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Crawford Felt Pressure To Play Hurt In Boston - RealGM Wiretap
Carl Crawford regrets having waited until July to have reconstructive elbow surgery Michel Vorm Tottenham Hotspur Jersey , but says that he did so because he felt extreme pressure to play hurt while with the Red Sox.


Crawford underwent Tommy John surgery in July, a month before he was traded to the Dodgers.


He realized he was seriously injured in April, when he could barely throw the ball from left field.


"I tried to push it a little bit. With the Boston fans, you've got to try. A big deal was made about my money and stuff, so I tried to prove it and play for the team," Crawford said. "Maybe I shouldn't have done that, I should have taken care of myself when the doctor told me to."

Diamondbacks Planning To Meet With Arroyo - RealGM Wiretap

The Arizona Diamondbacks are planning to meet with Bronson Arroyo, according to multiple reports.


The Diamondbacks have been seeking to acquire a starting pitcher this offseason. They have inquired about David Price and Jeff Samardzija. They were also one of the finalists for Masahiro Tanaka.

Russell Wilson Visits Rangers Hits Home Run - RealGM Wiretap

For the second straight year, Russell Wilson made a one-day appearance with the Texas Rangers.


"It's an honor to be here," Wilson said. "Growing up as a kid, I always had a dream of playing two sports, so I'm thankful for this opportunity to play with these big leaguers and to take ground balls with them.


"The first sport I ever played as a kid was baseball, so it's been important to me my entire life."


Wilson took infield practice and turned double plays like he did last spring. However, the Seattle Seahawks quarterback also took batting practice and even homered once.


"I was able to stay back on one and drive it to left-center field," Wilson said. "There's something special about throwing a touchdown because it's so hard to throw touchdowns but hitting a home run is a good feeling, too."

锘? Stock Market Investing - Start Your Own Fantasy League

Not only can investing be financially rewarding, it can also be lots of fun. Unfortunately, a lot of people sacrifice what could be both very lucrative and enjoyable because they're afraid. Many people are reluctant to ask questions about investing, so they act as if they're not interested.

But deep down inside, almost every American wishes he or she were more knowledgeable about stock market investing, reaping the market's financial rewards and having a good time all along.

Knowledge of investing is something that most people would like to pass on to their children. In fact, investing is a great activity for fathers and sons, and mothers and daughters.

But in order to pass on this wealth of knowledge and share in the joys of stock market investing with your loved ones, you have to learn a few basic stocks. The good news is that you don't have to learn about thousands of companies in order to understand the market . For starters, you have to focus on just 30.

Understand These 30 Companies And You Will Understand Stock Market Investing

You've probably heard a TV newscaster say, "The market was down 75 points today," or, "It was a good day for investing; the market was up by 100.3."

When financial pundits refer to "the market" being either up or down, they're normally talking about the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), also known as "The Dow." This is the most important of all of the stock market investing indices.

Dow Jones is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Baron's, and SmartMoney magazine. Around 100 years ago, Charles Dow started the company with a little financial newsletter in which he created the DJIA in order to summarize market investing on a daily basis.

Now, even as there are tens of thousands of publicly traded companies, the DJIA is still the gold standard of stock market investing, even though it consists of only 30 stocks.

Those 30 stocks are from all sorts of different industries, with the goal being for them to represent the market as a whole. Everything changes, even these 30.

The 30 stocks in the DJIA are Alcoa (AA), AIG Insurance (AIG) Luke McGee Tottenham Hotspur Jersey , American Express (AXP), Boeing (BA), Citigroup (C), Caterpillar (CAT), Du Pont (DD), Walt Disney (DIS), General Electric (GE), General Motors (GM), Home Depot (HD), Honeywell (HON), Hewlett Packard (HPQ), IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), J.P. Morgan (JPM), Coca Cola (KO), McDonalds (MCD), 3M (MMM), Altria (the company formerly known as Phillip Morris, MO), Merck (MRK), Microsoft (MSFT), Pfizer (PFE), Proctor & Gamble (PG), A T & T (T), United Technologies (UTX), Verizon (VZ), Wal-Mart (WMT), and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

Since the DJIA companies serve as a microcosm for the broader stock market, you can learn all about investing by following the news and price movements of these 30 stocks. A fun and unique way to do this is to start a fantasy stock market league.

Create A Fantasy Stock Market Investing League

So you want to learn more about investing, but you lack the funds (or perhaps the guts) to risk real money? Start a fantasy stock investing league.

A fantasy stock market investing league is just like a fantasy football or baseball league, except you need fewer people to get started. Just invite five other friends over and randomly determine the order of the "draft" by drawing names out of a hat.

The person whose name is drawn first gets first pick of the 30 DJIA stocks. The person whose name is drawn second gets second pick, and so on. No stock can be picked by two people, and the draft order should reverse each round so that the person who picks last in round one, picks first in round two, etc.

With six players in your fantasy league, each player will .