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Hangin' 'em up
| Edgy DC Nov 18 2006 09:10 AM |
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Bill Mueller.
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| smg58 Nov 18 2006 10:07 AM |
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Only one exceptional year, but always a useful guy with a solid glove. Spent most of his career with the Giants, but I'm guessing that Red Sox Fans will remember him the most fondly.
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| cleonjones11 Nov 20 2006 08:56 AM |
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Chris Woodward
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| Edgy DC Nov 20 2006 09:16 AM |
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What's your source? Or is this what you want?
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| OlerudOwned Nov 20 2006 06:05 PM |
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Woody retiring to pursue a career in the meatpacking industry.
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| metirish Dec 07 2006 03:58 PM |
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J.T. Snow retires,will join the Giants and work in various roles,including radio braodcaster.
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| Yancy Street Gang Dec 07 2006 04:03 PM |
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If only Yadier Molina's home run had turned out to be as benign as J. T. Snow's.
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| Gwreck Dec 08 2006 02:21 AM |
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Apples and oranges. Snow didn't hit that homer in an elimination game.
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| Yancy Street Gang Dec 08 2006 06:26 AM |
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More like apples and pears. If the Mets had lost that game, they'd have been down 2 games to 0 in a best of 5.
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| cooby Dec 08 2006 08:21 PM |
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Get out!
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| Elster88 Dec 09 2006 10:08 AM |
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Piazza too.
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| metirish Dec 12 2006 12:18 PM |
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Begwell expected to announce retirement this week,Astros working on a post-career deal for him.
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| iramets Dec 12 2006 12:27 PM |
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"Retirement" doesn't exactly mean what it used to mean, does it? It used to denote a ballplayer who opted against continuing to play, despite at least one offer of employment. I think of players like Dimaggio and Allie Reynolds and Koufax when I think of ballplayers retiring. Now it means more like "No one wants to sign me to the most provisional of contracts so it looks like I'm done. Stick a fork in me, fellas, because I'm telling what the world already knows: I cain't play anymore, and this is me signing off, acknowleging that fact."
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| metirish Dec 12 2006 12:37 PM |
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Well Bagwell gets a $7 million buyout for 07,after making $16 million last year....nice work.
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| Frayed Knot Dec 12 2006 02:00 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Dec 12 2006 02:23 PM |
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Which isn't so much a bad thing. Used to be that when these guys drew only somewhat better pay than much of the working world - as opposed to 'set-for-life' money - there was a significant lure for aging players to latch onto something (frequently something sales/pr related) when the opportunity came up even if they possibly had a year or two left simply for the fear that the offer wouldn't be there a few years later when their names may have lost their luster of 'ballplayer' and had faded into 'say, didn't you used to be somebody?' Today, with so few outside jobs that will come close even to reduced end-of-career sports salaries, when someone merely talks about getting out when they want to rather than when they have to (Tiki, Pettitte) there are voices from both inside and outside the sport who are quick to call them quitters and/or question their sanity & motivations.
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| Yancy Street Gang Dec 12 2006 02:13 PM |
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I'll be curious to see what Tom Glavine does if he wins number 300 this year and pitches reasonably well. Will he walk away, like he's hinted at in the past? Or will he keep pitching as long as someone's willing to pay him?
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| Frayed Knot Dec 12 2006 02:24 PM |
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<<<<<---------- "It's my option so I'll do whatever I want you whippersnapper"
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| Yancy Street Gang Dec 12 2006 02:25 PM |
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Whippersnapper??
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| Edgy DC Dec 12 2006 02:44 PM |
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Jackie Robinson had an offer to be a vice president of human resources (I think) for Chock Full-o-Nuts or to take a fading-veteran payday from the hated rival Giants (with risk to his personal equity) with whispers of Natinoal League baseball preparing to leave town.
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| iramets Dec 12 2006 04:13 PM |
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That is, it was widely speculated that an athlete in his early thirties, with a beat-up body and a burned-out psyche and having earned much more money than he ever can expect to spend in his lifetime, might not say "Oh, fuck it, it's the beach for me--who needs this grief?" These speculators are not likely to be found self-identifying, but there were plenty of them, way back when. They simply didn't gauge properly the limitless capacity of humans for greed, nor of athletes for self-deception.
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| Yancy Street Gang Dec 12 2006 04:16 PM |
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I know what you mean. For years I've been hearing that any player who lasts into his 40's is the last of his kind.
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| Edgy DC Dec 13 2006 09:43 AM |
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Gabe Kapler reportedly hanging up his spikes to manage the Greenville (SC) Drive, Boston's affilliate in the South Atlantic League.
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| seawolf17 Dec 13 2006 10:39 AM |
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*coughcough*roids*coughcough*
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| Frayed Knot Dec 15 2006 02:08 PM |
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Jeff Bagwell made it offical today to no one's surprise seeing as how he hasn't been able to play for nearly 2 years now due to shoulder injuries.
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