Joe Mauer says he's ready for spring

Joe Mauer broke all the rumors and the star catcher met with reporters on Friday ensuring the fans that he will be ready to go next season. The concerns have run the gamut from legitimate to outlandish, all generated by the lack of clarity offered by the team and Mauer.

In this purpose Mauer said “I am healthy, I am happy. He also said “ I can rule out crazy things I’ve heard like Lyme disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus. I think we’ve heard it all. I don’t have any of those things.” For disease purpose Mauer missing most of the first two months of the season and Mauer played in only 82 games with a condition the team initially called “bilateral leg weakness.” He also missed the time because of a viral infection and an upper respiratory infection that turned into pneumonia and ended his season in mid-September. Through it all, the 2009 ALMVP hit just . 287 with three home runs and 30 RBIs in the first season of an eight-year, $184 million contract extension. Mauer mentioned several times that there were some things he wished that he would have done differently while last seoson was unfolding, most notably “the message to the fans and what really was going on. It was kind of a big mystery. I thing I tried to correct that. It just didn’t really work out.He didn’t return until he middle of June, then labored through another three months before going on th disabled list for good on September 1 with the illness.

At a time mauer said “I think when that happens, you just try to right that ship. I don’t think (my treatment) really knew what was going on. May be that was part of the frustration, too”

Short Career Information :

1. Batting average         : 323

2. Home runs                : 84

3. Runs batted in           : 502

4. On-base percentage : 403

5. Sugging percentage : 471

Shooting at Virginia Tech Campus : News Spreads on Social Media

Many social media reported that, The Virginia Tech campus scene of horrific shooting in 2007 that shots were fired on campus again Thursday at 1 p.m. USA today was the first major outlet to tweet the story to its nearly 206,300 followers. Other social and another media rapidly followed suit and news about the shooting has been spreading over Twitter for the past several hours. At 2:20 p.m the college campus papers website The Collegiate Times was hanged and the paper has since been relying on Facebook and Twitterr to share news with its readership.

Two people as well as a police officer were dead after a shooting on Thursday afternoon on the campus of Virginia Tech. The shooting took place around the noon after a campus police officer made what was described as a routine traffic stop in a parking lot near McComas Hall, sports building and a gym sports said Owczarski derector of information and director of a news. During the time, a gunman walked up to the officer and shot and killed them, official said during a news conference on Thursday. The gunman was not the person involved in the traffic stop. In some time later police searched the gunman. The university announced about 4:30 p.m that there was “no longer an active threat” on campus.

The witness reported that, the gunman running toward a different parking lot, called the Cage, near Duck Pond Drive. At that parking lot a man was found also dead of gunshot injury. But the official would not comment on whether the second person found dead was the man who shot police officer.

NBA Vetoes Trade Including Lakers, Hornets And Rockets : Trade Dead Chris Paul

After the Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets and New Orleans Hornest agreed on a trade proposal that would send Hornets all world point guard Chris Paul to Los Angeles, the NBA nixed the deal and told all players involved to report to their current teams training camps Friday. But at a time Commissioner David killed the trade because of, Worjnarowaski says, a chorus of owners were irate with the belief that the five month lockout had happened largely to stop big market teams from leveraging small market teans for star players pending free agency.

The situation has quite a few implication for the Orlando Magic. Having been rebuffed in their efforts to land Paul as their star of the future, Lakers could intensify their efforts to pry Dwight Haward. With Paul off the table for Los Angeles Haward becomes its top target, Derom Williams, who like Paul and Haward is able for free agency in 2012 and also draw more attention from Los Angeles as a result of this news. This is the negative news from Magic.

But all the news not going to bad :

There is many happier not also, from an Orlando perspective, it keeps Paul on the trade market. Ken Berger reported a week ago that Paul informed the Hornets in July 2010 he wanted them to trade him to one of three teams. Put the July 2010 request together with the news that Paul and Haward have spoken recently about teaming up the possibility of a Paul/Haward pairing becomes a bit more real. Add the New Orleans Times-Picayune report that Orlando is among several teams to have “Preliminary trade discussion” with the Hornets regarding paul, and you get the idea.

Visibly, there are obstacles to any trade, and Orlando’s biggest at the moment is coming up with enough assets to convince New Orleans to pull the trigger on a Paul deal. On the one the NBA killed tonight, the Hornets would have received Lamar Odom, Kevin Marti, Luis Scola and future first round draft pick. Without the Laker’s involvement, there’s no simply no incentive for the Rockets to get involved.

A short Biography of Chris Paul

Name : Chris Paul

Date of Birth : May 6, 1985

Place of Birth : Lewisville, North Carrolina

Nationality : American

High School : West Forsyth High School

Listed Height : 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Listed Weight : 175 lb (79kg),

Career information :

College : Wake Forest NBA Draft 2005

Round : 1/Pick 4^th overall Selected by the New Orleans Hornets Pro career 2005-present