Cubs Adds Owings In Campaign

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Owings finished the 2011 campaign perfect, going 8-0 and compiling a career- best 3.57 earned run average in 33 games (four starts) for Arizona.

 

A third-round draft pick in 2005, Owings has played five seasons with the Diamondbacks (2007-08, 2011) and Reds (2009-10), appearing in 132 games (68 starts) with a 32-31 record and a 4.91 ERA.

 

Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Cubs avoided arbitration with Matt Garza on Friday, signing the starter to a one-year contract. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the Chicago Tribune reported the settlement to be for $9.5 million. Garza had requested $12.5 million, while the Cubs had offered $7.95 million.

 

The former first-round draft pick (25th overall) by the Twins played two major league seasons with Minnesota and three with Tampa Bay before joining the Cubs in an eight-player trade in January 2011. In two postseasons with the Rays, 2008 and 2010, Garza was 2-1 with a 3.48 ERA.

 

Belisle notched a career-best 10 wins in 2011, leading all MLB relievers, compared with only four loses. He posted a 3.25 earned run average in 74 appearances.

 

Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton relapsed this past week. The 2010 American League Most Valuable Player met the media on Friday to address the situation. According to Hamilton a family issue led him to downtown Dallas where he had dinner and had "three or four" drinks.

 

Hamilton called teammate Ian Kinsler to come hang out with him. Kinsler then took him home, but Hamilton returned to the bar and had some more drinks, but did not touch drugs, nor did he want to.

 

"Ian [Kinsler] did not know I had been drinking because once I do drink I can be very deceptive, very sneaky in a lot of ways," Hamilton said.

 

"Anytime I drink there is a point that comes and the switch flips and you never know when it's going to be," Hamilton said. "Whether it's the first three or four or the 15th. That's why its so dangerous."

 

But, it was a relapse nonetheless and sadly it probably won't be the last.

 

Everyone knows the story with Hamilton. Selected first overall by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1999, Hamilton was injured early in his minor league career and fell into a pattern of drug abuse shortly thereafter that ultimately got him suspended from the game.

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•    VBM: T. Bélisle (recrue), P-A Lapointe (libéro), P. Clément (entraîneur) et J. Boudreault (mérite communautaire) aussi honorés.

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•    Recorrí todo mi pasado en pocos minutos & el saber que me amaba...DUELE & el leerlo MÁS, ahora entiendo que era Verdad lo que decía.

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•    I am on Lady Cubs dance team, but I'll be trying out for the Lionettes dance team (:

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•    The campaign follows hot on the heels of the retailer using size 16 mannequins in its windows.

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•    y tengo muchas fotos de cuando era chiquitita ji, con mis amigas, mis primos, mis papis, etc, y tengo un collage muy grande :D

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•    You go up Owings Mills? Ew heard its weak up there. #igetThatAlot

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•    *SIT DE RIESGO* Reportan detonaciones en la zona sur, Garza Sada, evite la zona. 00:07 #mtyfollow

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•    Look at our textile industry,once a 14% contributor on GDP in the 80s now barely in existence.

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•    I drank an Arizona (:

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•    Jane belisle

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•    It's so boring out Owings Mills !!! I gotta start hanging in the city again

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