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Reyes return. Heh, only a few years back morons on WFAN and ESPN Radio would have suggested Reyes would be sidelined for the year and it was a career threatning injury! "Oh but he won't be able to grip the bat right!"

Johnny Dickshot wrote: He went by Ty Gainey, IIRC. I knew a guy called Myron who went by Bryan. Minor league slugger without much in the way of secondary skills and heart failure huh? If this guy was a pro wrestler Mushnick would be all over this story in the next column. Probably still will though

Elster88 wrote:="SteveJRogers"]Elster88 wrote:]For those who suffered through the lean times in Flushing - that's a euphemism for the Art Howe Era Poor Art Howe. It's not like he had the players to succeed. Not all his fault.Yeah but the media hated the poor guy, he was too "nice" and too "small town/midwest/country" for New YorkWhich media members hated him?What did they say?Did they call him names in their articles?Where did you get this from?Listening to columnists-turned-radio hosts Wally Mathews and Tom Keegan who from day 1 never gave the guy a chance.Okay thats two so far, I'm not going to try to go through archives of the Post and News to search for attacks on Howe in 2003 and 2004, but the media did have it in for Art Howe, using the same diatribes leveled against Joe Torre in the winter of 1996

Bump before failing off front page Note to self, post this day before game, not day before off day

Farmer Ted wrote: His foundation is located in an apartment in Harlem? 279 West 117th Street, #6N New York, NY 10026 Weird. Not so weird, Harlem is having a bit of a renaissance, businesses are starting to set up shop there again

TheOldMole wrote: David's foundation seems to support solidly worthy causes. I liked the part about Jaerock's mother telling him it was his filial duty to die, die, die. Yup, this seems completely like someone wanted David to do an ad on the spot and didn't give David a chance to fully understand what he was attaching his name to. Chalk it up to 24 year old naiveté

Can a comment about a MFY go without a comment?

FWIW according to NY Times' Jack Curry on WFAN Mariano Rivera actually cut Sunday's press gathering short because he was late to mass! Would be shocked if Rivera was attached to this guy.

ScarletKnight41 wrote: FWIW, this doesn't seem to be one of the beneficiaries of David's foundation Heh, so pretty much proves the point that he just read the cue cards, this isn't a Steve Carlton situation

Elster88 wrote: Well put.

Wrong thread...

Edgy DC wrote: I don't think Billy Graham's ever been a faith healer. Fair point, and he's never been considered a snake oil, "bad hair & dimples" cultish salesman either, I was quickly going with the first name off the top of my head, hence the "wannabe" label

From Phil Mushnick in today's post. ]July 17, 2006 -- TO LIFT a line from The Doors, strange days have found us. So it's Saturday afternoon and we're watching the Mets on Ch. 11. They're playing the Cubs in Wrigley, when, during a commercial break, David Wright, in his Mets uniform and standing in Shea, pops up to tell us: "Hi, I'm David Wright. I invite you to the 'Salvation Miracles Revival Crusade' with Dr. Jaerock Lee, at Madison Square Garden, July 27, 28 and 29." And then a graphic, giving the dates and printed in Spanish, appears. Next we see footage of a man holding two crutches aloft, as if they were suddenly rendered needless by the Rev. Dr. Lee's astonishing healing powers. And then a similarly miraculous story is told as we see an elderly woman walking across a stage, her abandoned wheelchair in the background. Sorry, boys and girls, while we mean no offense toward anyone's spirituality and religious devotion - Wright's included - that was the weirdest player/team-connected TV ad we'd ever seen within a telecast of a big league game. And are Mets telecasts and Mets dressed in their Mets uniforms now available to help deliver religious come-ons of any and all kinds? But above and beyond all that, why is Wright telling us about the Rev. Dr. Lee? If this holy man can spring people from wheelchairs, shouldn't Wright, at the very least, be telling Victor Zambrano? Errmmm, not sure what to tell ya here. I'd imagine its Wright's personal thing not a Met sponsered spot.

