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Friday Hot Stove
My Pinstripes — It's been a bit since we've taken a look at the non-Yankees hot stove, primarily because NOTHING has been going on, but here we go. Eric Chavez is pissed and who can blame him. The A's have already dealt their best pitcher, Dan Haren, and their best slugger, Nick Swisher. When asked if he thought the A's would sign Barry Bonds, Chavez's response said it all. "If he's in uniform next year, there's a 90 percent chance it will be with the Oakland A's," Chavez said. "It will be old, broken-down guys, me, [Mark] Kotsay and Barry, and a bunch of 19-year-olds." Chavez ...

Clemens, Pettitte Invited to Capitol Hill
MVN Outsider — This time, it has nothing to do with bagging a World Series and everything to do with actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wants Roger Clemens (who swears now, and will swear on 60 Minutes, that he was injected with vitamin B12 and a painkiller known as lidocaine) and Andy Pettitte (who admitted, a couple of days after the Mitchell Report named him, that he tried hGH twice in 2002 for elbow trouble) to testify 16 January, along with former New York Mets clubhouse man Kirk Radomski (whose bagging was, er, a precursor to the Mitchell Report) and former Clemens/Pettitte trainer ...