The final rosters do not have to be finalized until Sunday afternoon, but looking at what we know today, here’s how I see it in the NL West: Pos Giants Rockies Padres Dodgers D-Backs C Molina Ianetta Hundley Martin Montero 1B Huff Helton Gonzalez Loney LaRoche 2B Uribe Barmes Eckstein DeWitt Johnson SS Renteria Tolowitzki Cabrera Furcal Drew 3B Sandoval Stewart Headley Blake Reynolds LF DeRosa Gonzalez Blanks Ramirez Jackson CF Rowand Fowler Gwynn Jr Kemp Young RF Schierholtz Hawpe Venable Ethier Upton OF Bowker Smith Hairston Johnson Parra OF Lewis Spilboroghs Stairs Anderson Macias IF Ishikawa Mora Hairston Jr. Amezaga Abreu IF Veliz Giambi Salazar Belliard Roberts C Whiteside Olivo Torrealba Ausmus Snyder SP Lincecum Jimenez Garland Padilla Haren SP Cain Francis Young Kershaw Jackson SP Zito Cook Correia Billingsly Kennedy SP Sanchez de la Rosa Richard Kuroda Lopez SP Wellemeyer Hammel Latos Haeger Benson RP Wilson Morales Bell Broxton Qualls RP Affeldt Bentacourt Adams Sherill Howry RP Romo Corpas Gregerson Troncoso Gutierrez RP Pucetas Flores Gallagher Ortiz Zavada RP Medders Belisile Mujica Weaver Heilman RP Runzler Smith Stauffer Miller Boyer 25th Rohlinger Dayley Russell Carroll Bailey Giants : Peguero, Ford, Escobar, Cameron, Martinez, Posey, Buress, Sanchez, Torres Rockies : Redding, Beimel, Street, Buchholz, Spier, LoDuca, Eldred, Phelps, Escobar, Hererra, Reynolds Padres : Denorfia, LeBlanc, Antonelli, Cunningham, Durango,Thatcher, Barfield, Munson, Geer, Inman, Poreda Dodgers : Ortiz, Wade, Monasterios, Ayala, Towers, Kuo, Hu, Ellis, Green, Barton, Paul, Belisario D-Backs : Webb, Vazquez, Kroenke, Rosales, Noberto, Ojeda, Ryal, Hester, Mulvey, Buckner, Allen, Gillespie, Augenstein,
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Projected NL West 25 Man Rosters
The final rosters do not have to be finalized until Sunday afternoon, but looking at what we know today, here’s how I see it in the NL East: Pos Mets Marlins Braves Nats Phils C Barajas Baker McCann Rodriguez Ruiz 1B Jacobs Sanchez Glaus Dunn Howard 2B Castillo Uggla Prado Kennedy Utley SS Cora Ramirez Escobar Desmond Rollins 3B Wright Cantu Jones Zimmerman Polanco LF Bay Coughlin Cabrera Willingham Ibanez CF Pagan Maybin McLouth Morgan Victorino RF Francoeur Ross Heyward Harris Werth OF Catalanotto Carroll Diaz Bernadina Fransisco OF Matthews Jr. Bonofacio Hinske Morse Gload IF Carter Helms Infante Gonzalez Dobbs IF Tatis Lamb Thurston Guzman Castro C Blanco Paulino Ross Nieves Schneider SP Santana Johnson Hudson Lannan Halladay SP Pelfrey Nolasco Lowe Marquis Hamels SP Maine Sanchez Jurrjens Stammen Happ SP Perez Volstad Hanson Hernandez Kendrick SP Niese Robertson Kawakami Mock Moyer RP Rodriguez Nunez Wagner Capps Madson RP Igarashi Sanchez Moylan Olsen Baez RP Feliciano Meyer Saito Bruney Zagurski RP Mejia Veres Medlin Clippard Durbin RP Calero Hensley Reyes Burnett Bastardo RP Figueroa Pinto Chavez Bergmann Lopez 25th Adams Barden Conrad Batista Ransom Mets : Beltran, Reyes, Takahashi, Nieve, Tejada, Santos, Escobar, Murphy, Parnell, Green, Dessens, Muniz Braves : Freeman, Hicks, Sammons, Boscan, Schafer, Young, Proctor, Venters, O’Flaherty Marlins : Badenhop, Richar, Davis, Luna, Murphy Nats : English, Martis, James, Walker, Spier, Orr, Coste, Taveras, Maxwell, McDougal, Wang, Detwiller, Duncan, Bruntlett, Flores Phillies : Blanton, Lidge, Romero, Valdez, Guzman, Hoover, Brown, Wise
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Projected NL East 25 Man Rosters
I think everyone knows it is just a matter of time before all texting and driving is outlawed across the U.S. Florida is examining a law to ban the practice as have many other states who issue traffic citations to distracted drivers .
