MLB 2013 Season

Rangers, Ramirez agree to minor league contract

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Manny Ramirez is apparently cutting his long dreadlocks for another shot at the major leagues.

The Texas Rangers said Wednesday they had agreed to terms on a minor league contract with the 41-year-old slugger, who hasn't played in the big leagues since 2011 with Tampa Bay.

Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said part of the deal was Ramirez, twice suspended for testing positive for banned drugs, agreeing to cut his hair and ''comply with our minor league rules on appearance and discipline.''

Ramirez was set to report to Triple-A Round Rock on Thursday, and he will be a designated hitter whenever he is activated. He played for three months in Taiwan before leaving the Rhinos on June 20.
Ramirez hit .352 with eight homers and 43 RBIs for the Rhinos. The team tried to keep the 12-time All-Star, but he wanted to return to his family in New York.
 
Reds won their 3rd in a row against the Giants. Surprised they are playing this good, guess home cooking is always good.
 
Reds won their 3rd in a row against the Giants. Surprised they are playing this good, guess home cooking is always good.
Is it a case of them playing that good or the Giants playing that bad? Remember that the Giants have lost something like their last 5 series and have dropped from 2nd to last and from well over .500 to under .500 in just 2 weeks.
 
Move over Rogers Hornsby. Stand aside, Paul Waner. Take a back seat, Ted Williams. This from ESPN.com:

After the Red Sox win over the Padres on Thursday, Jose Iglesias (2-4) is batting .411 on the season. Iglesias has had an at-bat in 41 games this season - and at the end of each of those games, his batting average has been over .400. That's the 3rd-longest such streak in MLB since 1925.
 
Mets lose to the Diamondbacks 5 to 4 in 15 innings. Mets/D-Backs split the 4 game series.

They played 16 hrs. 40 min. of baseball
3 hrs. and 40 min. of rain delays.
46 innings this week.

Wow. Even though I wish the Mets were in first place or going to make the playoffs, that's a tough stretch and quite frankly, there are no losers when it comes to a series like this.
 
I didn't put it up because I thought it was an amazing catch; I put it up to show how he got injured.

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Torii Hunter ran into the wall the other night hard enough that he did a flip before he was able to get up, it was amazing, I'm surprised he was able to get up, it was hard.
 
Wouldn't you know it. The Dodgers had a meeting with all 4 outfielder to determine how they are all going to play. The first day Crawford comes back from the DL, Kemp reinjures his surgically repaired shoulder on a swing and had to be taken out if the game.

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This very touching...

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ANGEL:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/...-child-for-late-teammate-nick-adenhart-070513


[h=3]ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)[/h] Los Angeles Angels pitcher Jered Weaver has become a first-time father, naming his son in tribute to late teammate and friend Nick Adenhart.
The team said Friday that Aden David Weaver was born earlier in the day to Weaver and his wife, Kristin. The baby weighs 8 pounds.
Weaver has paid tribute to Adenhart ever since the young pitcher was killed by a drunken driver after a game in 2009. He scrawls the initials ''NA'' into the dirt on the mound for each of his starts.
Adenhart was 22 when he died just hours after pitching six scoreless innings in his season debut for the Angels. Two of his friends also died in the April 9, 2009, collision in Fullerton, and another passenger was severely injured.
Construction worker Andrew Gallo is serving 51 years to life in prison for causing the crash.
 
This very touching...

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ANGEL:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/...-child-for-late-teammate-nick-adenhart-070513


ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)

Los Angeles Angels pitcher Jered Weaver has become a first-time father, naming his son in tribute to late teammate and friend Nick Adenhart.
The team said Friday that Aden David Weaver was born earlier in the day to Weaver and his wife, Kristin. The baby weighs 8 pounds.
Weaver has paid tribute to Adenhart ever since the young pitcher was killed by a drunken driver after a game in 2009. He scrawls the initials ''NA'' into the dirt on the mound for each of his starts.
Adenhart was 22 when he died just hours after pitching six scoreless innings in his season debut for the Angels. Two of his friends also died in the April 9, 2009, collision in Fullerton, and another passenger was severely injured.
Construction worker Andrew Gallo is serving 51 years to life in prison for causing the crash.

Truly Awesome!! Jered Weaver is proof that there's still classy and compassionate athletes out there!
 

Oklahoma State basketball legend Bob Kurland dies at 88

L.C. Greenwood RIP

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