Home Personal Homepage Mariners Blog Recipe Blog Comments welcome by email. I don't care if you disagree with me but name-calling and cussing are not acceptable. Comments that are just rude and not relevant will not be posted. « # Pacific NW Blogs ? » My Blogroll Blogroll Me! Enter your email address below to subscribe to Carol's Chaotic Collection of Curiosities ! powered by Bloglet	Tuesday, November 18, 2003         Still Waiting... The Rays expect to acquire St. Louis first baseman and Tampa native Tino Martinez any day now... The first item on the agenda this week for the Rays is locking down a deal for Martinez. Rays general manager Chuck LaMar said he last spoke to St. Louis general manager Walt Jocketty on Thursday at the GM meetings in Phoenix. "We're pursuing the matter and, hopefully, we can get something done soon if we're going to do it," LaMar said. Martinez will make $7.5-million in 2004, and it's likely the Cards will pick up most of that. The Rays, however, will be on the hook for Martinez's $8-million salary or a $1-million buyout for 2005. The Rays probably will give up a minor-league prospect on the 40-man roster to acquire Martinez. Martinez's agent, Jim Krivacs, said he didn't know the status of the trade talks but said Martinez, who has a no-trade clause, listed the Rays as one of the teams to which he would agree to be traded. Tom Jones, St. Petersburg Times, 11/18/03 3:23:28 PM     Miscellany § - Tolkien art - How Illustration Works § - Dubious honor - Australia Named Best Nuclear Waste Site § - Britney Tells BBC She's a Role Model - She is a role model. That's what worries me. § - Depressed Thief Burns $46,000 - Youch! Even during my very worst bout of depression I'd never have done anything this dumb! The REAL Reason for Ten Commandments Removal The Ten Commandments display was removed from the Alabama Supreme Court building and there was a VERY good reason for the move. You can't post Thou Shalt Not Steal, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery and Thou Shall Not Lie in a building full of Lawyers and Politicians without creating a hostile work environment. Yorel 2:11:28 AM     Odds & Ends Items of interest from the past week. See Cassini Captures Jupiter in Close-Up Portrait If I Had Wings... The Matrix: Spammers Monsters The Night Skyline Past Pictures Pretty, Pretty Flowers Seattle Skyline When a Squirrel Breaks a Leg. . . Read Adopted Man Tracks Down His Family 30 Years Later After Millennia of Co-existence, Moroccan Jews Targeted Apology Casts Out a Cannibal Curse Bomb Scare! Book 'Em and Post It, Officer: Jail Puts Inmate Register on Web Brit Takes the Case for Fathers' Rights to New Heights Cabbage Tells Tale of Emerging China China, Japan Youth Fight to Overcome Different War Views Cops on Terror Patrol Caught Fishing Dumb Things About Adoption: We've Heard Them All Findings Dampen Hope of Water on Dark Side of Moon A Legal Eagle Aids the Deaf New Research Reveals 50-Year Sustained Antarctic Ice Decline No Way to Treat a Veteran Passport Eye Scans to Halt Identity Fraud Public Motherhood Rebuilding Is as All-Consuming as the Fire Unwanted Recognition Version 1.0, Research Project; Version 2.0, Stupid Business Cats Cat Prayer Cat Saga A Cat's Life cc Listen to Your Cat A Quickie Tom Why Acidman Hates Cats And Dogs He's an Author. Now Serve Him a Dog's Dinner. Man! That's Ruff! (sorry) Too Smart 2:05:59 AM     Spam News Ad Groups Urge Congress to Pass Anti-Spam Law Anti-Spamming Laws Deny Right of Reply AT&T Patents Anti-Spam Circumvention Technique AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam Patent Australian Spam Bill Adds Costly Burden for Business Choking on SPAM Citibank Warns of Spam Scam Clearswift Releases New Self-Learning Anti-Spam Solution Crooks Are Idiots EU Leads Spam Fight Gates to Tout Tablet PCs, Security Efforts, Spam Control Gates Unveils Microsoft Anti-Spam Initiative Gotta Love Telemarketers Guess What? Spam Pays I Love Jay Allen Is Your Real Estate Advertising Spam? Judge Derails Spam Suit Against AOL Kaspersky Labs Partners With Vanquish to Offer Bundled Anti-Spam And Anti-Virus Software Platforms Mail Server Flaw Opens Exchange to Spam The Matrix: Spammers Memo to Spammers Merchants May Use Cell Phones' GPS to Spam Us Methinks They Doth Like It Too Much Microsoft Builds Spam Filters Into Exchange New Virus Disguised as PayPal E-mail Portland Man Sues AOL Over E-mail Spam Pro SPAM Punctuation Envy Spam Bill Adds Costly Burden for Business Spam Fighting for Small Businesses Spam: It's Out of the Can Spam Summit Sums It Up: National Bill Saner Than State Laws Spammers Now Clogging Blogs, IM Spamming My Way to Easy Street Stopping Spam Target of Spammers Telstra Dumps Its Email U.S. Senate Votes Unanimously to Help 'Can Spam' The War on SPAM Wave of Antispam Laws Targets SMS Yahoo Spam Sponges to Reduce Spam 2:00:14 AM     © Copyright 2005 Carol Andrus. Last update: 8/25/2005; 4:41:39 PM.	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