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Texting And Driving Ban For Interstate Bus And Truck Drivers Proposed In Washington
There is a long list of reasons to fight your Florida traffic tickets rather than just pay them and suffer the consequences that come with the points. One big reason is the higher insurance rates that come along with points on your license .
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Orlando Traffic Tickets Could Take Longer To Pay. Just Another Reason To Fight Them!
Miami Heat forward Dorell Wright was suspended two games earlier this month after he was arrested for DUI in Miami. He also was driving with a suspended license . Now there is more bad press for the NBA player as a nude photo of him has surfaced on the Internet and been forwarded around via Twitter
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DUI Charges First, Explicit Photos Next For Miami Heat’s Dorell Wright
There is not a single way to prepare for a NL or AL only keeper league draft. In these type of leagues, its important to get a good read of who came over from the other league in the off season, and figure out how their skills will do in the new league. As, they go directly to the new player pool that will be available for bidding on in the draft. Each owner in evaluating the players coming over to a new league should consider : the ball park the player is coming from/to the playing time the player may receive with the new team with pitchers coming from AL to NL, the lack of DH in NL suggests better results The list goes on, but lets take a look at the movement with the NL teams this off season.
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NL Arrivals For 2010
According to mysuncoast.com, a 19-year-old Lee County driver has been charged with drunk driving following an incident in Bonita Springs in which he allegedly rear-ended a bus at a railroad crossing. Lee County Sheriffs report Corey David Craft not only ran into the back of the bus he continued to accelerate until he wedged his car under the back of the bus. Deputies arrived on the scene and started to give Craft field sobriety tests before determining the teen was unable to stand and stopping those exercises.
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DUI Charges In Bonita Springs Filed Against Teenager Who Hits A Bus
There were 10 Pinellas County seat belt violation citations issued Thursday in a one-day seatbelt enforcement detail. On top of the 10 Pinellas traffic tickets that deputies issued there was a criminal citation issued for possession of a controlled substance and a notice to appear for the same violation
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Seat Belt Violations In Pinellas Reach Double Digits In One Day Operation
Jesse Perez didn’t remember much of his drive on U.S. 19 early Thursday morning according to police reports. The 50-year-old apparently had no recollection that he almost hit a police car or hit the median a couple times
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Xanax, Marijuana And Alcohol Not A Good Mix For New Port Richey Driver
According to prosecutors, Candy Cummings get a great deal when she pled guilty to a fatal hit-and-run in 2009. She was given no jail time, two years of house arrest and five years of probation . According to TBO.com, the girl has violated her probation for leaving her home on numerous occasions and she now may be going to jail
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Polk County Violation Of Probation Charge Filed Against Fatal Hit And Run Driver
Yesterday being the 35th anniversary of his historic bout with Muhammad Ali that inspired the Rocky movie franchise, “The Bayonne Bleeder” Chuck Wepner found himself fielding a few calls from media over the past few days. So by the time I got to him the other day, I expected he’d have had enough of talking about Ali, Sylvester Stallone , and that night in Richfield, Ohio, when the man with the most colorful nickname in sports had his day in the spotlight. Chuck Wepner knocks down Muhammad Ali, March 24, 1975 Actually, it was just the opposite. The 71-year-old was animated and more than happy to discuss the fight that changed his life, and even shared a few things not related to those few weeks in 1975 when he went from a relative unknown — though he had fought some of the biggest names in the heavyweight division at the time, including a victory over Ernie Terrell — to the man who took the Champ the distance. Most surprising to me was his take on the UFC . A lot of ex-boxers particularly those in their 70s, don’t seem to have much use for mixed martial arts. Mostly, I think, it’s because they either don’t understand it, or don’t want to. Wepner, a Jiu Jitsu black belt and karate and judo practitioner for years, calls MMA fighters “unbelievable athletes” and respects how they go toe-to-toe wearing just the small MMA gloves.
