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Roster Transaction

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  • The following players signed to 1 year
    contracts: P Juan Dominguez, P Kameron Loe, 2B Jason Bourgeois
  • P R.A. Dickey signed to a 1 year contract [

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  • OF Patrick Boyd released

Thurman Clyde Greer III is no more

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In a bit of news that nobody seemed surprised at, Rusty Greer officially retired this weekend. I think it was a longshot for anyone to actually offer him a position where he could make it onto the field, although I would like to have seen him do it.
He says he wants to spend more time with his family, which I full well understand. What surprises me about this is he also turned down the front office thing, saying he wants to be “just retired” for the time being.
I’m sure there will be a “Rusty Greer Day” at some point this season where he’s honored. Would also be nice if they retire #29, but I doubt they’ll do that. :)

Roster Transaction

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  • OF Rusty Greer announced retirement [

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  • OF Chris Richard signed to a 1 year minor
    league contract [

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  • P Frank Francisco, Agustin Montero, & Nick
    Regilio all signed to 1 year contracts [

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Ugueth Urbina’s Mother Found

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In a story I’ve been following for awhile, it appears that former Ranger closer Ugueth Urbina’s mother has been found alive. Late last season, the current Tiger reliever’s mother was kidnapped and held for ransom. This happened early last September, and has been ongoing till now. Ugueth understandibly had to leave the Tigers to deal with this, and I really had thought a few times she was dead. Fortunately, the story says she’s alive, which is very good news. I’m glad for all of them that there was a good resolution to this story.
What bothers me most about this is the fact that it probably could quite easily happen again to others in countries that are so poor, kidnap the rich guy’s family and demand money. Think about it.
Here’s the full story regarding Urbina’s mom being found:

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My Fantasy Baseball League is Online!

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My first league has filled up. I started a second one, details on that one are at the bottom of this story.
My annual free Yahoo Fantasy baseball league is online. As in years past, I’ve asked folks from my site to come and play. If you’re interested, I’d love to have you, but please don’t join if you don’t want to stay the entire season. There’s nothing more fun than people who sign up and then are inactive.
We will be conducting a live draft again, and the date I’ve set is Friday March 11th at 8PM Central Time. I would have picked earlier, but my wife and I have family in for our baby shower the weekend before that. If too many people object, I’ll look at another time, but with this starting so late, there will likely not be a lot of slots available for drafts.
If you’re interested in joining the second league, here’s the info:
Fantasy URL: http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1
League ID: 53220
Password: cansecoroids
BTW, if you joined either of the leagues, please post something in the msg area of the fantasy league telling people who you are. In the first league I’m “Steroids Good!” (which I’ll explain later, it’s a joke), and in the second I’m “The Blalock Bunch”.

Roster Transaction

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  • P Erasmo Ramirez signed to a 1 year contract
  • P Nick Masset signed to a 1 year minor league
    contract

Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Lives

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I just read tonight where Yahoo Fantasy Baseball lives! There’d normally be thousands of leagues drafted and many ready to go, but due to MLB.com’s attempt to make itself the center of all fantasy baseball (or so it seemed), the Yahoo fantasy baseball site looked closed. Indeed, until today, the message “The 2004 season is over, thanks for playing” was there. However, tonight, I read this:
Registration for the 2005 season will begin shortly after midnight (ET) on Thursday, February 17.
Yay! My Fantasy League lives on. As regular visitors of my site know, I’ve had a league I’ve done for the last 4 or 5 years or so, this means I’ll set something up on Thursday, so we can have a live draft for my league as usual. Hopefully those who sign up will stick around for the whole season (Hi Owen!). Anyway, I’ll have more details on this at the end of the week.

Washington Nationals Spring Training

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The Washington Nationals opened camp this morning, and I read a Yahoo news story about their first day. It had the things you’d expect like “it’s nice to have a new home”, how Frank Robinson will still have a hard time as manager, etc, etc, etc.. However, one line from this really stuck out for me. It was this..
The Nationals logo appears throughout the stadium, although the word “Expos” still appears on a couple of signs and the seats remain teal from the facility’s days as the Florida Marlins’ spring home.
They still can’t get by the schizophrenic nature of their existance for the last few years, eh? Nationals logos, Expos logos and equipment bags, and teal seats from the Marlins days of the stadium. Pretty amusing. :)

Roster Transaction

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  • 1B Adrian Gonzalez signed to a 1 year contract
    ($316,000 if majors, $76,000 if minors)
  • C Gerald Laird signed to a 1 year contract
    ($325,000 if majors, $240,000 if minors)