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I have a question that I am sure FK can answer. Why was YES able to show the game when it was an espn national game, that's not standard form is it?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bondy btw has a nice piece on the HoF today, he's not 100% evil. Yeah , it's a good piece . I was surprised in a way. I agree on Sherman, although I never buy the post.

Cheers Fman. The stupid Yahoo app doesn't have a link for fantasy sports and anyway stupid Apple doesn't have flash This dedicated app looks quite good. Certainly OK for checking the standings and such.

This might be the worst article ever written. Steve , if you read this you are sure to have a boner for a week call your doctor if it lasts longer. Captain Derek Jeter is lone constant in New York Yankees' rivalry with Boston Red Sox "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?" - Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" BOSTON - Three hours before his 14th Opening Day, the greatest shortstop the Yankees have ever had sat in front of a corner cubicle in a clubhouse not much bigger than a meat locker, and stayed his strut-free course. He was wearing a blue warmup shirt and knee-length underwear, his No. 2 road-gray jersey on a hook to his left. He answered questions about the club he captains, about the Red Sox, starting up again. Derek Jeter smiled and recalled his first Opening Day, 14 years ago in Cleveland, a game delayed a day by snow. The Indian starter was Dennis Martinez, the President was Bill Clinton and the principal Yankee question mark was a 21-year-old from Kalamazoo, Mich., who batted ninth and the club hoped would hit .250 and play a nice shortstop. On that day - April 2, 1996, the anniversary of Ponce de Leon landing in Florida - Jeter homered and made a splendid, over-the-shoulder catch. The Yankees won, 7-1, and found their own Fountain of Youth, and it was still flowing quite nicely last night, no matter that the result was not at all to Jeter's liking, the bullpen the main culprit in a 9-7 defeat. "I remember being excited, nervous, having butterflies," Jeter said of his first opener. The feelings are not hugely different now. "If you don't have that, it means you don't care," he said. The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry still has a heat all its own, and the two teams showed plenty of it for the usual full house at Fenway on a mild Easter night. But let's not delude ourselves: the rivalry's flavor has changed markedly in recent years. Johnny Damon isn't a hero for either club; he's a Detroit Tiger. Manny is in L.A., Jason Varitek is captain-cum-benchwarmer, and while David Ortiz still spits a lot, he doesn't hit so much. Aaron Boone hit his ALCS-winning homer seven years ago, and Dave Roberts stole his famous base six years ago, beginning the reversal of two franchises and one curse. The constant, above all others, is the 35-year-old Jeter, who continues his inevitable march to Cooperstown, one full-bore game at a time. Last night, he went 2-for-5 with a steal and an RBI and is now 251 hits from 3,000 and may make a run at Pete Rose before he's through. He's coming off perhaps the greatest year of his career, hitting .334 and winning his fourth Gold Glove, leading his club to a fifth World Series title in his time. "He comes ready to play, always," said Brett Gardner, who stole home on the front end of Jeter's steal of second. "It's something really special." Quick trivia question, from the Jeter Era: Who are John Valentin, Nomar Garciaparra, Pokey Reese, Edgar Renteria, Orlando Cabrera, Alex Gonzalez, Julio Lugo and Jed Lowrie? They are Red Sox shortstops who have come and gone, even as No. 2 keeps fisting inside-out hits to right and making jump throws from the hole. There will be multitude of stories this season about Jeter's expiring contract, and what position he'll play when he turns 38 or 40. In all of them he will have either no comment, or an absurdly banal one. It is the way the man conducts his business. Jeter's M.O. is calculated blandness, because it lets him do what he wants to do above all else: just play, and just win. Isn't it nice to watch a man who may be the greatest shortstop ever want the story to be about someone else? To see a sporting icon with no frills, no shtick, no check-me-out antics? Before he took the field, he was asked if that first opener seems a long time ago. "No. It seems like time went pretty quickly," he said. "That's a good thing. Last time I checked, time moves quicker when you are having fun. It's when you are struggling that it slows down." Last night was no fun for Jeter. The Yankees had a four-run lead early and then a two-run lead, and could hold neither. "It's disappointing," he said. "Anytime you score seven runs and you've got CC (Sabathia) on the mound you've got to like your chances." The result doesn't alter the larger point. Years from now, you will be able to tell people you saw Derek Jeter play. They'll ask if he really was everything they say, a star on the order of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio. You'll think about all those right-field hits, the dive into the stands. You'll think about the flip play and the clutch hits and the winning, and the way he ran hard not sometimes, but every time - every at-bat, every game, every year. "He sounds too good to be true," people will say. And you'll say, "He was," and you'll be glad that you appreciated him before he was gone. wcoffey@nydailynews.com Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2010/04/05/2010-04-05_jeter_one_for_ages.html?page=1#ixzz0kEJMHdeb Actually Wayne, I am pretty sure that i won't be telling my grandkids about the great Jeter.