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“Bayonne Bleeder” a UFC Fan, Too
Virginia Tea Partiers Endorse Posting Periello’s Home Address, Insist They’re Not ‘A Violent Group Of People’ : On Monday, Lynchburg Tea Party member Mike Troxel posted what he believed to be the home address of Rep. Tom Periello (D-VA), encouraging people to drop by for a “good face-to-face chat” …
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What’s wrong with Tit for Tat?
Dwight Gooden has had his share off run-ins with the law. The former NY Mets pitcher has been arrested in Tampa four times including two Tampa DUI charges . He is now facing DUI drug charges in New Jersey following a car crash Tuesday
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DUI Crash leads To DUI Drug Charges For Four-Time Tampa Arrestee Dwight Gooden
Do Spring Numbers Matter ? Here is a look at some of the spring training *new* names to know… These players are making headlines in Grapefruit and Cactus ballpark action: Home Runs Sean Rodriguez 6 Tampa Bay Delwyn Young 5 Pittsburgh Stolen Bases Aaron Cunningham San Diego 6 Jason Borgeois Houston 4 Saves Jessie English Washington 2 Mike Adams SD 1
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Spring 2010: Do You know these Players?
“High-fructose corn syrup causes characteristics of obesity in rats: Increased body weight, body fat and triglyceride levels”, published in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior , doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.02.012 : In Experiment 1, male Sprague–Dawley rats were maintained for short term (8 weeks) on (1) 12 h/day of 8% HFCS, (2) 12 h/day 10% sucrose, (3) 24 h/day HFCS, all with ad libitum rodent chow, or (4) ad libitum chow alone. Rats with 12-h access to HFCS gained significantly more body weight than animals given equal access to 10% sucrose, even though they consumed the same number of total calories, but fewer calories from HFCS than sucrose. Although the article aims directly at the difference between High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) and sucrose or a sucrose/glucose mixture, I don’t want to address that
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Princeton Study: All Calories Are NOT The Same
A Brevard County traffic stop led to Owantus Johnson being arrested for gun charges but while in custody he sprinted out of the interview room and escaped. According to the Associated Press, Johnson was pulled over for a traffic violation and that is when deputies found a gun in his car . Johnson tried to flee when the gun was discovered but was captured and taken in for questioning.
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Florida Traffic Violation Stop In Brevard Leads To Gun Arrest And Escape
College basketball may be down to the Sweet 16 (from 11 conferences, now that is quite a bit of news in itself), but there is also a “Sweet 16″ of coaches that have joined Jim Boeheim and Mike Krzyzewski in providing signed shoes, basketballs and other memorabilia that will go to benefit cancer research via “ Coaches vs. Cancer ,” a consortium of the coaches association (NABC) and the American Cancer Society. In addition to the Syracuse and Duke head men, the auction, set up through industry leader Steiner Sports , has items from the following coaches: Mike Anderson (Missouri), Tony Bennett (Virginia), George Blaney (Connecticut assistant), Bobby Cremins (Charleston), Mick Cronin (Cincinnati), Mark Few (Gonzaga), Bob Huggins (West Virginia), Lon Kruger (UNLV), Phil Martelli (St.
