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5 I'd go for right now Roberto Alomar Bert Blyleven Barry Larkin Tim Raines Alan Trammell I'm sure on Alomar, Blyleven, Raines and Trammell. I'm pretty sure about Larkin I wouldn't vote for anyone else eligible this year. yeah it was Timo not Payton, did Payton make a baserunning mistake in the playoffs? i feel like i remember one but i guess not.

� Roberto Alomar � Kevin Appier � David Segui � Robin Ventura � Todd Zeile I'm not sure if spitter makes it on the first ballot but he deserves to get in. The other guys likely won't hit the minimum needed to stay on the ballot another year, I'd guess Ventura comes closest though. mgim: Zeile Nope. Hit the bleeping ball six-inches higher, dammit! Still not over that Or Jay Payton could RUN instead of assuming that its gone.

I forgot ,they spent 138 million on the guy with a bum left elbow and have nothing to show for it Halladay will go to the highest bidder so you can count the Mets out

I'd vote for 5 of these guys, and 3 on some of the other ballots, thats just the way it goes

Sorry Omir, I don't get a vote.. Neither did he!

I've never picked up a copy of Rolling Stone (that I can recall). I've probably purchased "PC Gamer" more often than the Daily News. Piniero wouldn't be bad, the Mets need alot of help.

i want to see Alfonzo back in a Met uniform at the plate in a spring training game, i don't care if he hangs them up after 1 game, its not like spring ABs, particularly early on, don't get spent on a myriad of guys who will never make the team anyway. legitimate comeback attempt or last hurrah i don't care, i want fonzie!

it comes down to errors and fielding percentage the earth is flat. flat i tell you!

the members of congress have turned wasting time at work into an art form

when i said "any MLB team with players down there" i didn't mean to limit myself to the major league roster, i meant any player in the organization. i don't think the mets have a responsibility to avoid destabilizing a foreign country by pulling its personnel out (if in fact that would even be a plausible outcome), the mets have a responsibility to their personnel only. i don't think they need to pull them at this time, but if the time comes their safety should be the only consideration in the mets decision making.

If I were any MLB team with players down there I'd give them an open invitation to come back here immediately (and i'd pay them if they left, because hey its not my money and whatever they are making for the winter down there probably isn't a blip on the Met's financial radar), but thats about it for now.

when i saw this thread title i thought of the Usher song...

Castillo had a good year compared to what was expected of him, but the Mets would be wise to "sell high" with 2 years left on a contract that last winter they'd have probably paid to get rid of.

I'm proud to be a Mets fan. New York Mets Stand Up to Anti-Israel Pressure by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz In the face of far-left, Arab and Muslim opposition, the New York Mets organization has decided to honor its commitment to rent its Caesar's Club for a fundraiser benefiting the Jewish community of Hevron. Shortly after the venue for the Hebron Fund dinner in support of the Jews of Hevron was publicized, eleven organizations sent a letter to the Mets management calling upon them to disallow the event at Citi Field. Signatories included organizations from Israel, the US and the Palestinian Authority, some of which oppose Israeli sovereignty altogether and others which oppose any Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria. Despite their own opposition to a minority of Jews living among the Arabs of Hevron, in their November 3 letter the organizations attempted to present the planned fundraiser as "actively promot[in racial discrimination". They further presented the argument that the "New York Mets will be facilitating activities that directly violate international law and the Obama administration's call for a freeze in settlement construction...." The warning that the fundraiser would run counter to the US president's stated policy position was repeated throughout the letter. Nonetheless, the Mets organization stood firm in the face of the call to boycott the event supporting a Jewish presence in the Biblical city of Hevron. The annual Hebron Fund event is slated to take place as planned on Saturday night, November 21. The news of the Mets' decision was greeted by both Jewish organizations and individuals with expressions of great admiration. The National Council of the Young Israel Movement, representing organized Jewish communities and synagogues in the United States, wrote to the New York Mets management: "Your refusal to be intimidated by abhorrent acts of coercion by the groups calling for the cancellation of the Hebron Fund event is extremely noteworthy. By rejecting the hate-filled calls to inhibit the Hebron Fund�s freedom of expression and standing firm in its beliefs of what is right, the New York Mets organization displayed a degree of intestinal fortitude that is genuinely appreciated not just by our organization, but by the greater Jewish community." In his official letter, National Council of Young Israel President Shlomo Z. Mostofsky, Esq., noted, "In essence, the Hebron Fund dinner is a celebration of the human spirit. The New York Mets organization is not facilitating a political event; rather it is enabling a salute to a group of men, women, and children whose determination and inner strength have allowed them to remain in their communities, despite desperate attempts by Israel's adversaries to drive them from their homes." The new Jewish advocacy organization, Z Street, called upon supporters of Israel "to thank the New York Mets... for standing up against intimidation by defamers of Israel, posing as 'civil and human rights' activists. ...Thank you for stepping up to the plate and hitting a home run for truth and the Jewish people!" Last year's Hebron Fund dinner was held at the Marriott Marquis in New York. Eight far-left and Arab organizations called for a boycott at the time and gathered a handful of people to protest outside the venue. The Hebron Fund claims that last year's anti-Hebron Fund pressure was "organized by a few anti-Israel Jews affiliated with the Arab Adalah organization, whose main work is fighting against consensus organizations such as Friends of the IDF and pushing their Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel." Hebron Fund Director Yossi Baumol claimed that last year one of the far-left activists smashed the headlights of his vehicle.

his fault for telling the world wide web who he works for?

the times should send someone to photograph the alleged cracks and run them on the front page of the sports section and call levine a liar.

ashie pulls no punches. nice to see phillips fired. i bet new espn employee bobby v is loving it too.

and the concrete mix was designed and tested by a company under indictment on charges that it failed to perform some tests and falsified the results of others they're lucky that they'll just get sued by the team and that nobody can claim any injuries as a result (that we know of) The ramps were built by a company accused of having links to the mob so, a new york construction company then?

He added that answering questions about his past won�t be part of his job description asking those questions will be part of reporters' job descriptions though. if he/they have any sense he'll talk about at the beginning of spring training so that its over with and not a distraction in April.

I'm not discounting the idea--it doesn't take much to upgrade the Mets LF spot--but he strikes out 150 times a year. With Francoeur in right, don't the Mets have enough big K guys? the brewers had a team a few years back that struck out alot, maybe even a record. Neyer did a study showing that it didn't cost them runs when compared to other teams that had the same obp/slg.etc but made their outs in other ways.

Ashie down to 4% performance, putting him about 3.2% higher than anyone at my last job.

What I need are the "Chronology" or "Transactions" sections. (I know that they've appeared in the Guides back to as early as 1979; I'm not sure if they were in the earlier Guides, but I imagine they were.) the transactions page on mets.com includes when guys went on and off the DL and goes back to 2001