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Coming from Scully that's high praise.

Yes,I believe that's what Gary reported.

The reason for taking Park out is Willie plans on pitching him in a few days to see how he responds on short rest...

In the other game Maine has given up 12 hits in five innings...tied at four I think.

Yeah it's hard to hear them,I have the TV up loud but then when it goes to break it blows my ears off,drama at Tradition field,Willie pulls Park after three perfect innings and Park is not happy...Willie will address the situation after the game Buckhart said.....

I happened upon Bill Bergen's Wiki profile tonight and it's quite fascinating. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Aloysius "Bill" Bergen (1878-1943) was a Major League Baseball catcher in the early days of the 20th century. Bill Bergen played eleven seasons in the National League, three with the Cincinnati Reds and eight with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bergen's claim to fame is his complete inability to hit. The question of who was the worst hitter of all time is obviously a subjective one, but what is known is that no one played as long as Bill Bergen and hit so poorly. Bergen had 3,028 at-bats in his career, and in that time he compiled a batting average of .170, the all-time record low for players who compiled more than 2,500 at-bats. His career on-base percentage was .194. He had only two home runs. In 1909, Bergen hit .139, the lowest average ever for a player who qualified for the batting title. That season, he set another record for futility by going 46 at-bats in a row without a base hit, the longest streak ever by a position player (pitcher Bob Buhl went 88 at-bats without a hit). Bergen was able to play for so long despite being such a terrible hitter by playing in an age where pitching dominated and by being a first-rate defensive catcher. Bergen ranks ninth on the all-time list for assists by a catcher with 1,444, despite never being a full-time player. In 1908, The Sporting News called him one of the best catchers in the game. On August 23, 1909, he threw out six St. Louis Cardinals on the basepaths. Another explanation was that most of the teams he played for weren't very good anyway: the Dodgers had a losing record every year Bergen was on the team, bottoming out with a 48-104 record in 1905. After his terrible hitting finally cost him a job in the big leagues, Bergen played minor-league ball for a while and coached in minor league ball before retiring. He died in 1943 of heart disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bergen http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bergebi01.shtml Bergen probably wouldn't get a game today...I mean it must be hard to be that bad a hitter..must have called a great game though. Only once in his career did he get above a .200 batting average...

For his career batting second Endy has 405 AB's with a .272 AVG and a OBP of .323 with 38 K's....he has hit first in the order the most with 761 AB's for a lower AVG and OBP.

Caught the last few innings of this tonight on SNY,Easley is going to help the Mets a lot this season,,tomorrow is a split squad game,Gary saod theyy would be here so i assume there is a game on SNY.

How will he be used ,is he seen as a guy to go and get the "big" outs or will that be Scott Schoeneweis's task?...

I remember when the Tigers made a run at the record that some in the media thought it would be a shame if they lost more than the '62 Mets because those Mets were "lovable losers" while the Tigers were just losers,were the Mets considered lovable losers at the end of the 1962 season?

Aaron Sele would probably get a job in that rotation,he'd certainly help them in the quest to lose 120 plus games.

Sele can afford to feck off home... 1993 Boston Red Sox $109,000 1994 Boston Red Sox $190,000 1995 Boston Red Sox $292,500 1996 Boston Red Sox $380,000 1997 Boston Red Sox $1,126,000 1998 Texas Rangers $2,850,000 1999 Texas Rangers $5,525,000 2000 Seattle Mariners $7,500,000 2001 Seattle Mariners $7,000,000 2002 Anaheim Angels $7,166,667 2003 Anaheim Angels $8,166,667 2004 Anaheim Angels $8,666,667 2005 Seattle Mariners $700,000 Career (may be incomplete) $49,672,501

]Sele: Go north or go home Shortly after his best outing of the spring, Aaron Sele said he'll retire if he doesn't make the Opening Day roster. Sele, 36, signed a minor-league contract, and the Mets hoped he could provide insurance at Triple-A New Orleans. "Totally out of the question," he said. "It's the big-league level or I'll go home." Sele, who allowed two hits and one run in five innings, still has a shot to make the team as a long reliever.

Didn't Tatis do that with the Expos and hadn't he done it before or something crazy like that?

not sure if you can use one of these for Joe Smith....[/url]

Theme to the A-Team ?...sweet jesus....

Duaner Sanchez was shut down this morning after throwing only 11 pitches from the mound, but he doesn't appear to have suffered a serious setback. After his bullpen session was cut short, Sanchez was examined and later said the discomfort was caused by the "popping" of scar tissue. Apparently there is no structural damage, but the Mets have not decided when he will return to the mound. http://www.newsday.com/sports/

Well surprise surprise the grill is not Manny's...it belongs to the fella that lives next to him..

Not on here,I got excited when I saw the thread,nothing on SNY or WP11.

What's Jason Phillips doing these days?,for whatever reason I have this impression that some veteran players have no desire to go to New Orleans,it can't be that bad there....can it?

Manny being Manny on eBay...... http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/ny-spmanny0321,0,1963816.story?coll=ny-sports-headlines grill http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120099426399&ru=http://search.ebay.com:80/120099426399_W0QQfromZR40QQfviZ1

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/03/20/lets_hear_it_for_the_little_gu_1.html

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seawolf17 wrote: I thought we already knew that; that was why the O's signed Trax, wasn't it? Anna just called me to confirm things....

Kris Benson to have rotator cuff surgery,likely done for the season.