Miami over Duke Nighty Cap
• Arbitration; def - in baseball even if you lose you win. This time Ryan Howard won and won big time.
Ryan Howard has won his salary arbitration hearing against the Phillies, a baseball source told The Inquirer this morning. He will make $10 million this season.The Phillies had offered $7 million.
• After declaring in no uncertain terms that he has never used any type of performance-enhancing drug, A-Rod said he had been tested "nine or 10 times" last season. OOPS.....
"My quote from earlier today was taken literally," Rodriguez said. "I was not tested nine or 10 times last year. I was just using exaggeration to make a point.
Perhaps he is also mistaken about opting out which only cost the Yankees over 20mm of the Rangers money. Or perhaps like we all always thought, the guy is just a dick.
• Moises Alou may play until he's 45 and when you play about 85 games a season I can see how that can happen. This guy is more fragile than Ryan Leaf's ego.
• Derek Jeter arrived at his 16th Yankees spring training yesterday labeled the worst shortstop in the majors by some statistical braniacs over at Penn.
"Maybe it was a computer glitch," the three-time Gold Glove winner said of the report.
• The Houston Astros signed right-hander Shawn Chacon to a one-year deal worth $2 million plus incentives, general manager Ed Wade announced on Wednesday. So let's review... bad pitcher in a hitters park.... over/under on ERA. Let's say about 5.73
• Detroit Tigers slugger Gary Sheffield calls his former agent a "bad person" and says Scott Boras is trying to get money he doesn't deserve. Sheff went on to say that Boras is also a doo-doo head.
• Miami beat Duke for the first time in 45 years.
Then again there was a 14 year period that Miami didn't even have a basketball team. So isn't it a little odd that once you are armed with that information the whole 45 year thing doesn't seem as impressive.