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Come on, folks, we've got: What else you got for these hard-working gents?

Ceetar wrote: Friday intrasquad: Dillon Gee, Jeurys Familia, Daniel Herrera, Tim Byrdak, Matt Harvey, Miguel Batista, Jeremy Hefner, Frank Francisco I'll read this as Gee, Familia, Herrera, and Byrdak for the Gray Gaiters, and Harvey, Batista, Hefner, and Francisco for the Blank Bloomers. Baxter is in right, I would think, because he is trying out for the big club who needs to see if they can use him there. He's higher on the depth chart. Loewen, on the other hand is in left, so...

Anybody have a pitcher list? I'm not putting my cranes on the table until I see who's pitching after inning two.

Matt Double-D opening the pre-season for the team. Interesting too to see Rottino debut at third. He'll need to play four positions to make this team. Him and Pascucci is the matchup to watch. Turner is the closest thing to regular appearing. I like that the uni distinction is gray pants vs. white pants.

metirish 3. h X 4. b X 5. i X 7. a X 9. f X Oh, dear.

LWFS 1. d ? =#0000FF]2. e 3. i =#FF0000]X 4. h =#FF0000]X 5. f =#FF0000]X 6. a ? 7. h =#FF0000]X 8. c ? 9. b =#FF0000]X You know your Bay. You know your Thole. Somehow, you know your James. We should all know our James better.

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Oh, dear, yes. Dealing would be the seventh level of hell for me. More power to you, Ashie, but it's not for me. I'd like my company to be about truth in advertising, though. I'd want CPF Cardboard to make sure that there's a photographer to capture a guy the very day he is added to the roster. I'd want to make sure the number of cards run on him is exactly proportional to his days on the roster. So the set would evolve as the season did. Production would start on opening day and presumably hit stores within the week, and close a few weeks after the World Series, with the design and production rolling out even as the action unfolds. Not photoshop jobbies for us.

1. i X 2. e =#008000]? 3. a X 4. c X 5. h X 6. d X 7. b X 8. g X 9. f X You know your Byrdak.

As per the Wall Street Journal (no peekie), match the Mets in column A with the summer jobs in column B that each of them survived on in the minors. A: MetB: LaborJason BayTim ByrdakD.J. CarrascoIke DavisR.A. DickeyDillon GeeChuck JamesJosh TholeDavid WrightAir Conditioner Installer/Valet Parking AttendantBartender/Lawnmower/Christmas Light InstallerHitting InstructorHousebuilderLandscaper/Janitor/Shipping Clerk/Nursing Home Maintenance Worker/Insulation InstallerLibrarianPainter of BarnsSubstitute TeacherWindow and Door Installer

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That sample size of one will do you in every time. Burnett, to his credit, actually introduced himself by starting a college fund for Daniel McCutchen's not-yet-born daughter in exchange for number 34.

I totally want to get into the baseball card business.

Recent bubblings about Ivan Rodriguez and Ramon Castro, Part II. Both seem unlikely at this juncture, but clearly the Mets are still hunting for a backstop.

Now that would have been a good submission.

A 50% chance to get a chance reduced by 50%.

Yours, really. I wrote it late at night based on Herbelistic memory, e-mailed it to work, committed to edit it this morning, but then inexplicably pasted in the first one. Boo, me. Ask me about Ron Herbel at the end of my life, I'll recall three things: [list:3rp08pdt][*:3rp08pdt]Decent pitcher[/*:m:3rp08pdt] [*:3rp08pdt]Brutal batter, hitting .029 for his career.[/*:m:3rp08pdt] [*:3rp08pdt]Went 0-54 as a rookie --- and 1-106 over his first two seasons.[/*:m:3rp08pdt][/list:u:3rp08pdt] I figure that if you give Mary Tyler Moore a bat, she can do better than .029.

And so I brace for the brutal beatdown.

G-Fafif wrote: Herbel was a Met in 1970, never for Stengel (and never batted as a Met)...so am I missing something here? No, I put up a pre-edited version of my thing. Suck me. I'll edit.

I think the one-game randomness should lower the proposition that a weak team advances. Yeah, it's not about cheapening the playoffs, but cheapening that fourth spot --- which should be cheaper, as it was a acquired at the lowest price.

It's like he picked a tune from my collection and I one from his.

Ron Herbel in seventy, I was a Mettie Had sauce on all my pitches but my bat was spaghetti Swinging at the fastballs, staring at the cuveballs My average was so small that it wasn't there at all Killed the rallies � my batting was brutal They sent me up there flailin', but brother, it was futile A good afternoon, I go oh for three See a couple pitches, I return to my seat You put me in the game, you�re insane to complain That I wear the word �Mets� like a stain on my shirt I�m the worst hitting pitcher you ever saw breathe I was a punchless revelation with the logo on my sleeve So save your cheers for a batter with a spark I�m draining all the power in the whole ballpark (Yo, cut it) �Soy mal bateador! I'm a whiffer, Baby! So why do you hit me? (Double barrel suckshot) �Soy mal bateador! I'm a whiffer, Baby! So why don�t you sit me? Oh-for-54 � it�s a record that�s nightmare I made Pedro and Leiter look like Reyes and Wright; There� Will never be more of an offensive drag Got nothing in my pole, and I never reach the bag Batted oh-two-nine � my career was a hackjob I pitched OK, but bat was made of corn cob Have yourself a cold one when I�m bending my wing And then empty all your bladders when it�s time for me to swing If you don�t suck eggs, then you can't relate Take a swing, take a seat, thank the fans for the hate My bat is a rotten log eaten by a termite That's chokin' on the splinters �Soy mal bateador! I'm a whiffer, Baby! So why do you hit me? (Watch a sucker whiff kids) �Soy mal bateador! I'm a whiffer, Baby! So why don�t you sit me? Yo, bring it on down (I'm a swinger, I'm a misser Things are gonna change, I can feel it) �Soy mal bateador! I'm a whiffer, Baby! So why do you hit me? (I can't deceive you) �Soy mal bateador! I'm a whiffer, Baby! So why do you hit me? �Soy mal bateador! I'm a whiffer, Baby! So why don�t you sit me? (Sprechen sie Suck, baby?) �Soy mal bateador! I'm a whiffer, Baby So why do you hit me? (Know what I'm sayin'?) YgSPaXgAdzE

Yeah, I just dug up an old idea I had bouncing around. Still a tough list. Post when ready.

I moved the SI cover talk here.

I'm telling you. It's all about Halladay. This division is anybody's, if not for him.