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The suspended slugger agreed on a minor-league contract Monday with the Athletics that is worth approximately $500,000 if he is added to the major-league roster.
A’s officials announced the deal and said Ramirez is expected to report to spring training by the end of the week, in time for Oakland’s first full-squad workout Saturday. He is a nonroster invitee.
The 12-time All-Star must serve a 50-game suspension for his second positive drug test before he can play for Oakland. Barring rainouts, his first game could be May 30 — his 40th birthday.
The waiting game didn’t deter general manager Billy Beane and the Athletics.
“I am very pleased Billy was able to add Manny to our team,” owner Lew Wolff said in an email. “I look forward to welcoming him and the entire team that Billy and his people have assembled for the coming season.”
Oakland ranked 12th of 14 American League teams in runs last year.
Ramirez hasn’t played since April, when he abruptly retired after playing five games for the Tampa Bay Rays. He tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, then gained reinstatement in January when his 100-game suspension was reduced to 50 games.
For the small-budget A’s, Ramirez presents little financial risk. They don’t have to pay him during his suspension and will give him per-diem money during the team’s spring-training stint in Phoenix, which is shorter than usual because of two season-opening games in Tokyo next month against the Mariners.
Ramirez ranks 14th on the career list with 555 home runs. He went 1 for 17 (.059) last season for Tampa Bay, which had signed him to a one-year deal worth $2.02 million.
After all what him and Whitney have been through, you would have thought at her funeral, he could have shown more respect. The invitation stated Bobbie Brown plus 2 period. He enters the funeral with an entourage of 9 folks. Ok no sitting available for his group, hince can your read, invitatiion stated clearly you plus 2. And you wonder why the family is being so protected of their daughter Bobbie Kris.
Needless to say, the family has had a toxic relationship with Bobbie, because of Whitney. Let’s not forget both of them are grown, and know right from wrong. Understood since Bobbie and Whitney’s divorce he now has another child with unknown woman. Damn does that make 6 kids, and how many baby Mama’s? Bobbie this is your opportunity while out on tour, to reflect, digest, make amends for your past behavior, and move forward now. Stop the b.s. you have been spitting out lately, and be the person you can be when your not wearing your “EGO” loud and clear.
Now is the time for you to try and be a Father to Bobbie Kris if the family allows you. You have enough children to start thinking reality time, be a father, and support all. Whitney is not here to pick up your child support payments (feel me). Evidently God has given you yet another chance to correct past mistakes, I suggest you stop and think, and grow the hell up, and man up!
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Markets have risen on hopes that Greece will finally secure a massive but long-delayed international bailout, allowing the debt-crippled country to avoid defaulting on its debts next month.
A surprise easing in monetary policy in China over the weekend also added to the buoyant mood in markets on Monday – many stock indexes are trading at multi-month highs, while the euro has recovered its poise.
The main focus of attention – on a day when Wall Street is shut for a public holiday – will be Brussels, where the finance ministers from the 17 euro zone countries are gathering to discuss the elusive Greek bailout deal.
After some euro zone countries suggested last week that they might prefer Greece to default, the latest comments indicate the ministers will approve the 130-billion-euro ($A160 billion) bailout.
Greece has struggled to convince its partners in the euro zone, particularly Germany, that it will enact the austerity and reform measures in return for the cash.
As the finance ministers arrived for the meeting, which may last until well into the night, they appeared ready to back the deal.
“I am of the opinion that today we have to deliver, because we don’t have any more time,” Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg who also chairs the meetings of euro zone finance ministers, said as he arrived in Brussels.
Alongside the bailout, Greece is expected to conclude debt-reduction discussions with its private creditors. That should slice off about 100 billion euros from Greece’s debt mountain. Even after that, Greece will have the highest debt burden of all the euro countries.
In the US, today is a day for remembering our many Presidents who have come before but, in between those sincere thoughts of Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge, take a moment to ponder the great feats of John Glenn. On this day 50 years ago a Real American Hero blasted off into space, Glenn becoming the first American to achieve orbit. In just under five hours he rocketed away from Kennedy Space Center, made three trips around the globe and then splashed down again in the Atlantic. Of course, there’s a lot more to the story than that, and so NASA has created a 25 minute documentary about the trip, embedded for you below. Need more? Head on through to the source link for galleries, infographics and even 3D clickable models of the Friendship 7 spacecraft — all available to you without reaching escape velocity.
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An ESPN writer got a little out of hand and too comfortable with his job and posted a headline with an ethnic slur.
The writer wrote the headline “Chink in the Armor” referencing the New York Knicks’ loss Friday night against the New Orleans Hornets.
The verbiage was only up for a little over a half-hour before being taken down, but the damage was done and warranted the network issuing an apology.
But that’s not the end of the racial madness.
The network apology also included a “sorry” for ESPN anchor Max Bretos’s comment on Wednesday night.
He stated, “If there is a chink in the armor, where can Lin improve his game?’”
This marked the third incident about Lin the network let slip.
The statement reads:
“At ESPN we are aware of three offensive and inappropriate comments made on ESPN outlets during our coverage of Jeremy Lin. Saturday we apologized for two references here. We have since learned of a similar reference Friday on ESPN Radio New York. The incidents were separate and different. We have engaged in a thorough review of all three and have taken the following action:
- The ESPN employee responsible for our Mobile headline has been dismissed.
- The ESPNEWS anchor has been suspended for 30 days.
- The radio commentator is not an ESPN employee.
We again apologize, especially to Mr. Lin. His accomplishments are a source of great pride to the Asian-American community, including the Asian-American employees at ESPN. Through self-examination, improved editorial practices and controls, and response to constructive criticism, we will be better in the future.”
