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Delgado - 4.5 Maine - 3 Chavez - 1.5 Beltran - 0.5 Burgos - 0.5

If I were a betting man I woould bet that the Mets wil lnot be in NO more than two seasons.

Having Keith talk about the dance girls/cheerleaders that the Marlins employ is like asking for trouble,Philllies jump on the Braves and score four in the first.

Glavine - 2 Heilman - 1 Beltran - 1 Schoenweis - 1

OHernandez - 4 LoDuca - 2 Heilman - 0.5 Smith - 0.5 Reyes - 1 Beltran - 0.5 Delgado - 0.5 Chavez - 0.5 easley - 0.5

Great to see Pedro at the game,he did look in fine shape.

Some of the Marlins defense has been shockingly bad ,great KTE,a little different and with lots of information.

Some good news from the B-Mets. Caleb Stewart was named Eastern League Player of the Week (May 14-20),and he's on a hitting tear,batting .455 (10-for-22) with two home runs and seven RBIs over that stretch. This week he's not let up,Wednesday night he hit a grand slam in the 5-2 win over Connecticut and homered again yesterday in the B-Mets' 9-6 victory,going 3 for 4 to raise his average to .331. B-Mets turned a triple play in that 5-2 win Wednesday night. http://www.bmets.com/viewarticle.asp?a=1080

A british view of the Mets/MFY series...chock full of cliches. Cliches Here

I really don't think Willie needs to show his players that he's in the game by getting tossed,maybe it shows us fans,which should mean little to Willie,do we know that there was no barking from the dugout?... I get what you're saying CF but I just don't know that it makes a jot of difference if you go all Weaver on the ump. Angel Hernandez should be fired for years of bad calls. I didn't like the bunt there,Mex did and Gary didn't.

Johnson is active,hitting .288 with 1 HR nad 5 RBI in 19 games,73 AB's.

I'm sure the squid can find out thoughts on this deal in the archives....

] The Yankees are the stupid fucks I like that....

I would say it's a toss up between Neagle and Pavano,Hampton's was/is a terrible deal but a few teams are paying the money.

Pavano has a 5-6 record with the MFY,hell of a lot of money for 5 wins or 19 starts,which ever way one chooses to look at it. ] Ken Davidoff's five worst free-agent signings: 5. LHP Mike Hampton, eight-year, $121-million contract with Colorado Rockies, Dec. 9, 2000. Mr. Denver School System himself, the lefthander ditched the Mets for the huge bucks and claimed he did it to enrich his children. He was so miserable pitching at Coors Field that the Rockies felt compelled to trade him to the Braves after just two years, and he is now in the process of sitting out his second straight full season with elbow problems. 4. LHP Denny Neagle, five-year, $55-million contract with Colorado Rockies, Dec. 4, 2000. Bad, bad month for the Rockies, who rewarded Neagle for an uninspiring Yankees half-season with this outrageous deal. Neagle made just seven starts in 2003, and those were his last in the major leagues, as his career ended with an unseemly arrest in the Denver area. 3. RHP Chan Ho Park, five-year, $65-million contract with Texas Rangers, Dec. 23, 2001. The ace of the Dodgers, Park never won more than nine games and never pitched more than 1452/3 innings in a season for the Rangers, who traded him to the Padres in the middle of the 2005 season. 2. Darren Dreifort, five-year, $55-million contract with Los Angeles Dodgers, Dec. 11, 2000. The Dodgers put a great deal of faith in a pitcher who never had reached the 200-inning mark. That backfired when Dreifort never reached the 100-inning milestone as a very rich man, missing the entire 2002 and 2005 seasons. He served as an effective reliever for part of 2004, before going down with yet another injury. 1. Carl Pavano, four-year, $39.95-million contract with Yankees, Dec. 22, 2004. He quickly alienated his teammates, his superiors, his agent, his fiancée, the media and fans. He fooled the Yankees into signing him, then fooled them into believing he could work as a regular starter in 2007. He missed all of 2006, pitched just twice this year and will almost certainly miss all of next year. Otherwise, he turned out to be a great acquisition

I think he probably says Daaaaawg...fathered five kids by age 22...what's with the D-Rays and these punks they have in the organization?

