Rico Brogna, Good Fit (and other ex-Met updates)

[Guest Elster88]

Don't read the article. I can sum it up for you.

"Ha ha, Keith Hernandez did cocaine. Snort the baseline. Ha ha."

[Guest Willets Point]

[banging head on marble countertop]I know I posted about the Curse of Keith Hernandez a few months ago - linking a newspaper article - and questioned why Keith would curse the Cards to win two pennants at the expense of his team the Mets, but I can't find it anywhere in the archives! [/banging head on marble countertop]

[Guest metirish]

Kelly Stinnett will be the backup catcher to Posada says the Daily News.

[Guest sharpie]

Which would nullify the Mets-free Yankee team we had hoped for.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I'm fine with the Yankees signing Stinnett. As a matter of fact, I wish they would sign Cedeno for CF and Rodriguez for their bullpen too.

[Guest Edgy DC]

• Dale Plummer, former Tide, is being passed off as a former Met.


• [url=http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051130&content_id=35281&vkey=pr_t461&fext=.jsp&sid=t461]Wally Whitehurst[/url] returns to the Eugene Emeralds for a second season as pitchign coach.


• Julio Santana signs what looks like a minor-league deal with Philly.


• Dwight Gooden, Rick Aguilera, and Orel Hershiser, you may have heard, are on the Hall of Fame ballot.

[Guest Valadius]

And Gregg Jefferies.

[Guest seawolf17]

]Red Sox sue to keep ball that made '04 Series final out BOSTON -- The Red Sox have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to keep the ball that Doug Mientkiewicz caught for the final out to clinch Boston's 2004 World Series title, The Boston Globe reported Thursday. Ownership of the ball has been in dispute during the 13 months since pitcher Keith Foulke flipped it to Mientkiewicz, giving Boston a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals and its first World Series championship in 86 years. Mientkiewicz, who clutched the ball in his glove and joined teammates in celebration, later put the ball in a safe deposit box and claimed ownership when the Red Sox asked for it. In January, days after he was traded to the New York Mets, he agreed to lend the ball to the Red Sox for one year. He would get it back "unless the ultimate issue of ownership has been otherwise resolved," the agreement said. That clause, The Boston Globe reported, led team lawyers to Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday. The suit asks the court to place the ball in a "secure location" until ownership is decided. The team's lawyers argue that Mientkiewicz gained possession of the ball only because he was a Red Sox employee, and that the ball is team property. "From our perspective, it is very important that an artifact with this much history, it was 86 years in the making, be part of the club archive and be available for fans to experience," Lucinda Treat, the team's chief legal officer, told the newspaper. The Red Sox made quite a splash once they got the ball on Feb. 3, when it was driven to Fenway Park in a Brinks truck. The ball joined the World Series trophy on a tour of Massachusetts cities and towns. Neither Mientkiewicz nor the players' association were reached for comment, the Globe reported. When he agreed to lend the ball to the team, Mientkiewicz said: "I want the fans to see it, and that's what both the Red Sox and I agreed on." At that time, he said it was "very cordial, and we worked something out." He also said he "probably" would get the ball back after a year. Their agreement said proceeds directly derived from exhibiting the ball would be donated to the Red Sox Foundation, the team's charity organization.

You had to know this would happen.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bad form.

[Guest Elster88]

The hell with Minky. A .235 hitter with a bad attitude to boot. Good luck getting that ball to the Sox.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Octavio Dotel is biding his time, entertaining suitors.

[Guest Zvon]

Edgy DC wrote: Octavio Dotel is biding his time, entertaining suitors.

I think the Phils would be better off with Dotel, as opposed to Hoffman.

Im hearin it from local Phils fans, and they are not happy with the Mets grabbin Wags.
Nope,....not at all.

I say tuff ti**ies, or something similar.

[Guest Nymr83]

the danger with these surgeries seems to be coming back too soon. if i were a smart team i'd pay him 3/4 of a million to NOT pitch for them all year and then a normal salary for 2007 and an option with a buyout for 2008. someone could get a steal for 07/08 by gauranteeing him the money now while he is still in the recovery process.

[Guest Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: Octavio Dotel is biding his time, entertaining suitors.

I hope the Mets are serious about asking him out. And we wouldn't even have to give up Benson for him.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Brett Butler gets a managerial gig.

Bill Denehy could throw marshmallows through battleships, seriously.

[Guest Valadius]

Dotel won't be able to pitch until midseason. Would we take that risk?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Craig Shipley, coaching the Aussies.

Tug McGraw, paid tribute to by Flash Gordon.

[Guest metirish]

[url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2248518]Byrd goes home[/url]

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Take this with a grain of salt, but Dyar Miller's ship may be about to come in

[Guest Edgy DC]

The manager of the Mexican team in the World Baseball Classic is to be Paquin Estrada, who, if that description is correct, is the same guy as Francisco Estrada.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Following David Wright catches you up with Keith Miller.

That's two former Mets that have resurfaced representing current Mets.

[Guest Valadius]

DALLAS (AP) -- Joe McEwing and the Kansas City Royals agreed to a minor league contract on Wednesday.

The utilityman batted .239 with one homer and six RBIs in 180 at-bats with the Royals last season. He played seven positions and served as a designated hitter.

McEwing gets a $650,000 major league contract if he's added to Kansas City's 40-man roster next season.

[Guest Elster88]

]served as a designated hitter.

If Super Joe is EVER your DH then your team's got problems.

[Guest Edgy DC]

You'd figure ti could happen once. You know, a pinch-hitting situation where a tough lefty pitcher is coming in against a lefty batter vulnerable to them and Joe's the only available righthanded hitter. He had one appearance for the Mets at DH in 2001 (when he hit well) so I figured that it was something like that.

But then I checked. He appeared at DH five times for the Royals this season.

[Guest metirish]

Kenny Rogers is taking his act to Detroit...

] BY JON HEYMAN STAFF WRITER December 8, 2005, 1:18 PM EST Kenny Rogers has agreed to sign a two-year, $16-million deal with the Detroit Tigers, Newsday has learned. Rogers, who pitched for the Yankees in 1996 and '97, went 14-8 with a 3.46 ERA for Texas last year. Rogers, 41, was an All-Star last year.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

What's with all these quartogenarians getting two-year deals?

[Guest Valadius]

Clemens and Berto, maybe?

[Guest MFS62]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: What's with all these quartogenarians getting two-year deals?

Watch those age cracks. Mole and I consider them kids. :)

Later

[Guest MFS62]

Bye Bye Ty
http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=MLB&id=6930

Later

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm a quartogenarian myself, '62. It's funny how a 35-year-old baseball player seems old to me, but a 35-year-old I meet in person seems like a kid.