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edit: Can't find the first reference right now, so I'll withdraw my comment.

iramets wrote: ="Centerfield"]The more I see of Lou, the more I'm glad he's not managing this team. I'd love to see Piniella managing this team. Obviously he went to his pen because he expected them to pitch well, and they disappointed him. If you credit him with their poor performance, do you also credit him when them pitch well? I think you'd have to do that. You have to credit him for bringing in Cotts, who got Delgado to GIDP.

http://dugout.progressiveboink.com/archive/b82.html Today's Dugout references this story, and includes some of my favorite Dugout characters: Dontrelle Willis, Dmitri Young, and of course, David "Dudley-Do" Wright.

Actually, if we could play all 18 interleague games against the Royals, I'd be down with that.

Zvon's back! Someone tie him to his computer!

Steve's got a point. Why is it in such an exclusive place? Hopefully they remedy that and make it more accessible at Bob Murphy Stadium at CitiField.

Neither; could be that they just changed their minds. They're allowed to do that. They wanted to see what Gomez could bring to the table, and wanted to make room for him.

Gomez up! Nice! (Lastings who?)

seawolf17 wrote: The ball is really flying out of Shea tonight.

I don't like Craig Counsell.

Fielder goes yard. The ball is really flying out of Shea tonight.

I just LOVE rallies. Good times!

And Delgado goes KABOOM!

Present and accounted for. Game on!

Do you think they'll trade wOOgiE22 to us? That's one helluva IGT post. He even spelled New York correctly.

The dummy went to Ralph for batting tips, but he couldn't understand a word Ralph was saying.

I'll start a Duck thread next week; our first game is Tuesday or Wednesday night. Graves actually blew a save the other night.

I found one!

Don't you think that if word got out that the Braves had a player on their roster just because he was black, the Reverend Al would have a conniption? You can't have it both ways, Al.

]SAN FRANCISCO -- For all of his accomplishments, you'd think snagging a foul ball in the stands would be small stuff for Rickey Henderson. Hardly the case. Henderson, who caught a foul ball on Monday at AT&T Park, where he was watching the Mets play the Giants, kept the ball instead of handing it to a young fan. "Everybody was asking me for the ball," Henderson said Tuesday, according to the Star-Ledger of Newark. "I said, 'You're not getting this ball. I always wanted to get a foul ball. This one's going on a shelf at home." The young fan didn't go home empty-handed, though, as Henderson signed another ball the fan already had. Henderson joked that his catch in the stands shows he's still got the skills to play the game. "Showing 'em I've still got good hands. The ball found me. I was so quick." And if Henderson has his way, fans might soon be catching foul balls hit off the bat of the man himself. Roger Clemens' big announcement this week has Henderson hoping some club might give him one more chance to make a major league comeback. Otherwise, he will call it a career -- for good this time. "Seeing Roger come back, all the seed that it plants is ask me to come back one time," Henderson said Tuesday in the Mets clubhouse before New York played the Giants. "I'm going to look at it at the end of the year. I might come out with some crazy stuff, a press conference telling every club, 'Put me on the field with your best player and see if I come out of it.' If I can't do it, I'll call it quits at the end," he said. On Sunday, the 44-year-old Clemens announced during the seventh inning of the Mariners-Yankees game that he would once again put on pinstripes and return to the Bronx to pitch this season. "I see Roger can come back and play. I can come back and play," the 48-year-old Henderson said. "They say I've done too much. What'd he accomplish? ... The players they put on the field nowadays, they couldn't make it in my day. They'd get sent back to Triple-A." Henderson played in the independent Golden Baseball League two years ago, trying to attract the attention of big league teams. He hasn't played in the majors since appearing in 30 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2003, his 25th year at baseball's highest level. Henderson, a special instructor for the Mets this season, is the career leader in runs scored (2,295) and stolen bases (1,406) and is second behind Barry Bonds in walks with 2,190. He also has 3,055 career hits, 297 home runs, won the 1990 AL MVP award and made 10 All-Star games. He won an AL Gold Glove in 1981 as an outfielder with Oakland. Henderson is four months younger than Mets infielder Julio Franco. "Julio's out there. I know I can play with Julio," Henderson said. "You need to name a whole lot of players before you get to Julio. ... I just want a spring training invite. Most clubs said if I got an invite, I'd probably make their club, but [they] don't have a spot." For now, Henderson is keeping busy and fit by maintaining the 455 acres he owns near California's Yosemite National Park. He hasn't hit the gym for a while, but he drives a tractor, rides horses and raises cows -- and insists he will win a trophy in competitive fishing one day. "I'm an old country boy. I don't look like it," he said. But if he landed a deal like Clemens' one-year contract for $28,000,022, Henderson said he could get himself back in baseball shape in a hurry. By June, no less. Henderson also is a realist. "I'm through, really. I'm probably through with it now," he said. "It's just one of those things. I thank the good Lord I played as long as I played and came out of it healthy. I took a lot of pounding." Henderson said the "bitter" thing about it is that he didn't get to leave the sport on his own terms: finishing on the field. If his playing career indeed is over, Henderson will stay involved in baseball and even pull on a uniform from time to time to help out. He enjoys coaching players in the fundamentals of leading off and baserunning. "I always want to be around the game," he said. "That's something that's in my blood. Helping them have success feels just as good." Sign him up, Omar! How much fun would it be to see Rickey in the dugout in September as the 33rd man? Good times.

There are definitely more than a handful of guys who put bible verses after their sigs; and there are plenty of guys who add a "HOF '91" designation or something like that. The kookiest new guy is Pat Neshek, the sidewinding Twins reliever, who goes a little overboard: http://eteamz.active.com/PatNeshek/images/neshekredjnkj.JPG He does have a neat Web site here: http://eteamz.active.com/PatNeshek edit: Didn't realize that image was so ginormous.

Our colleagues over at Tigers Central have done a nice job chronicling their club's long and storied history; however, they apparently just use any photo -- they're not so picky about their caps. Despite Willie Blair's 3+ seasons as a Tiger, the best photo they could find was apparently this one.

Coobs, I'm on it.

Nice. I'm going to search out former Mets to see if they're interested in joining us.

That's the problem with Perez. When he's good, he's unhittable; but when he's awful, he's AWFUL. It's only three runs... could have been a lot worse. He could have thrown a strike and had someone belt one into the gap.