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Benjamin Grimm wrote: And when he's having sex, his partner has to look at Matt's grandmother*. *Depending on what position they assume, that is. very disturbing

Not sure about that Ceetar , Hairston seems every bit as "real" an outfielder as the ones we will be trotting out there.I think that price is reasonable, very surprised he's not been snapped up already......

Ahem cliff floyd ?@sleepy30 Headed up to Mets Fantasy Camp Tomorrow lookin forward to seein my old stomping grounds Port St Lucie!!! conor ?@ConorCoen @sleepy30 back to the " black hole" :-) #Mets cliff floyd ?@sleepy30 @ConorCoen Lol....

That Frank Thomas was actually me........yeah, hard to believe that was 2005.

Heyman #mets won't give up Wheeler, sides don't see a fit for Justin Upton trade at this point.

WOW, I suck at guessing.

Glavine

Ojeda

Nolan Ryan

Darling

Pelfrey

Traschel

I am enthused by the idea that Alderson thinks this team needs(another) a closer.

Yes, he's fine watching him act the eegit(while winning) on some other team....low risk though.

Ceetar wrote: Would love to work for SNY, not sure I'm qualified though. And i'm not really a tv person. some Photoshop jobs in there TITLE: Freelance PhotoShop / Viz Artist

I foresee shenanigans Dodgers Pitching Coach Rick Honeycutt on the phone with the bullpen during a game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium Major League Baseball and T-Mobile Reinvent the Bullpen Phone It�s a sight familiar to any baseball fan: the manager with the dugout phone to his ear. The manager�s face is always in the same gruff expression. And the handset is always in the classic Western Electric style. Starting next season, however, stone-faced managers will be able to call the bullpen on a Samsung Galaxy 3 operated by T-Mobile. On Jan. 8, MLB announced a �multi-year, multi-million dollar partnership� with the mobile carrier that includes new bullpen phone technology for teams. Instead of swinging open a box like a Bell lineman of old, managers, at least at ballparks that opt for the new system, will pull one of four handsets from a pink rack like the one T-Mobile showed off at the Consumer Electronics Show. Why would baseball introduce touchscreen smartphones for managers to tell bullpen coaches to warm up a lefty? The need, after all, is for brief, secure voice calls between two fixed points about 500 feet apart, preferably without making anybody look like a gossiping teenager. A wire (usually) does the job. Joe Garagiola Jr., MLB�s senior vice president for standards and on-field operations, says the league told T-Mobile to use the traditional landlines as a template. �You pick one up; the other one rings. You can�t call out. You can�t call in. That�s where we needed to be. So that is essentially where we are,� Garagiola says. To get there, however, T-Mobile had to shackle its mobile technology. �We always design our networks so they capture and serve as many customers as possible, so what we�ve done in this case is actually lock features down and disable them,� says Mark McDiarmid, vice president for radio engineering at T-Mobile. The bullpen system uses �geofencing� as a kind of cord to keep the phones from working when removed from the bullpen or dugout. To prevent interference and dropped calls in a notoriously demanding wireless setting, T-Mobile will install picocell base stations and small antennae in both sets of dugouts and bullpens that will send signals over a reserved slice of the company�s radio spectrum. �Effectively what we�re doing is using a little piece of spare real estate,� says McDiarmid. And running, you might say, an invisible wire across it. Yet the new system is not, Garagiola insists, just a fancified version of the decades-old one. A little bit of added mobility, he says, can mean a lot. �In a number of ballparks, there is a considerable distance between where the pitcher is warming up and where this phone is,� he says. �Now the bullpen coach can be talking to the pitching coach while he�s standing right behind the pitcher, as opposed to either looking from a distance or saying, �Let me put the phone down and go run over there, and I�ll come right back.�� Saving bullpen coaches a few paces is nice. So is capturing new revenue. According to Eric Smallwood, an analyst at Front Row Marketing Services, the average baseball broadcast features five calls to the bullpen�each captured by TV cameras. That airtime adds up to $6.7 million in potential advertising value during national games on Fox, ESPN, and TBS, plus another $8.5 million for the phone calls� exposure during games on regional networks. Not every team will install the new system. The Chicago White Sox, who play at U.S. Cellular Field, probably aren�t on board. So T-Mobile will not reap all of that. But the phones are part of larger deal that includes airtime with all of MLB�s national broadcast partners. �It�s a great opportunity to tie in,� says Smallwood. �What better way to align your product?� Boudway is a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek.

Edgy MD wrote: The original bacne thread, featuring a Hall of Fame post from dinojesus. Dying I never saw the boils on Mickey Cochrane's butt cheeks, or the blackheads on Ernie Lombardi's nose. But I saw John Stearns go 3 for 3 and steal two bases with a zit on the inside of his thigh that would have crippled an ordinary man. I saw a whitehead on Jerry Grote's forehead that got so inflamed when he squeezed it, Tug McGraw asked him if he was a Hindu, and couldn't stop laughing even when Jerry punched him out. And I saw Ron Hodges catch a doubleheader with a case of shingles you could cover a house with. But these old eyes have never seen anything like the opposite field power and back acne that Mike Piazza brought to the table every night. The drugstore in Cooperstown had better stock up on Clearasil, because Mike is moving in to stay.

ha!, that's some strong stuff right there on Fred and co., not what i was expecting when he mentioned how ownership is his friend.

For fucks sake, look at the thinking with this twat that writes for the Boston Globe �I think based on what happened in baseball in the recent past, we are allowed to assume guilt before innocence,� said Tony Massarotti of The Boston Globe. �I think you would be na�ve to think that anyone in baseball wasn�t doing something during that time.� But that did not stop Massarotti from voting for both Clemens and Bonds. His reasoning was that Bonds and Clemens would have been Hall of Famers even if they did not use steroids. �I don�t think Piazza or Jeff Bagwell are in the same category,� he said. �I don�t think they would have been good enough without help. I mean, Bagwell was a singles hitter in the minor leagues, and then his body changed and he was a home run hitter. Piazza was what, a 62nd-round draft pick?� http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/sports/baseball/mike-piazza-falls-short-in-hall-of-fame-voting.html?_r=0

Edgy MD wrote: Mr. Aaron-Sele-Voter, step right up. looks like he voted for Green too.

Clemens - 37.6% Bonds - 36.2%

Piazza 57.8%

No one voted in...what a load of bolloxs

Exit polling http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/the_2012_hall_of_fame_ballot_collecting_gizmo 70.1 - Biggio 60.3 - Piazza 59.8 - Raines 59.3 - J. Morris 59.3 - Bagwell 45.4 - Bonds 44.3 - Clemens

Ceetar wrote: Heyman wants to see what's in Piazza's book. Ha!, saw that too.....it's a joke