Once again, we have a story to put into the annals of athletes who piss and moan about being underpaid to play a game.
Let's see Cole Hamels has pitched wonderfully for a season and a half. Ok great. Let's give him $120 million for 7 years for his performance over the past year and a half.
Not so fast. Baseball players agreed to a system where they have to earn their stripes and go through some lean years and get to salary arbitration. And, then after accruing enough service time they can become free agents.
They agreed to this. And, yet they bitch when they don't get paid ridiculous globs of money after just a season and a half like in Hamels' case.
Cole Hamels needs to just shut the hell up and pitch. Talk to me when you do it for four years and the Phillies are still giving you a hard time. Then, you'll have reason to complain.
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Eagles hard after Fitzgerald
G Cobb is sticking to his guns and says the Eagles are in hot pursuit of Larry Fitzgerald. He said they had a deal all but worked out, but the Cards' asking price was too high.
The Eagles aren't giving up though.
The deal is said to include Lito and their first round pick. Fitz will be the object of the Eagles' affection. They likely won't touch Randy Moss or Chad Johnson since both have character questions, especially Johnson who is threatening to sit out the entire season if he's not traded.
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Six teams are after Lito
The Texans, Saints, Bucs, Browns, Rams, and Jets are all said to be in pursuit of Lito Sheppard according to profootballtalk.com. Of course, this could be Lito's agent just putting this out there to stir up some interest. It's not quite as ugly as Daunte Culpepper's agent stating that teams want to reunite him with Randy Moss (like anybody wants Culpepper anymore) but it's an agent's job to drum up interest.
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Sixers heating it up
Ok, I'm officially off the tank it bandwagon. For one it would be impossible for the Sixers to get a decent lotto pick even if they lost the rest of their games.
Screw it, I'm going to root for this team. And, how can you not? Andre Miller is leading a group of youngsters seemingly into the postseason.
And, they just beat my second favorite team, the Suns on the road on Saturday night to get to 26-33.
Who would've thought? After getting blown out by Golden State on Friday night and heading to Phoenix on a back to back, I was shocked to see them win.
Good win for the Sixers who won their first game in Phoenix in SIX years. They head to LA tonight to play the Clippers.
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