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Jay Bell had the story about his dad being a reporter out in LA....that was his contribution.....IIRC.

Jeez , you might think they would win one by accident in Spring Training.

Tweet from Heyman. best wishes to top #redsox prospect Ryan Westmoreland, who was diagnosed with a cavernous malformation in his brain and is having surgery All the best

Sucks Twins to Mets: Go home 11:21 AM By David Lennon The Twins decided to cancel today's game in Fort Myers, but only after the Mets drove almost three hours - 2:45, to be exact -- and began unpacking at Lee County Stadium. Within 20 minutes of their arrival, the Mets were told to go home. Not cool. Especially after it had rained all night on the west coast of Florida with more thunderstorms in the forecast. When the Mets' buses left the parking lot at Tradition Field at 7:15 a.m., it was pouring rain here too. Given this was a spring training game -- and not Game 6 of the NLCS -- maybe the Twins could have acted a little sooner on this one. By the way, the Mets head back to Fort Myers on Wednesday to play the Red Sox at City of Palms Park. Hopefully the weather will be better then, for their sake.

Yeah , it's a bit unfair of me to view Jerry in that way , it sucks actually and I feel some for the guy .

As much as Jerry likes this kid he may only have a month himself to keep his job , get of to a good start etc. When push comes to shove and with Jerry staring down the firing barrel will he start a kid over the vet Cora?

MFS62 wrote: I can't quantify it. But his arm is something special. I wouldn't want to take any unnecessary risks, especially at his age. That's just my opinion. Later Just curious, how many times have you seen this kid pitch?

Franco has been all over the Mets Spring Training , he's there through next week. I guess Franco will reinforce whatever Koufax said...."what did Sandy tell you Ollie? , yeah just do that"

Edgy always ruining other peoples polls.

Not Hundley This player became a "cover boy" seven years after debuting.

Don't be a tool Edgy , Bieser played closer to 12 games than 1381.

Not Coste He has appeared in 1381 games , he has DH'd in 12 of those .

Not Pratt Not Wilson

Nomar - Yes Piazza - No

Where - Cape Cod League When - early 90's Who & Who? - catcher and hitter

Dan Shaughnessy puts the boot in ..... In historically bad taste here Total fraud. Welcome home, Nomie. I hate to be the fly in the punch bowl here, but yesterday�s lovefest involving Nomar Garciaparra and the Red Sox was truly nauseating. If Nomar had been hooked up to a polygraph, the machine would have exploded. Truly unbelievable. There was Nomar, seated between Larry Lucchino and Theo Epstein, telling us how much he always loved the Red Sox, how much he loved the Nation. Gag me. This was like watching Paul McCartney holding hands with Yoko Ono, telling us how much he always loved John Lennon�s wife � in a pathetic effort to sell some product, of course. Do not be fooled. Life is long and people change. There is certainly every possibility that Nomar has matured and will henceforth pledge allegiance to Boston and spread the Gospel of the Red Sox. But it�s downright fraudulent to deny or ignore how bad this relationship was at the end. Nomar hated Boston and the Red Sox in 2004, and the Sox knew they had to get rid of him if they had a chance to win a World Series. It was nasty and personal and it was obvious to everyone who was around the team in that iconic season. No. 5 was Positively 4th Street in 2004. It was a drag just to see him in the clubhouse. That�s why he had to go. And that�s why the Sox eventually won. The Sox had attempted to trade him prior to the season after he turned down a four-year, $60 million contract offer. He arrived in Fort Myers with a burr in his saddle and was miserable from day one. He developed Achilles� tendinitis, allegedly after a ball hit him in the batting cage (nobody witnessed this). Then came the nationally televised midsummer game at Yankee Stadium, when Nomar refused to play while Derek Jeter saved the game with a face-first plunge into the stands behind third base. It went downhill from there. On the last home weekend before the trading deadline, there was a meeting involving Nomar, agent Arn Tellem, Epstein, and the Sox owners. �We needed to talk about how unhappy Nomar was,�� Lucchino recalled in December of �04. �Was there anything that could be done to change his mental state of mind, his approach to the organization, the city, and the game? We basically concluded that there was no way we were going to have a happy Nomar Garciaparra for the last couple of months of the season.�� So Epstein made the deal, sending Garciaparra to the Cubs a week later. And then the Red Sox turned things around and won the World Series. Before the autumn of �04, Sox fans certainly had every reason to love Garciaparra. A case can be made that he was Boston�s best home-grown player since Carl Yastrzemski. He played eight seasons with the Sox. He finished second in MVP voting in 1998. He hit .357 and .372 in back-to-back seasons, which made him one of the American League�s best righthanded hitters since Joe DiMaggio. He was Hall of Fame-bound and a legitimate Fenway god. Off the field, he did charity work, kept his mouth shut, and interacted well with fans. He was one of the three great shortstops of his era, alongside Alex Rodriguez and Jeter. Then he split a tendon in his wrist in 2001 and the ball didn�t jump off his bat anymore. He got too muscular and there were more injuries. Looking back at those days and the hideous, shirtless Sports Illustrated cover, it�s natural to wonder whether he succumbed to the temptation of steroids. In good times and bad, Garciaparra was unnecessarily difficult in all interactions with the media. It made no sense, given the fawning coverage he received (and deserved) for the first seven years of his career. Fans needn�t care which players give good sound bites, but no one was more unhappy than Nomar, and it infected the workplace. It�s forgiving of the Sox to bring him back, but there�s no need to reinvent history in the process. Sox fans are too smart. It�s insulting for Epstein, Lucchino, and Garciaparra to insist that this relationship has always been good. In yesterday�s sorry spirit of disingenuousness and hypocrisy, Garciaparra announced that he has taken a job with ESPN. This makes him a member of the media, which is like Sarah Palin telling us she is going to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Garciaparra is the one who had a red stripe put down in front of lockers in the Sox clubhouse. Woe was the scribe who crossed Nomar�s line of death. Now he is a credential-wearing media guy, groveling for free food, Marriott points, and a few seconds with 20-year-old Casey Kelly. One cannot help but be reminded of the Frank Graham Jr. line regarding Yankees outfielder Bob Meusel, a cranky player who mellowed at the finish: �He�s learning to say hello when it�s time to say goodbye.�� Welcome home, Nomie.