Here is a Cincy Enquirer article on May 20th on Seaver and his Cincy Days http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060520/SPT04/605200333/1071 ]Seaver enjoyed stint with Reds Wanted to go into Hall with Pete Rose BY JOHN ERARDI | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Long before Tom Seaver was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 1992, he was thinking how cool it was going to be up on the dais with Pete Rose, his teammate on the 1977 Reds. "My last year (in baseball) was 1986, and Pete's last year was 1986, so that meant we were going to be going in together," Seaver said Friday. "Of course that thought crossed my mind. It would have been impossible for it to have not crossed my mind." That thought no longer crossed Seaver's mind when Rose was banished from baseball in 1989 for his involvement in gambling. Seventeen years later, Rose remains on the outside looking in when it comes to baseball and the Hall of Fame. Seaver, meanwhile, still has the highest percentage of votes (98.84 percent) in the 70-year history of the Hall of Fame. "The only reason that nobody before received a bigger percentage of votes is only because there were some older writers who weren't going to vote for anybody on the first ballot, no matter who the player was," Seaver said. "I mean, Joe DiMaggio didn't make it on the first ballot. How much more do you need to know?" Seaver's comments came on a day-long series of brief interviews to promote MasterCard's "Pay Pass," which allows "contact-less" payment. Seaver agrees with the experts that Rose might have been the first unanimous electee in Hall history had he not gotten into trouble. "It's difficult to imagine what might have been (had Rose not been banished)," Seaver said. "I'm like everybody else. I wish it (Rose's betting on baseball) had never happened." Seaver was arguably the best pitcher in baseball when he was traded by the Mets to the Reds. "That was a tremendous group (of starting eight) players that I joined in 1977," Seaver recalled. "What nobody realized at the time is that it was a team in transition." Despite the fact that Seaver was 14-3 with the Reds in 1977 (he was acquired June 15 and three days later pitched a three-hit shutout in Montreal), the team - which was coming off consecutive world championships in 1975 and '76 - finished 10 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. Seaver said he had great chemistry with catcher Johnny Bench. "I remember one time he came out to the mound when I was getting hit early - single, double, single ... and all he said was, 'Are you even trying?' and then just turned around and walked away. I went out behind the mound with my back to home plate and just busted out laughing. John knew that all I needed to do was exhale. We won the game 4-2 and I got the win." In only five seasons with the Reds, Seaver was 75-46 (.620 winning percentage, seventh-best in club history), was an All-Star in 1978 and 1981 and, on June 16, 1978 at Riverfront Stadium, pitched his only major-league no-hitter. "I'll never forget - even though it was 25 years ago - that we had the best record in baseball (66-42, .611, in the strike-shortened season) in 1981, but they (Major League Baseball) aced us out of the playoffs by splitting the season into two halves," Seaver said. "They wanted the big-market teams to make it to the World Series (which is what happened, as the Dodgers beat the Yankees, 4 games to 2) and the hell with the 1981 Cincinnati Reds. "Do I still sound upset?" asked Seaver, laughing. Seaver, 61, who has his first batch of grapes from Napa Valley, Calif., "in the oak" that will be sold as wine next year, will be inducted into the Reds Hall of Fame this summer, with Tom Browning and Lee May. They were voted in by fans last year. "It's an honor," Seaver said.

