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It was a pleasure. Congratulations, Greg Maddux, on the first day of the rest of your life, officially starting Monday.
Maddux, 42, closed out his career with the Dodgers. He did not start in the playoffs and made his final appearance in the National League championship series, mopping up for Chad Billingsley in the game in which the Philadelphia Phillies eliminated the Dodgers.
Maddux said that day he was not offended to serve as a mop-up man.
"It was a privilege," he said. "I felt privileged to do it. I was glad I had a chance to pitch.
"It stinks that we lost. But there's a lot of good young players here, and they're only going to get better. I think this team has a chance to be good for a while." ...
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Too bad the Dodgers don't have their AAA affiliate in Las Vegas anymore. I believe Maddux makes his offseason home there.
But in all seriousness, congrats to him on a fantastic career and thanks for his time in LA, too.
(PS: The last thread ended Satanically.)
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-blount6-2008dec06,0,3111118.story
"HAMILTON, Ohio -- Former Los Angeles Lakers player Corie Blount has been charged with picking up 11 pounds of marijuana in southwest Ohio."
http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/12/3-d-nfl-footbal.html
In a related story, we haven't seen Greg Brock here in a while.
In yet another related story, I would like to know where Manny Pacquiao's trainer was during the Blount arrest.
http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2008/ncaa_bracket_DI_soccer_women.html
Ba da ding! Thank you, I'll be here all week.
"We found 15..er, I mean 11 pounds in his car."
It used to be a challenge for me to tell Threatt, Peeler, and Van Exel apart when they were on the court.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0621407/
I guess he really won't tumble 4 ya.
vr, Xei
Plus we got Rickey Henderson! ; )
UCLA's uniforms look absolutely terrible.
For a moment, I forgot this was a Maddux thread, and all I could wonder was how was Corie Blount your favorite player???
I still remember Blount on the Jim Rome show before the 1998 (??) Western Conference Finals, predicting the Lakers would sweep the Jazz. In his defense, he did get the sweep part right. I always blamed him for that series loss.
I don't have it saved anymore, but I sent a scathing email to the NBA after Game 2, believing Van Exel was fouled shooting a three at the end of the game. I actually got a pretty long (and not standard) response from the NBA, explaining how their refs were the best trained, blah blah blah. I just thought it was cool that I got a response.
I heard the poor victim startled his captor when he asked "Do you really want to hurt me?"
My junior year history teacher made us write letters every month to some organization to critique something.
I could not think of something at first, so I wrote a letter to the Braves about John Rocker.
They sent me back information to purchase tickets.
Speaking of Maddux (Madduxes?)...USC v UCLA 1990 version on ECL right now.
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