Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I wanted to read about the Mets getting Nady -- I wound up reading about Manny.

I wanted to read about Delgado -- got Manny.

Wagner? Manny.

Manny Manny Manny. I'm f'ing sick of Manny.

[Guest KC]

"They dropped the fuckin' ball on Vlad, the least they can do is bring in Manny"
was what one caustic fucktard loudly told me at the gas station yesterday.

Yelled it to me across the pumps, we both had Mets hats on.

[Elster88]

It wasn't me, I swear.

[Guest Edgy DC]

If Manny Ramirez is the least the Mets can do....

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

[Centerfield]

Holy crap! The Mets are interested in Manny?

[Frayed Knot]

Met fans have a new white whale to chase.
Beltran, Delgado, Pedro & Wagner within a 12 month span just doesn't quite scratch that 'I wanna BIG name' itch enough.

[Guest Iubitul]

Frayed Knot wrote: Met fans have a new white whale to chase. Beltran, Delgado, Pedro & Wagner within a 12 month span just doesn't quite scratch that 'I wanna BIG name' itch enough.

I'm starting to feel like a Yankee fan....

I need to take a shower now....

[Willets Point]

Did we get Manny yet?

[Guest sharpie]

MFY fan in the hall just asked me if Mets were getting both Manny and Soriano.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Shouldn't that be Manny, Soriano, and Molina?

[Elster88]

The hell with it...Pujols can play the outfield right? Let's get him too.

[Guest sharpie]

Molina is not a big enough name. Pudge Rodriguez should be the catcher.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Pujols can play third after we move Wright.in the Vazquez deal.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Don't forget about Zito, Vazquez & Hoffman, guys.

I figure our lineup will be:

Reyes
Beltran
Delgado
Manny
Floyd
Wright
Soriano
Molina

& our rotation will be:

Pedro
Zito
Glavine
Vazquez
Benson

with a pen of:

Wagner, Hoffman, Robo, Heilman, Zambrano & Seo

[Guest sharpie]

Pudge, dammit, not Molina.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Back to business, this article is two years old and dug out of a cache, but has just about all I need to know about Wagner.

Well, a picture of his wife for the album would be nice.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Ken Davidoff: CPF Wannabe.

] Man oh Manny, Minaya, forget this guy already! Ken Davidoff Baseball December 11, 2005 Sixteen weeks and a day to go until the Mets kick off 2006 with a home game against the Nationals, which means there's time for at least 12 more incarnations of the Manny Ramirez trade discussions. Manny for Aaron Heilman, Lastings Milledge and Brian Bannister ... Manny for Carlos Beltran and $20 million ... Manny for Kris Benson, Chris Woodward and a "Seinfeld" Season 4 DVD ... Manny, Manny, Manny. You can get a pre-emptive headache just thinking about what lies ahead. So here are some holiday shopping tips for Omar Minaya, who clearly regards Manny as his great conquest, his personal Moby Dick: Give it up. Focus on your bullpen. Don't fall into the same trap as the 2002-05 Yankees. For the moment, things have cooled on the Manny front. As Red Sox senior adviser Bill Lajoie - about 1,000 times more forthcoming than Theo "No, I won't comment on what day of the week it is" Epstein - said Thursday at the winter meetings, "Manny, we were close [to a trade] in our minds before we came here, but not in actuality. We felt we'd be able to do it here, but we weren't." The Mets, meanwhile, having doled out just about $100 million in commitments to Carlos Delgado, Billy Wagner, Paul Lo Duca and reserves Julio Franco and Jose Valentin, clearly want to rest before making another huge expenditure. Or, at least, trade Benson and Kaz Matsui. But you can set your watch to it: Be it in the days ahead or after the holidays, Minaya, as long as he has access to a telephone, will check in once again with the Red Sox on Manny, just to hear the latest asking price. Because of what Minaya already has accomplished this offseason, Ramirez should be his last priority. Offense is no longer a problem for the Mets, thanks to the arrival of Delgado, who figures to provide lineup and spotlight protection for Beltran in addition to serving as a mammoth upgrade over Doug Mientkiewicz. Yes, the Mets' starting rotation could use some help, but not from Javier Vazquez, who struggled greatly for the Diamondbacks last season, and not with a Milledge-for-Barry Zito swap; I'd rather see Milledge as the leftfielder in 2007. The rotation is good enough now to make the playoffs, but with a front end of Pedro Martinez and Tom Glavine, neither of whom reaches the eighth inning anymore, they're going to need a deep bullpen to build a bridge to Wagner. How about signing Ricardo Rincon and Rudy Seanez? Even if the bullpen gets staffed sufficiently and Matsui finds a new home, Minaya should view what happened to the Yankees these past few years. From 2002 until May of last season, the Yankees kept adding All-Star after All-Star to their lineup and pitching staff, boosting their payroll past the $200-million mark. Little consideration was given to the notion that a good team exceeds the sum of its parts. And you know what happened. The Yankees, for all of their regular-season success, haven't been able to navigate through an entire October, their huge payroll advantage notwithstanding. They haven't clicked as a unit, committing memorable defensive gaffes, making bad pitches, failing in the clutch. The 2004 Red Sox had enough team-first guys to allow Manny to be Manny. Maybe the 2006 Mets would, too, but it's not a risk worth taking. There already is a pair of star players here in Delgado and Beltran. And at Shea Stadium, Ramirez's warts would stand out more. Suddenly, he would have far more real estate to patrol than he does at tiny Fenway Park. "If the Mets get Manny Ramirez," one American League scout observed, "he'll be the first outfielder sponsored by OnStar." He'll need help finding his way around. When you commit yourself to Ramirez, an AL general manager observed recently, "You sell your soul a little bit." No matter how much he hits, it still takes something out of a team when Ramirez vanishes mentally for a week. The Mets don't need his offense badly enough to tolerate those disappearing acts, or the additional strain on their payroll and farm system. They need to think small. One day at a time toward Opening Day, like a quitting smoker, Minaya must stay Manny-free. It's the Mets' best chance for complete success.

[metirish]

That was good, I like Davidoff.

[Guest cleonjones11]

Please don't trade Lastings Milledge...unless new rape chardes are filed..oh heck..we have Ramon Castro so lets just keep Milledge..

[Guest Edgy DC]

Easy. Were there old rape charges? I don't think that's what we've got.

[nymr83]

i dont think he was ever charged, and i hate the public's presumption that suspected rapists are guilty when most other suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
unless Milledge is indicted for something i don't even need to hear about that junk