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Metfan wrote Nice bit of fiction. The main point you left out is, "We will hire the best baseball executive out there. Jeff and I will no longer get involved in any baseball decisions. We will just sign the checks and gleefully hold up the World Series trophy. No players or any other member of this organization will have a direct pipeline to Jeff and me." This is what Jeff does , I've stopped thinking he should butt out of things. I mean he's the top man there.I just don't think a day will come when a GM walks into ownerships office and tells him he just signed so and so for 7 years at $20 million per. Does that happen for other GM's......I have my doubts.

"I give up"

Another head hangs lowly, Child is slowly taken. And the violence caused such silence, Who are we mistaken? But you see, it's not me, it's not my family. In your head, in your head they are fighting, With their tanks and their bombs, And their bombs and their guns. In your head, in your head, they are crying... In your head, in your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie, Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head, In your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie? Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou... Another mother's breakin', Heart is taking over. When the vi'lence causes silence, We must be mistaken. It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen. In your head, in your head they're still fighting, With their tanks and their bombs, And their bombs and their guns. In your head, in your head, they are dying... In your head, in your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie, Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head, In your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie? Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

enhanced player development they plan on putting them on the juice

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I read the link provided and I still don't believe it, can that be true. Someone with the Mets actually spent some of their work day getting the rubber ready , Omar and Jeff actually spent time writing letters. Unreal

Ojeda in the post game said that since the " vote of confidence" the Mets have been playing worse...." does that come into the equation for who's coming back next season" he asked....stay tuned

It seemed inevitable , I thought Dunn might do it though.....

Another sloppy play at short by Valdez and Gary remarks that this has been one of the worst games he has ever watched. Keith wants to forget all three games , K-rod looking to blow this one

Best thing ever.....great find...

Swisher was a guy I would have liked before but since landing in the Bronx he seems like a total bollox...

Bobby Valentine hasn't followed the 2009 Mets as closely as he would have if he were not in another hemisphere. But the team's former manager said Tuesday that he has seen enough to consider the season "a tragedy." "I have some friends there that I've shared tears with because I think it's been a tragedy," he said from Japan, where he is concluding a six-year run with the Chiba Lotte Marines and preparing to join ESPN as an analyst in time for the League Championship Series. "It's been disappointment after disappointment, and I don't think anybody could've fixed it as the season was going on. As soon as it seemed like things were getting better, they seemed to get worse. I was kind of a fan that was really disappointed and upset by the outcome." Naturally, Valentine's name will come up if the Mets eventually replace manager Jerry Manuel - not to mention for other teams with openings - but for now he said he is "committed" to doing the best job he can for ESPN. In 2010, that will include regular work on "Baseball Tonight" as well as contributing to 1050 ESPN radio and ESPNNewYork.com, a Web site launching early next year. Valentine has provisions in his contract that would allow him to leave for a managerial job, but ESPN executive VP Norby Williamson said he assumes the network will have Valentine at least through 2010. After the Mets fired Valentine, he spent 2003 at ESPN. He said rejoining the network was an easy decision. (Even if it does mean also rejoining former Mets general manager Steve Phillips, with whom he had a frosty relationship.) "This is a situation that only a fool would refuse," he said.

MOre from Lennon on this WASHINGTON - Omar Minaya is not the White House favorite he used to be during the George W. Bush years, but the general manager still enjoys the Mets' trips to the nation's capital even though the former Rangers owner has turned over the keys to Air Force One. For that reason, it's notable that Minaya skipped this week's visit to Nationals Park to stay back in New York for "housecleaning" purposes. With a huge offseason awaiting the Mets, and plenty of internal moves to be made, Minaya and his staff - along with the Wilpons - are well into that evaluation process. Last week, Minaya fired Ramon Pe�a, a special assistant in charge of Latin America operations, as well as Luis Aguayo, the minor-league field coordinator in Port St. Lucie. But he didn't stop there. A person familiar with the situation confirmed Tuesday that the Mets have cut loose two minor-league managers - Double-A Binghamton's Mako Olivares and Julio Franco of the Gulf Coast League club. It also was revealed Tuesday that the Mets cut ties with Bill Masse, the batting coach at Triple-A Buffalo, who was promoted from Binghamton in June. Other than Pe�a, a former trusted adviser to Minaya, these are not really franchise-shaking developments. But what they do signal is that the Wilpons have delivered a stern message to Minaya and manager Jerry Manuel that ownership will not tolerate another season like 2009 - and that goes for every level of the organization. A team official indicated that the Mets' decision-makers have been meeting regularly for the past six weeks in an effort to sort out what went wrong this season. The only thing they know is that the task is far from finished and more heads are likely to roll. There are more meetings scheduled for tomorrow's day off - also involving Manuel - as the conversation turns to his coaching staff. Manuel said last weekend that he planned to sit down with Minaya and perhaps the Wilpons on Monday, before leaving for his Sacramento home, to discuss the fate of his coaches. A person familiar with the team's plans suggested Tuesday that changes will indeed be coming, but did not specify who would be getting the ax. It also appears that Manuel's input will be relied on heavily in making those changes, but there will be pressure from the front office, as well. That puts Manuel in a tough spot and he didn't exactly rally to the coaches' defense when asked Sunday. The most likely candidate to be gone is third-base coach Razor Shines - a friend of Manuel and his personal addition to the staff for this season. Not only did Shines do a poor job of handling runners, even Manuel threw him under the bus for his failures with Daniel Murphy's development in leftfield. As for pitching coach Dan Warthen - probably next on the list - he was promoted from Triple-A on the same day that Manuel replaced Willie Randolph, so the manager doesn't quite have the same close attachment to Warthen as he would a longtime friend. The biggest criticism of Warthen this season has been the staggering number of walks allowed by the staff; its total of 607 is only 12 short of the franchise record. Even so, Warthen had to deal with losing four of his five starters from the Mets' Opening Day roster to serious injury and juggle a staff patched together with mostly minor-leaguers. "I just think it's difficult to evaluate based on what went wrong," Manuel said.

Jeez , but AJ Burnett is some sort of dickhead.... he's done the pie in the face 15 times this season....it's like his thing and he intends to continue the " tradition in the playoffs , even if it's Jeter or Tex"....idiot.

Just caught the latest mishaps on highlights......I agree with Kase...it's rather funny .

Pelfrey is at that stage now where he can choose his catcher....

I read where Schneider wants to play every remaining game, he's got a shot you know of getting his average up tp .220 , as he says it sounds better than .217

Rooting for the Tigers , Twins never beat the MFY's

The comparison with Jeter is a good one.....you don't have to search that hard to find David gushing about Jeter at the WBC upon learing that he was going to locker next to Jeter That's one of the guys I really wanted to see go about his business over the course of these three weeks," Wright said of Jeter. "[i want to] see how he prepares, kind of get in his mind a little bit and try to learn a little something. It was good to look over and see him to my left. I'm going to try to soak in as much as I can." "As a young player in New York, there's certain guys that you try to emulate, certain guys that you want to learn from -- both on and off the field," Wright said. "I'm excited to have a locker next to him, to play next to him and pick his brain a little bit. Obviously, he's a class act. I'm interested to get in his head a little bit." Rightly or wrongly Jeter is the guy Wright gets compared to in this town. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090303&content_id=3913148&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

I don't doubt what you are saying Grim but that's a terrible reason to keep him.

I assume Wright is at least making Molly pay hard for this , he's got to be taking it out somewhere.