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I'd like for the voice of Katharine Hepburn to introduce Jeter's future at bats.

You are the King of all Metaholics.

"It got so weird in here by August," said one player. "It's so much better now." I'm not necessarily defending Jerry but by August, if not earlier, Manuel was a lame duck manager and everybody knew it. I'd bet even Jerry knew it.

metirish wrote: Ha , what year was that batmag? Less than a year ago: April 23, 2010. Seems a lot longer.

On the fourth day of this baseball season, R.A. Dickey slots in at third place in ESPN.com's new feature - The Cy Young Predictor - based on formulas by Bill James and Rob Neyer

But Feliciano, who said he had never been on the DL in any of his previous eight major league seasons, said Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen hurt his feelings by saying concern over his number of appearances was the reason the Mets did not re-sign him after the 2010 season. "I feel hurt a little by that," Feliciano said "I didn't sign with them because they offered me one year. But me and my agent, we wanted a multiyear. Two or more years and they just gave me one. That's why I'm not a Met right now." The Yankees signed Feliciano to a two-year, $8 million deal with a club option for 2013, wanting a second lefty in their bullpen along with Boone Logan. Feliciano pitched four innings in spring training before being shut down on March 22. There is no timetable for Feliciano's return but he is expected to play catch either Wednesday or Thursday. "They said they didn't sign me because [they knew] I'm going to blow up this year," Feliciano said. "That hurts because I like Dan. But I will come out from this injury and I will be telling him there is still a lot of Feliciano to go." Asked if he had called his former pitching coach to discuss his statements, Feliciano said, "No, no, no. No, no, no. I don't got his number or nothing. I will show him in the Subway Series when I strike out Ike Davis, and when I jump up and down on the mound I'll be like, 'That's for you.'" http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=6293296&campaign=rss&source=MLBHeadlines

Vic Sage wrote: i don't see a need in deciding which was a bigger bunting douche between Wee Willie Small Balls and Jerry "the Bunt****" Manuel. Lets agree they both sucked. what concerns me is we may have a new member of that sorority on our hands. BIFL, Terry! Which you'd think impossible given the guys that now occupy the front office.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Top that. Top that? I can try (with a little memory jogging from BP) Jerry has Castillo sac bunting against the Cards left fielder turned reliever in last year's 20 inning marathon, after the Mets leadoff batter reached on four straight pitches that didn't even sniff the strike zone. As of last April, Castillo was still considered to be one of the likeliest Mets not to make an out.

Willie was as bad a bunt manager as I ever saw. I'm not defending Manuel because he turned out to be another Bozo in a long line of Mets clown managers but Jerry went all of 2008 (partial season, granted) without bunting (not literally), whereas Willie couldn't go one game without it. In two different games, Willie Randolph called for the sac bunt in the top of the first with a man on second and nobody out. In Denver. The runner on second was fast enough to score from second without the ball leaving the infield. Top that.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Boy would it doubly suck for K-Rod to finish the game and blow the lead. ... and the game.

Boy would it doubly suck for K-Rod to finish the game and blow the lead.

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Edgy DC wrote: I was perfectly good --- almost celebratory --- that Beato come out for a second inning. As a general rule, using one pitcher for two innings burns your pen less than using two. Jerry never learned this lesson and it was instrumental in the 2008 collapse. Probably Willie's 2007 one also. The team ran out of bullpen arms both times. This. is close to what I was thinking when Beato came out for his second inning of work.

In this video, Chris Rock riffs on baseball, opening day, and his team --the Mets -- on the David Letterman show. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/01/chris-rock-mets-letterman_n_843579.html

He's a cheater -- and a liar, too.

Fonzie's former teams could sue him for fraud.

Gwreck wrote: As noted above, I'd be mighty pissed if I were the Mets, that the "specially designed for Citi Field" stuff got copied elsewhere. As good a reason as any to bring Ben's Chili and Primanti's to Citi Field.

Those socks look ridiculous because they're black. Oh, but they match the cap!

Would've never predicted this version of Tim McCarver 20 or 25 years ago when he might've been baseball's best voice. The first chink in McCarver's armor that I can recall was his book about why 1998 was such a great baseball season.

Frayed Knot wrote: If a similar situation happens again* this summer but the race is closer what's to prevent the team from claiming he took a grounder in the noggin during (conveniently untelevised) infield practice and they're putting him on the 7-day? Or doing likewise because they want [insert 5th starter here] to avoid Boston? Nothing. But it won't happen during un-televised infield practice. Expect a rash of players to slip on bars of soap in their bathrooms. It's still a well intentioned rule. Hopefully, the kinks will get ironed out during the trial period.

Good story. I was always aware of Don Zimmer's version of the story, where Zim himself was the first player ever to put on the Mets uniform. As far as I know, that was the first attempt to flesh out Zim's version. I didn't know that Bob L. Miller also put on the uni for publicity shots that first day. Uni Watch's fine research, however, didn't answer which Met was the first to don the Met uni. I own an original Type 1 photograph (struck from the original negative shortly after the picture was shot) of Zim, with his kid draped over his back, posing in the Mets uniform.

No, that's not true. I worry that the Wilpons will survive their financial woes and retain ownership of the franchise.

I'm not worried about anything. The Mets will go undefeated.