This guy is a real bit of trash. ] Rays' Elijah Dukes is under a restraining order - again. By EDUARDO ENCINA and ABBIE VANSICKLE Published May 23, 2007 TAMPA - In late April, Tampa Bay Devil Rays outfielder Elijah Dukes barged into his wife's middle school classroom at lunchtime. He was so irate that she ran to get the principal and a deputy, who banned Dukes from the property, records show. His wife, who said she fears for her life, sought a restraining order and told the court it was the latest in a string of outbursts by the 22-year-old rookie player. Dukes' wife, NiShea Gilbert, 26, a teacher at Beth Shields Middle School in Ruskin, told the court in another filing Thursday that her husband threatened to kill her and sent a photo of a handgun to her cell phone. She played the St. Petersburg Times a voice mail message she said was from Dukes: "You dead, dawg," says an angry voice. "I ain't even bulls-------. Your kids, too." Dukes is in his first season with the Devil Rays, and his eight home runs - the most by any American League rookie - speak to his professional promise. But Dukes' personal life is a mess. Twice in the last month, the wife of the Tampa native and former Hillsborough High standout has filed requests for protection against him. A court hearing on her latest request is May 30. "I just don't think I should live in fear," said Gilbert. "When (the Rays) go out of town, I come home. When they're at home, I go stay with my mother. I shouldn't have to live like that because he's a baseball player." Dukes, when approached after batting practice Tuesday evening, declined to discuss the allegations. "I'm just going to play ball, that's it," he said. "I've got to go. I've got a video game to finish." He referred to a statement provided by Rick Vaughn, team vice president. "The end of our marriage is a personal matter for my wife and me," the statement reads. "Out of respect for my family, especially my children, I wish to keep our proceedings private." Andrew Friedman, the team's executive vice president of baseball operations, said he was aware of the marital strife, but he knew nothing about allegations of threats. "I think it's premature to comment on it," he said. "This is the first that we've heard of it. ... The only knowledge we had was that this was a messy divorce. But obviously not the extent that she's stating." After the school incident, Gilbert filed a request for a restraining order. It was dropped when she missed a court hearing. She filed a second request Thursday. In it, she said she missed the hearing because one of her children was in the hospital. She said she has received other death threats in recent weeks, including the message she says Dukes left May 2 on her phone. Here's what the voice on the machine says: "Hey, dawg. It's on, dawg. You dead, dawg. I ain't even bulls-------. Your kids too, dawg. It don't even matter to me who is in the car with you. N-----, all I know is, n-----, when I see your m-----f------- a-- riding, dawg, it's on. As a matter of fact, I'm coming to your m-----f------ house." She also says Dukes called her and told her to check her cell phone. He sent a text message with a photo of a handgun, she said. "Elijah continues to call me telling me he is going to kill me and texting me pictures of a gun," she wrote in her request to the court. "I am scared for my life and my kids' life." However, Gilbert did not call police about those threats, saying she saw the restraining order as an "alternative" way of protecting herself. "People kept telling me it would mess up his career," said Gilbert, who said both family and friends told her not to press charges against Dukes. But deputies have been called four times to deal with the couple's domestic issues, said Hillsborough sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter. In 2003, Gilbert accused Dukes of throwing a remote control at her. In April 2004, she accused him of harassing phone calls. Later that year, she said he hit her with a soda can, threw a glass candy bowl and ripped a phone cord out of the wall when she tried to call 911. In August 2006, deputies arrested Gilbert, accusing her of scratching her husband's back during an argument. The charge was dropped in September. Court records show that Dukes was sentenced to probation in February 2005 for a charge of domestic battery. They also show that Gilbert received a yearlong restraining order against Dukes in October 2004. But the incident involved in those cases was unclear Tuesday. In October 2005, another Tampa woman, Carla Bryant, the mother of Dukes' oldest child, filed for a domestic violence restraining order against Dukes. A judge ordered that he stay away from her for a