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Edgy DC wrote: Have they scratched DeMarlo Hale? His name never made it across the Atlantic

While ya'll were off yesterday rest assured that your favOURite bookie Paddy Power was working the phones and has come out with new odds While we took a lot of heavy bets for Valentine he was never in the running our sources say , the bookie never loses right? We can't separate Melvin and Collins right now Melvin - 3/1 Collins 3/1 Hurdle - 5/1 Chip Hale - 8/1 Our sources at Newsday are saying Melvin, Hurdle and Collins have emerged as clear favOURites to advance to the second round of interviews with Chip Hale a possibility. Sources indicate Hale will likely be on the coaching staff regardless of who gets the job. Mets brass think highly of him but with no MLB coaching experience Alderson is not likely to choose him. Wally Backman is likely going to be offered a "promotion" to Class A St. Lucie next season, only in baseball is going from Brooklyn to St. Lucie considered a promotion. Backman - 30/1 Alderson and his new lieutenant, Paul DePodesta, will interview Triple-A Buffalo manager Ken Oberkfell and Double-A manager Tim Teufel before moving forward. Oberkfell and Teufel - 100/1

Burkhardt on tonight with Lennon and Martino, I think both those guys needed high stools to be seen, tracksuit has a very squeaky voice and thinks Chip Hale is a good fit. Lennon thinks Melvin. In response to a question about players Alderson said on base percentage and slugging percentage were most important to him. Alderson said he was going to the DR and expects to meet up with various Mets people including Castillo.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The Mets for Me guy is ON FIRE. His Samuels coverage is the best in town. As is he Jeter stuff I also want to thank Derek Jeter, who, although he gets a lot of gruff in this space for cheating on his taxes, having herpes, and possessing the worst haircut anyone I know has ever seen, has to be credited with paving the way for the writers' recognition of my efforts over the past five years. Thanks old pal. To all your haters, if the fifth glove fits... The Samuels stuff is hilarious

Good stuff, I'm excited.

Is that our Carlos Gomez?, who is he playing for?(not minny?)

Cashman is in Arkansas today meeting with Lee......oh please outbid any other suitors by at least $60 million and two extra years.

The prosecution now calls Peter Flynn.

Brilliant "Gus Bell wheels and NY squeals, as one crack of the bat the Mets are in arrears as Gus rings the bell with a three run rifle shot"

Valadius wrote: As I said at the start of this little saga, there's no way John Franco didn't know what was going on. Elaborate please Pizza and his dad were tight with Samuels IIRC, in fact there was a time that Vince Piazza enticed Samuels to lose weight by offering to buy him a fancy car of he reached a goal weight , he reached it and got the car.

Not all that desirable at all , the arguing with the ump was fine but when he first went back to the dugout and started throwing the balls and bats he started calling the ump a piece of shit and things like that , not good. He came across as a complete tool and an embarrassment . BTW , who was the coach with him, # 10?

What a mess he is in , after Pedro and K-Rod's appearance we need someone for mob up duty.

Backman called back for second interview says Heyman, his take, Alderson appeasing fans and the Wilpon's. Who are these fans and how many are there?, nothing more than a media myth.

It is strange , although his skill set is different than these other guys, he's a paper and contract guy IIRC. What about Wayne Krivsky, he's still there right?

Fman99 wrote: Wow, did Eric Chavez fall off the side of the Earth or what? good call, the last decent year he had was 2006, injured a lot.....I mean this is a guy you would think steroids right? The only player in both lists I never heard of is Harlond Clift, decent numbers too

DePodesta all over Collins DePodesta praises Collins By Adam Rubin Paul DePodesta heaped praise on managerial candidate Terry Collins on Tuesday. DePodesta was GM of the Los Angeles Dodgers when Collins served as fielder coordinator and farm director of that organization. Collins reportedly was DePodesta's choice to become manager of the Dodgers when DePodesta himself got pushed out. �I think very highly of Terry,� DePodesta said. �I thought he was terrific. I thought he was a rock for us in player development. You know, Omar [Minaya] actually asked me about him about a year and a half ago, when the Mets were out here visiting San Diego. He had known Terry and asked me what my experience with him was. I told him I thought Terry was an absolute star in player development and was a huge help to the Dodgers organization. I think he was really helpful in the development of a lot of those young kids who are the core of their major league team right now.� Asked specifically about what happened with the Dodgers with respect to Collins being his choice to become Dodgers manager, DePodesta said he contractually could not answer that question. �Unfortunately, I�m not permitted to talk about anything regarding my time with the Dodgers -- not because of any deal I have with the Mets, but my deal with the Dodgers,� DePodesta said. As for Collins' skills as a potential manager, DePodesta added: "First of all, he's done it before. I think any of us who have been in these jobs in various organizations learn a lot every step of the way. I've been through four organizations now. I'm hopeful some of the things I've been exposed to over that time will be helpful to the Mets, and I think the same could be said for Terry. He's been a major league manager a couple of different times. You learn an awful lot from that. He's been in the Far East. I think, again, he's had a lot of success in player development. So I think there are a lot of things about his experiences that are worthwhile. Everyone likes different personalities. I really like Terry's intensity. I think he's a tremendous organizational guy."

