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Mr.Met moving his crap over to his new pad.

Pictures From mets.com[/url:3c3b7ip0] EDIT . these are old pictures

One of the more interesting pictures over at the excellent baseball-fever. Apparently this is off the Jackie Robinson rotunda and the red box area is a Mets dugout store.

12 ) I jog like I do because of the biles between my ass cheeks. Doh , I forgot that this was about Hank and not Jetes....

Mets sign Pedro Feliciano, avoid arbitration BY KEN DAVIDOFF | ken.davidoff@newsday.com 11:34 AM EST, February 6, 2009 The Mets have signed lefty reliever Pedro Feliciano to a one-year contract for $1,612,500, Newsday has learned, meaning that Omar Minaya and his crew will not have go to to an arbitration hearing with any of their players. Feliciano was the last arbitration-eligible player on the Mets to settle. Feliciano, 32, has become one of the Mets' more reliable relievers. While he put up a 4.05 ERA in 2008, he limited lefty batters to a .280 on-base percentage and .295 slugging percentage. The pitcher had submitted a salary of $1.950 million for his arbitration hearing, which had been scheduled for next Thursday, Feb. 12, while the Mets submitted $1.350 million. Feliciano can earn bonuses of $12,500 for 60 appearances and $25,000 for 60 innings pitched. In 2008, he totaled 86 appearances and 53 1/3 innings pitche

Really cool that your missus would stand inline for you , especially given that she went for different reasons.

The Mets in all forms are all over this list . ] Bernie Madoff tie to Mets' money prompts fear of major losses BY GREG B. SMITH DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, February 6th 2009, 3:02 AM Newly released documents make clear that New York Mets' money got caught in Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff's web of deceit. Mets Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon had admitted that his family and business partners lost money to Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme, but he's always insisted the team won't be hurt in any way. "It's truly two different things," Wilpon said. But documents reveal that 13 accounts with direct ties to the Mets show up on a list of Madoff client victims filed in Manhattan bankruptcy court. The Mets' accounts include one called Mets II LLC; six accounts for Sterling Mets Limited Partnership, listed as "care of" Mets Vice President Leonard Labita, and six accounts for Sterling Doubleday, the company that used to own the Mets. There's also an account for the Brooklyn Baseball Co. and one for Coney Island Baseball, business entities that own the Mets' Brooklyn minor-league baseball team. The Mets have repeatedly tried to distance themselves from investments their parent company, Sterling Equities, placed with Madoff. A big worry would be if Sterling had acted as a so-called "feeder fund," placing other people's investments with Madoff without telling them. Several such funds face multibillion-dollar lawsuits. Thursday, Sterling said it was never a feeder fund for Madoff. Instead, the company said, "Sterling's partners, as well as various friends and family members of those partners, are among the scores of unfortunate victims of the Madoff fraud." Records show many Wilpon family members and Sterling executives and their families placed money with Madoff. Sterling won't disclose how much money it put with Madoff over the years. But records show Sterling Equities alone appears to have more than 180 accounts. gsmith@nydailynews.com

And Minaya said no more big moves.......

I find it funny how other players defer to Jeter like he's the Jordan of baseball.

Ollie smiled in one picture , I'm concerned about him. Love the wall fans [

="John Cougar Lunchbucket":3w0r4khk]="Edgy DC":3w0r4khk]When this photo was posted in "Wifey Watch 2007," then-poster Johnny Dickshot said it oughta be in the "Witchy Watch" thread. [/quote:3w0r4khk] I did? That was funny for me. They were out of Daily Snoozes at the deli this morning and I had to buy the Post.[/quote:3w0r4khk] No Daily Snooze at my deli in the Bronx either....first time I have bought the NYP in years. soupcan Feb 05 2009 07:36 AM I get the Times for home delivery and read it on my MetroNorth train. Then at Grand Central I grab a Post for the subway ride downtowm, and on my way home I pick up a Snooze. metsguyinmichigan Feb 05 2009 07:44 AM ="soupcan"]I get the Times for home delivery and read it on my MetroNorth train. Then at Grand Central I grab a Post for the subway ride downtowm, and on my way home I pick up a Snooze. On behalf of reporters every where, I thank you for your support of the newspaper industry! Benjamin Grimm Feb 05 2009 08:12 AM He's leading a "quadruple" life? Where does he find the time? I have my hands full just leading one life. How many "completionist" Mets collectors are going to add some "Art Shamsky Sucks" condoms to their collections? This is absolutely bizarre. At least it explains why Shamsky is getting a surge of hits on the UMDB. Kong76 Feb 05 2009 08:12 AM Bizarre to find this subject heading for me this morning. My wife met Shamsky, Kranepool, and Swododa last night and got me some autographs on my cards. Details this evening. Frayed Knot Feb 05 2009 08:14 AM Maybe Kim Shamsky saw your wife with Art and figured ... oh never mind. Edgy DC Feb 05 2009 08:15 AM Yeah, that would be a quintuple life. Centerfield Feb 05 2009 09:32 AM KC's banging Shamsky. You heard it here first. Ashie62 Feb 05 2009 10:36 AM Art could temporarily change his name to Art Vandelay Divorce Attorneys will stop at nothing TheOldMole Feb 05 2009 12:27 PM I believe T. S. Eliot's ex. Vivian, picketed his plays carrying a sign reading "I am the aggrieved wife." Met Hunter Feb 05 2009 03:53 PM I've met Art a few times and I think he's an asshole. Go get him psycho bitch. themetfairy Feb 05 2009 04:29 PM ="Met Hunter":2ccat44o]I've met Art a few times and I think he's an asshole. Go get him psycho bitch.[/quote:2ccat44o] seawolf17 Feb 05 2009 05:25 PM ="Kong76":2erkpx1d]Bizarre to find this subject heading for me this morning. My wife met Shamsky, Kranepool, and Swododa last night and got me some autographs on my cards. Details this evening.[/quote:2erkpx1d] She pick up an extra Shamsky? I need one, and I understand he's too much of an ass to sign through the mail. (I'll put up some stats on my Mets autograph collection next week, once I hit 200 different guys.) MFS62 Feb 05 2009 06:17 PM ]In her lawsuit, Kim claimed Shamsky's infidelity led her to catch a sexually transmitted disease. IIRC, this was in Ball Four: In answer to a survey question,"What is the toughest thing you ever had to do as a ball player?" First baseman Mike Hegan replied,"Trying to convince my wife why she needed a Penicillin shot for my kidney infection." Later batmagadanleadoff May 06 2009 12:23 AM Art Shamsky Ambushed by Ex-Wife: the Video. (Temp Tycoon?) themetfairy May 06 2009 06:47 AM I can't understand why Art would want to divorce a sweetheart like Kim....

