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LOL..Edgy your killing me.. Gary - :well Tom another Mets loss" Tom - " Gary, tonight we sail for Singapore" Gary - " ahh, Tom tonight we have to fly to freaking Chicago" Tom " damn, dude did you bring the gutair?"

Yes but only if we are losing....if we are winning then I say drag Fran away from the bar..

LOL..yeah some freaking crazy stuff might happen...Kiner for the ninth is not good, he's at the bar by the seventh....Tom Waits would be a great ninth inning guy, especially if the Mets are getting beat...

Sigh, is this the third straight year the Mets are after Soriano?,I've lost count,I'll go with what 58 said...

Some news on who will be Cohen's partner...a "rotation of analysts" .. ] BY ANTHONY RIEBER STAFF WRITER November 10, 2005 Gary Cohen, the Mets' lead radiocaster on WFAN, was named Wednesday as the play-by-play man for the team's new cable network, SportsNet NY. Cohen, 47, has been a Mets radio broadcaster for the last 17 seasons. The Queens native and unabashed Mets fan is known for his smooth announcing style and his willingness to criticize the team he loves. Cohen said he has no worries Mets brass will attempt to muzzle him on the approximately 125 games that will appear on SNY in its first season of existence. The Mets are partners with Time Warner and Comcast in the network. "The fact that I'm sitting here right now speaks volumes about what this network intends to be," Cohen said. "In 17 years of doing Mets baseball on the radio, I have never been told what to say and what not to say. I have every confidence that will continue." Cohen was not SNY's first choice. Dave O'Brien, who called Mets games on Ch. 11, turned down the job last month in favor of a five-year deal with ESPN. "We had a lot of first choices," SNY executive producer Curt Gowdy Jr. said. "We delighted we're here today announcing this." SNY president Jon Litner called Cohen "the signature voice of our network." "Gary grew up in Queens, went to Mets games as a young boy, attended Columbia University," Gowdy said. "He's a heart and soul New Yorker, and that's important to us. I'm absolutely confident Gary will easily transfer his talents from radio to television like many past great ." Cohen's partners in the TV booth and his replacement on WFAN are yet to be announced. Gowdy said SNY would use a "rotation of analysts" to work with Cohen, who will do all nine innings of play-by-play.

WWSB should get a raise for that point,I thought Garner should have won...

Fran is not under contract, he's an MSG employee, I think he's done with the Mets..we'll see him here more no doubt.

Yeah Gary not doing games on the radio will be weird, my usual thing was to listen to the last 3 innings on the radio while I was online here, I hope they don't stick Ed Coleman full time with Howie, he's truely awful, how much will Gary have to change the way he calls games ?

Mets 2005 Organizational report..... http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051107&content_id=1265157&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym

Yeah I think you are right Greg..baseball covers are a tradition at the New Yorker, here's what I found.. http://www.newyorker.com/online/covers/articles/010402onco_cover_gallery

Mu people will be in touch - OK here is another take on what Omar might do...]Mets� arms for saleBenson and Trachsel may go to make room for other improvements BY KEN DAVIDOFFSTAFF CORRESPONDENTNovember 9, 2005INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- On paper, the Mets have many holes to fill, none in the starting rotation. But general manager Omar Minaya doesn't love his group of starters, and he's open to shaking it up.According to a person familiar with the situation, the Mets would like to use Kris Benson and Steve Trachsel to both create room in their rotation - which could then be filled by outside free agents - and to plug their more obvious holes like first base and second base. The Mets also continued to work on their bullpen needs yesterday, as executive Tony Bernazard met with agents Jeff Borris and Rick Thurman, who represent Yankees free agent Tom Gordon and longtime Padres closer Trevor Hoffman. Both represent backup plans in case the Mets can't land their top target, Billy Wagner; Gordon ranks above Hoffman, whom nearly everyone in the industry anticipates will return to San Diego despite recent, acrimonious negotiations.While the free-agent market offers solid options at closer, that's not the case for first base and second base. The best first basemen, in particular, are available on the trade market. Milwaukee, with young Prince Fielder near ready, could deal Lyle Overbay, while the financially strapped Florida Marlins have yet to declare Carlos Delgado untouchable.With the crop of free-agent starting pitchers just as overwhelming, the Mets could try using some starting pitchers to land an infielder. Trachsel is especially affordable, as the Mets recently exercised his $2.5 million option for next year. The 35-year-old missed the bulk of last season, recovering from March surgery to repair a herniated disc in his back. When he returned in late August, he posted a 1-4 record and 4.14 ERA in six starts.Benson, 31, is owed more than $7 million each of the next two seasons. In his first full season with the Mets, he went 10-8 with a 4.13 ERA in 28 starts.Neither Trachsel nor Benson came to the Mets under Minaya's reign. Trachsel signed while Steve Phillips ran the Mets, back in the 2000-01 offseason, while Jim Duquette traded for Benson in July 2004, although Minaya did re-sign him last winter. The same could be said for Victor Zambrano, whom Duquette received from Tampa Bay for Scott Kazmir in the infamous July 2004 deal, but the Mets seem inclined to keep Zambrano.Should they find suitable trade partners for Trachsel and Benson, the Mets could fill the holes by pursuing free agents like A.J. Burnett, Esteban Loaiza and Kevin Millwood. Mets officials met Monday with Scott Boras, Millwood's agent, at the GMs' meetings; Boras also represents Kenny Rogers and Jeff Weaver (both of whom endured rough times in New York, as did Loaiza) and Jarrod Washburn. The Giants' Jason Schmidt is a remote trade possibility.In the bullpen, the Mets want Wagner most of all, as evidenced by their personal visit with him last week, and are unlikely to be outbid by the Phillies or any other team. But if Wagner decides to stay with the Phillies or sign with a dark horse, Gordon represents a decent Plan B.The 38-year-old excelled as Mariano Rivera's setup man the past two seasons in the Bronx, at least before the postseason, and he has announced his intention to return to the closer's role he held sporadically from 1997 through 2003. Given his age, Gordon would cost far less than Wagner in years and dollars.

