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Manram???........Manny....well yeah there's a good one....good call Steveo

O'Neill has no hope at the HOF..maybe monument park....

Is Jeter really the best baseball player of his generation to never win an MVP?.....Piazza anyone...

Free agent pitcher Adam Eaton has reached preliminary agreement on a three-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies worth more than $24 million, a baseball source told ESPN.com.

I just laugh at this one....what the hell were you thinking

Or a whole lot of guys.....

Manny trade rumors are on again......could be treaded by Saturday,Mets not mentioned in rumors which means he'll probably end up at Shea.... http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2677627

I read recently where Wright said that he's going to the DR with Reyes for a vacation.....just saying...

Looks like Wright had his eyebrows done...it's stuff like this that Willie should ban.....wouldn't surprise me Wright and Reyes are lovers.

IIRC Seaver is a huge fan of Oh's ,that would help his cause I think.

Holy crap...what were they thinking,Reyes with the oiled up chest..... http://men.style.com/gq/fashion/landing?id=content_5144>

See is what I don't like about the voting process,Belle being a surly bollox should have nothing to do with it, plenty of worse types are in.

Yes,and I htink some writers will look at this as the steroid era and vote for him.

Mark McGwire will make for an interesting case.

True but I think Willie is a keeper,I think they would probably settle at 3 years and $6 million.

Not hearing much on Willie's contract extension,although things are apparently moving slow,how many years do you think he should get and what kinda money...you know the Mets paid Art Howe nearly triple what they are paying Willie not to manage,hope it gets sorted soon.

Sounds like torture that movie,read today that her sons are to stage a concert at Wembley Stadium next July in her honor....

Danys Baez gets $19 million form the Orioles for three years pending a physical,crazy.

If this comes down to money,and no reason to think that it won't then it's back to the Mets,Smoltz will make $8 million next season,will the Braves pay Glavine more,and it's not like Glavine and the GM are best friends,Mets ill pay more and probably offer two years.....

The only time I watch SNY is after Jets games...they do a decnet post-game,I would watch if they did some documentries,they should have a "center stage" type show.

Good article here.... ] Reporters doing voting: Write-on, or bad idea? BY JIM BAUMBACH Newsday Staff Writer November 26, 2006 The e-mail inbox of Chicago sportswriter Joe Cowley has been flooded ever since the American League MVP announcement earlier this week, and a few of the 500 messages have included some downright disgusting words from Yankees fans. A few choice e-mails that made Cowley cringe: "Hope your cancer comes back." "Hope you have a short life." What did Cowley do to deserve such hatred? The White Sox beat reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times put Derek Jeter sixth on his MVP ballot - lower than any other voter. It didn't cost Jeter the award, but it quickly made Cowley the poster boy for the anti-Jeter vote. "People want to write stuff like that, e-mail stuff like that, that's fine. That's part of it. It's no big deal," he said. "But when you read stuff like that, you want to step back and remind these people this is a baseball game." Some sports editors believe this is only the latest example why reporters should not vote for awards such as MVP and Cy Young. They don't believe a reporter should be a household name because of his vote. "I wouldn't want one of my reporters in that position," Los Angeles Times sports editor Randy Harvey said. Cowley's week included many interviews with reporters and radio shows, including a contentious exchange with WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog. All because of his vote for an award, not his job as a reporter. "Voting on awards like this puts reporters in the position of making the news, and that's not our job," said Tom Jolly, sports editor of The New York Times. "Our job is to report on the news, not to make it." And they're not the only sports editors who feel that way. This is the 75th year baseball writers have voted for the MVP, but the pool of voters clearly is declining. The New York Times and Washington Post have not allowed their reporters to vote for two decades because of ethical issues, and during the last two years, they have been joined by The Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Baltimore Sun, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Palm Beach Post, along with The Associated Press. Newsday allows its reporters to vote but did not have a vote in this year's MVP race. "While we've always done it, it's definitely something we're reconsidering," Newsday sports editor Hank Winnicki said. There are two votes from every American League city for the awards, and the votes are disbursed to newspapers on a rotating basis. In turn, the decision by newspapers to pull out has caused a problem for the Baseball Writers Association of America. In a small market such as Atlanta, it's impossible to replace the votes that would have been placed by the Atlanta Journal and Constitution reporters. "That's essentially a one- newspaper town, so I have to assign five national writers to be on the committees for down there," said Jack O'Connell, longtime secretary and treasurer of the BBWAA. "I try to keep it as regional as possible [in choosing replacement voters], and I make sure that it's strictly national writers." Because there are several other one-newspaper markets, there is potential for a major problem if newspapers continue to pull out. "Obviously, if the Houston Chronicle, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch come up with similar things," O'Connell said, "we'll have serious problems in those chapters." But not every sports editor agrees with the latest industry trend. Joe Sullivan, sports editor of The Boston Globe, is one of the fiercest defenders of allowing baseball reporters to vote on the sport's biggest awards. "This is a franchise we shouldn't surrender," he said. "Our expertise produces the best results. I think we would do a disservice by not voting. The argument is made that somehow it is a conflict of interest in the sense we're voting on the people we cover and we shouldn't make the news ... If The Boston Globe started giving out a most valuable player award, then we would be making news." Sullivan and other supporters of the polling process point to the lack of an obvious alternative system. But Jolly believes that shouldn't be a newspaper's concern, anyway. "I feel in a lot of these cases a reporter is put in the position of doing a job for a different organization," he said. "If Major League Baseball players and the league want to designate an MVP and these kind of awards, why don't they go ahead and do it with their own system?

Sure . http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2675502

In 14 starts against the Mets Williams is W5 - L3.....4.63 ERA,10 homers given up and all three loses at Shea where his ERA is over 6....

This also exposes the folly of trading for a guy that's going to be a FA after the season...so when you look at it Texas got Nelson Cruz,9 home runs with 35 RBI in trading for Lee,giving up four players.

ESPN is reporting that Carlos Lee to sign with Astros, six years for $100M..........glad the Phillies didn't get him...