Apparently she'll be chasing Shamsky all over town at upcoming 40th anniversary of the Miracle Mets , I feel for the guy.

AMAZIN' AMBUSH! SHAMSKY'S ANGRY EX POUNCES ] By ALIYAH SHAHID and DAVID K. L I Hell hath no fury like a baseball wife scorned! The enraged ex-wife of Miracle Met Art Shamsky tracked him to a Midtown luncheon yesterday and chased him down the street to air her allegations that he's a lying snake in the grass who carried on affairs with both men and women while they were married. Kim Shamsky confronted the New York sports hero at Gallagher's Steakhouse, where he and several other members of the legendary 1969 Mets squad were part of a benefit for the American Heart Association. As Shamsky hit the sidewalk to leave, Kim ambushed the Met and stalked him down 52nd Street, screaming at him and demanding a verbal throwdown. "Set yourself free . . . Why can't you look at me?" a rampaging Kim shouted, as Shamsky tried to speed away with his ear glued to a cellphone. He made it just a half-block east to Broadway, before deciding to reverse course and seek protection back inside Gallagher's from his angry ex. The bickering couple was married in 1994 and divorced 12 years later. Kim sued Shamsky last year, claiming she's owed compensation for the "physiological and emotional injuries" associated with his years of unfaithfulness. "He believes his own lies and he just hides, because everything he does is a lie and he can't admit it," said Kim, a wealthy entrepreneur who built an empire of temporary-employment agencies. "I have e-mails that he's done this to other people so justice will be served when this comes out in court," she said of the electronic paper trail she's basing her court case on. "He was leading a double, triple, quadruple life." Kim said she decided to take her case to the street to confront her former husband publicly and remind him that she's not through with him. "I just wanted to say, 'Bye, Artie, see you in court,' " Kim said. "I want justice to be served in the court." Inside the restaurant, Shamsky bristled when asked about his ex-wife. "Why would you even ask me that question?" the agitated jock yelled. He was surrounded by teammates Bud Harrelson, Ed Kranepool and Ron Swoboda at the event, where attendees paid $75 for lunch and a copy of Shamsky's book, "The Magnificent Seasons." The former big-leaguer hit .300 with 14 home runs for the World Series-winning Amazin's in 1969. And he batted a torrid .538 in the National League Championship Series against Atlanta. The Mets went on to beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series for the team's first title. Kim has said she'll likely continue to publicly confront Shamsky - although she hasn't decided how often. With this year marking the 40th anniversary of the Miracle Mets and the new Citi Field opening in two months, reunions of that 1969 squad figure to be plentiful. In her lawsuit, Kim claimed Shamsky's infidelity led her to catch a sexually transmitted disease. She has purchased the rights to www.ArtShamskySucks.com to launch a safe-sex campaign - complete with T-shirts and condoms. "I'm waiting for my case to be settled, so I can have this campaign and show everything on this Web site - including all of Art's personal e-mails to show he did what he said he did not do," Kim said. Shamsky has denied all his ex-wife's allegations

]Left-hander Chase Wright was traded by the New York Yankees to the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday for outfielder-catcher Eric Fryer.

