Comment posted byDepon November 10, 2008 at 10:39 pm (#892367)
i just think we could use another RH OF bat besides Tatis and possibly Evans if he still here. We could use a little RH depth out there. Kearns might be a nice fit, perhaps. just a thought ;)
i need to grab some dinner! be good 71. i may return!
Comment posted byMetsFanSince71on November 10, 2008 at 10:43 pm (#892368)
Kearns is a righty yo
I know that. What I meant is he’s kind of a similar player to Church: great glove, their offense is all gravy.
Maybe Uggla could play LF? His offense there would be more than tolerable if they choose not to play him at second.
Comment posted by86Foreveron November 10, 2008 at 11:03 pm (#892370)
Just say no to Austin Kearns. I have the privilege and pleasure of watching him “play” 150 games or so a year here in the DC market. His swing has hole in it that Johnny Wad could fill, and his game jut disappears for long stretches. I vote no.
I’m 86 Forever, and I approved this message, Kearns is not the Change We Need.
Oh … and yo.
Comment posted byMetsFanSince71on November 10, 2008 at 11:07 pm (#892371)
Han, 86!!
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Uggla and Gregg are next to go, imho.
Hell, at this rate we might be wise to hold out for Lindstrom!
my fantasy team is going off…..yo.
team mom jeans is gonna be a force to reckon with…..
Comment posted byDepon November 10, 2008 at 11:49 pm (#892374)
and i’m the one stuck with all the rams! :( lol
Comment posted byConfusedon November 10, 2008 at 11:51 pm (#892375)
i play team mom next week. and your big 3 play sea.
in other news:
Jury orders NFL union to pay $28.1M to retirees
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Former NFL player Herb Adderley sits next to a wax copy of his bronze Hall of Fame bust in a room full of memorabilia of his playing days with the Green Bay Packers, at his home in Mantua, N.J., Oct. 2, 2008. A federal jury has ordered the NFL Players Association to pay $7.1 million to retired players after finding the union failed to properly market their images. The jury also says the players association should pay an additional punitive damages award and began deliberating on that issue Monday. The class action lawsuit represents 2,056 retirees, including Adderley, who contend the union cut them out of lucrative licensing deals.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A federal jury on Monday ordered the NFL Players Association to pay $28.1 million to retired players after finding the union failed to properly market their images.
The jury said the union owed the retirees $7.1 million in actual damages for failing to include them in lucrative marketing deals with Electronic Arts Inc., the maker of the popular “Madden NFL” video games, sporting card companies and other sponsorship agreements.
Hall of Fame cornerback Herb Adderley filed the lawsuit last year on behalf of 2,056 retired players who contend the union failed to actively pursue marketing deals on their behalf with video games, trading cards and others sports products.
The lawyers and judge still must decide how to divvy up the jury’s award, some of which will go to attorneys’ fees.
Adderley, 69, played cornerback for the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys and appeared in four of the first six Super Bowls. He appeared every day in court wearing his yellow “NFL Alumni” sports jacket and wept when the jury’s verdict was read.
“I won three Super Bowls and this feels better than all of them combined,” Adderley said immediately after the verdict was announced. “I always felt I had one big play left.”
Several retired players either testified during the trial or appeared in the court to lend support, including retired Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr, who attended the last day of testimony on Friday.
Richard Berthelsen, the union’s acting executive director, said outside court that the NFLPA would ask the trial judge, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, to toss out the verdict. If that fails, it intends to appeal.
“It’s an unjust verdict and we are confident it will be overturned,” union lawyer Jeffrey Kessler said.
Lawyers representing Adderley and the retired players told the jury during the three-week trial that the union actively sought to cut them out of licensing deals so active players could receive bigger royalty payments. As proof, the retirees pointed to a 2001 letter from an NFLPA executive telling Electronic Arts Inc. executives to scramble the images of retired players in the company’s popular Madden video game, otherwise the company would have to pay them.
EA’s Madden game contains 143 “vintage” teams populated with no-name players that closely resemble Adderley and other retirees. Yet only active players received a cut of the EA deal, the union’s largest, which surpassed $35 million for 2008.
Ronald Katz, a lawyer representing the retirees, told jurors that longtime union chief Gene Upshaw and other union leaders “betrayed the trust of their members” by neglecting the retired players, who pay $50 a year to keep their union membership. Upshaw died of cancer in August.
