[USML Announce] Here's One Rip Who Won't be Reserved....

Mon Jan 3 15:43:13 EST 2011

Not soon enough--did Jeff tell you he's offering private readings this year?

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:38 PM,  <anrklein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Enough already. When will Winick's magazine be on the shelf?
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Blocker, Mark B." <mblocker at Sidley.com>
> Sender: announce-bounces at usml.net
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:34:51
> To: USML Announcements<announce at usml.net>
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> Subject: RE: [USML Announce] Here's One Rip Who Won't be Reserved....
>
> Hmm....the website does not list him on your team, but we can sort that out later. ?I am sure you were giving serious thought to retain him at $29, which I would recommend you do in spite of the firearms issue.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf Of Brad Jansen
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 3:30 PM
> To: USML Announcements
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Here's One Rip Who Won't be Reserved....
>
> What?! Simon's on my roster dated 9/21/10...$29...I needed him active
> to stay above the floor....please tell me you're wrong, Brother
> Mark....
>
> ....but, Mark, I do appreciate you're taking a moment to review my
> roster, a moment that may prove beneficial to you as you by now
> realize the depth of my retention roster, even sans a Simon: K.
> Morales-16; E. Andrus-10; E. Encarnacion-5; A. Jackson-5; J. Smoak-2;
> C. Perez-5; B. Anderson-5; G. Gonzalez-7; T. Cahill-1; N. Feliz-2; C.
> Carrasco-1; C. Sale-5; S. Santos-5; K. Jepsen-5; Desomond
> Jennings-10(M) ....shall I go on? ?Clearly you see a trade possibility
> ripe for exploration--and since it usually takes all season to
> consummate something with you, why not get started now....?
>
> ....hey, Buddha, I know you're not too big on female empowerment and
> you probably have a life-size poster of John Wayne dressed as a Green
> Beret in your man cave and all that, but ya gotta see the new version
> of True Grit...the girl definitely is better than the one in the first
> movie and Jeff Bridges--well, look, he's the Dude, Buddha, what more
> can anyone say?
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Blocker, Mark B. <mblocker at sidley.com> wrote:
>> And this has nothing to do with the fact that he is not even on your
>> roster? ?You are just choosing to hold a grudge?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On
>> Behalf Of Brad Jansen
>> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 2:40 PM
>> To: USML Announcements
>> Subject: [USML Announce] Here's One Rip Who Won't be Reserved....
>>
>> Alfredo Simon surrenders self, gunEmail Print Comments52 Associated
>> Press
>>
>> SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Baltimore Orioles reliever
>> Alfredo Simon surrendered to police Monday to face an involuntary
>> manslaughter charge in a fatal shooting New Year's Eve. His lawyer
>> said he was firing celebratory shots in the air.
>>
>>
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> The Dominican pitcher is suspected of killing 25-year-old Michel
>> Castillo Almonte and wounding his 17-year-old brother in the northeast
>> coastal town of Luperon. The dead man is Simon's cousin, according to
>> the player's lawyer.
>>
>> Police initially said a murder charge would be filed against Simon,
>> but Public Prosecutor Victor Mueses told The Associated Press on
>> Monday that witness accounts and evidence support an involuntary
>> manslaughter charge instead.
>>
>> "The version that we have is that there was a dispute between two
>> women and he tried to dissolve it, fired a shot that ended up wounding
>> a young person in the arm and that same bullet lodged in the chest of
>> the deceased," Mueses said by phone.
>>
>> Simon is to appear at the Puerto Plata courthouse for arraignment
>> later in the day. He could face up to two years in prison if found
>> guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Mueses, the public prosecutor in
>> Puerto Plata, said he will request three months of preventive
>> detention for Simon while the case is pending.
>>
>> Simon's lawyer, Carlos Olivares, told the AP his client fired random
>> shots with a group of local boys. But he believes Simon could not have
>> been the shooter because the player's cousin was shot in the chest.
>>
>> "We are giving the weapon so that the national police can do the
>> pertinent ballistics tests," Olivares said.
>>
>> Ballistics test should be completed in the next 48 hours, according to
>> Dominican Police Chief Jose Polanco.
>>
>> Some Dominicans shoot guns in the air on New Year's Eve especially in
>> the hours leading to midnight, although authorities have repeatedly
>> warned against the practice. Bystanders are killed or wounded every
>> New Year's Eve.
>>
>> Simon was accompanied to the police station by Julio Lugo, the free
>> agent second baseman for the Orioles.
>>
>> "He is scared because he recognizes that he fired shots, although they
>> went into the air," said Lugo, who advised Simon to surrender after he
>> fled the scene.
>>
>> The injured teenager was shot in the right arm and remains
>> hospitalized in the Dominican city of Santiago.
>>
>> Simon joined Baltimore in 2008 but was quickly sidelined with an
>> injury. The 29-year-old pitcher went 4-2 with a 4.93 ERA last season.
>> He had 17 save
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