metirish

I'm sure it's somewhere, Heilman to AZ for 1year & $2 million plus.

I think this means the Mets hit for the cycle today.

Jeff �It was very important to re-establish the Mets Hall of Fame Committee,� said Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, who serves as Ex-Officio for the Selection Committee. �The committee made great choices and all four inductees played a vital role in our success during the 1980s. Each individual was a unanimous recommendation and on behalf of myself and the rest of Ownership I was pleased to approve them.� The Mets Hall of Fame now has 25 members. The 21 previous Hall of Fame members in order of the year they were inducted are: Joan Payson (1981); Casey Stengel (1981); Gil Hodges (1982); George M. Weiss (1982); William A. Shea (1983); Johnny Murphy (1983); Ralph Kiner (1984); Bob Murphy (1984); Lindsey Nelson (1984); Bud Harrelson (1986); Rusty Staub (1986); Tom Seaver (1988); Jerry Koosman (1989); Ed Kranepool (1990); Cleon Jones (1991); Jerry Grote (1992); Tug McGraw (1993); Mookie Wilson (1996); Keith Hernandez (1997); Gary Carter (2001); and Tommie Agee (2002). The plaques of all the inductees will be one of the main attractions at the new Mets Hall of Fame and Museum which will open this season. The Mets Hall of Fame committee was re-formed in November. The seven-member committee is comprised of a combination of media members with long-standing connections to the club and the Mets front office staff. The members are: Dave Howard, Executive Vice President, Business Operations who has been with the organization for 18 years; Jay Horwitz, Vice President, Media Relations who enters his 31st season with the team; Tina Mannix, Senior Director, Marketing who has been with the Mets for nine years; former Mets pitcher Al Jackson, a pitching consultant who is entering his sixth decade with the Mets; Marty Noble, the Mets.com beat writer who is entering his fifth decade covering the team; Gary Cohen, the New York native and voice of the Mets on SNY who has been a Mets broadcaster for 21 years; and Howie Rose, a Queens native and radio voice of the Mets on WFAN who has covered the team for 21 years on radio and televisio

I of course knew what I was doing .......

Jeff Francoeur and the Mets avoided arbitration by agreeing to a deal for $5 million for 2010

Who's the point man for the press conference I wonder.

Not all of us can get twitter at work , can you cut & paste

Yoko sounds a bit crazy With a fondness for garish fashion � black, zebra-striped polyester shirts and loud pink dresses � and carrying a mauve business card that described her as a �fortune teller� who did �character and color analysis,� she was surely one of the strangest NPB executives in the annals of the game. Yoneda made news at the beginning of the season, when she ordered reporters to stop wearing jeans and to use keigo, or formal Japanese when speaking to the players. This was the cause of great mirth to some observers, since most reporters had nothing else in their wardrobe and most players, for their part, were so uneducated they could not understand honorific Japanese. A former cheerleader at high school baseball powerhouse PL Gakuen, Yoneda had been introduced to acting owner Akio Shigemitsu, by the president of Otsuka, and had been given a job in the Lotte front office in 2006. No one could figure out what the nature of her relationship was with the diffident billionaire�s son, who denied there was anything romantic going on. He simply explained in a news conference that Yoneda was an �eccentric character� who told his fortune.

Not being able to hit fungoes properly is like this huge thing in Japan...Yoko Yoneda is the Japanese Steve Phillips....

Jeez , talk about feeling self important....FU Patrick Flood(it's Flood right?) I'm with Grim , so sick of the angst , yeah I participated in it a bit but I got over it .It's like this every year I suppose although it seems worse this year. Oh it gets worse....cos I actually read this bile So that's what I've got. I'm hoping I'll get at least a few offers, at least from some minor league teams. I think the Red Sox would be the smoothest transition for me, because I already live in New England, I already hate the Yankees, I'm already Irish (and "The Departed" taught me that everyone in Boston is Irish and excessively violent), and my grandfather was a Red Sox fan - I figure it's in my blood. Plus, cheating with a team in another league isn't really cheating, right? Right? Patrick Flood I have learned form reading his blog is a moron, an excessively idiotic moron.

I hate when writers like Conlin above use the Sorry, that's just the way it has to be. line to explain why they leave guys off....

MLB Network is showing this from a Reds angle? , seems like the kind of game SNY could show

When VH1 looks back at this decade in a few years Ed Price will be mentioned as the first real star to emerge....he's everywhere...

Horrifuckable....they moved the squiggle from over the ear to the front lid.....they sell similar caps over at Fordham Road.

