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When will Martinez be ready?

Plus, you'd think they'd get a lot more for Crisp.

I'm excited that this year, for the first time, I can enjoy a beer while watching a Mets game.

It's just like M&MD to take a fake story and run with it.

Something tells me that Girardi was looking for a fight.

Rocco Baldelli.

What is it with us and fat catchers?

I'm all in favor of more Schaefer voting.

We've needed a groundball pitcher.

Don't forget the fact that Owings is one hell of a hitter.

I can't make Spring Training, but I will try and make the May 31 game.

Here's an idea - Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's got plenty of seats, and it's sports-team-neutral.

The '63 Mets had to have SOMEBODY give up at least 100 earned runs. How about Al Jackson?

I'm gonna guess Burnitz.

]Sources: Scott Schoeneweis, Jorge Sosa being shopped BY ADAM RUBIN DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Monday, March 3rd 2008, 4:00 AM VERO BEACH, Fla. - Mets GM Omar Minaya has let teams know that relievers Scott Schoeneweis and Jorge Sosa can be obtained in trades, according to sources briefed on the players' availability. Schoeneweis has two years and $7.2 million left on his original three-year deal. Sosa will earn $2 million in his final year before free agency. The Mets like Rule 5 pick Steven Register, who has a deceptive fastball, but will have to offer him back to the Rockies if there isn't room in the bullpen at Shea. Trading Sosa would open the long-relief role and help get Mike Pelfrey onto the staff in some capacity. Please get this done, Omar. PLEASE.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Seanz -- fat ROTFL.

Tells the Post.

This is unreal. He's finished. ]Debbie Clemens compared boob jobs with Canseco's wife at party Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008 11:22 am EST Congress is believed to have received new evidence over the past 10 days that may further undermine Roger Clemens' sworn testimony that he did not attend a suddenly notorious 1998 party at Jose Canseco's South Florida home. The New York Daily News has learned that in the days since the Feb. 13 public hearing on steroids in baseball, another major leaguer has informed congressional investigators that Clemens often joked in the clubhouse about a memorable account of the party � a scene in which Debbie Clemens and Canseco's ex-wife Jessica compared the results of their surgical breast enhancements. The new revelation adds to the probability that Congress will make a criminal referral of the matter to the Justice Department, which lawyers on both sides have told the News was always a likelihood. Source: New York Daily News

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Wright 5 Abreu 5 *Falls over laughing*

Dontrelle Willis Ivan Rodriguez

]Tampa Bay Rays have internal discussions about Barry Bonds By FRED GOODALL, AP Sports Writer 2 hours, 2 minutes ago ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)�The Tampa Bay Rays have had internal discussions about the prospect of pursuing Barry Bonds. Manager Joe Maddon said Monday he knew �little� about what was going on, but acknowledged some thought has been given to the career home-run leader. �A minor discussion was thrown out there a little bit, and it�s really not gone any further than that,� Maddon said after Monday�s workout at the team�s spring training facility. �That�s all it is right now.� The St. Petersburg Times reported in Monday�s editions that team officials have conferred among themselves about Bonds and other veteran unsigned free agents, such as Kenny Lofton and Mike Piazza. Andrew Friedman, Rays vice president of baseball operations, called the report a �non-story.� Bonds, who broke Henry Aaron�s career home run record last summer, has pleaded not guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice charges stemming from testimony to a federal grand jury in 2003 in which he said he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Maddon shrugged off a question about how Bonds might fit in with the Rays if the team decided to pursue him and ultimately added him to the roster. �It�s hard to conjecture. � I don�t know this man. I only know what I read, and I�m very much open to meeting people and drawing my own conclusions about people. I don�t necessarily believe everything that I read,� Maddon said. �For me to create conjecture of what it�s going to be like, I really don�t want to go there right now. � So many things are going good right now. If I have to face those moments, I�ll do it at the appropriate time. But for right now, it�s really about nothing.�

It's absolutely horrendous. Reminds me of the Enron logo.

I... drink... your... MILKSHAKE!!! Daniel Day-Lewis wins Best Actor Oscar for his incredible performance in this film.

They won for Best Song at the Oscars.

]Dykstra vows to expose New York firm that says he owes $111,000 By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer Feb 21, 8:06 pm EST NEW YORK (AP)�Lenny Dykstra said he�s looking forward to fighting a lawsuit brought by an accounting firm Thursday that claims he owes at least $111,000 because he wants people to stop trying to rip off ballplayers. �Did they actually think I would pay that much for a tax return? That�s insane,� Dykstra said in a telephone interview from Thousand Oaks, Calif., where he lives. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan�s U.S. District Court, claims Dykstra failed to pay DDK & Co. LLP, of Manhattan, for accounting and tax work done last year. The company says a bill for $111,097 was sent last June to Dykstra and his wife. �I looked at that. I laughed,� said Dykstra, who played for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies during a 12-year career. He said he was amazed a company would charge so much for one year�s tax return. �Somebody trying to charge $120,000 for a tax return and can�t even file it on time, they�ve got some problem,� he said. �Now they�re going to get exposed. My attorney, he said he thought it was a typo when he saw the bill.� The company said in the lawsuit that the tab has since grown to about $138,872. Company lawyer Benjamin J. Golub declined to comment further. Dykstra, a World Series winner with the Mets in 1986 and a three-time All-Star in the 1990s, said he was working to create a monthly magazine and a club that players could join to protect themselves in dealing with issues like this. �It�ll be players helping players,� he said. �We�ll have a lunch very soon.� The former outfielder said he had numerous meals with his accountants and recalls paying for all of them. �Maybe they charged me for his steak and lobster, too,� he said.