I love rap, especially 80’s and 90’s rap. To me it’s an expression of poetry in song, spoken word to a beat and Tupac has a great song that always affirms my love for Los Angeles
To Live and Die In LA
“To Live and Die In LA, it’s the place to be,
You got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see.”
It seems free agents sure think so. The Dodgers have now signed this off-season:
SP Aaron Harang – 2 Years, $12 Mil
SP Chris Capuano – 2 Years, $10 Mil
2B Mark Ellis – 2 Years, $8.75 Mil
UTIL Jerry Hairston Jr. – 2 Years, $6 Mil
LF/1B Juan Rivera – 1 Year, $4.5 Mil
C Matt Treanor – 1 Year, $850K
INF Adam Kennedy – 1 Year, $800K
So that’s seven players going to a Dodger team who, by the way, is still in bankruptcy and at the beginning of this off-season said they wouldn’t have much money to spend. However, the front office has now committed nearly $18 million to those players for 2012.
Now…knowing Ned Colletti I know all of it isn’t being spent this season, he’s th...
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PLAYERS:
Aaron Harang,
Chris Capuano,
Mark Ellis,
Juan Rivera,
Matt Treanor,
Adam Kennedy,
Ned Colletti,
Albert Pujols,
Chris Paul,
Jerry Hairston Jr.
TEAMS: Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, New Orleans Hornets
TEAMS: Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, New Orleans Hornets
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