Great news for the Texas Rangers today as they signed a last minute deal with Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish. It’s great to see the Rangers keep trying to get over that final hump. Now, I am going to be a crazy greedy baseball fan and hope they can somehow sign Prince Fielder as well.
Go Rangers!
ARLINGTON — Japanese pitching ace Yu Darvish has signed a six-year contract to play for the American League Champion Texas Rangers, the team announced late Wednesday afternoon.
The Rangers paid $51.7 million last month for the exclusive right to negotiate with the 25-year-old pitcher; the deadline to reach an agreement was Wednesday.
The formal announcement of the deal is expected at Rangers Ballpark during a news conference at 5:15 p.m. Darvish will not be in attendance; he is expected to travel to Texas later this week, the team said.
Darvish, a right-hander, is considered to be Japan’s top pitcher, playing the last seven years for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan’s Pacific League.
George Lucas is talking of retiring in a NYT article today. Really does anyone care? Lucas hasn’t done anything worth watching in 30 years. He only comes back to tarnish childhood memories becuase he can’t leave anything alone. Good riddance.
LOS ANGELES, Jan 17 (TheWrap.com) – “I’m retiring. I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.”
So said George Lucas to The New York Times in an interview published online Tuesday morning.
But should the director’s supporters — or detractors — believe him?
According to the N.Y. Times article, Lucas is still leaving room for a possible fifth installment in the Indiana Jones franchise. He also said he might go back to his “THX 1138″ roots and make experimental movies that would only be shown in art houses, if anywhere.
That’s the kind of wiggle room that would make Steven Soderbergh proud. The director has stated in numerous interviews that he intends to retire from making movies to focus on painting full-time. But in addition to “Haywire,” which hits theaters Friday, he also has “Magic Mike” due June 29, and “Behind the Candelabra” set for release next year.
Also, Lucas could be smarting from the treatment he allegedly got from Hollywood while trying to make the Lucasfilm-produced “Red Tails,” which hits theaters Friday.
