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March 09, 2006^2:00pm
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Konerko almost signed with the Angels
www.latimes.com/sports/baseball/mlb/la-sp-angelrep9mar09,1,4676403.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-majorbaseb
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LATimes registration link again... sorry about that.  Here is the key quote:

&box-On the day he signed his five-year, $60-million contract with the Chicago White Sox last November, Paul Konerko was asked how close he was to signing elsewhere.

"If I told you," Konerko said, "you wouldn't believe it."

Now it can be told.

"If I was a betting man, I'd say there was a 60 to 70% chance I was going to the Angels," Konerko said before the White Sox's 5-2 exhibition loss to the Angels on Wednesday. "So that's pretty close."-box&