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With Arizona only 1.5 games out in the West would they really want to move Green?

Jose failed to make the list for "Comeback Player Of the Year", Beltran is on the list. http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/fan_forum/viagra/y2006/index.jsp

Yeah it sucked but who knew traber trew so soft?

Delgado on deck for franco..come on you mets

Hojo is back with the Mets on Monday, Cotter just gave that info on SNY.

Traber is done for the night, about bloody time, now maybe the Mets offence wakes up, I guess some of the regulars on the board are watching the Jets tonight,very quite here.

Very very funny http://www.theonion.com/content/sports

6 K's so far for Glavine,will he reach 10 to tie Sudden Sam McDowell? Of course he won't even though he gets K number seven, glavine has a season high 122 pitches.

Gary - " Traber is throwing all kinds of slop up there".....

Super KTE....one of the best.

Not at all, he was born in 1971...the person that sponsors his baseballreference page says this about him ] My wife was crushed when the Reds traded him. We'll always love "Big Eyes" Michael Tucker.

]There's an old man I'm expecting. I think he sells some sort of housekeeping tool. Yes a sweep is not a sweep without him.

This article says the movie is fiction. http://www.slate.com/id/2147350/?nav=tap3

Martinez - 4 Chavez - 1 Degado - 1 Wagner - 1 Heilman - 1 Reyes - 1 Valentin - 1

Are retired numbers unique to American sports, in Europe it's not done IIRC, for instance Manchester United just issiued #16 to Michael Carrick who they signed last week from Spurs for 16 million sterling, #16 used to be Roy Keane's number who played for the club for 12 years and is among the most popular players to ever play for the club,infact it's seen as an honor in football to be given certain numbers, like #11 for a winger and so on.

What did I do?

Why would Straw not attend,I thought he was back with the club.

] Davey harbors no hard feelings Ex-Mets manager would love to be at '86 ceremony, but is busy BY ANTHONY RIEBER Newsday Staff Writer August 10, 2006 Davey Johnson has not always felt welcome at Shea Stadium, but the former Mets manager insists that's not why he has declined to attend the Aug. 19 ceremony commemorating the 1986 World Series championship team. Johnson is choosing to miss the festivities because of a commitment to manage Team USA in an Olympic qualifying tournament in Cuba, he said Monday from his Florida home. On Aug. 19, Johnson's team will be training in Kissimmee, Fla., and the 63-year-old doesn't want to leave his young players to fly to New York even though Team USA's first game isn't until a week later. "I feel it's a large commitment," Johnson said. "To me, it's an honor to be qualifying for the Olympics and later on to even be in the Olympics. I just don't think it would be apropos for me to come down there, work with these guys and for me to leave for some publicity. I don't think that would be good motivation for my ballplayers." Johnson insisted there is no bad blood remaining between him and the organization. After firing Johnson in 1990, the Mets didn't invite him to a 1991 Old Timers' Day ceremony honoring the World Series teams of 1969, '73 and '86. Other than as an opposing manager, Johnson has been back to Shea sparingly, the last time during a promotional appearance for the Viagra Comeback Player of the Year award in August 2005. "I would love to be up there," Johnson said. "I love Shea Stadium, [owner Fred] Wilpon's a great man. I enjoyed all the fans. To [not] go back there for the 20th anniversary, it's something I'm going to miss terribly. There's nothing but good memories there." Johnson will not be the only no-show. Darryl Strawberry and World Series MVP Ray Knight have declined to attend so far. Dwight Gooden can't go because he's in a Florida jail serving a one year and one day sentence for a probation violation. Major-league coaches Roger McDowell (Braves) and Lee Mazzilli (Yankees) will not be in attendance. Among those expected to be on hand are Mookie Wilson, Lenny Dykstra, Wally Backman, Bobby Ojeda, Sid Fernandez, Gary Carter, Jesse Orosco, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling. As of last night, Howard Johnson, who has been suspended indefinitely as Triple-A Norfolk's hitting coach after an unexcused absence, was still on the guest list.

What a life Pedro has. ] "We're trying to conserve his pitch counts and get him as much rest as we can," Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson said prior to last night's game. "After that, we can lie him on the trainer's table and feed him grapes."

] They didn't retire his number, they just gave him a plaque. Ahh thanks for the info,still giving him a plaque seems silly.