Any idea what this cover means,it's from June 1992..anyone here remember this?

Now this would be interesting if it ever happened... ]Jim Williams Examiner Coumnist It appears the Nats will have local ownership after all and two well-known names could be headed to D.C. to take over the baseball side of things. Sources close to both Major League Baseball and Wall Street have confirmed the ownership bid of Jeffery Smulyan is in trouble. It�s not because he lacks money or support inside MLB. Rather, Smulyan has been unable to win key friends in D.C. Smulyan�s public push for the team had him in Washington more often then some members of Congress. But he failed to convince key local government members he is the right guy to own the Nationals. That puts the Fred Malek/Jeffery Zients group back in front, though the quiet but impressive Lerner family group has made up a great deal of ground in the last three weeks. Some baseball insiders are saying the Lerners have passed Smulyan and are gaining ground on Malek/Zients. The Lerner family is low-key but powerful, just what MLB owners love. Speculation persists as to who will run the team once the sale is consummated. Well, it looks very likely that former Red Sox architect Theo Epstein will become the next general manager. The odds-on favorite to be team president? Some guy named Cal Ripken. Sources inside baseball with knowledge of the two remaining local ownership groups claim both have been in touch with Epstein and Ripken. However, it�s not a package deal. It just seems to be working out that they will be together in D.C. Having Ripken as team president would be a huge help in the cable deal as a spokesman for Comcast. The fact he is loved in D.C., combined with his ability to market the team, makes him a must hire. The Malek/Zients and the Lerner family groups both know Ripken is the perfect choice for that position. This past Sunday, newspapers in both Boston and New York reported that there is an 85 percent or better chance the team of Epstein and Ripken will be part of the Nationals new front office. But where does that leave incumbent Nats General Manager Jim Bowden, who recently signed a six-month contract extension? He is considered a real contender for the open GM jobs with the Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers. My how things have changed. If MLB would have sold the team at the All-Star break it is likely that Malek/Zients would have won the battle for the Nationals. Then we heard Labor Day was going to be the sale date. If so, the winner would have been Jeff Smulyan. Now we are looking for the sale to happen this month. Some say it is a dead heat between Malek/Zients and the Lerner family. Whichever group wins has a lingering issue to tackle. You may recall the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network? Well, there is still no deal with Comcast, no meetings are scheduled and MASN�s only programming is Nationals baseball. So the first items of business for the new owners are to jumpstart the cable deal while expanding the radio network. We still want our Nats TV. Jim Williams is a seven-time Emmy award winning TV producer, director and writer.

My people are telling me that Kaz would accept a trade to the Angels, a scout I spoke to recently on the condition of anonymity said Kaz has bulked up and had lazik surgery last week and can't wait to prove he belongs with the Mets.

So is Omar looking to make this deal for Baez and Huff to then just turn them into Manny?, on it's own Baez anf Huff to the Mets would be OK, certainly cheaper in terms of prospects and money than any straight up Manny deal would be.

]A while ago Michael Kay was ripping the Mets for not considering Cohen And why would anyone give a fiddlers fuck whay Kay thinks? Gary to the TV side is just great....

This is so strange, I guess Urbina is a candidate for the pen just not the Mets bullpen...

Does only one person get voted in a year?, any women on the ballot?

Happy Birthday Ed.... who's that in the Giants dugout?

Brendan Donnelly and Scott Shields for the bullpen, BJ Ryan.

LOL.....ok ok the Sox aren't that desperate yet......could be come Feburary though.

I'm so sick of this Manny talk, like most are I'm sure, sure I wouldn't say no to him but it seems the price is high, no need for Omar to go crazy here, he should be playing the Sox,wait them out and see what you can get him for.

No problem with me, if Mike wants to play for Italy then good for him.I know he has talked about that in the past, hell a lot of the players that play for the Republic of Ireland in soccer down the years were born in Britian, some to very dodgy Irish ancestry, yes Tony Cascarino I am talking about you....I wish Ireland had a team,I could think of several Major League guys that I would want..Sean Casey would you like an Irish passport?

IIRC they met at a titty club in Pittsburgh, not a high end place either...

I just spoke to Brandy.....for $3:99 a minute... Happy Birthday Kristen...