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Hoops Coaches Put Feet (And Shoes) Forward To Fight Cancer
Two professional athletes with ties to the state of Florida were charged with driving under the influence this past weekend. Miami Dolphin running back Ronnie Brown and a Baltimore Oriole pitcher in Sarasota, FL for spring training have both been charged with DUI .
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DUI Charges Filed Against Two Professional Athletes With Florida Connections
I was happy to see Eric Shinseki’s statement today. (below) I know many people are disappointed with how slow President Obama has been on many of our core issues. AND I know we’ve had horrible news on the anti war front and on women’s issues.
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General Shinseki Speaks Up Against New Swiftboating Nonsense
(Video: Liam Clancy & Tommy Makem, The Parting Glass , February 1977, National Stadium, Dublin) One year when I was a kid, my brother and I got vinyl records for our birthdays. I was jealous, because he got The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy , and all I got was The Best of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem . In the long run, though, I won big, because if you look at the end result of that birthday, I’ve got 100s of songs in iTunes that are by The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, and Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem
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Liam Clancy: 1935 – 2009
Jelena Jankovic Everyone knows who the big winners were over the weekend… Northern Iowa, Cornell, Butler, even Duke and Ohio State, who had their most highly-ranked competition vanquished from the NCAA Bracket s. But there were two other winners, Ivan Ljubicic and Jelena Jankovic , that because of timing, won’t get their due.
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Tennis Bracket Winners Left out of March Madness
To the great relief of the PGA Tour and golf fans worldwide, golfer Tiger Woods announced this past week he is planning to return to the PGA Tour next month at The Masters in Augusta, GA, his first tournament since his infamous car crash – and subsequent public admission of his infidelities – derailed his career late last November. “The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta,” Purchasing Masters practice round tickets or tournament badges to see Tiger Woods at the 2010 Masters is as easy as picking up the phone and calling 800-660-6031 or visiting our Masters Golf Page
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Tiger Woods Returns to Masters
The Walton County Sheriff’s Office, DeFuniak Springs Police, Florida Highway Patrol and Florida Department of Transportation made one DUI arrest during a four-hour checkpoint March 13.
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DUI Checkpoint In DeFuniak Springs And Walton County Nets Just Four Arrests In Four Hour Period
The City Council in Oldsmar , Florida asked one of the largest providers of red light cameras to come to Pinellas County and conduct a traffic study on red light running . It is safe to say that Arizona’s American Traffic Solutions (ATS) had a vested interest in the results, which seemed to raise eyebrows in Oldsmar.
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Running Red Lights In Oldsmar May Become A Concern For Pinellas County
Last week we reported in our blog that the Ocoee Police Department and numerous other agencies including the Orlando Police Department and Orange County Sheriff’s office would be conducting a DUI checkpoint over the weekend. It seems not everyone was reading our blog. Twenty people were arrested on charges of DUI , 10 others were arrested on other charges and numerous Florida traffic tickets were handed out as well.
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20 Charged Over The Weekend With DUI At Ocoee Checkpoint
” US court rules again against vaccine-autism claims “: Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children’s illness.
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US Court affirms thimerosal-autism connection "not…scientifically sound"
I have a geek question in search of a serious answer or a fresh theory: I just read this article at Eureka! Science News about how the genome of an entire family has been sequenced to track how genetic mutations are handed on. The article states “Scientists long had estimated that each parent passes 75 gene mutations to their children.” However, the actual rate of passing on was less than half of what had been estimated — “By comparing the parents’ DNA sequences to those of their children, the researchers estimated with a high degree of certainty that each parent passes 30 mutations — for a total of 60 — to their offspring.” My question is, why was the erroneous estimate so high to begin with? What were they observing that caused them to attribute a passing on of mutations at this level?
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Stepping Out Of The Frame