"There is no medication for this," Minaya said. "We heard it could be something that could have been dietary or it could have been a virus," Minaya said. Wait , I thought all he had to take was a pill?

Joe Posnanski has a nice column about Jose and all today Jose Reyes' thyroid problem? With the Mets it's always something Of course, different people have different ideas about what makes an exciting baseball player. But, in general, the blueprint would look an awful lot like Jose Reyes. In fact, not that long ago, Bill James and I plotted out a formula (admittedly the formula is a lot more me than Bill -- he just offered suggestions) to try and determine the most exciting players in baseball. I lost that original formula, but I tried to recreate it, taking into account triples (the most exciting play in baseball!), stolen bases, batting average, defensive excitement (subjective) and a couple of other things. I'm pretty sure I created the most wildly flawed formula to appear on the Internet today. Here then, according to this wildly flawed formula, are the 11 most exciting seasons of the last 25 years: 1. Jose Reyes, 2006. 2. Jose Reyes, 2008 3. Jimmy Rollins, 2007 4. Ichiro Suzuki, 2001 5. Carl Crawford, 2004 6. Jose Reyes, 2007 7. Chuck Knoblauch, 1996. 8. Hanley Ramirez, 2006 9. Tony Gwynn, 1987 10. Tim Raines, 1985 11. Carlos Beltran, 2001. Obviously, you can create your own formula -- and I hope you will -- but the point is that at least according to one fairly standard view, Reyes defined exciting baseball. He hit lots of triples. He also hit doubles and a few home runs. He led the league in stolen bases three years in a row. He made dazzling plays at shortstop. Sure, there were always people who thought Reyes needed to get on base more and could have been a touch steadier defensively. But that stuff would come! The point with Reyes was excitement. He was exciting. The Mets were exciting. Anyway, that's how it was in 2006, when Reyes was 23 years old and the Mets won 97 games. That's also how it was in 2007, when Reyes stole 78 bases -- most in 20 years -- and the Mets led the National League East by seven games in mid-September, you know, before losing 12 of their last 17 and blowing it to the Phillies. Oh well, there was excitement even then. The Mets signed the best pitcher in baseball, Johan Santana. Reyes has probably his best season -- led the league with 204 hits and 19 triples, stole 56 bases. And the Mets led the National League East by 3� games in mid-September, you know, before losing four of their next five and never again getting back into first place. Sure, the late season fadeouts hurt. They hurt a lot. But -- and it's easy to forget this -- the Mets still looked to be in awfully good shape. Reyes was exciting. Santana was dazzling. Third baseman David Wright was one of the best players in baseball. Center fielder Carlos Beltran was one of the best players in baseball. Carlos Delgado had hit 38 home runs -- the 11th time in 12 years he hit 30-plus homers. Francisco Rodriguez came to New York after he had set the single-season save record in Anaheim -- finally, the Mets had their answer for the Great Rivera. So, how did it all go so wrong? Just look at the Mets now. They are now arguing over Jose Reyes' thyroid. That's the big story at Mets camp these days. The Mets seem to believe -- based on what they're hearing from doctors -- that Reyes has an overactive thyroid. Reyes seems to believe -- based on what he's hearing from doctors -- that his thyroid is fine. Everybody is waiting for the results from the latest tests. These days, Jose Reyes' thyroid has the third highest Q-Rating in New York, behind only David Paterson and David Letterman. It could get its own show by the weekend. Of course, the thyroid talk is just an emblem of the Mets' issues -- of Carlos Beltran's knee surgery, of David Wright's power outage, of Carlos Delgado's hip injury, of the surgery Johan Santana had to remove bone chips, of the Mets' abominable 70-92 record last year.