4) Like Barney I fucked Selma

Daniel Gross argues that the name should stay. http://www.slate.com/id/2210442/ ] Three Strikes and You're Bailed Out Why Citi shouldn't cancel its $400 million purchase of naming rights for the Mets new stadium. By Daniel Gross Posted Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009, at 6:00 PM ET Almost every taxpayer who isn't a New York Mets fan is outraged by Citi's $400 million, 20-year deal for naming rights to the new Mets stadium, known as Citi Field. It's true that shelling out that kind of money at a time when taxpayers are bankrolling the company and backstopping hundreds of billions of dollars worth of its assets may seem tone-deaf and stupid, even for a bank. And, historically, naming rights have been a classic vanity move. Corporations tend to make grandiose civic/corporate statements right when they are about to implode. If you had shorted Citi's stock when it announced the sponsorship deal in November 2006, you would have made a lot of money. But there's a reasonable case to be made for preserving the deal, especially if Citi could get the Mets to extend the deal to 30 or 40 years. In order for Citi to weather the storm, recover, and pay back taxpayers (and insulate them from further losses), the company must invest for both the short- and long-term. For companies in highly competitive consumer markets, marketing and advertising are essential, entirely justifiable expenses. Companies�even companies getting bailed out by the feds�need to attract customers and to build their brand image. It's difficult to measure the value of any specific campaign or ad. But there's reason to think that for this company, at this stadium, in this location, a naming-rights deal might not be such a bad long term move. The cost is high�$400 million over 20 years. But the present-day cost isn't quite as high as you think, especially if, as Darren Rovell of CNBC suggests, it is paid out in annual installments. In 2029, $20 million will be worth a lot less than $20 million is today. And any type of advertising that reaches a lot of people is expensive. In this economy, NBC was able to charge $3 million for a 30-second spot during the Super Bowl. Though the audience size for Mets games won't approach that of the Super Bowl, the location of the stadium guarantees that the Citi logo will be visible to hundreds of millions of people each year. Citi Field is a giant billboard that will be visible not just to the 4 million-plus people who attend Mets games each year but to the tens of millions of people who drive past it on the Grand Central Parkway, the Van Wyck Expressway, and other roadways and the 25 million or so passengers who fly into and out of LaGuardia Airport each year. And stadium naming deals generate a huge amount of free advertising. On the broadcasts of the team's 81 home games (and, sponsors hope, post-season games), announcers will repeatedly refer to the company's name in a nonadvertising context: "Welcome back to Citi Field." Likewise, newspaper, Internet, and television coverage will produce hundreds of millions of impressions of the company's name per year. Naming-rights deals are most justifiable when the product or company doing the naming has an intuitive connection to the people who visit the stadium. The Montreal Canadiens used to play in the Molson Center, which made sense since hockey fans drink a lot of beer. Ditto for the Colorado Rockies, who play in Coors Field. (When Internet company PSInet planted its name on the Baltimore Ravens' stadium, it didn't make quite as much sense.) Citi would seem to be something of a natural for the New York Mets. It's a New York-based bank. The Mets are based in New York City. Baseball stadiums tend to attract a prosperous, heavily male clientele, including professionals, small-business owners, and corporate executives. Many companies use Mets games to entertain and schmooze prospective clients. In short, a lot of the sorts of people who are likely to utilize Citi's services will be attending games at Citi Field. Of course, people who read about games at Citi Field on ESPN.com won't be learning much about Citi's mortgage rates. But naming rights, especially if they endure, can perform another vital function for brands. It can help make them part of the vernacular. The greatest desire of any marketer is for her product's name to work its way into conversations. When I was growing up, it was common to say, "I want a Coke" when you were referring to any kind of soda. People ask for a Kleenex when they mean a tissue, say they're going to Xerox a document even if they're using a Ricoh copier, and speak of Googling when they refer to an Internet search. Stadium naming rights can help products and brands gain that sort of status. Since 1926, baseball fans on the north side of Chicago have spoken about going to games at Wrigley Field. Does that make fans more likely to buy Wrigley's gum products? It can't hurt. "Meet me at Citi," doesn't quite have the same ring as "Meet me at Shea." But after 20 or 30 years, it might.

Good bullpens is one thing I remember from Steve Phillips Mets teams.

I have no memory of Costas doing p-b-p , has he been out of the picture that long , was he any good?

Yeah I remember when Phillips started doing just guest spots on ESPN radio , got to give him credit for dragging himself back up . Probably has a better gig now. Anyway I think Only has the better team so far and certainly with the money spent.

Just got a reply from Curtis. ] Hello Conor, Mark is doing well and is living in Elizabethtown, Ky. I�ll inform him of your inquiry and try to get him to post on your board, if not I�ll get him to forward his email address. Curtis Bradley

Here's the video of that Damn it's worth watching , around the two minute mark things get interesting.

Wasn't Luke Scott at one time considered a big time prospect destined for great tings , did that work out or what?

I emailed his brother Curtis with a nice respectful email asking him how Mark is and inviting both to post here.

] "In conversations this morning, Citi reinforced that they will honor our legally binding agreement." Sounds like the Mets reinforced the legally binding thing.

The dynamics of the AL East just changed , seriously that sounds like a good place from him.