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Hope they do well. I think Joe will benefit from that stadium. And even though they moved the fences in, looks like it's not much of a change except for the Left Centerfield area. Hardly going to make that place a hitters park.

Hopefully the Ducks will visit the Angels again in a few months.

Nolan Ryan is to the Rangers, like Magic Johnson is to the Dodgers.

Bummer. I wanted to do food eating jokes all season long. Guess he choked.

No no the 6 and 7. But yes on the first 5. I hate people with 7.

Happy Birthday Mancini.

Nice writeup. But you forgot the most important statistical number. 37 vs 31. Other factor is left vs right handed. In a lineup full of righties, even if the numbers were the same, it would probably strengthen the overall lineup.

That was an interesting episode. You knew it was bound to happen. Kind of hoped it would happen in a happy setting, and not the way it did. Overall, liked it. And yeah, talking in generalities in case someone hasn't seen it yet.

Some of them already are doing that. With Youtube video series like The Guild. Also, Battlestar Galactica's latest series was on YouTube first before SciFi. But here lies the rub. While some can work low budget in this fashion. In order for a show like Battlestar to continue, it needs the deep pockets of the networks.

Happy Birthday. Hope you had an eventful one.

Not sure. What I have found is that most new tv sets have monitor inputs. What I usually do is just plug in the computer to the tv, and watch/stream that way. In my case, I have a high end video card in my laptop, so it's fairly painless to do.

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Utah's nature-made subway ride is Bucket List worthy

That was fun to watch. Nice parting gift too.

Wouldn't have happened if he was playing in the WBC. Just saying.

Sounds like a bad hard drive. They are pretty cheap on ebay to replace. If you want, I can look at it, and try and figure out what's wrong. I was suprised how easy laptops are to fix, when my last laptops video card went dead. And considering how much I gamed on it, it's not surprising.

Again, the more appropriate comparison is Howard. Not Jeter. for the 2007 season. Howard got the record of $0.9 million. In 2006 he had a shash line of .313/.425/.659/1.084 with a 5.0 WAR. In 2007, he hit .268/.392/.584/.976 with a 2.8 WAR. He then took the Phillies to arbitration and won $10 million vs $7 million. Here is where salaries never go down. Only up. In 2008, his slash line was .251/.339/.543/.882 and a 1.5 WAR. Even with that, in 2009, he avoided arbitration with the Phillies where the offers were $18 million vs $14 million, and signed a 3 year $54 million contract that bought out his 3 remaining arbitration years. He went on to sign an extention buying out 5 years of free agency in 2010 after having a slash line of .279/.360/.571/.931 with a 3.5 WAR in 2009. Now, he probably has the second worst contract in the MLB. Putting up a huge .718 OPS with a -1.2 WAR last season.

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57472946-285/how-to-replace-a-broken-screen-on-your-iphone/ There are places that will also repair it. Apple store is probably the most reputable, but also at the same time the most expensive. I did a google search, and there seems to be a few places in So Cal that can replace it. But the price is much cheaper to do it yourself.

Only 26k attendance. So not as much as say a Breeders Cup day. You should have gone Nate. They had a bunch of food trucks, with some of the bigger named trucks. Key to the foodtrucks is get there early. Less of a line on the popular trucks, then you can Truck hop the lesser one's later in the day. I think Derby day, they will have the foodtrucks out there again.

$1 million would be a record for a player that has less than 2 years service time. See my previous post on the previous record holder, and what he got, and you will see what the harm would be. I don't think any team wants to go down that road.

I saw a few episodes of it. It was pretty interesting. Not enough to make me want to get Cinemax. But if it was on during a free preview weekend, worth watching.

Isn't that spy show also on Cinemax?

And even another year might not help. Look at Ryan Howard. He is the gold standard when it comes to arbitration. 2007 1 year/$0.9M (record for player with less than 2 years of service) 2008 1 year/$10M (won in arbitration with Philadelphia 2/21/08 ($10M-$7M)(Super 2)) 2009-11 3 years/$54M (avoided arbitration, $18M-$14M) 2010 signed a 5 year/$125M extension. This is what the Angels are trying to avoid. And Landis I'm sure is trying to make it so that it's very difficult to avoid the comparisons. That's why he wanted Trout to be paid more for his second year.

But the Oilers will get the Ducks second round pick this season.

I wonder what Trouts agent would say, if the Angels said we will sing him to Harpers contract? BTW. Harpers deal is: 11:$0.5M, 12:$0.5M, 13:$0.75M, 14:$0.9M, 15:$1M With a signing bonus of $6.25 million. For a number one draft pick. Trout got a $1.125 million singing bonus as a #27 pick. I'm sure Landis will be thrilled to give up his first year of arbitration for $1 million. This is how the game is played folks. Read Mathis' agents views on arbitration. Teams will try to avoid paying a player X amount, knowing that the baseline will then be that X amount + some the following year. And continually going up the next 2 years of arbitration. Anyone ever hear of a contract going down in price during arbitration? Yes, it's possible. But the minimum a price can go down per the CBA is 80% of the previous year. Everyone should just look at Ryan Howards contract. Trout will get paid.