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MLB 2011 Part 1

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They put him on the "disqualified" list, suspending him without pay for 30 days.
 
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Folks, the ultimate draft stupidity story: Matt Harrington

2000 Major League Baseball Draft, first round with the 7th overall pick by the Rockies

A right-hander with a 95+ mph fastball, Harrington was considered one of the top pitching prospects in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft. He was selected by the Colorado Rockies with the 7th overall pick. However, Harrington and his agent Tommy Tanzer were never able to come to terms on a contract. Tanzer asked for a $4.95 million signing bonus, which was 25 percent more than what the previous year's No. 1 pick Josh Hamilton had received. The negotiations proved acrimonious, with Tanzer accusing the Rockies of backing out of an alleged pre-draft agreement to sign for his stated asking price, and the Rockies denying that such an agreement ever took place.

The Rockies' final offer was $4 million and a guaranteed major league callup by the end of 2002. Harrington turned down the deal, sat out the season and re-entered the draft in 2001. While Harrington and his parents publicly supported their agent at the time, they ultimately fired Tanzer and filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against him for giving bad advice. Tanzer was replaced with super-agent Scott Boras, who also proved unsuccessful getting Harrington signed.
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2004 Major League Baseball Draft, 36th round with the 1,089th overall pick by the Yankees

In 2004, he was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 36th round (1,089 overall). The Yankees did not offer him a contract.
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In a 2009 ESPN The Magazine article it was reported that Harrington is currently working for the local Costco store, in the tire department, making $11.50 per hour.
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How sad a person Pete Rose has become. Today at a sports memorabilia shop in Mandalay Bay one of the employees was hawking people to come in and meet Pete and get his autograph. If only he hadn't bet on baseball......
 
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MattS said:
How sad a person Pete Rose has become. Today at a sports memorabilia shop in Mandalay Bay one of the employees was hawking people to come in and meet Pete and get his autograph. If only he hadn't bet on baseball......
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And I'm pleased by that story too. He knew the rules. * him.
 
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This. It's not just that he bet on baseball. It's that he bet on his own team, while he was the manager. If he had bet on a bunch of Padres and Mets games, he would have been out 1 year, and that would have been that. He knew the rules, there was plenty of precedence for the punishment, and he chose to willingly violate those rules. Now he has to deal with the consequences.
 
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This forum needs to implement stats.

Most important one would be VARP. Value Above Replacement Poster.
Reputation is clearly not a good indicator, so this new stat would really make it easy to tell the value of posts and threads before committing to reading them.
 
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MattS said:
How sad a person Pete Rose has become. Today at a sports memorabilia shop in Mandalay Bay one of the employees was hawking people to come in and meet Pete and get his autograph. If only he hadn't bet on baseball......
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that happens all the time in the forum shops that is part of caesar's. he is there every couple weeks.
 
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Hammer said:
This. It's not just that he bet on baseball. It's that he bet on his own team, while he was the manager. If he had bet on a bunch of Padres and Mets games, he would have been out 1 year, and that would have been that. He knew the rules, there was plenty of precedence for the punishment, and he chose to willingly violate those rules. Now he has to deal with the consequences.
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Being one of the world's worst douchenozzles didn't help him any either.
 
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MountieBoyOz said:
I wonder how many Red Sox fans will insist that Derek Jeter is gay since him and Minka Kelly broke up. :D
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Dude, his top 10 list is amazing. The fact that he even HAS a top 10 list is amazing. He's dated about 15 of the Maxim 100. When the list of chicks you've kicked to the curb includes Miss Universe, your Man Card is one of those Black AMEX cards and can never be revoked. Do yourself a favor and check out the results of an image search at Google.
 
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Priceless said:
Dude, his top 10 list is amazing. The fact that he even HAS a top 10 list is amazing. He's dated about 15 of the Maxim 100. When the list of chicks you've kicked to the curb includes Miss Universe, your Man Card is one of those Black AMEX cards and can never be revoked. Do yourself a favor and check out the results of an image search at Google.
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I don't doubt his credentials at all. I was just taking a stab and how myopic and dumb a good chunk of Red Sox fans are. I'm not a Yanks fan at all, but I can give him the respect he has earned.
 
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I don't doubt his credentials at all. I was just taking a stab and how myopic and dumb a good chunk of Red Sox fans are. I'm not a Yanks fan at all, but I can give him the respect he has earned.
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I give him man-respect, but I still hate him. ;)
 
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MountieBoyOz said:
I don't doubt his credentials at all. I was just taking a stab and how myopic and dumb a good chunk of Red Sox fans are. I'm not a Yanks fan at all, but I can give him the respect he has earned.
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None of whom post here so comments like that are unnecessary.
 
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