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Sandy on the FAN with Francesa Right Now! And he will take calls. Missed it till now, but just heard Mike announce they will open the phone lines.

Clearly I missed something over the last few days. I am sure I'm missing a joke, but "Mick Emaus" cannot possibly be a real name. Can it?

I'm sure he'll get a nice long ovation at this year's Old Timer's Day.

I sense no love lost between Verducci and Chass. I love how he kept derisively referring to him as a "blogger."

The comments on Carter brings up a question: Can you teach someone to be a better thrower? Someone's technique I am sure can be changed, which would help in some cases. But could a coach be brought in to work with someone just on their arm? I mean, you hear about guys all the time having their swings and their pitching motions tweaked. Why not a throwing arm?

If I'm gonna go crazy on years and $$ for an outfielder, my first choice would be Crawford. Irish, I want to say the Howard contract last year was panned pretty much across the board

Good question. Rey Ordonez?

That's a good booth. Surprised that ESPN didn't muck it up.

He's thinking of the color yellow.

Loved this. Thanks for linking to it. The Mets really didn't have the handshake thing down did they? Also, I noticed they lined up from 1st base down to the plate, unlike the way they do it now. No managerial handshake this way.

^^ Charlie Hustle???

I was 5-6 when Willie came back to NY. Was his play really as embarrassing as all these columns about him would indicate?

Ceetar wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: If Derek Jeter was a Met I'd be as excited about his 3,000th hit as I was about Gary Sheffield's 500th home run or Tom Glavine's 300th win. Which was not at all. I was marginally excited about Glavine. He'd been building up Mets stats to being tolerable. I didn't know he was saving up so he could set it all on fire at once. It also allowed us to see Mrs. Glavine giving Guillermo Mota a death stare.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: And Verducci! Don't forget Verducci! There's no way they're going to let Jeter walk, and his media buddies are aiding and abetting his negotiating. I think it is about 95-5 that he stays, but up until yesterday I always thought it was 100% that he wasn't going anywhere.

^^ Agreed, though I don't think last year was a great BB season for Luis.

I would think the Mets would improve in their walk total just by virtue of the fact that 714 PAs will not be going to Barajas and Francoeur.

I listened to Francesa on my drive home last night for the teeth-gnashing, hysterical Yankee fans and they didn't disappoint. Francesa, amazingly, admitted he was wrong that there'd be no issues with this contract negotiation, was convinced that the Yanks would "take care of Derek". Now he actually could see him looking elsewhere, in fact saying that if he were Jeter he would absolutely seek out other offers. Of course, Francesa had to bring the stupid with his assertion that if he were the Mets, he'd sign Jeter "tonight". Because the Mets need to sell tickets and Jeter would do that with his quest for 3000 hits (!). So I'm thinking, wow, would Jeter go to the Mets to play second, because Mike would surely agree that is the only spot the Mets could play him. Oh, no, "put Jetah at short and move Reyes to second, or, put Jetah at third and move Wright 'somewhere'." Jesus, does he even watch baseball, or know anything about the Met fan? My wild guess if he were to wind up elsewhere: Don't think Jeter would sign with Boston or NYM (nor do I think either team would offer him) Could see him with Mattingly and LAD, but not with their ownership in flux. How about an owner and manager who would love to stick it to the Yanks and are trying to revive a flagging franchise: Derek Jeter, shortstop for your Baltimore Orioles.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: bmfc1 wrote: No questions from The Times, Newsday, News, etc? I thought that was weird too. I guess the print guys get their own conference. I mean what's Russ Salzberg gonna bring me? I don't think I've ever heard Tracksuit's voice. Was waiting for his question.

Not a lot of questions...where are you Rubin, Lennon, et al?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Kevin Burkhardt always seems to get the first question, doesn't he? Used to like Kevin...now he's got a little smug thing going that is starting to turn me off.

Pinstripe jersey

"Ballsy"?

Has Omar sought you out to ask for advice on a career at ESPN?

Is the two-year deal thing confirmed? If so, why only two years?

Welcome, Terry, and good luck. Not an easy situation to come in to. Now let's get your staff together and play some ball.