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Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Chicago Cubs	76	48	.613	C1
2	New York Mets	68	57	.544	E1
3T	Arizona	64	60	.516	W1
3T	Los Angeles Dodgers	64	60	.516	W1
5	Milwaukee	72	54	.571	C2
6	St. Louis	70	57	.551	C3
7	Philadelphia	66	58	.532	E2
8	Florida	64	61	.512	E3
9	Houston	63	62	.504	C4
10	Colorado	57	69	.452	W3
11T	Pittsburgh	56	69	.448	C5
11T	Atlanta	56	69	.448	E4
13	Cincinnati	55	70	.44	C6
14	San Francisco	53	71	.427	W4
15	San Diego	48	76	.387	W5
16	Washington	44	81	.352	E5

American League

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Los Angeles Angels	76	47	.618	W1
2	Tampa Bay	76	48	.613	E1
3	Chicago White Sox	71	53	.573	C1
4	Boston	72	53	.576	E2
5	Minnesota	70	54	.565	C2
6	New York Yankees	66	58	.532	E3
7	Toronto	64	60	.516	E4
8	Texas	62	64	.492	W2
9	Detroit	61	64	.488	C3
10	Baltimore	60	64	.484	E5
11	Oakland	57	67	.46	W3
12	Cleveland	56	67	.455	C4
13	Kansas City	55	69	.444	C5
14	Seattle	46	78	.371	W4

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The deal is really done

2006-12-20 09:50

by Bob Timmermann

The Boston Red Sox wired $51,111,111.11 to the Seibu Lions team to complete the Daisuke Matsuzaka deal.

The Lions management said they were going to do four things with it:

Stengthen the current team.
Promote the development of youth baseball
Provide improved services for fans
Buy more ivory backscratchers

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Comments

2006-12-20 09:59:19

1. mehmattski

I think Theo and Larry should have delivered it in briefcases full of unmarked $20s, like in the movies.

2006-12-20 10:01:36

2. Schteeve

I can't believe they aren't going to buy a cigarette boat.

2006-12-20 10:06:10

3. Bob Timmermann

$51,111,111.11 in $20 bills would weigh over 563 lbs.

2006-12-20 10:07:15

4. Strike4

It's 6.04 billion yen.

2006-12-20 10:07:53

5. dianagramr

Somehow I doubt PayPal was involved in this transaction.

2006-12-20 10:24:35

6. Bob Timmermann

If they charged it on the right kind of credit card, they would get a lot of frequent flyer miles.

2006-12-20 10:38:22

7. Greg Brock

Ivory backscratchers can only lead to one thing....Movie talk.

Don't do it Seibu

2006-12-20 10:46:10

8. Bob Timmermann

The Seibu people did say they would try to renovate the Seibu Dome, which is like putting lipstick on a wildebeest.

They'll never draw more fans unless they play in a place where it's not an overland trek to get to.

2006-12-20 10:58:05

9. Xeifrank

They should use the $51.1M to buy Juan Pierre from the Dodgers. If they need a few more $ we could have a bake sale at Bob's place of work. vr, Xei

2006-12-20 11:03:02

10. BALCO Lab Rats

Is there a transaction fee for such a wire transfer?

2006-12-20 11:14:45

11. Bob Timmermann

Pretty high I imagine. I think the Red Sox use a check cashing place in Roxbury for this sort of stuff. The teller sits behind bullet-proof glass.

2006-12-20 11:26:18

12. Linkmeister

10 Not if they use the Automated Clearing House system. If it's a wire transfer, the incoming bank can (and usually does) charge whatever it wants. I've gotten hit with $15 fees for the privilege of having money go into my account with no action required by the bank. I finally wised up to using ACH, which has no fee (yet).

2006-12-20 12:25:09

13. Deanna

Wasn't there some story floating around that they really only will see something like $30 million of it after taxes get taken out, or something ridiculous like that?

Even so, I agree that renovation to the Seibu Dome won't help as much to draw fans as just trying to do a better promotion campaign within Tokorozawa and the rest of Saitama prefecture. Get the locals, not the schleppers. Actually bothering to put more Lions stuff in the Seibu department stores couldn't hurt either. I was astounded after seeing the gigantic Hanshin Tigers shop in the Umeda Hanshin department store that the equivalent Lions shop in the Ikebukuro Seibu department store was literally like, one tiny rack of stuff in a corner of the sports section.

I wonder if they're thinking of doing anything with the "outfield slanted turf seating", though.

2006-12-20 13:08:44

14. Bob Timmermann

You mean sitting on the carpet?

2006-12-20 13:52:40

15. jakewoods

What a scam the posting system is. Its basically indentured servitude.

2006-12-20 16:32:09

16. Bob Timmermann

15
Hey, that's Boras Talk!

2006-12-21 00:54:42

17. Deanna

The carpet? I dunno, I thought sitting in the Seibu outfield "seating" was a fun experience and made me feel a lot closer to the rest of the other crazy Fighters fans, but at the same time, balancing myself or anything else on slanted ground like that for a whole game is a pain, and several times beers were spilled by people on the hill by accident. I'm not sure I'd want to do it again.

I wonder whether more people fit in there with or without seats, actually.

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