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

[Guest seawolf17]

Can we trick the Yanks into taking Ishii and Glavine too?

[Guest Edgy DC]

"Never again, well maybe once more."

[Guest Elster88]

On the radio this morning they acted like Kenny had smacked around another camerman, saying "He did it again" over and over to try to sucker people into staying through the commercials. Talking trash to a cameraman is no big deal, IMHO.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yabbut, threatening one while you're heading to jail for making good on your threat to others is news.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

[url=http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20050721&content_id=1139916&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak]Jay Payton Is Feeling The Love in Oakland[/url]

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I wondered how he was gonna do there -- coming with a"I-in-Team" rep and replacing a popular player.

One of the great pleasures of being a Met fan in the late 90s/early 00s was the rare but exciting Jay Payton Hot Streak.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

The world famous Pedro Astacio starting today for the Pads. I didnt even notice Texas had waived him.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Pete Walker gets the win in a historic game in Toronto:

[url]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050729.wxjayz29/BNStory/Sports/[/url]

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Mr. John Olerud has been red hot lately for the Red Sox, and added a homer today in Boston's win vs. the Twins.

[Guest Valadius]

Dan Wheeler took the loss for the 'Stros against our Metsies today.

[Guest DocTee]

Marco Scutaro getting some time on LF for the A's (and he delivered the game-winning hit in Wednesday's come-from-behind victory vs the Tribe)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mike Bordick has been inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.

Bordick is a rarity not only for being a major leaguer (and a very successful one at that) who came from the US northern border, but also one who was originally signed after attending a tryout camp.

[Guest TheOldMole]

Carlton Willey was from Maine.

[Guest G-Fafif]

Roberto Petagine walked in the middle of a big Red Sox rally and scored on Varitek's grand slam.

Roberto Petagine's on the Red Sox?

[Guest Rotblatt]

They signed him in the offseason as 1B backup and shipped him down to Pawtucket, where he's been hitting the snot out of the ball. He's got something like a 1.100 OPS down there. They decided to call up Johnny O instead of him because he had some sort of foot problem when they had an opening and he wasn't able to man first. Then Johnny got hot and blocked Petagine until getting put on the DL today with a hammy problem.

His first shot at the bigs in I don't know how long and he gets to bat cleanup for the defending world champions. Not bad.

[Guest MFS62]

The feelgood movie "The Roberto Petagine Story" produced by Disney Filems. Coming soon, to a theater near you.

Later

[Guest G-Fafif]

Brady Clark's doing pretty well for himself these days.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Motherfucker.

Willie, figure out how to use our pen, for the love of Christ.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Wrong thread.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The threads are getting cross-contaminated, just like Rafael Pameiro's nutiritional supplements.

[Guest Rotblatt]

oops Sorry about that!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Alberto Castillo is designated for assignment, two RBI short of 100 for his career.

[Guest MFS62]

And wasn't that our old pal Pete Walker with another victory over the MFYs this [ast weekend? (See post at the top of this page)

Later

[Guest seawolf17]

More ex-Mets move north, as Ricky Bottalico joins Olerud and Petagine as he signs a minor-league deal with the Red Sox.

And hey! I'm Ricky Bottalico! Weird.

[Guest MFS62]

Theo's collecting ex-Mets from a time long, long ago:

Red Sox acquired LHP Mike Remlinger and cash from the Cubs for RHP Olivo Astacio.

Later

[Guest Elster88]

Maybe that there GM does know what he's doing

Payton, Jay (for Oakland)
19 G, 80 AB, 13 R, 24 H, 3 2B, 6 HR, 19 RBI, 3 BB, 14 SO, .300 AVG, .321 OBP, .563 SLG

[Guest Edgy DC]

Met fans who idolize the GMs of Oakland and Boston must've really been conflicted when that trade went down.

The Mets really helped Oakland turn it around this year. But didn't they?

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Standard Times (CT) catches up with the Mookster.

The Signal (Santa Clarita, CA) catches up with the Toddster.

[Guest Willets Point]

A whole lot of nothing in that article, but it's Mookie so it doesn't matter.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

The Zeile piece is overwritten and has a few minor errors but I liked it