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12 starts , 8 wins against 1 loss for the lefty , sports a fine 2.85 ERA , 2 million in go away money paid to that woman.

True and the article says Madoff has been helping Picard.

Edgy DC wrote: In a prison interview with The New York Times, Bernie Madoff cleared the Wilpons, even as he suggested several banks must of had an idea what he was up to. and if you can't trust and believe Bernie then you can you trust?

Please no , not him of all the wankers being mentioned. Celebrity Apprentice from Citi Field , starring former Mets......Strawberry has done it before........not sire if Trump has that kind of money anyway.....he'll say he will but that's another story.

never heard of him I think.

Shoot , yeah that's bedtime here too for the kid......

Henceforth shall be known as "fat bastard"

Video here , that's Murphy sporting the knee brace and who's the chubby fella? http://www.tcpalm.com/videos/detail/new-york-mets-spring-training-feb-10-2011-no-2/?partner=yahoo_feeds

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Rib Tip Syndrome sounds like a delicious problem to have. This really clears up any confusion as to what it is ib-tip syndrome Neurology Intercostal neuralgia accompanied by sharp episodic pain at the costal margin, caused by hypermotility of the anterior end of the costal cartilage of�usually the 10th rib due to trauma. fucks sake like

I didn't want to be that guy either but 8:30 works better......

Are you the salty Jew? live draft was a lot of fun last season......it was all down hill for me after that.

Steve Matz , captain material .

Frayed Knot wrote: When it started it had all the makings of one of those films/TV shows that thinks a loud, dysfunctional, and constantly arguing family is funny as long as said family is [insert ethnicity here]. Didn't realize that was Garcia's daughter. Good point , it could easily have been that.

I'll stick with what I wrote last year which I am sure was very optimistic, Ollie does that to me.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: If injuries don't bog him down, I expect Reyes to have his best year ever.I would hope this is true but I thin we have seen the best of him. .282 9 home runs , 48 rbi , 90 runs scored , 22 SB, caught stealing 12 times , he will end up staying with the Mets on a one year deal

The Rizzo family out in City Island in the Bronx are all living a life of lies that begin to unravel when Vince (Andy Garcia) brings home a parolee to the family home with little explanation to his family or to the Tony the con. Andy Garcia is excellent as Vinnie, Julianna Margulies as his wife and Garcia's real life daughter as his movie daughter. We really liked this comedy drama , maybe part of it was the familiar scenes , City Island is down the road, but the acting here is great and the way the truths start to come out really made this great. Highly recommended .

It should have been titled "Expectations of Eleven - Injuries"

Something about the Mike Greenwell card that I like, never heard of the guy yet when I go to his BR I see not only had he a good career but it was all with the red Sox.

I happened upon a few dozen cards recently , mostly from the late 80's. Topps Dream Team and some 90/Score cards No idea if these are considered good or crap but some are pretty cool looking.

Mario Cuomo will mediate between Picard and Wilpon/ possy. I guess George Mitchell is busy.

Damn I loved it , I blame Kong.

I'm picturing Riccardi holding weekly conference calls with the scouts and having all available information at his fingertips , maybe that's how it worked before but I like this organized approach. They are working with scouts they know , who I assume know this system and it's all good I think.

Pitched four innings in 2009 for the Mets......he was hot property for the red Sox at one point right?

This is interesting , I often wondered how scouting and advanced scouting was organized , so many games and traveling involved. I remember that Bob Melvin apparently stayed in NY when he was scouting for the Mets, went to MFYS3 and scouted AL teams(memory could be fuzzy there but it further muddled my thinking on scouting). Sandy Alderson implements new system of scouting, evaluating for Mets, overseen by J.P. Ricciardi BY ANDY MARTINO Sandy Alderson speaks often about the importance of establishing an organizational philosophy for the Mets, and building a structure for sustained success. One tangible manifestation of that this winter has been a total overhaul of the team's approach to professional scouting. In contrast to Omar Minaya's method of assigning pro scouts to a large number of major league teams (special assistant Bryan Lambe, for example, covered the entire National League last year), Alderson's Mets will charge each pro scout with covering just three organizations, but far more comprehensively than before - from the low minor leagues to the major league club. J.P. Ricciardi will oversee their work. "I don't think there is a right way or a wrong way to do it, but this gives you a little more continuity," Ricciardi said. "Getting guys on a system, from A-ball to Double-A to Triple-A, gives you a better understanding of what the organization is doing." This type of coverage has become increasingly popular in recent years, and one veteran NL executive estimated that "about half, maybe a little bit more" of MLB teams now employ this method. When Ricciardi was GM of the Toronto Blue Jays, he structured his scouting department this way. The approach aims to create experts on rival organizations, so a GM can tap into deeper knowledge of, say, prospects available in a trade. Skeptics consider this a less efficient model, full of logistical challenges. Under the Mets' new method, scouts will scramble all over the country to cover three major league teams and about 16 minor league clubs, and will rarely be able to see two of their assigned teams in a single game. That will likely lead to increased travel expenses, inconveniences in scheduling and difficulties in seeing individual teams and players often enough. Still, the implementation of these ideas provides a concrete example of the Mets' stated effort to improve a troubled organization. The desire for change resulted in significant turnover this winter. The team dismissed veteran scouts Duane Larson and Russ Bove. Bob Melvin left the organization after losing out to Terry Collins for the managerial opening, and highly respected advance scout Bob Johnson took a job with Atlanta. There was also internal restructuring. Former Cincinnati GM Wayne Krivsky, who joined the Mets last year as a special assistant to Minaya, now serves as part of the pro scouting group. Lambe, another special assistant, will join the pro scouts assigned to three organizations apiece, as will former amateur scouting director Rudy Terrasas (Chad MacDonald was hired in December to replace Terrasas on the amateur side). The Mets also made three new hires: Tommy Tanous, Roy Smith and Jim D'Aloia. Tanous and D'Aloia worked under Ricciardi in Toronto, and Smith worked under Paul DePodesta when the Mets executive was GM of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ricciardi, working closely with Alderson and DePodesta, assembled that group this winter, combining Minaya-era holdovers such as Roland Johnson, David Keller and others with new hires. "I find that both ways (to conduct pro scouting) can be good and bad," Ricciardi said. "We've got really good scouts, and that's more important than how you do it." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2011/02/09/2011-02-09_sandy_alderson_implements_new_system_of_scouting_evaluating_for_mets_overseen_by.html#ixzz1DTISnxSw

That was Johnny fucking Rotten great .