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Working the booth on Dodgercasts for Sportsnet LA is the inimitable and impossibly named Orel Hershiser, workhorse for the Mets on the butt end of his outstanding pitching career. Special advisor to GM Ned Coletti is Gerry Hunsicker, who held multiple titles for the Mets from 1988-1992, including director of minor league operations and assistant general manager. Among the Dodger employees holding the title of "Special Assistant, Player Personnel" are Aaron Sele, who went wire to wire for the 2007 Mets while remaining completely invisible, and Jos� Vizcaino, who Metted from 1994-1996 before getting dealt off in the Carlos Baerga deal, and then everywhere that Jeff Kent went, Jeff Kent went, Jeff Kent went, Jos� was sure to go. Managing the AA Chatanooga Lookouts is coach Razor Shines, who coached first for the Mets in 2009 and third for them in 2010. Definitely one of Jerry's men. Coaching the hitters for Razor is Shawn Wooten, who labored for the Mets as a Binghamton Met and a New Orleans Zephyr in 2007 and 2008. Coaching the pitchers for the Gulf Coast Dodgers is Alejandro Pe�a, who pitched no less than nobly for the Mets bullpen in 1990 and 1991, and whose porn name is Alejandro Pe�is. Lastly and least relevantly, the team's VP of player personnel is Vance Lovelace, who was the pitcher for Hillsborough High the Mets didn't get when they grabbed Dwight Gooden and Floyd Youmans.

Are we counting months achieved while not actually being a Met? Willie Mays.

Mazzilli had a crazy July once. 1980? Hit a Mantleload of homers. Like 70% of his season total. I'm guessing Mazzilli.

No respect for the stolen base champ. You want to be a dealer? You gotta be-LIEVE! You've got to come up with a deal you can sell, be-LIEVE you can make the other team think it's in their interests, and then rob them blind.

The Hashtag Hammer. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/05/free-juan-lagares-terry-collins-new-york-mets-mlb Lagares has been the team�s best outfielder on both sides of the ball in 2014, so fans and media were puzzled by his seemingly sudden benching. Leading up to the Mets� matchup with the Nationals on Friday, the hashtag �#FreeLagares� was the top trending item on Twitter in New York, and plenty of fans cited Lagares� absence as reason enough for Collins to be fired. I like to think it was Bucket and Kong with their then-funny "Free Timo Perez" sign at a 2002 (or so) game that launched the notion of equating a player not getting PT as a political prisoner.

Man, Champion Mortgage. What a great example of predators riding the housing bubble. How many of those guys you think are in jail now? It was cool that they got Martin Scorsese to do their ads, though.

Good. Let's talk about something else. Andrew Brown went 4-5 yesterday and is hitting .356.

yes, because Byrd had an OPS of .657 in April after a bad year the year before and Collins continued to play him like he was an All-Star. This sort of thing is just revisionism. Collins was ripped for having any hope for Byrd IN SPRING TRAINING. Byrd started little more than half the time in April, as the team sorted through less-than-ideal options. He was worked in more regularly when he began to hit. And he hit and hit. Ceetar wrote: But fine, give credit to Collins for getting him going. I'm not crediting anybody with anything. You brought this up. As an analogy for Abreu. An analogy that doesn't hold up. Ceetar wrote: But the results with Byrd mean nothing for Abreu, and starting Abreu 3 times in 6 games while sitting Lagares 4/5 is illogical. You're kind of playing a shell game here with who played when.

Ceetar wrote: It's not an excess. It's been crazy. Ceetar wrote: But there is literally nothing to back up the way he's managed the outfield. Excessive. Ceetar wrote: Collins is trying to work Abreu in like he's going to be Marlon Byrd, but just because you win one scratch off doesn't mean the next one will also net you money. He's started five times in a month. Collins, of course, was ripped mercilessly for demonstrating any faith in Byrd.

