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Maine - 6 Beltran - 2 Schoenweis - 0.5 France - 0.5 Wagner - 1

From the Times..... ] According to Stats LLC, only three Mets have entered May unbeaten with four or more victories and a lower E.R.A. than Maine: Frank Viola (1.32) in 1990, Jerry Koosman in 1968 (1.04) and 1973 (1.06) and Dwight Gooden (1.26) in the World Series championship season of 1986. That’s it. No Tom Terrific or David Cone, no Tom Glavine or Al Leiter on that list.

If you can believe this crap,when I lived in yorktown the Post was 75c,course I never bought the damn rag.

If A Hernandez can't hit and now it looks like he can't catch the ball then it must be Gotay.

From Newsday... ] If Valentin is placed on the disabled list, the Mets are likely to call up infielder Anderson Hernandez, who is batting .208 with eight errors in 24 games for New Orleans. Ruben Gotay is another possibility, but he's not on the 40-man roster, which is a strike against him.

One of the Balco boys got drugs from this fella,so says Lupica on Sports Reporters.

Has Chris Berman coined nick names for the top picks yet?,I just can't imagine tuning in to watch the draft.

Williams Nats career will be worth watching,sounds like he has no biz being in the big leagues.

Not being a smart arse here but what will this tell us about Willie,all this information .

Whar are the chances Torre is fired by Monday?

This beats Banagher..... ] The saddest part in all of this is the following. Yesterday, as I was warming up for the game, I got to see a young kid, could not have been more than 20, who had served in Iraq. He was being honored by the Orioles and threw out the first pitch. He was a double amputee who�d lost the lower portion of both of his legs serving his country. He refused to use his cane and getting to see him do that was incredible. Instead of finding this kid and writing a story that truly matters, something that would and could truly inspire people, the media chose to focus on a story that was over two years old and a completely fabricated lie. What a job. Curt managed to work in God into his blog as well,not saying he's comparing himself to God but Jesus Christ he's a bit much.

Some funny stuff there,the Rickey routine has been beaten to death though,Bowa is ok but long, not bad... http://www.yard-work.org/?p=704

Centerfield wrote: Who was that in the studio last night? Flipping through I didn't recognize him. Matt Yallof is pretty dumb. I think you are talking about Dave Gallagher,did Maz get whacked,any news on why he's away.

Those stats that Yancy posted are great,but they don't measure Willie's "gut feel" moves and tendencies.

Not sure what to make of the blog,he's a self serving jerk at times. ]The only problem I have is this. If you look back, from the day of game six in the ALCS, through today, you won�t find a newspaper article, radio or TV interview in which I offered the blood, the sock, the game, any of it, as a topic. I haven�t talked about it since the post game interview room that night. I would like to see that Barbara Walters interview ,IIRC you hobbled out on crutches and Babs gushed over you...and your ankle.

Edgy DC wrote: Comparing Gary Thorne to Jon Heyman. Harsh.Yeah that's harsh,one of the things I like about Thorne is that he does speak his mind,I remember a few times when doing Mets games that he didn't hold back,had a few harsh words for Bobby V's club house when he did games for WP11.

Bobby does look younger.....looks freaking great.

Seems strange that Thorne would wait a few years to mention it....

Kay mentioned that Hughes is being called "Baby Rocket".....what stupidity...

Things got cleared up today with this story. ]Thorne backed off Thursday after talking to Mirabelli before the Red Sox played the Orioles. Thorne said Mirabelli had been joking. "He said one thing, and I heard something else. I reported what I heard and what I honestly felt was said," Thorne said. "Having talked with him today, there's no doubt in my mind that's not what he said, that's not what he meant. He explained that it was in the context of the sarcasm and the jabbing that goes on in the clubhouse. "I took it as something serious, and it wasn't," Thorne said. Mirabelli confirmed the story, saying, "He knows that I believe 100 percent that I thought the sock had blood on it. It never crossed my mind that there wasn't blood on that sock. If he misinterpreted something said inside the clubhouse, it's unfortunate." Mirabelli said he spoke with Thorne in the Boston clubhouse about six months after the 2004 playoffs. "As he was walking away he asked, 'How about the bloody sock?' I said, 'Yeah, we got a lot of publicity out of that, and that was all he can recall me saying," Mirabelli said. "He said he assumed what I meant was that the sock was fake and that it was just a publicity stunt. That by no means is what I meant. There was never a doubt in mind there was blood on the sock."

Yanks lose sixth in a row,Boston coming to town,Torre will skip Kei Igawa and pitch Karstens in his place.

Well I guess Finley,Vizquel and Sanders have 300 or more steals but have never led the AL or NL in any season. This is the second time I have used Stark as a source for trivia and both times his questions have caused confusion.

After a rough first inning Hughes looks pretty good,3 - 0 Jays in the fifth,men on the corners,Torre pulls Hughes.

Great read,takes a nice cut at Hardgrove too,I like the idea of a Volvo bringing the relief pitcher in from the pen...great promotion from V.