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Hard to argue with that response. Maybe Steve just forgot to take out the garbage.

Nine up, nine down. Now if the Tigers score about 4 more this inning...

3 - zip. Gotta love it.

The Mets were lucky to get Tom Glavine, and are lucky to have him.

I'm not ready to concede a game with Perez starting.

Reyes 1 Chavez 2 Glavine 6 Wagner 1

You gotta let him go.

Yancy -- I apologize for being one of the September Slackers. I'll try to do better next year.

A system with a flaw in it? Stop the presses!

Hustle by Wright.

I love these guys. They're coming through.

Used to live in Minnesota.

What matters more, Willets...your deepest held lifelong principles or Beltran being hot in the playoffs?

We're all gonna be eating 'em, right?

Sorry -- didn't see the first note.

Pedro out till June.

Thank you for everything, Pedro. We'll take it from here, and your ring will be waiting for you.

Well, the Mets have had great luck in unloading rookies because they weren't respectful enough. Jeff Kent, for example.

Gil Hodges yes, Roger Maris yes, Minnie Minoso maybe,

]Quote: Marty Marion -- The best shortshop of his era. So was Rey-O. No, he wasn't. Ordonez played in a era of great shortstops...unfortunately, he wasn't even the best shortstop in New York. Marion had 11 years as a starter, was never much of a hitter, was on the all-star team 8 of those 11 years, MVP once (1944 -- a war year). He wasn't the best shortstop of his era -- PeeWee Reese was. But he was probably the second best in the National League. His similar batters list is kinda painful... 1. Rafael Ramirez (937) 2. Scott Fletcher (934) 3. Mike Bordick (924) 4. Leo Durocher (920) * 5. Billy Rogell (918) 6. Art Fletcher (915) 7. Tom Herr (914) 8. Billy Jurges (914) 9. Rick Burleson (914) 10. Johnny Logan (912) The best of those is Johnny Logan, to whom he's least similar. I would have thought on memory (and not even I am old enough to really remember him) that Marion was deserving of Hall of Fame consideration, but the numbers say otherwise. Who were the other shortstops of that era? Let's take 1948 -- sufficiently postwar, not into the 50s yet. National League: Pee Wee Reese Buddy Kerr Marty Marion Alvin Dark Stan Rojek Virgil Stallcup Eddie Miller Roy Smalley You'd give Slats a solid second. American League: Eddie Joost Cass Michaels Vern Stephens Lou Boudreau Eddie Pellagrini Johnny Lipon Phil Rizzuto Mark Christman Now he's not even close. The Scooter, Vern Stephens and Lou Boudreau would all rank ahead of him. Eddie Joost would be pretty close to his equal. If you go back to the early part of Marion's career, which is more work than I intend to do, you had shortstops like Luke Appling and Arky Vaughan, who were his betters.

Pedro has earned his place in our hearts, and he's an integral part of our championship-to-be team, whether he pitches an inning of the postseason or not.

Jose and Pedro, of course, but affection for Timo, too.

Dontrelle is the only name I salivate over.

I just came back in, and he's being lifted onto a stretcher. What happened?

I love to see those runs crossing the plate.