year. Bryant claimed Dukes threatened her over the phone. Dukes was ordered to attend an anger management course. Reached Tuesday, Bryant declined to say why she filed for protection. She said she was "going through complicated issues" at the time. Her grandfather was ailing. Dukes was trying to be more involved in their daughter's life. "We've resolved an issue that we probably could have dealt with ourselves," Bryant said. "As far as anything domestic, I haven't had any altercations with him recently, and anything in the past, I'd like to leave it there." The pair have a daughter. Bryant had no complaints about Dukes' treatment of the child. Four women have gone to court seeking child support from Dukes. In all four cases, the court found Dukes was the father, meaning he has at least five children by four women. Two of those women were pregnant at the same time, giving birth in 2003 within eight days of each other. Gilbert met Dukes when she was a student in 2003 at the University of South Florida. She filed for child support in March 2004 after the couple's first child was born. He was ordered to pay $222.26 a month. During her second pregnancy, she sought and won a yearlong restraining order against him. A judge ordered him to attend a certified batterers' intervention program and substance abuse evaluation. She noticed little improvement in his behavior, she said. After the child was born, Dukes proposed. The couple married Feb. 27, 2006. They have a 3-year-old son and a daughter nearly 2. Life only got more frustrating after the marriage, she said. "We went to the courthouse in Brandon and got married and things have gone downhill ever since," she said. "My life has been turned upside down since I've been dealing with him." Gilbert once filed for divorce but changed her mind. Now, she says she plans to file for divorce again. On April 30, Gilbert was in her classroom at Shields Middle School when she heard a banging on the door. Her students were at lunch. Another teacher answered the door. "It was Elijah (my husband) coming toward me at my desk stating he was going to beat my a-- and kill me," Gilbert wrote in her request for a restraining order. Dukes later left the room and walked through the school's halls, she wrote. Gilbert and her co-worker ran to the school's front office. "I told them to get the deputy because he was acting out of his mind," she said in an interview. "I told them, 'Just have him escorted off. I don't want him to go to jail. Just make him leave.'" Deputy Theresa Montaldo tried to calm him down. When principal Tom Scott arrived, he admonished Dukes, Gilbert said. Dukes was ordered to leave campus. "Estranged wife is employee," the trespass warning reads. "He came to see her - very irate." Dukes, who grew up in Sulphur Springs, saw his father convicted of second-degree murder when he was 11. Elijah Dukes Sr. received a 20-year prison sentence for shooting a man who sold his wife $100 worth of fake crack cocaine. Dukes, who makes the major-league minimum $380,000, is considered one of the best all-around athletes on the Rays, with a mix of speed and power that some scouts predict could make him one of the game's top players. He made the jump to the majors this season and earned some playing time, then took over as the starting centerfielder when Rocco Baldelli was injured last week. Before he moved up to the major leagues, Dukes had on-field confrontations last season with a coach and a teammate while with Devil Rays' Triple-A affiliate Durham. He was suspended for 30 games. Dukes was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession during a traffic stop on Jan. 15. A hearing is scheduled for June 4. "He's trying to act like he's made a change," Gilbert said. "He's made no changes. He's gotten worse. He says that since he plays baseball, 'No one can f--- with me.'" Dukes' agent, Scott Pucino, questioned Gilbert's motives in making allegations against the athlete. "I don't know those to be true," Pucino said. "I do know I think she is clearly using the media to leverage this divorce proceeding. There's money involved, and unfortunately she's going to the media." But Pucino and the Devil Rays both says Dukes' behavior has improved. "He has made a lot of strides, but obviously this is something that certainly requires our attention," Friedman, of the Rays, said. Times researchers Cathy Wos and John Martin and staff writers Marc Topkin and Kevin Graham contributed to this report. Fast Facts: Elijah Dukes' children Date of birth Mother Gender Nov. 25, 2003 NiShea Gilbert boy Dec. 3, 2003 Carla Bryant girl June 7, 2004 Shantell Mitchell boy June 16, 2005 NiShea Gilbert girl July 19, 2006 Porcia Daniels girl Dukes

