, and fire in the eliminator for instance) really turned me off. and going to a commercial right when the event starts? that's almost like going to a commercial seconds before the snap in football. i say it doesn't last after this run, show relies too much on gimmicks.

AFC Schedule: Wildcard Weekend (Jan. 5-6) Jacksonville at Pittsburgh Jan. 5, 8:00pm Tennessee at San Diego Jan. 6, 4:30 pm Divisional Weekend (Jan. 12-13) Jacksonville at New England San Diego at Indianapolis AFC Championship Game (Jan. 20) Jacksonville at Indianapolis NFC Schedule: Wildcard Weekend (Jan. 5-6) Washington at Seattle Jan. 5, 4:30pm NY Giants at Tampa Bay Jan. 6, 1:00pm Divisional Weekend (Jan. 12-13) Tampa Bay at Dallas Seattle at Green Bay NFC Championship Game (Jan. 20) Tampa Bay at Green Bay Super Bowl XLII (Feb. 3) Indianapolis vs. Green Bay WC 3 + D 2 + C 0 + SB 0 = 5

Why aren't more people watching this show????? because it's smart tv, and is too complex for the average american. :mischief

sounds like the padres are becoming the braves of the 90's with all that great pitching and now trying to rebuild others. not sure if prior gets better, but i'm sure being in his hometown and a pitchers ballpark will help.

going to bed early.

Saturday, Dec. 29 New England at N.Y. Giants 8:15 pm Sunday, Dec. 30 Buffalo at Philadelphia 1:00 pm Carolina at Tampa Bay 1:00 pm Cincinnati at Miami 1:00 pm Dallas at Washington 1:00 pm Detroit at Green Bay 1:00 pm Jacksonville at Houston 1:00 pm New Orleans at Chicago 1:00 pm Pittsburgh at Baltimore 1:00 pm Seattle at Atlanta 1:00 pm San Francisco at Cleveland 1:00 pm Tennessee at Indianapolis 1:00 pm Minnesota at Denver 4:15 pm San Diego at Oakland 4:15 pm St. Louis at Arizona 4:15 pm Kansas City at N.Y. Jets 8:15 pm 7-9