DePodesta conference call DePodesta moving beyond Moneyball By Mark Simon For those who think that the Mets espousing Moneyball philosophies will mean a strict adherence to baseball analytics and a formulaic, stats-over-scouts approach to player acquisition, some clarification may be in order. The perceptions that exist from Michael Lewis� best-selling book, in which new Mets vice-president of player development and amateur scouting Paul DePodesta was a supporting character to Athletics GM Billy Beane, are not necessarily related to the direction the Mets front office will take in its decision-making processes. �The book itself was a bit of a caricature, not just to me, but to many of the people involved,� said DePodesta, and in fact the movie based on the book, starring Brad Pitt as Beane, changed the name of its DePodesta character at his request. �Moneyball has taken on a lot of connotations that weren�t intended. Moneyball doesn�t have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It�s a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you can find value where it isn�t readily apparent. It can be anything. At the time, it happened to be using statistics to make us better decisions. That�s not always the case. There are new frontiers we need to conquer.� In a conference call Tuesday afternoon, DePodesta was guarded with regards to what those frontiers are, just as he was when asked about his 20-month stint as general manager of the Dodgers in 2004 and 2005 ("I'm not at liberty to talk about my dealings with the Dodgers," he said). "Look at how we develop players and people to get the most out of someones talent," he said. "That untapped. It an area where there a lot of opportunity." There was excitement in DePodesta's voice with regards to his primary role overseeeing player development and amateur scouting. The Mets will hire directors for each, both of which will report to DePodesta. Former Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi will oversee the professional scouting side of baseball operations. "For me the draft is the best day of the calendar year, though it's certainly not the most glamorous," DePodesta said. "It's something I love getting involved in, getting out and seeing players. With my background from the last few years, I'm probably not as married to the college player as some may think. I have certain things I look for, pitching and hitting wise, but I'm open to any type or shape of player and any type of background." What�s the message that DePodesta wants to send to the statistically-inclined portion of the fan base, one that has reacted overwhelmingly favorably to the news of each of these hirings? �We�re still going to be wrong, probably often, but hopefully we�re disciplined enough in our processes to be more right than we are wrong,� he said. �The guiding principle is uncertainty. We want to try to understand and corral that uncertainty as best we can to help us narrow our choices to guide our intuition to the best choice possible. Hopefully we�re right more often that we�re wrong and hopefully we�re right when it counts.� The opportunity to be right in New York ("Moneyball with Money" as some have referred to the potential), as opposed to San Diego was half the lure for DePodesta to leave his job as executive vice-president for the Padres and build a set of front office philosophies from scratch here. "If one doesn�t aspire to be in a place of this magnitude, than he's probably in the wrong industry," DePodesta said http://proxy.espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/11841/depodesta-moving-beyond-moneyball

Quite simply the greatest player ever to lace them up.

Bobby V "If he had been a college kid four or five years ago, he would have been a first-round pick. He runs faster than a lot of people. He can get a hit. He can steal a base. He can bunt. He is still developing physically and mentally. And this year, he stayed healthy all year. He has style issues, positive and negative: He likes to be noticed. How he develops will depend on what team signs him. Plenty of positive and negative in there

Edgy DC wrote: I think the Metsos are leaning toward Murphy. Murph had three more hits yesterday, all opposite field

I thought Miller was great during the Giants run , I was listening to him when he was on with Kuiper....it was subtle but Miller used to chide Morgan on some of his crazier statements. I have found Orel to be very dry in the booth and he talks out the side of his mouth which I guess is better than Morgan who regularly talked out of his ass.

Wakamatsu being named bench coach in Toronto does not preclude him from speaking with the Mets. DW will interview tomorrow. Source- tracksuit

Twitter is alight with news that the Mets have hired Michael Lewis.

It's possible of course that the alternate booth will be worse and more annoying than Miller and Morgan, Thom Brennanan?(sp). I didn't mind Miller at all and Morgan as just looney with the things he said.I guess what�s his name the pitcher will be part of a new team. There's a guy out of Boston who does some broadcasts and is decent, looks a bit like Cohen...Dave Schultz?

LOL Heyman and the rest are so funny....."this is the new moneyball...lol...mets have highest paid front office in the game" FU John