Wally comes out swinging...]Lo Duca is least of problemsAugust 10, 2006For the second time in four years, a Mets catcher is in the position of having to defend matters that need no defending, to people who have no right to question them.In 2002, it was Mike Piazza having to defend himself against a scurrilous New York Post gossip item that insinuated he was gay.This week, it is Paul Lo Duca, having to defend himself against reports that his marriage to a former Playboy playmate broke up over his infidelity with a 19-year-old woman.The justification for both of these journalistic endeavors was that such behaviors could constitute a "distraction" to their teammates, as if the airheads who play games for a living were capable of being distracted by anyone's problems other than their own.And oh yeah, there is that other matter of Lo Duca's rumored "gambling problem," because he owns thoroughbreds and enjoys an occasional day at the racetrack, both of which, it may be necessary to point out, are legal amusements.I am only going to say this once, so pay attention: Minus any evidence that Lo Duca bets on anything other than the ponies, this, too, is, to borrow the phrase Lo Duca used politely on me the other day in the Mets clubhouse, "none of your business."Nor is the identity of his girlfriend, her age -- assuming she is of legal consent -- nor the circumstances under which his marriage fell apart.These are not distractions, they are titillations of the type that give athletes an excuse to distrust the media and the public the excuse to hate us, even as they lap up every drop of gossip they can get.The truth is, professional athletes are not distracted by the off-the-field exploits of their teammates any more than you or I are distracted by the private lives of our co-workers. They, like us, have jobs to do, and they do them.If you are a Mets fan and you worry that the twin dramas playing out in the life of their All-Star catcher may turn out to be the things that will spoil this otherwise perfect season, then it is you who are being distracted.Because the Mets have plenty to worry about besides whom Lo Duca is dating or whether he is still alive in the Pick Six.They have a commanding lead in the NL East, so everything they do from here on must be judged by how it will play in October. And so far, the answer is not well.The worries begin with the foolish and impulsive trade of Xavier Nady, a competent professional rightfielder, for a 41-year-old middle reliever and a young pitcher with a bum arm.That trade flew under the radar in light of the Yankees' acquisition of Bobby Abreu, and seemed justified to some .because of the loss of Duaner Sanchez in a taxi accident.But the impact of that deal won't be felt until October, when the games become real and the Mets, and their fans, realize Lastings Milledge is a fake.The fans already know it, judging by their reaction to his outfield and plate misadventures Tuesday night against the Padres. It has become clear to the people in the stands that Milledge can't hit anything that is not a straight fastball and that his route to most fly balls is, to put it kindly, circuitous.The other day, I asked Omar Minaya if he would feel comfortable with Milledge in the outfield at Fenway during the World Series. He looked at me for a moment and then laughed. "Not if he's in leftfield," he said.He doesn't do much better in right, either.Endy Chavez is an improvement but still not an everyday player, nor is Ricky Ledee. So right now the Mets, the class of the National League, are planning to head into the playoffs with an outfield cobbled out of part-time players.Then there is the pitching. How many more games is Steve Trachsel going to win while allowing more than five earned runs? Not too many in pitching-dominated October baseball.And how will Willie .Ran.dolph fare when his in-game decisions, which mean little now, mean everything in the playoffs?What about Aaron Heilman, a once-promising pitcher who now seems shaken by his manager's and GM's apparent lack of faith in him? Early in the season, when John Maine and Brian Bannister went down, we were told Heilman was too valuable in the bullpen to return to the starting rotation. In the ultimate show of disrespect, Jose Lima got a couple of starts before the Mets would even consider Heilman. Now, he rarely gets into a game at all, and when he does, he looks lost.Compared to those very real problems, the questions about whom Paul Lo Duca is dating or what he is betting on seem rather silly, don't they? http://www.newsday.com/sports/columnists/ny-spwally0810,0,7709280.column?coll=ny-top-headlines

You're joking about Kevin Mass,right?, he played 4 seasons and a total of 384 games for them....how could they retire his number? http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/maaske01.shtml

Wright - 3 Beltran - 3 Trachsel - 2 Wagner - 1 Oliver - 1

From the AP..... ] Martinez stepped off the mound and tipped his hat when Piazza first came to bat. Piazza responded with a similar gesture of respect -- remember, they weren't so friendly a few years ago when Martinez nailed him with a pitch while playing for Boston.

Pedro giving Piazza lots of respect in the post-game interview....very cool.