Baby, if you�ve been wondering, Wondering, whats up with the Mets They�re playing ball this week in Cincinnati, Versus Reds at the GABP! Seems like Mets are winning and winning Town to town, up and down the league, Maybe the Mets can win in Cincy, Just watch and enjoy the games for a while. Headin' up that highway leavin' the NL East behind, Playoffs will be starting in a few, Perhaps Reds will too, but there is plenty of time Who knows, we may be playing in Saint Lou. Hope Omar�s moves will help our starting pitching, Maybe a Willis or a Barry Zito. It's getting late, deadline is in a week or so, So lets watch the Mets and hope this lead they won�t blow. instrumental section Baby, if you�ve been wondering, Wondering, whats up with the Mets They�re playing ball this week in Cincinnati, Versus Reds at the GABP! Seems like Mets are winning and winning Town to town, up and down the league, Maybe the Mets can win in Cincy, Just watch and enjoy the games for a while. Three games at GABP in Cincinnati!. The Reds head into this series at 49-44 and are 3.5 games behind the first place Cardinals, as well as a 4 game winning streak after sweeping the Rockies. They also hold a 2 and a half game lead over the Dodgers for the Wild Card And here are your Reds (Stats W-L ERA, Batting Avg HR RBI): P 22 L/L Eric Milton 6-4 5.19 Will be facing Mike Pelfrey Tuesday night 39 R/R Aaron Harang 10-6 3.51 Will go Wednesday night against Steve Trachsel 61 R/R Bronson Arroyo 9-6 2.96 Will go Thursday afternoon (12:35 start) against Tom Glavine 46 B/R Joe Mays 0-1 6.56 54 L/R Elizardo Ramirez 3-6 4.16 81 R/L Eddie Guardado Closer 0-0 2.45 3 Saves 45 L/L Bill Bray Combined 2-1 3.75 56 R/R Todd Coffey 4-4 3.38 7 saves 38 R/R Gary Majewski Combined 3-2 3.97 50 L/L Kent Merker 1-1 4.74 35 R/R Jason Standridge 1-1 8.10 25 R/R David Weathers 3-3 4.85 9 saves INJ 60 36 R/R Grant Balfour DNP INJ 15 31 R/R Matt Belisle 2-0 4.24 INJ 15 34 R/L Brandon Claussen 3-8 6.19 INJ 60 40 R/R Paul Wilson DNP C 23 R/R Jason LaRue .318 4 14 17 B/R Javier Valentin .224 2 14 INJ 15 26 R/R David Ross .311 12 31 INF 21 L/R 1B Scott Hatteberg .311 8 29 4 R/R 2B Brandon Phillips .294 7 45 12 R/R 3B Edwin Encarnacion .281 6 37 2 R/R SS Royce Clayton Combined .272 0 30 33 R/R Rich Aurilia .275 11 36 9 R/R Juan Castro .316 2 6 OF 44 L/R LF Adam Dunn .248 30 64 3 L/R CF Ken Griffey .253 19 51 19 R/R RF Chris Denorfia .318 3 9 6 R/R Ryan Freel .296 5 15 15 L/L Dewayne Wise No hits in 9 At-Bats Your X-Factor Mets David Weathers Paul Wilson 60 Day DL Reds Juan Padilla 60 Day DL (2004) History Lesson 1968� Ever wonder why the heck MLB had the very Eastern Atlanta Braves and semi Eastern Cincinnati Reds in the National League West, while teams in the Heartland of Middle America, the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs resided in the National League East? Well, you can blame the Mets for this one! Yup. When realignment was being developed for the start of divisional play in 1969, the Mets had a say in how the league was going to be drawn up. Probably based on several St. Louis connections with the ball club (Bing Devine) and the feeling that the two time-defending NL Champs would be a great draw and rivalry it was decided that they�d be in the East with the Expos, Pirates, Phillies and Mets. Of course their long-standing rival, the Cubs had to join with them. So Cards and Cubs in, Braves and a fledgling Big Red Machine headed west to join the California trio and Astros. Of course the Cards of the 60�s got old, and in a hurry, while still respectable at 87-75 that was good for a 4th place finish in 1969. They�d have a bunch of 80 win teams throughout the decade of the 70�s, but nothing suggesting anything better than a middling team, until Whitey-Ball in the 1980�s, when the Mets gambit of a rivalry with the Cards finally paid off! The Reds? Only ran of one of the greatest eras in the game�s history. After two straight 4th place finishes in the old NL, they placed 3rd in the NL West in 1969. Under rookie manager Sparky Anderson in 1970, they won the first of 6 NL West flags in 10 seasons, as well as the first of 4 NL crowns. In that stretch, the only year they failed to finish 1st or 2nd was a 5th place finish in 1971. Suffice to say, if the Mets took the Cardinals over the Reds based on who they thought would make a better short term rival, boy were they ever wrong!

Frayed Knot wrote: He threw out the first pitch (about 40 ft worth) to Bench in today's game. Arguably the greatest non one year battery (Spahn-Berra 1965 Mets for example) in baseball history Heh, OE: I may now have to edit out "non-one year" because thanks to UMD, turns out the only game the two played in together, Yogi didn't catch! He was a pinch hitter! Maybe Grove-Cochrane as well

Floyd is also sitting in the 6th hole! 1. Cleon Jones 794 2. Kevin McReynolds 758 3. George Foster 617 4. Steve Henderson 482 5. Bernard Gilkey 363 6. Cliff Floyd 351

If all goes as planned, Edgardo may add here 1. Wally Backman 680 2. Felix Millan 654 3. Doug Flynn 533 4. Edgardo Alfonzo 524

Certain fans and mediots would never have believed this 3 years ago, but in about 12 more games played Reyes will also be at #6 All-Time for Met Short Stops 1. Bud Harrelson 1281 2. Rey Ord��ez 907 3. Kevin Elster 524 4. Rafael Santana 478 5. Frank Taveras 372 6. Roy McMillan 335 7. Jos� Reyes 323

Excuse me, right on the cusp at # 6 1. Howard Johnson 835 2. Wayne Garrett 709 3. Hubie Brooks 516 4. Edgardo Alfonzo 515 5. Robin Ventura 436 6. David Wright 317

Top 5 for Wright if I'm not mistaken

CLIFF FLOYD GRAND SALAMI!