Kessler unsuccessfully urged the jury to award far less, arguing the union could suffer economic harm if it had to pay a large amount.
“It was the only sports union that tried to do retired players’ licensing deals,” Kessler said.
The union’s primary defense during trial was that EA, trading card companies such as Topps and Upper Deck and other companies paid licensing fees exclusively for active players.
But the retirees represented at trial all signed “group licensing agreements” that promised the union would do its best to market their images. The jury found otherwise.
“We felt we had to send a message that the union needs to represent and protect all its members,” said Susan Smith, part of the 10-person jury that voted unanimously in favor of the retirees. “We felt the players’ union didn’t do that.”
The jury’s verdict is the latest salvo in an increasingly rancorous relationship between the NFLPA and many retired players, who have complained that the union has forgotten what past players have contributed to building the NFL into a highly profitable industry that richly compensates owners and players alike.
if Jackson ever plays, he’s decent…no heart at all though….he’s a big pussy.
Comment posted byConfusedon November 10, 2008 at 11:55 pm (#892377)
Starbuck’s toaster of a husband is up to no good right here and now on present-day Earth.
Sources tell TVGuide.com exclusively that Michael Trucco (aka Battlestar Galactica’s Anders) has been cast in the Dec. 9 episode of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, playing a guy who is suspected of slipping women a drug that causes them to forget everything that happens to them — to the point that they don’t even realize they’re victims.
Appearing in the same episode will be Ryan Dunn (from Jackass) and Kelly Hu (X-Men 2).
Source: TVGuide.com
Comment posted byConfusedon November 10, 2008 at 11:58 pm (#892378)
sf being sf.
isnt that special?
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:03 am (#892379)
heroes is just ridiculous
fuck that show
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:05 am (#892380)
Trevor Hoffman, the all-time leaders in saves and the face of the San Diego franchise, will not return to the Padres for 2009. The team has withdrawn its contract offer for 2009 to Hoffman, who is eligible for free agency this fall.
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:07 am (#892381)
LOLLLLLLLL
what the hell is going on in this game
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:08 am (#892382)
the officials are a mess right now
what an embarrassment
Comment posted byMetsFanSince71on November 11, 2008 at 12:12 am (#892383)
the Padres are an embarrassment!!
offering your all-time saves leader only $4M??
WTF??
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:13 am (#892384)
the article had some hub-hub about payroll being slashed. it does look a bit bad for the padz. he stinks though imo, i pray omar stays far far away
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:14 am (#892385)
the real slap is withdrawing the offer! that’s pretty damn funny
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:14 am (#892386)
mine!
Comment posted byConfusedon November 11, 2008 at 12:19 am (#892387)
didnt sd just pick up giles 9 mil option when they could of dropped him for a lot less?
Comment posted byAthenaon November 11, 2008 at 12:24 am (#892388)
mine!
As usual, I was thinking, “what the hell is he talking about??” I never remember.
It never occurred to me that you could get that post at 11:14 pm. Quiet days at the geek.
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:28 am (#892389)
yea, there was a $3M buyout on giles. they probly did it cuz they didnt wanna spend $3M for nuttin’! they’re crazy right now. happy i’m not a padz fan
lol athena :)
Comment posted byConfusedon November 11, 2008 at 12:28 am (#892390)
i just thought he was correcting something.
ha ha.
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:33 am (#892391)
hahahaha, come onnnnn, i always say the same damn thing! mine!
i expect both of you to get it immediately next time
(there will be a quiz)
Comment posted byConfusedon November 11, 2008 at 12:36 am (#892392)
why did the jets sign law? did they need another db? will he be able to play thursday?
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:38 am (#892393)
The St. Louis Blues are responding to tight economic times with a fan bailout plan.
The team announced Monday that at every remaining Saturday home game beginning Nov. 29, the organization will call the seat number of a fan and pay that person’s mortgage or rent for four months, up to $4,000 total.
The team also is offering discounted tickets, with 500 plaza-level seats available for $25 a ticket and another 500 in the mezzanine for $11.20 a ticket for each game this season.
The team will also continue its Free Food game, where fans can receive some free food when they attend the March 15 game against Minnesota.
