DAMN!  My wish didn’t come true that somehow he would blow a gasket from all the performance enhancing drugs he has ingested and never return to baseball again. 🙁

I have either been asleep at the wheel or I just haven’t been keeping up because I had no idea this team was up for sale. Time Warner is going to sell the Braves, some magazines, and a billion in cash to Liberty Media in exchange for about $60 million shares of Time Warner which are roughly worth $1.27 billion. No more Ted Turner at the games? No more Braves on TBS? Stay tuned and we will let you know if and when this deal closes.

Is exactly what the Philadelphia Phillies did with Chase Utley so they could avoid salary arbitration. Utley received a new seven-year agreement for a whopping $85 million. The Phillies not only feel Chase is the best second baseman in the National League, but also one of the top 10-15 players in all of Major League Baseball. Utley hit 32 home runs and had 102 RBI’s along with a batting average of .309 for the 2006 season. Utley is definitely getting a huge pay raise considering he was paid $500,000 last year.

The New York Daily News has reported Barry Bonds failed a drug test last year due to intake of amphetamines.  I can’t believe Barry Bonds and performance enhancing drugs are linked again.  Sadly enough this was the first the San Francisco Giants organization had heard of the news since the first drug test failure for amphetamines is not reported due to the MLB collective bargaining agreement.  I hope this ends the $16 million dollar one year agreement and more importantly Bonds career.  I can’t handle much more of this bull#$it drama.   

Word out of the Dominican Republic is Sammy Sosa feels great and thinks he might be able to play another three to four years in the Major League. Sosa is attempting a comeback and says teams are already contacting him for his services. I really hope when all is said and done that no one signs this hack and good riddance to you Sammy!

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The Toronto Blue Jays definitely believe Vernon Wells is one of the top talents in all of Major League Baseball and they are willing to pay the price. The Jays and Wells have agreed to a seven-year $126 million deal. It’s the sixth largest deal ever in MLB and $25.5 million is his signing bonus. I don’t know where Toronto finds the money to pay these deals when the Sky Dome seems to be vacant during home games, but they definitely pulled a rabbit out of their hat for this deal. I wish you luck Vernon because you have a 126 million reasons for fans to boo you if you don’t continue to produce.

After paying over $50 million just to talk with Daisuke Matsuzuka the Red Sox have been scrambling to sign the Japanese star pitcher. It appears Sox fans can take a sigh of relief because reportedly a deal has been struck for six years at $52 million. There are escalator clauses that could bring it up to $60 million. All in all Boston has paid $100 million for someone who has never pitched in a MLB game. I know this was a stressful few weeks trying to sign Matsuzuka, but I would even be more stressed that he will never be able to live up to the money spent on him.

Let me try and get this straight for all my peeps and more importantly myself. This jabroni has walked and talked like his shihite didn’t stink since he was part of the Killer Bees squad back in the days with the Pittsburgh Pirates. (reminder – he was a whopping 124 wet and wearing boots in the Steel City) He has been a menace to the media and basically a royal A-hole for his entire career, but even more so in recent years due to the recent steroids phenomenon. Bonds has been trying to defend his home run title and stature even though he has resembled Mr. Potato Head for many years.

Things seemed to have changed recently with Bond’s character because it appears not many teams want him on their squad this year. He is now personally down in Florida at the MLB winter meetings trying to pimp himself because transvestites with herpes are more wanted than his sorry A$$. It sure seems the Giants are the only team that will ultimately bring this cancer on as a player.  The reason they will torture themselves is because it’s the only way the Giants can fill their stadium in ’07. San Francisco is going to blow chunks so why not re-sign him so your fans can possibly watch Bonds break Hank Aaron’s home run record. I have only begun my Bonds tirades because I DO NOT want to watch him break the record. Stay tuned because this doesn’t even scratch the surface of my venom.

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