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Anyone trade for Pujols,I overhauled my pitching staff,I dunno but I'm disheartened about my team. One thing I have noticed about rotisserie leagues is that the table doesn't change all that much after things settle down and the season gets going.

Centerfield wrote: I can't even tell you how excited I am about his possible return. I really miss Pedro. Dito.

] METS FANS COMPETE FOR 15 SECONDS OF FAME IN MAKE YOUR OWN METS TV COMMERCIAL CONTEST Fans to Submit Self-Produced Television Spots to Air on SportsNet New York (SNY) Entry Deadline June 30 FLUSHING, N.Y., June 3, 2007 - The New York Mets in conjunction with SportsNet New York (SNY) today announced the launch of the "Your 15 Seconds of Mets Fame Commercial Contest." The competition is open to all Mets fans to produce their own version of a 15-second Mets television spot consistent with the team's slogan, "The 2007 Mets. Your Season Has Come." The winning spot(s), which will be judged by the Mets, will debut Thursday, July 12 on SNY when the Mets host the Cincinnati Reds. The winner(s) also will receive tickets to a 2007 Mets home game, when they will be recognized during a pregame ceremony on the field, and will have their ad shown on DiamondVision during the game. To enter, contestants must submit a 15-second spot on DVD, DV or MiniDV format that includes the 2007 Mets campaign ("Your Season Has Come") along with a ticket sales message. Complete contest rules, regulations and guidelines, including eligibility and entry requirements and restrictions, and the official entry form will be published shortly on mets.com. A signed and completed entry form that will be posted on Mets.com must accompany the submission of each spot. Further details are available on Mets.com. Entry deadline is June 30. The 2007 Mets campaign was developed in conjunction with Ogilvy and Mather. The "15 Seconds of Mets Fame" contest follows the inaugural Mets Anthem Search competition in March. For more information visit Mets.com.

Bondy has an interesting take on things. ] Sheffield grinds wrong ax By FILIP BONDY DAILY NEWS SPORTS COLUMNIST Tuesday, June 5th 2007, 4:00 AM Gary Sheffield Tigers manager Jim Leyland pushes Gary Sheffield away from home plate umpire Greg Gibson after an altercation on May 31. It is a great, unfortunate irony that in order to debunk Gary Sheffield's latest pop-sociology theories, we must find and cite Hispanic ballplayers who are nearly as big a pain in the neck as the former Yankee. This isn't easy, but suddenly necessary because Sheffield has claimed in an interview with GQ magazine that the main reason there are so many Latino players in the major leagues, and so few African-Americans, is that teams believe Hispanics are easier to control. Major league club officials supposedly don't want to deal with real, contentious black men like Sheffield sees himself. "Where I'm from, you can't control us," Sheffield said. "... These are the things my race demands. So, if you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys." This is utter nonsense, a sweeping generalization of the sloppiest sort, and it feeds dangerously into the whole immigrant worker paranoia that permeates our country: They're taking our jobs because they do what they're told! Sheffield might have made his point very effectively and specifically, without the racial stereotypes, by stating the obvious: The Yankees preferred Bobby Abreu's quiet singles to his own loud homers, and are paying a price for it in the standings. But Sheffield is Sheffield, an erstwhile steroid confessor who swings his bat like an ax and speaks with the same absence of nuance. So he has dragged an entire race into his own grudge work, and there is a need to put out an APB for thorny, surly or rebellious Latino types. Nobody has to look hard for these mischievous guys. Manny Ramirez is up in Boston, heeding nobody and nothing but his own enigmatic brain signals. Alex Rodriguez, a Sheffield ally, is in the Bronx, making headlines of the best and worst kind. Guillermo Mota is on the Mets after getting busted for steroids, a problem that has become a silent epidemic among young Hispanic players. There you go, Sheff. Latinos can be a headache, too, just like a lot of white and black players, and Asians too - hey, remember Hideki Irabu? The trouble with such ignorant ramblings from Sheffield is that they obscure some real and troublesome issues about blacks and baseball. There is understandable concern about shrinking numbers of American blacks in the sport. And while MLB hiring practices have improved vastly in recent years under Bud Selig, still only two GMs of color in the leagues are making all these personnel decisions. In this regard, Latinos and African-Americans are in the same charter boat, adrift in the same choppy ocean. "We agree on the issue of diversity in baseball," said Lisa Navarrete, VP for National Council of La Raza, the Latino national civil rights and advocacy organization in Washington. "He's targeting the wrong culprit, the players themselves. Then he resorts to the stereotyping that he himself is trying to fight. I don't want African-Americans to be stereotyped. Plenty of players belie Sheffield's characterizations. It's unfortunate, because at the end of the day, the situations faced by Latins and African-Americans have more in common than they are different." Navarrete, a Yankee fan who lived for some time in New York, pointed out that there is great range of Hispanic players, "from the Zen of Bernie Williams to Manny Ramirez, who you can never call docile." Again, there is no denying that baseball is in a real crisis when it comes to the number of African-Americans coming into the game. Richard Lapchick's 2006 study out of the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports found that only 8.4% of players were African-American, the lowest number since the 1960s, while 29.4% were Latino. At the coaching level, however, African-Americans made up 16% of the workforce while Latinos comprised 13%. This is a direct statistical rebuff of Sheffield's theory. If white GMs were more comfortable with Hispanics, that hiring bias would certainly be quite obvious in the coaching ranks. After all, coaches don't have the same impact on results as players. If the hirer believed that Latins were more cooperative than African-Americans, he would lose little ground in the standings by ignoring the latter group almost entirely. Sheffield is welcome to his opinions and is more than likely to continue issuing them. But if he has a beef with the Yankees, he should say exactly that. They done him wrong, at least in his mind. This has nothing to do with A-Rod, Manny or an imagined race of do-gooders. fjbondy@netscape.net

