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Fman99 wrote: Bought the MLB iPhone app this morning and listening at work. outside of the cheap dildo you bought recently that's the best $15 you've spent in a while , am I right?

TransMonk wrote: F-Mart has hammy issue Didn't see this one coming... will he ever get going?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Terry Collins, 4/13/11: "We're one pitch away and one swing away from being 9-2, and we're not. But the next 11 we need to be 9-2. We need to get it going and do the things we haven't done thus far." This is a hell of a thing to say 11 games into your managerial stint, no? But subpar play on the opening homestand given ticket sales is a real desperate situation for this team IMO. it's a hell of a thing to say but fair fucks to him for laying himself out there liker that , the writers must have been ejaculating all over their laptops on hearing it.

The Second Spitter wrote: The Nats have enough trouble honoring their own history. sure they've only been around since 2005.

The Second Spitter wrote: Pelfrey will be traded before July (assuming he manages to get his ERA below 5, that is) if he had a half year this year like lasts then he'd be more attractive....

Yvonne Gallardo can be had for some OF power , or a top of the range third baseman

Not Big Pelf is under team control for two more years anyway right? I'd not go giving him a contract beyond that until then at least.

didn't look but is he still wearing the silly ear ring?

but he and agent Peter Greenberg aren�t going to be asking for $18-$20 million either. I�m sure a deal can be worked for all vested parties. they're not?, great news. Right now the Mets lack an identity. They don�t know if they are rebuilding or going all in. I was under the impression that the three wise men were rebuilding the whole shebang . The farm system is not as bad as made out though is it?

Vic, counter offer made.

Mets had that all helping dreaded team meeting after the game , " it lasted two minutes" David Wright said , I think he was talking about that meeting.

Actually this is good news for Bonds as Government only got conviction on the obstruction?

Of obstructing justice Now what?

Don Juan Carrasco gets the ball, it's been confirmed.

per Rubin "Chris Young pushed back to Sunday because of biceps tendinitis.Spot starter wil be Friday" next tweet "that will cost Dillon Gee a start on Sunday if that was the plan"

Boyer has gone and cleared waivers and has chosen to make himself a FA rather than report to dull and uninspiring Buffalo.

I'll test the trade waters when I get home , damned IS people at work have blocked fantasy baseball.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Any interest in something like that? I'm interested in that, very much so.

I look at my team and yeah it has some holes that need filling but damn if there is anybody out there to pick up.Do I spend an hour a night pouring over charts?, no I don't but I make sure my pitching is set and my players....some of these guys available have like five at bats. What would you do with my team?

Apparently it's down to Cohen and these two Cohen�s competitors include a group formed by Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of Skybridge Capital, a hedge-fund firm, and James McCann, the founder of 1-800-Flowers.com, a Mets sponsor, according to a person briefed on the matter. The two visited Fred Wilpon in spring training last month at Port St. Lucie, Fla. out of the running are Out of the bidding is an investment group formed by David Heller, a Goldman Sachs executive, and Marc Spilker, president of Apollo Global Management, and another comprised of Leo Hindery, a media investor, and Marc Utay, managing partner of Clarion Capital, a private equity firm. The status of a third syndicate, led by Steven Starker, a co-founder of BTIG, a global trading firm, could not be confirmed. so says the Times article

Sherman goes to bat for our Bobby Buck�s success in Baltimore proves Bobby V deserves a shot, too Buck Showalter has the Orioles playing hard and well and � most important after so many years as props for the AL East beasts to clobber � Baltimore suddenly is a franchise with a future. This is good for Bobby Valentine. Why? Well, you know how there are 30 Opening Day starters, but not 30 aces? The same goes for major league managers. Thirty men have the title. But there are not 30 men capable of truly doing the job. And two of those who can definitely do it sat on an ESPN set last year until late July, when the Orioles split up Showalter and Valentine. Full disclosure: I covered both Showalter and Valentine, and feel like I learned more about the sport from those two than any other 20 baseball men combined. But even with that gratitude, I understand why Showalter had to wait 3 1/2 years between major league managing stints Nos. 3 and 4, and why Valentine is still working at ESPN. Neither enters a room thinking someone there knows more about baseball than him. But here is the thing: They almost always are right. That does not play well in a thin-skinned atmosphere, especially since Showalter and Valentine do not mask antipathy for fools. When they think something is wrong, Showalter and Valentine are not patient � though a friend of Showalter insists, �Buck bites his tongue a lot more than he used to.� But even if Showalter and Valentine can be a handful for a front office, here is the best advice for those front offices: Get over it. The manager�s job is to maximize the skill of a roster, not to make the GM or farm director feel good about his insights or to have a whole organization sing Kumbaya in unison. A managerial job should not go to someone whose turn it is or who will docilely accept the dictates of the front office, even if inane. Again, there probably are not 30 people who possess the leadership skills, strategic chops, gravitas, communication talents and work ethic to truly manage in the majors. The Orioles finally hired someone who does, and Baltimore arrived at the Stadium yesterday, for a series opener that was rained out, with the AL�s best record (40-26) since Showalter�s takeover. That performance should inspire an enlightened front office to overcome concerns and hire Valentine, because he should be one of the 30. �I don�t think [showalter�s success] has anything to do with anything,� Valentine said, about his chance to get another job. �But who knows? But there is too much stuff out there that anyone can manage. But when you see the difference, you see the difference.� In other words, if you hire Art Howe or Stump Merrill, you get what you hired. But what do you get when you employ Showalter? �You get a manager,� Valentine said simply. �This is what he does. He plays a little golf and he�s a baseball manager. This is what fills his life.� Showalter�s advanced baseball mind is never in sleeper mode. He will manage a game hundreds of times in his head before actually managing it. He will look at every member of the organization, every piece of equipment and think about how it can be made better. No game will begin where the other manager is more prepared or has outworked Showalter. Alex Rodriguez called Showalter �a managing master,� despite their relationship in Texas souring in their year together, 2003. Still, A-Rod remembers playing golf with Showalter in November 2002 not long after he was hired, �and I realized by the fourth hole that he knew every player on every 40-man roster and their strengths and weaknesses. He lives this 24-7. He�s good at everything a manager does. He is a genius at managing a game, and also at being an architect of a 25-man roster.� Also at being a sheriff who cleans up the unacceptable; which is one huge reason the Yanks and Diamondbacks won World Series the year after he left: Showalter had done a lot of the heavy lifting for Joe Torre and Bob Brenly, respectively. Now he does more heavy lifting for an organization whose recent AL East chances have generally been kaput by this time of year. Instead a real baseball manager makes demands and gets results. �I have asked my team, �What are you willing to do to get from where we are to where you want to be?� � Showalter said. ��What will you sweat to do that others won�t? What are you willing to do to make [baseball] relevant in Baltimore again?� � The Orioles were willing to hire a real baseball manager. joel.sherman@nypost.com Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/buck_success_in_balt_proves_bobby_QJQpK0TbS4r1ePkDY4zDWN#ixzz1JQ04uDf5

A quite dignity is one way I would describe Delgado, although there was the Randolph business and all that was implied there. Who will ever forget that day he had against our more illustrious cross town rivals?

This is to remind me not to join next year, yes I suck but there is absolutely no fun in this league, and that in no way means you guys , you're all great craic.....if I could only do the live draft then leave I would....

The Second Spitter wrote: metirish wrote: Vic Sage wrote: NOT harmless ... her celebrity is emblematic of a culture in decline. been declining for how long?, since I have lived here(1994) people like her have been making a living for doing nothing really. American culture started to decline when metirish arrived in the United States. Ha, yeah sorry it reads like that......