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I'm a bit bored, and the Yankee pitching staff offers so much ammo...
Moose and Randy and whoever's handy;
Randy and Moose and a couple of buckaroos;
Johnson and Wang and what went wrong?;
Johnson and Leiter and pull two all-nighters;
Pavano and Nomo and say it ain't so, Joe!;

As for the Mets...
Ishii and Glavine and pray to the divine

T.O.

So... Terrell Owens has decided that he doesn't need to honor the contract he signed in good faith, and he'll be "unhappy" in training camp if his contract isn't renegotiated.

The man is earning seven million dollars a year. If he doesn't want that money, give it to me. I certainly could find a few uses for it.

I hope the Eagles stick to their guns and don't renegotiate with him. Did he really expect that he would continue to be the highest-paid reciever every year of his contract? I'm sure he gave his all, but that's what he's supposed to do. I only got a 2.5% raise the last time I had a pay raise. But then again, I wasn't earning seven million dollars a year. In layman wages, T.O. earns $3846/hour. And he feels disrespected? Shut up and go away.

And, if he's a disruptive presence in training camp, I hope he gets sent home a la Meshawn Johnson. Or, better yet, don't give him the back pages he loves. Don't show him on Sportscenter. Maybe then he'll shut up and realize that in the real world, no one walks away from seven million dollars just because someone else is earning eight million.

Harry Potter

For all those who think that this is the kind of book that corrupts children and raises anti-Christian themes... Can't a book just BE a book? If you've raised your children the way you believe is correct, one book (or a series of books) is not going to undo all that hard work.

I didn't feel tempted to use drugs because Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry did. I didn't aspire to become a married man swinging an axe because I read The Shining. Hearing about the sexual escapades of the Who didn't encourage me to become a promiscious male slut... well, OK, it was tempting, but I didn't have the talent to smash a guitar or blow up a drum set. My parents didn't say anything when I brought home The Omen or Rosemary's Baby, trusting that they raised me well enough that I wasn't becoming the Antichrist or Satan's minion.

A story about a kid wizard, however you twist it, cannot influence your children down the wrong path unless the seeds of that path are already planted. If you're that concerned, read it with your child. Family time together is more influential on children than any book, TV/movie actor, or athlete.

Yankees

You know your team is bad when you trade for the close-to, if not-already, washed-up Al Leiter. What's next, grabbing Hideo Nomo off the scrap heap? Seeing if Brien Taylor is finally healthy?

Old-timers will remember the Boston/Milwaukee Braves' chant of "Spahn and Sain and two days of rain". Last year, I said that the Red Sox' playoff hopes rested on "Martinez and Schilling and God willing". Now, the Yankees’ rest on “Moose and Randy and whoever’s handy”. Or “Randy and Moose and a couple buckaroos”.

Beltran

Carlos Beltran. Carlos Beltran.
Is he a great player? Definitely. The kind of player who deserved the $119 million dollar contract he got? Eh.
What would someone like Mickey Mantle be earning these days?

hmm

What does it take to find a job around town? Two full years and parts of three others seraching, and a grand total of... maybe six or seven interviews.
If I was the paranoid type, I would think that my ex-employee has me on a blacklist. Not being the paranoid type, however, it's probably likely that I'm just running into some very stiff competition.
Perhaps it's time to branch out, see if there's options out of state.