Terry=clueless had stopped being an angle during those two Yankee games at Citi, and pretty much turned into an established fact among the blogosphere and the commentariat (not a few of whom had wondered only days earlier why EY was eating pine). The swiftness and acidity of pro-Lagares wave was almost shocking. And I'm a supporter of the cause. Lagares won DWL Rookie of the Year, and I'm thinking he may be a candidate for a giant leap forward this season, given the chance. But come on.

That is because you hate him. But McHugh is doing all bloody right, so feel free to target the 2014 version of McHugh on one of those teams. He can replace deGrom in Las Vegas. I'll start. Tampa's analog to McHugh is Jacob Todd Odorizzi. Yeah, he's more of a prospect than McHugh ever was, but he's scuffling and the team is running out of rotation room like the Mets were running out last year when they dealt McHugh. Too good to ask for? What you go in Chicago? Cleveland? BE POSITIVE!

Wait, we just traded David Wright? Yeah, I shouldn't have brought Tulo up. Distraction talk. OK, deGrom and deTejada for deGregorius and deThatcher. Mets take on an extra mill, but you can take that out of the money they saved on the Farnie release, and still have the Ike Davis money to play with or used to cut into the defecit. Teams that need a leadoff hitter, even a flawed one like EY: Cincinnati (.596 OPS out of the leadoff spot, Philadelphia (.598), Atlanta (.628), Washington (.638). In the AL, there's Tampa Bay (.634), Cleveland (.638), Kansas City (.647), Baltimore (.651), and Boston (.653). Some of those teams consider themselves contenders. Any of them have parts the Mets could pry loose for EY? Even a good backup for Gregorius might be helpful.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I am totally on the EYJ Trade Bandwagon. The problem is that Terry feels like he can't trust anybody else to lead off. Maybe Terry playing EY was some sort of silent protest against not having Gregorius aboard yet. Also continuing to garner buzz: Alexei Ramirez, Jimmy Rollins, Asdrubal Cabrera. Pie-in-the-sky aficionados also are continuing to lobby for Troy Tulowitski. Considering he's leading the league in everything, and the Rockies absolutely gave the Mets a game by benching him in the last game fo their series, it's hard to imagine what he'd cost, both in terms of a package to acquire him and an extension. I imagine a package would have to start with Zack Wheeler and that probably doesn't even get the Mets halfway. Which is to say, Met fans probably shouldn't entertain such a fantasy. Not that it's impossible, but our brains probably aren't big enough to envision what it would look like.

That seems a little high. But just a little. I really have a hankering to close out the EYJ era. He doesn't work on the bench and he's not good enough for a team that wants to be good to play. And as every Terry hater will remind you, we have alternatives. Trying to think about why Gregorius or his like hasn't been acquired yet, and I guess folks are playing their cards hard.

Lacing them up to play again in indy ball.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: What situation won't continue for long? The organization losing money every year.

I'm getting at this: And they're all supposed to maybe take a huge lifetime financial hit because Saul has to ride out the losses -- all so that Jeff Wilpon could own and control the Mets for the rest of his life? It seemed to suggest the Mets will be losing money every year for the next generation or so. I don't think that's true, but I agree such a situation wouldn't continue for long.

I don't see any scenario where the Mets lose money for the rest of Jeff Wilpon's life, should he live to a natural age comparable to his father, do you?

Centeno gave up a big out on the bases also.

Mets launching a nine-game homestand, and I expect nothing short of a sweep. But you've got to take it one game at a time, and this one involves Josh Beckett and Rafael Montero. I don't want the Mets to chase Beckett from the game. I want them to chase him from the profession. NOT a fan.

Centeno giveth. Centeno taketh.

That commercial for corrections officers is pretty hard core.

RBI hit cuts it to 5-3, but Centeno displays little baserunning acumen.

Yay! Laggy cuts the deficit by 25%.

Maybe. Doubleday and Wilpon certainly came into the game after acquiring the team following a failed inheritance. But if the team gets into the black, it shouldn't be an issue.