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His meeting with the Marlins GM lasted for about 5 minutes Girardi said,Loria did not attend,apparently Larry Beinfest wanted to hire Gonzalaz last year but Loria picked Girardi.

The Marlins have named Fredi Gonzalez as their new manager.

] The Twins' radio announcer sounds rather somnolent. Is he making you sleepy Willets?

You seem happy about this Cleon, some Mets fan you are.

] 8 PM games in New York start at 11PM LA time No they start at 5PM.....

You'd think Mets V Dodgers would be in the 8PM slot with the nations two biggest TV markets and all.....

Joe Morgan will get a police escort form Shea to the Bronx tomorrow so he can do both games.....big shot.

Well I suppose if the Tiger pitchers are lights out then I can see a way.

Padres.

Lets Go Mets.

No way I can see them winning but I'll be rooting for the tigers.

Twins.

If we are to believe what we are hearing and reading then I don't see why any GM would go near him.

That's a great story soupcan...you must be trustworthy looking or something.

Oh My God....A-Rod is batting sixth....how will he handle that...

Borat is very funny on Ali G but I don't think I could take him for a whole movie.

Hey guys have fun today...and don't get arrested.

] Mark Herrmann: Can this year�s team usurp the �86 Mets? October 2, 2006 Things were looking up almost all season for the Mets, with the notable exception of Aug. 19, when everybody looked back. As an anniversary tribute, the 2006 Mets wore the 1986 Mets' uniforms, racing stripes and all. Now, though, you wonder if the current club will have any chance to fill the '86 Mets' shoes. Fate just didn't make the same kind of reprise as those old jerseys did. For a long while, it felt a lot like 1986. These Mets, like those Mets, got ahead early and kept pulling away. These Mets, like those Mets, drew large crowds and reinvigorated the franchise. These Mets, like those Mets, have a distinct personality, a clutch streak, a cluster of veterans, a nucleus of young stars and a blossoming manager who once was a good second baseman in the American League. Also, both the '86 and '06 Mets were firmly ensconced in the Julio Franco Era. But when it came to timing and fortune, the clubs were 20 light years apart. The '86 Mets had a knack for being healthy, good and lucky at the perfect time, right down to that ball dribbling through Bill Buckner's legs. For the '06 Mets, fate has become a four-letter word. Duaner Sanchez was injured in a taxi accident right before the trading deadline, prompting a panic deal that dispatched Xavier Nady, one of their rare solid righthanded hitters, and possibly costing them a shot at a big-time starter such as Roy Oswalt. They could really use that big-time starter now, what with Pedro Martinez being lost virtually on the eve of the postseason. If there is hope for these Mets, it comes from those Mets. They won the World Series in 1986 essentially without their ace. Dwight Gooden pitched, but wasn't really there (0-2, 8.00 ERA). Then again, those Mets had more up their sleeve mound-wise. "Young starting pitching versus old starting pitching," said Ron Darling, a member of the '86 team and broadcaster for the '06 team. "We had four guys with over 30 starts that year. They don't have one guy. [Actually, Tom Glavine has 32 and Steve Trachsel has 30.] We had four guys with over 200 innings. They won't have one. "I'm not saying the young ones are better. The older guys have had awesome careers. So I don't know, but that was the big difference." But you wonder if Darling, Gooden, Bob Ojeda and Sid Fernandez could have stifled this '06 Mets lineup. Or you wonder if the '86 Mets would seem more potent if they could tee off against Trachsel and John Maine. You wonder who would do what if they matched up in a computer game of Strat-O-Matic. "I think it would be a very close series. I'd probably favor the '86 team because of the starting pitching," said Steve Barkan, the statistics guru of the Glen Head-based game company, who is working on the 2006 ratings now. Some calls are easy. Jose Reyes is hands down over Rafael Santana. Darryl Strawberry is a shoo-in over Shawn Green. Lenny Dykstra was good, Carlos Beltran is better. The Kevin Mitchell/Mookie Wilson combo was more productive than Cliff Floyd has been this year. Other choices make you scratch your head. Jose Valentin had the home runs, but Wally Backman hit .320. Ray Knight and Howard Johnson together don't add up to one All-Star, do they? Keith Hernandez was likely the best-fielding first baseman of his era (a "1" in Strat-O-Matic, of which he is a devotee) and a born leader, but Carlos Delgado has 38 home runs. Paul Lo Duca hit better than .300 and handled a shaky rotation, but Gary Carter (despite his .255 average in '86) is a Hall of Famer. "Their bullpen is exponentially better than our bullpen was," Darling said. "Our bullpen was Roger and Jesse and that's it. If Willie were managing our team, who would he go to in case something happened early in the game?" The point is, baseball and the world have changed a lot since the day when Davey Johnson used a three-man rotation and had Fernandez as a stellar reliever. Comparisons are not only hard, they are premature. The lesson of 1986 is that the year really doesn't start until October. Let's face it, the 1988 Mets were outstanding too,. They had added David Cone, Kevin McReynolds and Gregg Jefferies. Yet nobody waxes nostalgic about that crew because it flopped against the Dodgers. If the best of this Mets season has happened already, we won't remember it very well 20 years from now. These Mets have to hope that fate makes a big comeback and helps them earn their stripes.

Borat is an English Comic..real name Sasha Baron Cohen..Borat is one of the people he plays...causing quite a storm in Kazakstan.

] Lowe was a teammate of Nomar�s on the 1998, 1999 and 2003 Red Sox and of course won the final game of all three 2004 series for the Sox. They were teammates for part of the 04 season IIRC.

Borat doesn't use a car,he has Kazak women pull him in a cart.

I can't wait for this...

It would have been cool if Glavine faced Maddux but lets pound this guy instead.

One other thing,Marty Noble is one big man......