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What about Keith and Ron saying last night that there should be a " Player of the Year" to go with the MVP like there used to be back in the day,it was "The Sporting News PoTY"....that came up because Gary wondered weather a player can be MVP on a crap team(thinks they can)....Keith said it was very prestiges to win The Sporting News award the year he shared the MVP......he also wondered why they don't sponsor it anymore.Gary told him The Sporting News is so marginalized these days people don't even know about it.....

Morgan Fairchild brings back a memory,and I'm also thinking that your Dad was involved...am I crazy?

="Edgy DC"]This is one where they did look lifeless. Should have had Mahmoud Ahmadinejad throw out the first pitch. Brilliant....he could deny that the midnight massacre ever happened.

Duan,soccer I assume,at what level do you play,junior soccer like a Cherry Orchard level? And you dead right in regards to athletes ,interesting how Mendoza line said yesterday that he hoped someone sat Milledge down to watch tape of the Bradley incident and Keith repeated the same thing when Gary mentioned Bradley during the game last night.

Well I meant one round and done ,three rounds and done would be good....

WOW ] Bradley out for rest of season Ken Rosenthal What started as just another Milton Bradley outburst has turned into something far more serious, not to mention damaging to the San Diego Padres' postseason hopes. A major-league source told FOXSports.com that Bradley suffered a torn ACL in his right kneee while being restrained by Padres manager Bud Black from going after first base umpire Mike Winters during Sunday's loss to the Colorado Rockies. The injury will sideline Bradley for the rest of the season � and the playoffs, assuming the Padres can hold onto their tenuous wild-card lead � and will require surgery. Bradley was ejected and then hurt his right knee when Black spun him to the ground in an attempt to keep him from going the an umpire. The Padres were livid, claiming that Winters baited Bradley in the eighth inning, leading to a confrontation that overshadowed the surging Rockies' 7-3 win and an impressive three-game sweep of the wild card-leading Padres. Bradley, whose volatile temper has overshadowed his talent during his career, called it "the most unprofessional and most ridiculous thing I've ever seen." "It's terrible. And now, because of him, my knee's hurt," said Bradley, a second-half catalyst for the Padres who was in his third game back from an injury that sidelined him for nearly two weeks. "If this costs me my season because of that, he needs to be reprimanded. I'm taking some action. I'm not going to stand pat and accept this because I didn't do nothing wrong." The punchless Padres retained their half-game lead over Philadelphia, which lost 5-3 to Washington, while the Rockies pulled within 1 1/2 games by winning their season-high eighth straight. San Diego stayed 2 1/2 games behind first-place Arizona in the NL West with seven to play. Colorado is four back of the Diamondbacks with six games remaining. An inning before Bradley was hurt, the Padres lost center fielder Mike Cameron after Bradley stepped on his right hand while the two pursued Garrett Atkins' inside-the-park home run. As Bradley walked to the plate in the eighth inning, he and umpire Brian Runge talked for about 25 seconds. Bradley singled, then said something to Winters. Later on in Kevin Kouzmanoff's at-bat, it escalated into an argument, with Bradley going toward Winters. First base coach Bobby Meacham began to restrain Bradley and Black came running out. Bradley got away from Meacham, but Black grabbed him by the jersey. Bradley was attempting to get free and, after a few seconds, Black spun Bradley around and the player collapsed. Bradley immediately grabbed his right knee and eventually had to be helped off the field. "I was trying to pull Milton away from the argument," Black said. Runge said that after Bradley struck out looking to end the fifth, he "flipped the bat about 5-10 feet in front of me." Bradley said Runge asked him in the eighth if he threw his bat at him. "I said, 'Are you kidding me? That's ridiculous.' He said, 'Well, it was reported to me by the other umpires that you threw your bat at me.' And I said, 'That's completely ridiculous. I've done a lot of things. I'm trying to turn it around. I would never harm anybody."' Once on first base, Bradley asked Winters if he told Runge he threw his bat. "He goes, 'Yeah, you did.' I go, 'Are you kidding me? That's completely ridiculous. If I strike out and the inning's over, why are you looking at me? Everything's always about me."' Then, a fan heckled Winters. "I pointed to the guy in the crowd, affirming it," Bradley said. Bradley said Winters responded with a string of expletives. "That's when I went at him and he kicked me out," Bradley said. Crew chief Bruce Froemming wouldn't allow a reporter to speak with Winters. Froemming said Bradley "got grumpy with Mike Winters. Winters told him to knock it off and he continued it. There is no covering up what he did. He had to be physically restrained. We're not going to put up with it if he wants to talk." One batter later, Black ran onto the field after third-base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt called a checked-swing strike on Adrian Gonzalez and was ejected. "In 26 years of baseball, I can honestly say that's the most disconcerting conversation I have ever heard from an umpire to a player," Meacham said. "It was almost like he wanted to agitate the whole thing. He wanted to get Milton boiling for some reason. Milton, he held his cool. I was just appalled." Padres CEO Sandy Alderson, a former general manager and president of the Oakland Athletics, said he'd never seen a player injured like that. "But as far as I'm concerned, it was necessary," he said. Alderson used to work in the commissioner's office, where one of his duties was overseeing umpires. "We're not going to sit by and see an umpire bait a player," Alderson said. He added that if the commissioner's office concludes the situation was handled appropriately, "I'll be shocked." The Associated Press contributed to this report.

That amount of runs scored in consecutive games is some sort of record for the Mets,yeah if they continue to give up a shit load of runs per game in the post-season then I would say it's one and done.

Look who sponsors Bannister's page.... http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bannibr01.shtml

Johnny Dickshot wrote: It's all invalid. They're going to be cautious regardless; the "recent history with bringing players in from other countries." is irrelevant on every level; the rest of it are questions you ask of any player. yeah true that....not a great class of FA second basemen.... http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2000/04/2007-free-agents.html

No email for me either,don't they usually email you to say sorry nothing for you?

All valid points Val.

OK lets not let Val take this of course....this "dude" should be worth a look,I'm sure Minaya will give this due diligence.

Frayed Knot wrote: So now - some 7 years later - we've got both SS & 3B covered for the foreseeable future meaning that this topic is closed as far as I'm concerned. Well said soup,edgy and FK.......for some though this topic will never be closed it seems.

Maine - 1 Sele - 1 Smith 0.5 Schoeneweis - 0.5 Mota -0.5 Sosa - 0.5 Delgado - 2 Wright - 2 Alou - 1 LoDuca - 1

It seems such a waste of energy to still be thinking about why the Mets didn't make Rodriguez a FA offer.

true...anyway back to Rodriguez and the Cubs,if he goes there for whatever money they'd have some sort of offense and he could play SS as well.

Boras responds...... http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-sparod0924,0,7314994.story

What a ride.....going to watch " Eastern Promises" now for some light entertainment......

I have no idea what EBM points are,not even an educated guess,did I totally miss something?

WOW that's freaky.....

Edgy DC wrote: Jackson, not John F. Kennedy, should be remembered as the great Irish-American story among US presidents. Scots-Irish sadly don't count, but everything else about his biography quintessentially qualifies him. I remember reading a great article about that,maybe in the Irish Echo.

Martinez - 2 Schoeneweis - 2 Delgado - 1 Castillo - 1 Alou - 1 Beltran - 1

Anderson - 3 Alou - 2 Wright - 1 Schoeneweis 0.5 Heilman - 1 Mota - 1

Perez - 6 Castro - 2.5 Wright 0.5 Castillo - 0.5 Delgado - 0.5

Edgy DC wrote: Way to shine, Scotty. Wagner or Heilman for the ninth? The way Gary is talking it won't be Wagner....