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Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:40 am (#892394)
why did the jets sign law? did they need another db? will he be able to play thursday?
they said he “could play”
i dont know, i’m not sure he’s healthy, he was pretty bad with the chiefs.
the jets actually could use some DB depth, guys like barrett and miller arent playing particularly well. TE’s are kinda killing the jets
we’ll see, i’m open minded to it, if he looks good it could be a good move
maybe mangini just wants to mess with the pats too lol
Comment posted byConfusedon November 11, 2008 at 12:40 am (#892395)
send that to coupons.
then again he may raise prices so he can pay his mortgage.
:)
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 12:41 am (#892396)
hahahahaha
Comment posted byAthenaon November 11, 2008 at 12:46 am (#892397)
i expect both of you to get it immediately next time
(there will be a quiz)
hahaha! I’ll try Dep. :-)
I’ll have to come up with some kind of code word to prove that I remembered!
Comment posted byAthenaon November 11, 2008 at 12:49 am (#892398)
Night, guys! I’m falling asleep!
Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 1:03 am (#892399)
g’nite athena!
Comment posted bySimonson November 11, 2008 at 1:14 am (#892402)
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Comment posted byDepon November 11, 2008 at 1:17 am (#892403)
i just think we could use another RH OF bat besides Tatis and possibly Evans if he still here. We could use a little RH depth out there. Kearns might be a nice fit, perhaps. just a thought ;)
i need to grab some dinner! be good 71. i may return!
I know that. What I meant is he’s kind of a similar player to Church: great glove, their offense is all gravy.
okay, Dep…later!
Maybe Uggla could play LF? His offense there would be more than tolerable if they choose not to play him at second.
Just say no to Austin Kearns. I have the privilege and pleasure of watching him “play” 150 games or so a year here in the DC market. His swing has hole in it that Johnny Wad could fill, and his game jut disappears for long stretches. I vote no.
I’m 86 Forever, and I approved this message, Kearns is not the Change We Need.
Oh … and yo.
Han, 86!!
—-
Uggla and Gregg are next to go, imho.
Hell, at this rate we might be wise to hold out for Lindstrom!
we need a 2 sacker, maybe we package the same deal as Holliday to Fla?
my fantasy team is going off…..yo.
team mom jeans is gonna be a force to reckon with…..
and i’m the one stuck with all the rams! :( lol
i play team mom next week. and your big 3 play sea.
in other news:
if Jackson ever plays, he’s decent…no heart at all though….he’s a big pussy.
sf being sf.
isnt that special?
heroes is just ridiculous
fuck that show
LOLLLLLLLL
what the hell is going on in this game
the officials are a mess right now
what an embarrassment
the Padres are an embarrassment!!
offering your all-time saves leader only $4M??
WTF??
the article had some hub-hub about payroll being slashed. it does look a bit bad for the padz. he stinks though imo, i pray omar stays far far away
here’s the article
the real slap is withdrawing the offer! that’s pretty damn funny
mine!
didnt sd just pick up giles 9 mil option when they could of dropped him for a lot less?
As usual, I was thinking, “what the hell is he talking about??” I never remember.
It never occurred to me that you could get that post at 11:14 pm. Quiet days at the geek.
yea, there was a $3M buyout on giles. they probly did it cuz they didnt wanna spend $3M for nuttin’! they’re crazy right now. happy i’m not a padz fan
lol athena :)
i just thought he was correcting something.
ha ha.
hahahaha, come onnnnn, i always say the same damn thing! mine!
i expect both of you to get it immediately next time
(there will be a quiz)
why did the jets sign law? did they need another db? will he be able to play thursday?
they said he “could play”
i dont know, i’m not sure he’s healthy, he was pretty bad with the chiefs.
the jets actually could use some DB depth, guys like barrett and miller arent playing particularly well. TE’s are kinda killing the jets
we’ll see, i’m open minded to it, if he looks good it could be a good move
maybe mangini just wants to mess with the pats too lol
send that to coupons.
then again he may raise prices so he can pay his mortgage.
:)
hahahahaha
hahaha! I’ll try Dep. :-)
I’ll have to come up with some kind of code word to prove that I remembered!
Night, guys! I’m falling asleep!
g’nite athena!
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stick to the firsts. ;)