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Benjamin Grimm
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Stop feeling Melvin! It's kind of creepy, and you may frighten him away.
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Andy Martino wrote: John Gibbons will not interview 4 Mets job, Phillies bench coach Pete Mackanin could become a candidate, according to sources. Story up soon
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Gibbons is interesting.
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Here's Clint and a foxy lady posing in front of his van: If you gave me ten thousand guesses, I never would have said that was Clint Hurdle.
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I do hope he comes back.
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David Waldstein, NY Times wrote: His first order of business will be to hire a manager, and Alderson has told people he would not favor hiring Wally Backman, the former Met who manages the franchise�s Class A Brooklyn team. Alderson favors more low-key managers who follow the overall philosophy and strategy set forth by him. Somebody get Art Howe on the line!
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I've only seen this once, and it was a long time ago. (I might have been 15 or 16.) I recall not entirely understanding what was going on. I don't know if it was because the plot was complex or confusing, or if it was because I was watching late at night. (Back before VCR's and TiVo, I had to actually stay up very late to watch a late movie.)
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For me, he calls to mind Yadier Molina.
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What is Ed Price saying?
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Well, we have that one tidbit about him preferring an Earl Weaver type to a Gene Mauch, and my hunch is that Backman (based on the kind of player he was, anyway) is on the Mauch side of the spectrum. I also wonder about the reported desire to have a guy with "Mets ties." Sure, the Mets are on Chip Hale's resume, but I would think his "Met factor" is fairly low, much lower than Backman's, Mazzilli's, or Valentine's. Is the "Mets ties" thing (if true; we can't be sure that it is) based on fan acceptance/familiarity? And, finally, my mind keeps coming back to Tim Teufel, perhaps unreasonably. Might he be the three-run-homer guy with Mets ties that would satisfy both Alderson and the Wilpons? He's put up some losing records in the minor leagues as a manager, but I don't know if that's a reflection on him, on his roster, or both. But I do suspect that Tim will get some consideration.
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That's the nature of the Philadelphia Inquirer sports section. I guess it's no different than many local newspapers in that it really panders to a home-town bias. The thing is, it wasn't always like that. (I've been reading the Inquirer since 1988.) Their sports section has really degraded over the years.
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He's a player with talent, and would have value to some teams in the right role. If I was a GM, and I thought he, at his current level, could help the team, I'd offer him a contract that is in line with what kind of production I'd expect. His value to the Yankees is greater than it is to anyone else. I don't expect any other teams to make a competitive offer, unless things really fall apart between Jeter and the Yankees, which seems unlikely.
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Maybe we should send her flowers.
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Oooh... like Patrick Swayze!
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I don't know what I'd rather see: The Yankees getting burned on a long-term expensive contract to Jeter, or Jeter having to finish out his career in Pittsburgh or Kansas City.
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To really be fair, you should only let first-place teams make the playoffs. Let the regular season mean something. The system that was in place from 1969 through 1993 was just fine.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Also... Between the blaDOW and the brisket, I would marry this picture of Ms. Piek, if it would have me. Good gravy. I don't see any gravy, but the rest does look pretty good.
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I especially like the part where's he's basically saying he'd prefer an Earl Weaver to a Gene Mauch. Maybe he'll actually hire Earl Weaver himself! I think Earl isn't quite 90 yet, so he might have a few more pennants in him.
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No, just any LDS or LCS series that features a wild card team. (But not the World Series)
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Almost. There's no minimum salary for General Managers. The Mets would have to pay him a "reasonable" salary. (They couldn't give him an honorary $1-a-year contract, for example.) But Byrnes will make the same income whether he works for the Mets next year or spends his time playing golf.
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�We have less teams than any other sport,� he said last month. �We certainly haven�t abused anything.� So let's not start now! Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt is concerned that adding wild-card teams or increasing the length of the division series would make a long season even longer. I don't see any reason to shave eight games off the regular season* to accommodate two extra potential games in the LDS. *I'm assuming here that the season would be reduced to its original 154 games and not to 160. I'd be inclined to leave things as they are. I'd be okay with a best-of-seven LDS, though. (Maybe they can make the home-away counts more tilted against the wild card team. Maybe a 2-5 instead of a 2-3-2.) But I don't want to see the regular season reduced.
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Dominique is rather happenin'.
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Maybe to give viewers more time to transition from football to baseball?
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Is Bill Price related to that AOL Fanhouse guy?
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