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The final score was 20-18. But the score 33 seconds earlier was 17-18. With 33 seconds left in the game, and your trailing by 1 on your own 1 yard line, you don't have much hope. But on a 51 yard drive on the first play for first down then the crowd started exploding. But alas, 4th down with 9 to go. With hope, the seahawks put Todd Peterson up for the punt. Peterson punted for the goal, from 48 yards out! And what was more suprizing, as seahawk fans had heads in hands as he kicked. It was a weak kick, but now with 2 seconds left it would have to do. Some fans brave enough would open their fingers just a little and they were lucky that they saw this. 5th in the NFL for longest good punt ever, a 48 yard field goal richoshaed off the bottom bar. it bounced high in the air. Time had expired. The ball landed right behind their goldposts. 27,963 seahawks fans jumped high into the air, screeming and yelling and popping whine, because Todd Peterson had kicked the game winner!

Stuff on the trade of Randy Johnson to the D-backs (4 hours old!!!)

On whether there was an obligation to the season ticket holders to sign a marquee player like Randy Johnson:
Well, I’d like to think that by this time, after 30 years in the marketplace, that people know that there’s a commitment to improving our product, whenever and however we can. We made a major investment. We’re trying to protect that investment. We’re competitive people. We want to win now rather than later. And so, the beneficiaries are the people who follow the team and support it, whether it be season ticket sales or individual ticket sales. We want to have a good product. We want to compete and when you have those things going for you, you’re going to be well-supported.

On how he convinced a player with shoulder-length hair and a goatee to play for a manager who wants clean shaven players:
Well, he asked me about some of our policies and I told him that Buck was getting a little more flexible on policies. But, there is a funny story. He said, 'Well, what about the hair?’ And I said, `Well, Randy, look at it this way: If you had tattoos from the top of your head to the bottom of your toes, and you had a big ring out of your nose along with your long hair, I’d say pass. But since that’s not the case, we’ll take you with your hair and we’ll work with those deficiencies later.’
Source: Arizona diamondbacks official home page.


THE DEAL SET a record both for total dollars and average annual value ($15 million). The previous high for average salary, $13.33 million, was set less than two weeks ago, when first baseman Mo Vaughn agreed Nov. 25 to an $80 million, six-year contract with the Anaheim Angels.

Stuff on the $105,000,000 signing on Kevin Brownt to LA.

The previous high for dollars was set Oct. 23, when catcher Mike Piazza agreed to a $91 million, seven-year deal with the New York Mets. "We think Kevin Brown is a big part of our future," Dodgers general manager Kevin Malone said. "We're comfortable with the terms. We feel like we logically evaluated the marketplace. We needed the player, we wanted the player and we made the commitment to our fans to becoming a winning team." Breaking the $100 million mark is sure to bring an outcry among some owners against Rupert Murdoch, who took over the Dodgers in March. With Murdoch's billions, Los Angeles has made major upgrades in an effort to return to the World Series for the first time since 1988. "I never thought we'd see the day of a $91 million player," said Dodgers senior vice president Tom Lasorda, who is Piazza's godfather. "There's only one thing certain in baseball — nothing is certain." Brown gets a $5 million signing bonus, $10 million next year and $15 million in each of the following six seasons. As part of the deal, the Dodgers will give him the use of a private plane 12 times per season to commute to Los Angeles from Brown's home in Macon, Ga. He also gets a no-trade clause. Anaheim, Baltimore, Colorado and St. Louis also were among the finalists for Brown, a 33-year-old right-hander who went 18-7 with a 2.38 ERA for San Diego this year. He helped Florida win the World Series in 1997, then was traded to the Padres as part of the Marlins' payroll purge and helped San Diego reach for the World Series for the first time since 1984. "As I told him, he makes the rest of the pitchers better pitchers," Lasorda said. "I told him, 'You don't need to say one word to be a leader. What you do and the way you pitch makes you a leader.' " Brown's agent Scott Boras, had said since last summer he would get his client a deal at least six years long and approach or set record numbers. Brown's value increased when he led the Padres into the World Series against the Yankees. "Everyone knows the value of a No. 1 pitcher," Boras said Friday night. "The premium is Kevin Brown has taken a good club and put it in the World Series." Since the end of the season, Los Angeles agreed to a $12.4 million, three-year contract with center fielder Devon White and a $6.5 million, three-year contract with reliever Alan Mills. The Dodgers also acquired catcher Todd Hundley and reliever Mel Rojas from the New York Mets, lost free agent pitchers have Scott Radinsky and Brian Bohanon and dealt outfielder Bobby Bonilla to New York.
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