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Frank McCourt and the Dodger’s: offer deal to Manny
McCourt and the Dodgers made an offer to free-agent Manny Ramirez on Wednesday. The offer is a similar two year deal worth $45 million but this offer gives Manny the option to become a free agent after the first season. This is a big time soft move by McCourt. Not only that but it doesn’t even make sense. Manny doesn’t want the option to go somewhere else, he could give a crap where he plays or seemingly even if he plays at all. He just wants a long term deal with guaranteed money.

Vick: Coming home in May
Thursday the Associated Press reported that Michael Vick will be allowed to serve the last two months of his sentence under home confinement. The reason? Because there is no room at a halfway house for him. Vick will still be on electronic monitoring and can only be allowed to leave home when approved by his probation officer. He wil be eligible for release in July.
Trend: High School ball stars ’spending a year abroad’
Early this week Renardo Sidney, the 6-foot-9 senior from Fairfax, CA committed to USC. This comes after his first choice UCLA couldn’t decide if they could indeed take Sidney. According to Jeff Goodman, there’s a good chance that he’ll end up overseas, following Brandon Jennings’ brilliant path to the NBA. We will see how it works out for Jennings. If he is an NBA success story the game of college basketball will suffer a great loss of star power.
The Giants: short change Lincecum
It could be the best bang for the buck for any pitcher. No for any MLB player. No for any player in all of North American sports. Yesterday, the Giants agreed with right-hander Tim Lincecum on a one-year, $650,000 contract. If Lincecum becomes eligible for salary arbitration after this season, he will be all but guaranteed a ten-fold raise. Have fun while it lasts San Fran, the rental is up come September.