* * The Mets became the first team in baseball history to spend $140 million (well, $149 million and some change) and have a losing record. Here is a list of all the teams to spend $140 million on payroll in a season and their win total: 2009 Mets: 70 wins 2009 Yankees: 103 wins 2008 Yankees: 89 wins 2007 Yankees: 94 wins 2007 Red Sox: 96 wins 2006 Yankees: 97 wins 2005 Yankees: 95 wins 2004 Yankees: 101 wins 2003 Yankees: 101 wins In other words, the thyroid talk is just the latest in a whole bunch of really weird things to happen to the Mets. Of course, Mets fans -- at least the ones I hear from all the time -- seem to think this is all just part of being ... Mets fans. It's all part of the tradition. The Mets have a proud history of "The Mets Being The Mets" that, of course, goes back to the 1962 team that most people would agree was the worst baseball team of the last 100 years. The teams that followed were not much better -- until the 1969 Miracle Mets and the 1973 Ya Gotta Believe Mets. Then, the late 1970s, another dreadful lull, that time when Joe Torre came to understand that it's hard to be a genius with Lenny Randle at third, Doug Flynn at second and Craig Swan as your Opening Day starter. Then, came the great mid-80s Mets that didn't win quite as much as they should have won. Then came the dreadful early 1990s Mets, the good-but-not-good enough late 1990s Mets, the dreadful early 2000s Mets, and finally this team dealing with a spotty lineup, a spotty rotation and a thyroid problem. The thing is, that if they could stop the bad momentum ... this Mets team has talent. Johan Santana, if he's healthy, is as good as anybody. Beltran appears to be on the mend after knee surgery -- he says that he's feeling better about his knee than he has in years. You would like to believe that David Wright, having worked out whatever swing problems he had last year, will return to being a terrific player. Jason Bay gives the Mets a strong middle-of-the lineup bat. The rotation -- with 20-somethings Mike Pelfrey, John Maine and Oliver Perez -- could be OK, and K-Rod is still a top closer no matter what Goose Gossage may have said about him.*

Joe Posnaski takes a few subtle swipes at Gossage here and K-Rod is still a top closer no matter what Goose Gossage may have said about him.* * I guess Gossage called K-Rod a "clown" because of his theatrics on the field, and K-Rod responded by saying he had never heard of Gossage. So, that went well. Gossage also suggested that while Mariano Rivera is the best "modern reliever," he prefers himself and the 52 saves in which he got at least seven outs. Rivera, he points out, only has two of those. Case closed. And while this is off-topic, it should be pointed out that Gossage does not have the most seven-out saves in baseball history, and he doesn't have the second most, and he doesn't have the third, fourth, fifth or sixth-most either. One of his teammates, Sparky Lyle, had more. The list of most saves, 7-or-more outs: 1. Rollie Fingers, 74 saves 2. Dan Quisenberry, 65 saves 3. Gene Garber, 64 saves 4. Hoyt Wilhelm, 61 saves 5. Mike Marshall, 57 saves 6. Sparky Lyle, 56 saves 7. Goose Gossage, 52 saves 8. Lindy McDaniel, 51 saves 9. Bill Campbell, 49 saves 10. Bob Stanley, 48 saves. Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/joe_posnanski/03/10/jose.reyes/index.html#ixzz0htQA2nDu Get a free NFL Team Jacket and Tee with SI Subscription

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