Omar speaks...........and clears the mess up..... Mets general manager Omar Minaya said Friday that he did not give the OK for Carlos Beltran to have knee surgery before the team's star centerfielder went under the knife on Wednesday. "Carlos did speak to me before surgery and we had a good conversation," Minaya told Newsday in a telephone interview. "It was one of those things as far as he was telling me what the second opinion was and all that. I basically told him, 'Look, as long as the protocol is followed.' I didn't give an OK because ... we had a good conversation about it that seemed like he was excited about it. I did talk to Carlos about that (Friday) and I did have a conversation with him before (the surgery) and with the simple thing that he let me know what the prognosis was as far as that he was going to have surgery. Bottom line, as long as that protocol was followed, that's all. That's what happened there." Minaya's stance - that Beltran went ahead with the surgery without the Mets' final approval - contradicts what Beltran said in a statement on Thursday issued through his agent, Scott Boras. "I also spoke to Omar Minaya about the surgery on Tuesday," Beltran said in the statement. "He did not ask me to wait or to get another doctor's opinion. He just wished me well. No one from the team raised any issue until Wednesday, after I was already in surgery. I do not know what else I could have done." Minaya, in his first public comments on the matter, said he spoke with Beltran Friday in an attempt to clarify matters. "I just told him that ownership and myself and the doctors ... there was a breakdown in the process, those were the issues," he said. "There was a miscommunication along the way. A general manager doesn't approve it, that's between the doctors and the other people. "Carlos and I have a very good relationship. I told Carlos from ownership, there's no issues with Carlos. The issues that were played out were more on the process. We had a very good conversation. There are no issues between Carlos and myself or the organization." Despite Minaya's contention, there does seem to be an issue. By going on the record as saying they did not approve the surgery and involving the commissioner's office, as they did on Wednesday, the Mets could be setting up a legal battle in which they seek to recoup some of Beltran's salary if his recovery from the surgery goes awry. "I knew that surgery was planned," Minaya said. "He told me that surgery had been planned. My words for him was, 'As long as the protocol was being followed.'""

"Fakes and phonies"......hard to argue with that.

How do we pronounce his first name....Olbert?

Boras of course..... There was a NY kneee specialist quoted in the Snooze today as saying that the surgery might not even fix what's wrong with Beltran.... Here , I found it in the online edition RESULTS MAY VARY: Even if Beltran is ready for baseball activities in 12 weeks after knee surgery, the Mets have no guarantees that he will be the same player, a fleet, power-hitting outfielder who is among baseball's elite. "It's conceivable that surgery doesn't help," said Dr. Ronald Grelsamer, a knee surgeon in the department of orthopaedic surgery at Mount Sinai. Grelsamer has not examined Beltran. The surgery, according to the Mets, cleaned out the arthritic area of Beltran's right knee. Arthritis, Dr. Grelsamer said, has a "variable effect" on patients. "Some patients have very bad arthritis but can do more than some who have very little and are hobbling," Grelsamer said. "You can't extrapolate from one to another how it is going to affect you - two with the same amount of arthritis can have differing amounts of pain." Initially, Grelsamer said, he was surprised when he read the projection that Beltran would not be back to baseball activities for three months. Generally, he said, projections for professional athletes returning from arthroscopic surgery can be as quick as 3-4 weeks. An arthroscopy, he said, is "essentially performing a manicure - washing out, cleaning out, trimming, taking out stuff that could be irritating." Boras, Beltran's agent, said in a telephone interview Thursday that Beltran's doctor found "20-30 fragments of cartilage in the knee. It was a very successful surgery and we expect Carlos to return to play and not have any problems."

On Pelfrey , it seems I was lower on the guy that the Schaefer voting results show....I dunno but he disappointed to me. Led the team in innings as FK noted, is that a big thing on that team with the way the season went? I suppose I was waiting for the big season for him but I also forget that he's only had two full seasons when I look at his stats....I think he can be a #2 guy if that means anything but to often he seems to be not in the game. On Parnell - I guess I was high on him when he went back to the pen.

Only the Mets would schedule a physical on MLK Day.

Who's runnning this place?

I reside somewhere between Seo and Ashie and the pissed scale...yesterday I thought the Mets handled the PR correctly but now I'm not so sure , Beltran says Minaya knew Tuesday that he was having the procedure and wished him well.It is all a little embarrassing.

The writing is on the wall if Beltran shirts are already getting flogged for half-price.

Just from reading your pbp it seems like the Mets got the PR aspect right on this so far, they seemed restrained with their words and having Howard and Rico take the lead helps. That's a plus I think. I think this blows over and the Mets will add a bat to complement Pagan out there, Edgy mentioned Winn , someone like him .