{"id":895,"date":"2006-02-16T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2006\/02\/more-on-sosa.html"},"modified":"2006-02-16T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T10:45:00","slug":"more-on-sosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2006\/02\/more-on-sosa\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Sosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/15\/AR2006021502265.html\"><b>Sosa Rejects Nats, Hints at Retirement<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><br \/>More on <b>Sammy Sosa<\/b>, who is now leaning towards retirement because not even <b>Jim Bowden<\/b> wants to sign him. I wish I could believe this is the last we will hear about Sosa coming from Bowden. I just don&#8217;t trust the man.<\/p>\n<p>More from <i>The Wash. Times<\/i>: <a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/sports\/20060216-122547-3903r.htm\"><b>Sosa turns down Nats&#8217; offer<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/sports\/20060216-122546-6568r.htm\"><b>Mayor confident of lease approval<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Wash. Times<\/i><br \/>Please forgive me if <b>Mayor Anthony William&#8217;s<\/b> confidence is not making me feel any better about MLB approving the lease. Whenever he is confident, bad things tend to happen. I often wonder if he is basing his confidence on the way he wants things to be, rather than on what is actually going on in the real world. His prognostication is somewhere in the <b>Jim Williams<\/b>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/distinguishedsenators.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/reds-right-hand.html\"><b>Will Carroll<\/b><\/a> territory I am afraid.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/14\/AR2006021401894.html\"><b>The CFO&#8217;s Conditional Yes<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><br \/>An editorial from yesterday&#8217;s edition the states the ballpark lease is up to MLB. We know&#8230;<!--hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"\"><b><\/b><\/a> - <i><\/i><br \/>\n\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"\"><b><\/b><\/a> - <i><\/i><br \/>\n\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"\"><b><\/b><\/a> - <i><\/i><br \/>\n\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"\"><b><\/b><\/a> - <i><\/i--><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sosa Rejects Nats, Hints at Retirement &#8211; The PostMore on Sammy Sosa, who is now leaning towards retirement because not even Jim Bowden wants to sign him. I wish I could believe this is the last we will hear about Sosa coming from Bowden. I just don&#8217;t trust the man. More from The Wash. 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