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Sunday, February 20, 2005RundownK-Rod arrives in Tempe
With his visa problems solved, Francisco Rodriguez participated in his first spring training drills yesterday (Ed. Sorry, the article isn't online at the moment). What were his "visa problems" you ask? According to Francisco himself, it was nothing more than long lines at the US Embassy. The OC Register seems to think the delay was due to the growing tensions between the Bush administration and Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. Whatever it was, I'm sure the Angels would really rather their three Venezuelan players (Frankie, Kelvim Escobar, and Juan Rivera) would consider staying stateside rather than heading back to their troubled homeland every winter.Escobar has the dead-arm The Angels have shut-down last season's staff ace for "a week to ten days" with tightness in his right (pitching) arm. Nothing to worry about - dead-arm is a rite of spring for every pitcher. It's a bit early in the spring for it to start, but not surprising when you read that Escobar "did not pick up a baseball for three months" following last season.Arrested Development cancelled? You people suck.The biggest bitch in the whole-wide world A woman in Colorado sued two teenage girls who had the gall to leave cookies on her doorstep. She won. Now she can't understand why everyone in town hates her. End of story.Congressman drinks the Kool-Aid Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) has accused Karl Rove of forging the TANG memos that were the source of the whole "Rathergate" scandal:"Probably the most flagrant example of that is the way they set up Dan Rather. Now, I mean, I have my own beliefs about how that happened: it originated with Karl Rove, in my belief, in the White House. They set that up with those false papers. Why did they do it? They knew that Bush was a draft dodger... And so what they did was, expecting that that was going to come up, they accentuated it: they produced papers that made it look even worse. And they — and they distributed those out to elements of the media."Unfortunately for Mr. Hinchey, unlike in the case of Eason Jordan, there is a tape, and it has been released. Now let the back-pedaling begin! |
