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Endy Chavez was probably the center fielder that day. And since we're talking lefty pitchers, I'm going to guess Tom Glavine.

We are, for the most part, throwing out guys in the everyday lineup who are either: A) Way past their prime Not ready for the big show C) Not major league starter material with the exception of David Wright, who has magically lost his ability to hit home runs, and Luis Castillo, who has forgotten how to play defense.

Paging Casey Stengel... paging Casey Stengel... nobody here can play this game...

I wouldn't start Schneider even on this team. His batting average is .197 and his OPS is .648. It's pathetic.

Lineup: Sullivan, cf Castillo, 2b Tatis, 3b Murphy, 1b Francoeur, rf Reed, lf Cora, ss Schneider, c Hernandez, rhp

Biggest story of the year, in my opinion, below the boatload of injuries and the Bernazard/Minaya/Rubin fiasco: where the hell did David Wright's power go?

Hell, even if it's to reinforce a minor league team, I'd take him. I'd take all the extra bats and gloves I can get.

Mark Grudzielanek released by the Twins yesterday. Might be worth it to take a flyer on him.

Never seen it. My father wanted to take my family to go see Major League III at Union Station in Washington when we were on a family trip here when I was about 11, my brother was 10, and my sister was 5. We wanted to see "Paulie", a movie about a talking parrot, instead. Nobody saw any movie that day, as everybody got upset at each other and we all left.

Hey, if I were a AAA team, I'd want at least one decent AAA-quality player that my fanbase could rally around for years to come. I wouldn't want to be a revolving door only.

="Nymr83":5jhw86yi]If they get rid of Omar they should really CLEAN HOUSE and get rid of everyone from the Omar or Phillips era left in the front office.[/quote:5jhw86yi] It's been my experience that if you totally clean house and get rid of everybody from the previous regime, the new regime won't have anybody who can show them where the bodies are buried. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 11 2009 10:27 AM ="seawolf17"]="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]He said that farm director Adam Wogin was given Bernazard's responsibilities following the whacking but that ... wait for it ... "the entire hierarchy would be reevaluated after the season." Wait, wait, wait. After the whole Adam Rubin-pining-for-a-job escapade, they replace Bernazard with a guy named "Adam Wogin"?!? That's hilarious. This guy was taken. (If running a farm system isn't "Foreign Assets Control," what is it?) LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 11 2009 07:07 PM Finally got around to actually reading the Rubin article. ]Minaya credited Ricco with proposing the Francoeur-for-Ryan Church swap that was swiftly executed a month ago, but Ricco's background primarily is administrative and not in evaluating players - more along the lines of former GM Jim Duquette than Minaya. As a result, Ricco likely would need to lean on his deputies for recommendations. Is nobody else getting a Harazin-like whiff here? (Non-player eval guy who didn't seem to let that get in the way of his getting hipdeep in player eval once the opportunity arose...) metirish Aug 11 2009 07:38 PM I hope Ricco suave doesn't like Grudzielanek Ashie62 Aug 11 2009 08:10 PM I don't think Rubin has an axe here. Ricco would appear to be in training for a promotion A change in appearance and voice from Omar..thats for sure I hope he is not better suited to do morning swauk on cnbc This is an ill franchise Mex17 Aug 12 2009 04:33 AM ="metsguyinmichigan":wysemdh8]You can't blame them for Church getting a concussion from getting whacked in head with a knee[/quote:wysemdh8] No, but you can certainly blame them for making him endure multiple transcontinental flights after the incident.

I'll be going to the game on Sunday. Second time at Citi Field.

Oh boy - Omar's vendetta on Adam Rubin just flared up again.

We need a famous Queens native to inspire our intrepid heroes.

All I know is, Spider-Man is from Queens.

Again? We're facing the fucking snakes again?

Crap, it's Frankie.

Oscar Salazar gives us our first break in about a week.

Again, I can't escape the fact that his name is Randy Marsh.

Ha! That's all right Irish.

So I've been able to find a lot of old newspaper clippings regarding the Visalia Mets. The most interesting one, I think, is of the Visalia Mets playing the Reno Silver Sox and a 17-year-old Dennis Eckersley, making his professional debut. I sent it to Grimm. If anyone else wants highlights of Mets players such as Jay Kleven, Ike Hampton, and Bruce Boisclair in their minor league days, I'd be happy to oblige.

It's not their fault. We're more or less on the C-team by now, let alone the B-team.