However, the statement did not address whether the headline went through an editing process and if so, whether the editor was disciplined.
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz told Journal-isms by email: “Not going beyond our public comment.”
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“Nobody loved the game of baseball more than Gary Carter. Nobody enjoyed playing the game of baseball more than Gary Carter. He wore his heart on his sleeve every inning he played. For a catcher to play with that intensity in every game is special.”
— Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver
“The one thing I remember about Gary was his smile. He loved life and loved to play the game of baseball.”
— Former Mets teammate Mookie Wilson
“His nickname ‘The Kid’ captured how Gary approached life. He did everything with enthusiasm and with gusto on and off the field. His smile was infectious. He guided our young pitching staff to the World Series title in 1986 and he devoted an equal amount of time and energy raising awareness for a multitude of charities and community causes. He was a Hall of Famer in everything he did.”
“The one thing Gary stressed to us was team. He said individual goals were meaningless. He said the name on the front of the uniform was more important than the name on the back. That’s what I’ll take from my two years with him.”
— Mets pitcher Jonathon Niese, who played under Carter for two years in the minors
“I am so sad. The Kid has left us. I started calling him Kid the first time I met him. He was admired and loved.”
— Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench
“We both grew up in Southern Cal, though he was 3-to-4 years younger than I was. He was a great ballplayer and a tremendous family man, and I’ll miss him.”
— Hall of Fame pitcher Bert Blyleven
“We had a lot in common, from family to our profession. He endured a lot as a catcher, as did I. And making it to the Hall of Fame was over the top for Gary, as it has been for me. We knew each other for more than 30 years, he meant a lot to me. I’m crushed by his passing.”
— Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk
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Anthony Shadid, a newspaper correspondent whose dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack, on Thursday while on a reporting assignment in eastern Syria.
Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer who was with Mr. Shadid, carried his body across the border to Turkey.
Mr. Shadid, 43, had been reporting inside Syria for a week, gathering information on the Free Syrian Army and other armed elements of the resistance to the government of President Bashar Assad.
The Syrian government, which tightly controls foreign journalists’ activities in the country, had not been informed of his assignment by The Times.
The exact circumstances of Mr. Shadid’s death and his precise location inside Syria when it happened were not immediately clear.
But Hicks said that Mr. Shadid, who had asthma and had carried medication with him, began to show symptoms as both were preparing to leave Syria on Thursday, and the symptoms escalated into what became a fatal attack.
Hicks said he administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation for 30 minutes but was unable to revive Mr. Shadid.
Hicks telephoned his editors at The Times, and a few hours later he was able to take Mr. Shadid’s body into Turkey.
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A pair of talk radio hosts in Los Angeles have been yanked off the air temporarily for making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston.
Effective immediately, KFI AM 640 hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou have been suspended after calling the late singer a “crack ho” and saying she was “cracked out for 20 years,” according to audio posted online at UrbanInformer.com.
KFI AM 640 management says it does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind.
John Kobylt said, “We made a mistake, and we accept the station’s decision. We used language that was inappropriate, and we sincerely apologize to our listeners and to the family of Ms. Houston.”
John and Ken, who often rail against taxes and illegal immigration, will return to the air Monday, Feb. 27.
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WASHINGTON — As he remains stuck in a four-way race for the Republican presidential nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s financial advantage is beginning to erode. His campaign raised only $6.4 million in the month of January, one of his worst fundraising months of his entire 2012 campaign. By comparison, in January 2008, during Romney’s first unsuccessful presidential bid, he raised $9.6 million.
Romney may have a bigger problem on his hands than disappointing fundraising totals. His campaign burned through $18.7 million in January, only to win primaries in New Hampshire and Florida. Romney’s losing streak continued into February, as he weathered three losses to the surging Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.
Romney’s fundraising and burn rate should both be causes for concern for his campaign. While small donors accounted for 18 percent of his January total, the highest percentage during his entire campaign so far, he is still relying heavily on donors who are maxing out their contributions. Fifty percent of his January contributions came from donors giving $2,500 or more.
With a long road ahead in the Republican primary race and thousands of donors already maxing out, Romney will need to expand his fundraising base — otherwise he will be forced to dip into his personal fortune, as he did in 2008. The fact that Romney has faced the same problem during both his presidential campaigns suggests that his record has made him unpopular with grassroots conservative donors.
The biggest cause of the campaign’s high burn rate was television advertising. The campaign spent $8.4 million on ads in January, the majority of which it spent in Florida, where Romney was able to come from behind in the polls to pull off a victory.
None of the other Republican candidates came close to spending as much as the Romney campaign in January, yet two of them — Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — bested him in important contests during that month. Both candidates also came close to raising the same amount as Romney did.
Gingrich raised $5.5 million and Santorum pulled in $4.5 million in January. Both of these amounts made for the best fundraising months for both candidates. Santorum’s January haul was more than the total amount he had previously raised during his campaign. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who has yet to win a contest, continued to raise money at about the same pace that he did in 2011 netting $4.5 million.
Gingrich and Santorum were both able to appeal to the grassroots conservatives who haven’t been giving to Romney. Santorum raised 57 percent of his total from donors giving under $200, and Gingrich raised 46 percent of his total from those donors.
While Romney’s January fundraising totals were disappointing, he continues to receive support from his allied super PAC, which is able to tap into his maxed out donors to procure additional funding for his campaign. The group, called Restore Our Future, out-raised Romney’s campaign in January, pulling in $6.6 million. The group spent $13.9 million, almost entirely on television ads.
Romney also maintained a cash on hand advantage over his competition. He had $7.6 million in the bank at the end of January, while the other three candidates all had slightly more than $1 million on hand.
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