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  1. bmfc1
    People who get Horwitz' cooperation all rave about him. I wonder sometimes if there's not a lot of shit he does right, even batting .300 on clusterfuck scandals with the Wilpons in charge would keep a man very busy. No doubt. I'm thinking what he does right is feed you stories on days when you've got to file and you've got nothing. "Hey, know what Vance Wilson's vanity plates mean?" "I bet you didn't know that Manny Acosta's father is baker in Managua whose pastries were favored by both the Contras and the Sandanistas." "Scott Hairston's name, when you rearrange the letters, spells Trots into Cash. It's true!" I'm also thinking maybe a lot of the ravers are fellow dinosaurs. Edgy brings the truth and the funny at the same time. I wonder if Horwitz was fired years ago and, like George Costanza, just kept showing up for work.
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    Time to welcome https://twitter.com/#!/joshlewinstuff to the Mets radio booth.
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    The Mets have denied credentials to Howard Megdal for the upcoming season: http://mets.lohudblogs.com/2012/02/06/a-note-on-access-and-the-mets/ I don't know what the standards are for credentials but if he received credentialing last year, then not giving it to him this year is vindictive and petty. If the Mets have a problem with his writing, then sue him for libel or get another reporter to give their "side of the story."
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    Rick Ankiel signs a minor league contract with the Nationals. His arm and decent power would have been a nice addition to the Mets bench, but no.
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    Letterman's joke was funny, unlike most of the others.
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    Edwin Jackson to the Nationals. And the Nationals get even stronger.
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    One positive: The long homerun in Milwaukee. The rest: Had difficulty catching pitches.
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    Don't forget Fincher's opening for "Fight Club." (But don't talk about Fight Club.)
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    April 28, 2011--Mets @ Washington--I'm there; bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, tying run on 2d, Harris waves at an off-speed pitch from Drew Storen to end the game. July 30, 2011--Mets @ Washington--I'm there; bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, tying run on 1st, Harris waves at an off-speed pitch from Drew Storen to end the game. He was great in ST last year and was charming with Guys! but I'm very glad that he won't be a Met in '12.
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    What a cast! And yet, it didn't add up to much. At the end, I said "and...."
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    I agree w/the above comments. I hadn't read the book so the plot was a surprise (other than the fact that the lead character had a tattoo of a dragon). Fincher is a fantastic director and Rooney Mara was great. The last 10 minutes were superfluous but it didn't detract from an excellent movie. Vic--good point about the title sequence. It's something that Fincher emphasizes.
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    Looking forward to another season... but again, consider ESPN or even CBS... anything but Yahoo!
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    Ceetar posted the answer, my question was: bmfc1 @mets Terry, are you going to practice bunting more this spring? The team showed that it couldn't bunt (other than Jose) last year. #askTC Jan 20, 10:53 AM via web I wanted to ask "why the hell did you bunt so much, especially with Turner who sucked at bunting?"
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    Rubin provides this link from 2010: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/texas-rangers/headlines/20101011-Horn-Announcement-timing-strange-in-3177.ece which contains this: Lewin sometimes seemed more like a TV variety show host than a play-by-play voice. Sometimes it seemed as if he were spending as much time surfing the Internet for material as he spent watching the game in front of him. Some viewers loved him for that, especially in the dog days of most Rangers summers. Others could never get used to the shtick. He was a lightning rod. Based on this, he'll enjoy talking about "The Honeymooners" with Howie.
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    From Neil Best: Josh Lewin has emerged as the leading candidate to replace Wayne Hagin alongside Howie Rose in the Mets' radio booth. https://twitter.com/#!/joshlewinstuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Lewin and... http://www.myspace.com/joshlewin
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    Ceetar wrote: Did you guys hit the batting cage first? I feel like if/when I go to Fantasy Camp, I'm gonna spend like a year in the batting cage before hand. I went to a batting cage a few times and even took two hitting lessons but when you haven't hit live pitching in decades, it doesn't help very much. You can get hitting lessons from one of the coaches if you get there early.
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    Johan long tossed in Pt. St. Lucie today which means that he probably shared a locker with the fantasy campers.
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    Benjamin Grimm wrote: $4300 isn't a bad price, all things considered. You get all this: http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/fan_forum/fantasycamp.jsp And a lifetime of memories and stories.
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    Edgy DC wrote: Clearly, he shook Jerry Grote's hand. Grote wasn't there. The story goes, Camp lore, that he was fired years earlier for making his wife a coach. Campers wondered why Mrs. Grote was a coach when it was supposed to be an actual ex-Met, not an ex-Met's wife.
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    $4,395, including transportation and meals. One of the greatest experiences of my life.
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    High-tech! The coaches take the games very seriously. Rumor was that they would make bets. I know that Buzz Capra was very happy when we made the finals and surpringly upset after we lost the championship game. Two blogs from Fantasy Camp: http://metsfantasycamp.mlblogs.com/?partnerId=ed-5546037-243371870 http://theplayerspoint.com/THEPLAYERSPOINT/METS_FANTASY_CAMP/METS_FANTASY_CAMP.html
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    Foreword by Greg W. Prince: http://www.amazon.com/Tales-1962-York-Mets-Dugout/dp/1613210809/ref=sr_1_110?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326287616&sr=1-110
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    Between Batista (if he makes the team) and Dickey, the Mets might lead the league in something... published authors.
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    "Am I speaking Chinese?"
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    Also, someone named Sean Kazmar was signed for the minors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Kazmar http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kazmase01.shtml
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