Sosa would rather retire than "beg for a spot" - Page 5

JDOldSchool · 02-16-2006, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by edog23

And why is his agent doing all the talking

Sammy forgets how to speak English when situations get tough.

darkhorse · 02-16-2006, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by edog23

Bad year in 2004.

Bad year in 2005.

Nah, only by his previous lofty standards. He was quite decent in 2004. Fell off the map last year.

Dwolfson20 · 02-16-2006, 04:39 AM

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Originally Posted by TotalEnd98

Well, his agent claimed tonight that Sosa is retired in every way except having his name on the "retired list."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2332063

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Originally Posted by Sosa's ***** agent

"We decided that [not putting him on that list] was the best thing to do. But I can say, with reasonable certainty, that we've seen Sammy in a baseball uniform for the last time."

Urth · 02-16-2006, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by edog23

Bad year in 2004. Bad year in 2005. If only one team has the guts to offer you a contract and it's ONLY $500,000 with a chance to make more, just swallow your pride and agreed to it. If not, shut up go home and retire. Goddamn, that's just wrong. And why is his agent doing all the talking....have some balls and speak up. Half a mil....I'd say yes in heartbeat. Hell, it's baseball. That irks me....sorry.

...Interestingly, it's a similar deal to the one that Frank signed in Oakland, after two poor seasons in 2004 and 2005. Poor in the sense that he was absent for 2/3 of each year, that is...he was plenty effective when healthy.

Well, I, for one, do hope that Sammy gets his payday, with, say the Twinkies or Yanks.

TotalEnd98 · 02-16-2006, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by edog23

Awesome, albeit injured, in 2004. Quite good, albeit injured, in 2005.

Fixed.

QuestGAV · 02-16-2006, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by JDOldSchool

I thought it was suspected that McGwire was using steroids from essentially the moment he met Jose Canseco.

I thought that it took Jose a few years to get him interested but I never read his book so I'm not certain what Jose's story is. My only point was that power from a young age doesn't disqualify a player from steroid suspicion.

Nirvana91 · 05-09-2006, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Hotblack Desiato

I have a feeling we'll be seeing this post quoted a lot this season.

I know it's still early in the season, but I think I was right for once. As I said in February. FRANK THOMAS CAN'T EVEN DH ANYMORE.

Yes, Jay Mariotti is a weasel, but Big Frank is indeed looking smaller these days.