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Great clip, couldn't watch it at work. Torre didn't seem too upset, I wonder how many years those Mets fans served in prison.

Fucker....

I would have no problem with Milledge getting the starting RF job, I would at least give him that shot at making it his for keeps.

Some great moments there.

Not much out there in FA land. http://www.mlb4u.com/freeagency.php?field=position

That's big news, there will be teams beating down his door to hire him.

IL play this coming season holds very little excitement for me.

Probably fairer to compare Carey to Buck and not McCarver, and if I was to compare TM to the lead color guy on TBS there is no comparison , TM is a lot better than Gwynn. For a great hitter Gwynn offers nothing about the art except for using uncanny a lot to describe good hitting.

Val's taking the piss, right?

Scroll down past Vlad(funny) and catch up with Joe in a Q&A and McCarver dials up Stats Inc...

Some funny reading on that site.

SJR and YSG similarity scores go up.

Yancy Street Gang wrote: You know, I'd be okay with him as Willie's bench coach, but if he still wants to manage, what options might be available to him? St. Louis? Pittsburgh? Are there any other teams who will be manager shopping this winter? (Does Seattle have a manager for next year?) Maybe the Dodgers.

Here's the article. Lupica

soupcan wrote: At this point wouldn't re-signing LoDuca be the smart thing? Yes I would like that better, and he'd sign for a year I think.

I'd go three years but I fear that if the Mets really wanted him they would go four or five.

Lupica today in the News is talking about $400M over 11 years.

I know it means nothing but today Klapisch wrote this in talking about the yankees going after Santana. ] But the Yankees have a Plan B ready, which might include a full-blown pursuit of Johan Santana -- even if it means trading Phil Hughes and Robinson Cano and prospects. Be tough to top that I would think, not that I think Cashman would give those players up for Santana.

I'd pass, I'm sure his agent would try to sell him as a player that gives his all every night, winning attitude and all that good stuff.

But he's out of contract so he can't be fired , they just won't bring him back I suppose, or they'll make him a contract offer. I agree that he should tell them to stick it.

Edgy DC wrote: Like Michael Kay isn't a model of perspective. He just pumps the team in the name of career advancement. She's genuinely emotionally involved. All other things being equal, I'll take the fool over the careerist. Except that other things aren't equal, and I think she's not so bright. Wallup.

Those contracts were signed August 2006, I don't buy it.

Richard Sandomir on Waldman and the state of the broadcasting. ] TV Sports Yes, There Is Crying in Baseball (and It�s O.K.) By RICHARD SANDOMIR Published: October 10, 2007 Suzyn Waldman was unapologetic yesterday for choking up and sobbing briefly in her report Monday night on WCBS-AM after the Indians knocked the Yankees out of the playoffs. �That�s who I am,� she said by telephone. �It�s unusual, but not for me. I am emotional. I�m a conduit between the players and the fans, and everyone was crying.� She added: �That�s what I felt. I am who I am. I�m emotional. A lot of people like it, a lot of people don�t. I didn�t do it in a game, and I recovered.� It would be easy to condemn Waldman for losing her composure, demonstrating her feelings for Manager Joe Torre and shedding her professional stance. But Waldman is not a standard analyst. She can get away with reacting in a way that a male counterpart might be ridiculed for. (�I cry at �Cinderella,� � she said in the moments before she sobbed.) She is an empathetic personality � her clubhouse demeanor is as much reporter as mother-confessor � so her catch-in-her-voice weeping about Torre�s probable departure was not surprising. �There are a lot worse things than crying on the air,� she said. Waldman�s response to Torre�s possible farewell to pinstripes came about 90 seconds into her conversation with John Sterling. She was summarizing Torre�s remarks to the news media and said through sniffles, �I was O.K. until I went into the clubhouse and the coaches are sitting in Torre�s office and they�re watching this and the tears that you hear in my voice are coming down the faces of the coaches in that coaches� room.� It is not stunning that she wept. She has been connected to the Yankees by reporting about them or calling their games on WFAN, the MSG Network, Channels 5 and 11, the YES Network and WCBS for 20 years. She brokered Yogi Berra�s return to Yankee Stadium by eliciting an apology from George Steinbrenner for the way he fired him. She has established a clear and sentimental connection to the Yankees even if she must endure a nickname like �Georgy Girl� that no other Yankees voice has. And her Torre tears created a bookend to the Yankees� ultimately disappointing season. On May 6, she went far over the top in describing the scene at Yankee Stadium when Roger Clemens announced his return. In a more extreme version of her Game 4 lamentation, she shouted that afternoon with untrammelled joy: �Roger Clemens is in George�s box and Roger Clemens is comin� back. Oh my goodness gracious, of all the dramatic things � of all the dramatic things I�ve ever seen, Roger Clemens is standing right in George Steinbrenner�s box announcing he is back.� To me, it is worse to be a clueless announcer than one who is emotional in a sport where crying is prohibited by the cinematic manager Tom Hanks. But Torre cries, so maybe it�s good for all of us to get out our hankies. Chip Caray of TBS can set aside the hanky for a copy of a Manhattan map, access to mlb.com and a Yankees media guide. I won�t go on at length about Caray�s miscues during the Yankees-Indians division series as I did yesterday. But during Game 4, he wrongly situated the Chrysler Building in downtown Manhattan during a blimp shot; falsely named Kei Igawa as a product of the Yankees� farm system; incorrectly said the Indians were on an �unbelievable hot streak�; clumsily described Indians starter Paul Byrd�s effective five-inning stint as �magnificent� and fumbled over the history of Mike Mussina�s relief appearances. When Johnny Damon�s sixth-inning single moved Shelley Duncan to third, Caray uttered, �The crowd is up for grabs.� I have no idea what he meant. In the eighth, he said, �Barring another run by Cleveland, it sets up Joe Borowski in the ninth.� Don�t try parsing that one; your hair will fall out. � Here is my prescription for fixing TBS�s baseball announcing woes. First, don�t let Caray continue to the National League Championship Series. Rush right now and hire the Mets� SNY voice, Gary Cohen. Two, restore the old practice of adding local announcers from the two teams in a series to add greater knowledge of the players. For the World Series, NBC brought in the Mets� Lindsey Nelson in 1969, the Tigers� George Kell in 1968, the Red Sox� Ned Martin in 1975 and the Reds� Marty Brennaman in 1976. Three, never load up a crew of National League-related voices as TBS did with Caray, Tony Gwynn and Bob Brenly, for an American League series. Four, don�t interview Jon Bon Jovi or any other entertainer as pitching change filler as Craig Sager did Monday in the sixth inning. Five, subject all new announcers, like Gwynn, to auditions that require them to tell stories and demonstrate an audible voice. Heck, is Ernie Harwell available? Getting Cohen would be great but it would never happen I think. E-mail: sportsbiz@nytimes.com Next Article in Sports (9 of 16) �

I've seen Shapiro interviewed a few times over the last week and he seems a very smart person, actually wanted to hear what he had to say. Why is his name pronounced Sha-pie-ro and not Shapiro as in Robert Shapiro.

Any tape of Ed Coleman crying after the Mets season ended?