Flip Bondly likes it a lot.Check out the quote from Jeffrey towards the end. A year late, New York Mets Hall of Fame and Museum at Citi Field goes long way for fans A year after opening Citi Field, the Mets have finally embraced the notion that they played this sport for 47 years before they moved all their stuff across the parking lot to a new ballpark. They have a history, after all. Better late than sever. Here is the very good news: The Mets now recognize their own existence in fine fashion, with an airy, informative Hall of Fame and Museum that debuted Sunday adjacent to the Jackie Robinson Rotunda, and will surely go a long way toward making fans feel these Mets have something to do with the Shea Mets. That was a real problem last season, when there was little evidence that Casey Stengel or Tom Seaver ever existed; and when Dwight Gooden's autograph was foolishly removed from a wall in an act of apparent self-hatred. It's hard to be pompous when you have the Mets' modest history. Luckily, that isn't the feel or intent of this Hall of Fame, which has a refreshing, lighthearted feel. The Mets aren't the Yankees. They don't hit you over the head with their two championship teams, with their eulogies, or with their pronouncements about being the greatest sports franchise in the world. That would be silly, instead of fun. And this museum is a lot of fun. There are plaques, artifacts, video clips and precious documents. A statue of Mr. Met is there, too, to greet and freak you out with his ultra-realistic hands. Joan Payson's hat, from the 1969 World Series, is on display, along with a ticket stub from the first game at the Polo Grounds. For those who like to gaze appreciatively at pieces of notable sporting equipment, the Hall of Fame offers the baseball that traveled inelegantly through Bill Buckner's legs in Game 6, along with the glove that Jesse Orosco threw to the heavens (it returned, apparently) after clinching the title. More interesting, at least to this columnist, are the documents. We see the 1980 report from Met scout Roger Jongewaard on Darryl Strawberry, complaining just a bit about the player's lack of speed on the basepaths; Gil Hodges' $31,000 player contract, from 1963; and some remarkably candid handwritten notes from Casey Stengel on his team's infield. Ed Kranepool, Stengel wrote, "should cover more ground." Hot Rod Kanehl "only hits singles but is a game player. His arm is erratic." This is great stuff, and there's more to come. David Newman and Tina Mannix, marketing executives with the club, will continue to collect and exhibit paraphernalia as it becomes available. They will also be adding four more plaques to the wall in August, when Gooden, Strawberry, Davey Johnson and Frank Cashen are inducted into the team's Hall of Fame. "Last year there was so much going on getting the ballpark going," COO Jeff Wilpon said, explaining why these delights weren't ready for 2009. "Then we came in under budget and had a chance to do things like this. I wanted the 'wow' factor with this, that it felt like a real museum." It does, too. The only problem for now is the acoustics. The historic clips that run on various video screens throughout the museum are difficult to understand and produce instead a jumbled wall of sound. It would be better, instead, to install headphones so we can properly hear Stengel's entertaining chatter, or Lindsey Nelson's play by play. Some organ music from the late Jane Jarvis would be nice, too. That's the thing about a Mets museum: Maybe there are only two championship trophies, but that just leaves more room to fill in the blanks. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2010/04/05/2010-04-05_mets_are_hall_right.html#ixzz0kEFF5I1s

Game getting interesting , I'll tune out after this half inning.

Watching , although tuning out right now. The game is so boring YES keeps showing LeBron fucking James. Al did talk about his great effort in game 5 against the MFY's. I was at a BBQ today and ended up putting a front running no nothing "big yankee" fan in his place. The conversation turned to baseball and his opening salvo to me was " huh , the Mets are so cheap , they never spent money"....I ripped into him ever so subtly , then things got just a little heated when he still wasn't getting it. He's ending words were " uh , let's not talk baseball"...... yeah fuck you yankee bollox.

Metfairy has brilliant pix on her facebook, the HOF looks amazin

Nice work you bollox..... and really , Tim Kurjian , really do go fuck yourself.

Vescey Wrote The Yankees open at Fenway Park on Sunday night � those words never really do grow old, do they? pass the puke bucket.

Strawberry with the first pitch Monday, nice one.

Valadius wrote: I just think it's a complete waste of a column. It's time that you or I will never get back. Just like reading this thread .

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: If Figueroa passes through waivers for the 6th time, will fans stop having heart attacks every time he gets sent down? Hey , that's no way to talk about a guy coming up on 300 wins......typical Mets to treat a man like that......behind closed doors late at night they did him.

Just heard on SNY that Jerry has Jacobs slated to hit cleanup between Wright and Bay, no pressure then.

I'm not surprised that Mejia made it , and that's not now knowing that he did but everything Jerry was saying indicated that he wanted him bad.

The Mets did the cuts behind closed doors late at night far from NY

Calero , Parnell, Figgy, Dessens and Adams

Where are you following the game , not on the telly anywhere?

I wouldn't want to be using that keyboard and monitor after Flood was done with it .

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I have a sneaking suspicion that Val just wants to take his place, and replace this with an annual how-I-nicknamed-this-year's-rooks column. At least with Vals soon to be column the behind the scenes story of naming rookies and newly acquired vets would be compelling. His rational for naming Billy Wagner and Gerald Williams is taught in nickname school in day cares across the country.

Valadius wrote: That is the single lamest column I've ever read. Nah it's not, I think Marty writes one similar most years.

G-Fafif wrote: If this were truly about matchups, they would have kept Misch, who shut out the Marlins last year, around for the first week. This is why you hang on here and haven't been cut.

I don't believe it but I can see how folks would feel better for believing it. Great visual BTW....it really sells your point, you must work in that industry.

That reminds me, Omir has left the team too for family reasons.