Michel Abreu

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Jorge Toca Junior?

] METS GET INSURANCE AT 1ST By MARK HALE The Mets have signed Michel Abreu, a Cuban defector expected to provide some insurance at first base. According to a baseball official, Abreu will get a one-year minor league deal and probably will be a minor leaguer for the Mets. The two sides came to terms on Wednesday, said Abreu's agent Bernie McGregor. According to McGregor, the right-handed hitting Abreu � whose first name is pronounced "Michelle" � is a 6-foot-3, 230-pounder who plays primarily at first but also has played left field and third base. The agent said Abreu, 31, will have a chance to make the Mets � likely as a backup or role player � and noted that he was Cuba's leading home run hitter for four straight years. Abreu defected from Cuba in February 2004, according to McGregor, who said the Braves, Rangers, Marlins, Angels and Red Sox also had expressed interest. Abreu signed with the Red Sox last September, McGregor said, but the contract was voided approximately three weeks later.

[seawolf17]

Twice! Twice we get a chance at a "Mets Get Abreu!!" thread, and both times we fail. We're losing our edge.

I loved Jorge Toca; I was disappointed that he never became anything. He was a cult hero of ours in the Jorge Velandia mode. Maybe we just have a thing for Jorges. Although I never cared for Jorge Fabregas. I don't know.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I suck at teh intranet

[Guest KC]

I tried to corner the Jorge Toca rookie card market, didnt work out as planned.

[MFS62]

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/09/13/hoping_his_power_translates/?page=full

And he has a sense of humor, too. (note the Ted Williams comment)

(Not sure where I read this - it was a Gammons comment) I'm not sure whether he can play in the US until 2007 because he hasn't yet established a permanent residence outside of Cuba.

Later

[A Boy Named Seo]

That Globe article said he was 27, and it was run September 13, 2005. In the five months since, poor Michel has aged 4 heavy years, as the Post sez he's 31. At that rate, he'll catch Julio Franco by the start of next season!

[Zvon]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: According to McGregor, the right-handed hitting Abreu � whose first name is pronounced "Michelle" � is a 6-foot-3, 230-pounder who plays primarily at first but also has played left field and third base.

.....are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6'3'' non french man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?

[Zvon]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: According to McGregor, the right-handed hitting Abreu � whose first name is pronounced "Michelle" � is a 6-foot-3, 230-pounder who plays primarily at first but also has played left field and third base.

.....are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6'3'' non french man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?

[Zvon]

.....are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6'3'' non french man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?

[Zvon]

.....are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6foot3'' non french man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?

[Zvon]

.....are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6foot3'' non French man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?

[Zvon]

.....are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6foot3'' non French man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?

[Zvon]

Are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6foot3'' non French man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?

[seawolf17]

Okay, something is definitely screwed up here.

[Zvon]

] According to McGregor, the right-handed hitting Abreu � whose first name is pronounced "Michelle" � is a 6-foot-3, 230-pounder who plays primarily at first but also has played left field and third base.

Are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6foot3'' non French man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?

[Zvon]

yea.i kept getting a dubug error message.
Ill delete those

[Zvon]

im still getting this message everytime i try to post something tho.
Ill copy this one and post it.

[Zvon]

Could not insert new word matches

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INSERT INTO phpbb_search_wordmatch (post_id, word_id, title_match) SELECT 52349, word_id, 0 FROM phpbb_search_wordlist WHERE word_text IN ('still', 'getting', 'message', 'everytime', 'try', 'post', 'tho', 'ill', 'copy', 'one')

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File : functions_search.php

[Zvon]

and i dont seem to have the option to delete those.
Lil help admin whenever you can.
Just the 1st copy of the post should suffice.
Plz delete the rest.
And sorry

[Guest KC]

Thanks for posting the text of the error message, zvon.

[Guest KC]

I got it too.

[Zvon]

np.
this is the text on the original.

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Im trying a different browser right now.
Ill let you know if I get the same message after this post.

[Guest GYC]

Are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6foot3'' non French man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?

[Guest GYC]

General Error

Could not insert new word matches

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1016 Can't open file: 'phpbb_search_wordmatch.MYI' (errno: 145)

INSERT INTO phpbb_search_wordmatch (post_id, word_id, title_match) SELECT 52362, word_id, 0 FROM phpbb_search_wordlist WHERE word_text IN ('telling', 'i', 'away', 'calling', '230', 'pound', '6foot3', 'non', 'french', 'man', 'michelle', 'anyone', 'years', 'lead', 'cuba', 'homers')

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File : functions_search.php

[Theoldmole]

Are you telling me I can get away with calling a 230 pound, 6foot3'' non French man Michelle?

Does anyone know what years he lead Cuba in homers?


...just so Zvon won't feel alone.

[metirish]

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