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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    Adam Rubin wrote: Collins remained optimistic Beltran would open the season with the team. Otherwise, the Mets could use Scott Hairston and Willie Harris in right field and place on-the-bubble Nick Evans on the 25-man roster, or use the farm system and have Fernando Martinez or Lucas Duda start in right field.
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    I agree. The Mets need to get a fallback plan in place, one that doesn't involve making a regular starter out of Harris or Hairston.
  3. Benjamin Grimm
    They also do a good impression of Cary Grant.
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    If Beltran can't answer the bell, then maybe it's Fernando's time to shine.
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    Maybe I missed something. Why was Beltran able to play regularly during the last half of the 2010 season, but now, even further removed from his surgery, he's so much more frail?
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    The next Phillies' shortstop:
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    And Chase Utley can barely walk.
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    Charlie Sheen's strange tribute to Ralph Kiner
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    You can't be Dutch and Jewish?
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    I'm still hoping for Robert Abplanalp. I liked that his name is almost a palindrome.
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    Who replaced Young?
  12. Benjamin Grimm
    Ouch. Facelifts.
  13. Benjamin Grimm
    Does the definition of "sufficient" include salary as a factor? You'd have lower expectations from a guy who's earning $500,000 than you would from somebody who's going to earn $17.5 million. You could argue, yeah, he's pitching well, but he's not pitching SEVENTEEN AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS well. Releasing somebody so you don't have to pay his salary happens all the time. It's called a "layoff."
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    Yes, good for him. But really, unless something unexpected happens (like a high number of spring injuries to the pitching staff) Ollie is really auditioning for his next job, the major-league minimum contract he'll get from whoever picks him up after he's released.
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    Well, a new owner would bring the Mets out of the Madoff cloud. I don't know that it would bring wisdom where there was foolishness. The Wilpons haven't been the best possible stewards of the franchise, but they haven't been the worst either.
  16. Benjamin Grimm
    Still, I don't think they'd release him after a scoreless outing. They'll probably wait until he gets hammered again.
  17. Benjamin Grimm
    Well... if they're responsible for the vesting even if game 55 comes with another team, then there would be no point at all to releasing him. They'd have to pay him $17.5 million to pitch for someone else. I have no idea if there's any precedent. But if the new team is responsible for the vesting, then releasing him at game 54 (or earlier) could be a very wise move.
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    Edgy DC wrote: Ollie's day ends after two innings and two hits, no runs and no walks. Looks like those eager for Oliver's head to roll will have to wait at least a few more days.
  19. Benjamin Grimm
    Why does he use "Ann Gold" as his e-mail address? Is that going to be his post-op name?
  20. Benjamin Grimm
    This one's for Edgy DC:
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    Fans don't buy tickets to see plans, they buy tickets to see winning baseball. If the team is good, they'll sell plenty of tickets. If it's not, they won't.
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    So... it didn't look like that when they went to bed?
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    I was wondering, can the Mets just release Frankie after his 54th finish? (Their status in the pennant race may make that impractical, so let's put that issue aside.) There's nothing wrong with releasing a player to get out from his contract vesting, right? That's what happened last year with Alex Cora. Doing that with Rodriguez would be more unorthodox, but it could be a way to save $17.5 million. It would suck for him, however, because any team that picks him up for the remainder of 2011 would get his last few months at the major league minimum, but as soon as he finishes one game for them, they'd be on the hook for 2012, wouldn't they? Just a thought.
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    The news about Goossen seems to have filtered out rather slowly. (Maybe he was overshadowed by Duke Snider.) Goossen didn't get his biggest spike of UMDB hits until yesterday, and his obit didn't appear in the Daily News until today's edition.
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    Oh, and M*A*S*H's Harry Morgan, who had a role in High Noon, is still alive at 95.
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