Val,was Peterson wearing his Mets jacket?,his philosophy on young pitchers doesn't sound like much of a philosophy,maybe he was bullshitting you. I think that's really a cool thing that your Dad did for you.

As Edgy mentioned earlier,here is the link. Countdown to futile Phillies' 10,000th defeat

iramets wrote: James Jesus? James Jerry Hardy

Steveo ,I would have thought you were the opposite of the casual two team fan,you're hardcore for the Mets and yankees I thought I remember the 2001 post-season and getting questioned as to why I wasn't rooting for the yankees,fuck that shit I said,why would I root for them.

Great stuff Val,have a blast..good to see you Ice.

I read that article the other day,very interesting read,meant to post it,thanks Elster.

Excellent KTE,might Alou get activated for this series?

Sosa - 3.5 Smith - 0.5 Feliciano - 0.5 Delgado - 1 Gotay - 3 Reyes - 1 Newhan - 0.5

Perez - 2 Reyes - 0.5 LoDuca - 0.5 Gomez - 1

Perez - 2 Reyes - 0.5 LoDuca - 0.5 Gomez - 1

Abreu is brutal...loving this game.

Abreu is a brutal fielder...I mean fucking brutal. Seo that's brilliant.

Gary Sheffield is a total wanker,if he knows African American players that are better than some Latino players but are sitting at home because they can't be controled then fucking lets have names.....and I assume he knows enoough to bump that 8.4% up. His book must not be selling.

] Length of Piniella's suspension to be determined by MLB on Monday Associated Press CHICAGO -- Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella was suspended indefinitely and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball on Sunday for his latest dirt-kicking tirade against an umpire. Piniella was ejected in the eighth inning of Saturday's 5-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves. After Angel Pagan was thrown out trying to steal third, Piniella stormed out of the dugout and kicked dirt as he argued and tossed his cap, leading to his ouster by third-base umpire Mark Wegner. MLB also said that Piniella made contact with Wegner during the outburst. Piniella will begin serving his suspension Sunday. The length of Piniella's suspension will be determined Monday after a meeting with John McHale Jr., the MLB executive vice president for administration. The Cubs have lost six straight entering Sunday's series finale against the Braves. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2891897

Ralph Kiner in great voice today.

Hope Sosa brings his A game,not a very intimidating Mets team today.

Maine - 3 Heilman - 0.5 Gotay - 1 Reyes - 0.5 Newhan - 0.5

Does anyone think this will scare away some teams from Zambrano?,or if not scare away then certainly make them question weather they should go for him if he becomes a FA.

What a fucking mess,the Cubs aren't loveable losers,they're just losers.

Hojo should take back his spot.

I bet some team throws $100 plus million at him though.....he a hot headed one.