John Harper makes me laugh. ] Extra effort seems to put Yanks in running By JOHN HARPER DAILY NEWS SPORTS COLUMNIST If a team that began the night with a double-digit deficit in the standings can make a statement, then surely this was it. Maybe the Yankees aren't quite as dead as they had led us to believe. On a night when they absolutely needed to make a stand, as much for their own psyche as for what it meant in the standings, the Yankees smacked Curt Schilling and the Red Sox all around the Stadium last night, as if they could will themselves to such an impressive performance. So now the question is simple: Was the timing merely coincidence? Was this a singular, spirited effort punctuated by Andy Pettitte's gutsy pitching - or the start of something bigger? One thing is for sure: in ambushing the Sox early and rolling to an 8-3 victory, these Yankees didn't look anything like the team we've been watching for the first seven weeks of the season. Of course, that is surely more of an indictment than a compliment, because even with their pitching problems the Yankees had no business playing such uninspired baseball of late. Last night it was easy to play with super-charged intensity. Yankee fans understood the urgency of needing to win this series from the Sox, and so the Stadium had a different feel from the start, exploding with October-like noise and energy from the first inning, when Pettitte struck out Big Papi Ortiz swinging at a slider. Afterward, Derek Jeter called the win "huge" and said the difference in recent days, as the Yankees won three of four from the Mets and Red Sox, was an intensity level that had been missing. "As long as our intensity level is there," he said, "we'll be fine." When someone suggested the intensity can't possibly remain at this level, Jeter interrupted. "Why is that?" he said, more of a challenge than a question. "There's no reason we can't sustain this kind of intensity," he said. "The atmosphere might be different, I realize that, but our approach shouldn't change." It's not lip service with Jeter, we know that by now. If you wanted a reminder, he provided it last night. If the Yankees were trying to send a message to the Red Sox not to get comfortable just yet in first place in the AL East, a spot that has belonged to the Yankees come October for nine straight years, Jeter may have made them notice with a play when the game was already well in hand. He led off the seventh with a shot off Brendan Donnelly up the left-center gap. It was a double all the way, yet Jeter, determined to add to a 6-1 lead, surprised Sox center fielder Coco Crisp by speeding around second and earning a triple with a play that smelled of killer instinct. "I wasn't stopping," Jeter said. "With the Red Sox you have to take every opportunity you can to put them away. Even if you have a 10-run lead, you don't feel safe against them. So you try to do anything you can to make sure." It's an attitude the Yankees will need to climb out of the hole they've dug in the standings. And sure enough, when Hideki Matsui followed with a single up the middle to score Jeter, suddenly the Yankees looked dangerous again. They looked that way from the start, with an early eruption right from some blueprint. A seemingly rejuvenated Johnny Damon doubled to right-center. Jeter made the right play, hitting the ball to the right side, and was rewarded for it with a single off second baseman Dustin Pedroia's glove that scored Damon. And then Matsui unloaded on Schilling for a two-run home run. The lineup looked like one that is surely here to stay for awhile. Better Matsui in the No.3 hole than Bobby Abreu, that's for sure. If Matsui gets hot there, the way Damon, Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada are swinging the bats in front and behind him, suddenly the Yankee hitters could be as lethal as they've been anemic in recent weeks. Perhaps most significant, the Yankees didn't settle for the quick three. They added single runs in each of the next three innings, getting contributions up and down the lineup. Surely this all meant something, right? Surely it wasn't just that Schilling was awful. Joe Torre indicated that he believes his team found out something about itself by raising its level to survive against the Mets and Red Sox. But what happens when the Sox leave town now, and the Stadium isn't rocking the way it was last night? Can the Yankees summon this type of effort on a nightly basis? What if last night was the easy part? Faced with falling 11-1/2 games behind the Sox, the Yankees dug deep, shook off their lethargy and proved to themselves that they can win a gut-check game in impressive style. Now they need to prove they don't need a full-scale crisis to play like this more often. Or it won't mean much. jharper@nydailynews.com

Perez - 5 Smith - 1 Wagner - 1 Wright - 1 Gomez - 0.5 Green - 0.5 LoDuca - 1

Just a dumb queation,this site has the potential to go on for many years,is there a squid in training to archive the future...what will this place look like in 40 years,Willets I have my doubts that you'll be up to the task of archiving at that time.

Lets give Peterson props for doing a great job with these guys,cos it sure ain't Dave Racanelli that got Ollie on track.

LoDuca - 2 Beltran - 1 Burgos - 1

Mets aren't doing anything wrong,in fact they are investing in the DR,which can't be a bad thing.(yes they stand to gain from the investment,that's what it's about)

Yeah decent article.... ] MLB has the toughest PED policy in sports, and no longer has anything to be ashamed of in how it handles the issue. Rather than spending millions of dollars dredging up its mistakes, it should focus on the future, on keeping the game clean, on setting an example for both its peers in professional sports and baseball players of all ages. That’s leadership, and it’s something I think the game is more than capable of. I know at times I forget just how far MLB has come in a few years as regards testing,they can do more and should.

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