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Mantle & DiMaggio.

="Edgy DC"]Was Jack Lang in any way related to Al Lang? (Noted: Likely no. Al was the mayor of St. Petersburg.) What about Clubber Lang?

The Good: March 30, 1994: New York Mets traded Steve Long to the Florida Marlins for Robert Person. John Olerud. March 30, 1994: New York Mets traded Anthony Young and Ottis Smith to the Chicago Cubs for Jos� Vizcaino. March 31, 1994: New York Mets traded Alan Zinter to the Detroit Tigers for Rico Brogna. November 28, 1994: New York Mets traded Juan Castillo and Andy Beckerman to the Houston Astros for Pete Harnisch. One of my favorite Mets. November 7, 1995: New York Mets signed free agent Rick Reed. Sure, he was a scab. Big whoop. December 14, 1995: New York Mets signed free agent Lance Johnson of the Chicago White Sox. January 22, 1996: New York Mets traded Yudith Ozorio, Erik Hiljus and Eric Ludwick to the St. Louis Cardinals for Bernard Gilkey. Who? Nice deal. April 8, 1996: New York Mets traded Chris DeWitt to the Chicago Cubs for Matt Franco. Who, part II? December 20, 1996: New York Mets traded Robert Person to the Toronto Blue Jays for John Olerud. December 23, 1996: New York Mets signed free agent Todd Pratt. The Bad: January 5, 1994: New York Mets traded Vince Coleman to the Kansas City Royals for Kevin McReynolds. As much as I'm the only K-Mac nutswinger in the pool, he was certainly done by this point. Not that I was sad to see V-Cole go. November 22, 1993: Baltimore Orioles signed Sid Fernandez of the New York Mets as a free agent. February 3, 1994: Minnesota Twins signed Jeff Innis of the New York Mets as a free agent. Sad to see two of my favorite Mets go, but neither one ever did anything of any real importance after they left. The Ugly: July 28, 1995: New York Mets traded Bobby Bonilla and Jimmy Williams to the Baltimore Orioles for Alex Ochoa and Damon Buford. Sigh. July 29, 1996: New York Mets traded Jeff Kent and Jos� Vizcaino to the Cleveland Indians for Carlos Baerga and Alvaro Espinoza. Sigh. The Funny: December 24, 1993: San Diego Padres signed Eric Gunderson of the New York Mets as a free agent. May 5, 1994: New York Mets signed free agent Eric Gunderson. Hey Eric, we changed our minds. Come on back. December 13, 1993: Mets drafted Charlie Greene from the San Diego Padres . December 5, 1994: Mets drafted Jason Hardtke from the San Diego Padres; Mets drafted Shawn Hare from the San Diego Padres. What was his obsession with San Diego?

As always, The Dugout chimes in, in highly amusing fashion.

="KC"] more time *sniffle* .... Sigh. I know he's bordering on completely worthless offensively, and I argued that they should have dealt him last offseason, but I love that graphic. Can we bring him back? Will they take Lastings Milledge for him?

I will miss Cliff, but I look forward to him striking out in a big spot against Aaron Heilman or Duaner Sanchez this summer.

DAMN.

Story ]"I think we are the team to beat in the NL East -- finally," shortstop Jimmy Rollins said Tuesday. "But, that's only on paper." The New York Mets cruised to the division title last season, finishing 12 games ahead of the Phillies. But Philadelphia overcame a poor start and a midseason roster purge to take the lead in the NL wild-card standings with only one week remaining in the regular season, only to fall short for the second straight year. Now, the Phillies are quite confident they'll make the playoffs for the first time since 1993. General manager Pat Gillick strengthened an already-solid starting rotation by adding Freddy Garcia and Adam Eaton in the offseason, and made minor moves to bolster an offense that led the league in runs scored. "For the first time since I've been here, I can say I know we have the pitching to get us there," said Rollins, a three-time All-Star in six seasons in the majors. "Our offense has been productive the last couple years, but it's tough when it's 6-0 in the third inning." I love how one paragraph talks about how solid their pitching staff is, then Rollins complains that they're down 6-0 after three innings every time. I think you gotta beat the Mets a little bit before you start talking smack, dipwad.

I read your post too quickly, and I misread it as D-Dad having a wrestling tournament. I started to wonder if there was something we didn't know.

Maybe you'll understand yesterday's Dugout, "Laberinto del Jeff Suppan", then. I didn't get it (but I didn't see the movie).

MLB isn't here to talk about the past.

CPF road trip!

They may have redone some of the streets in the Quarter since Katrina. I remember them being cobblestone, but I could be wrong.

And all you fort-building folks who have boxes of 1976 Topps laying around the house, please stick them in a box and send them to me. Thanks.

Topps is kinda the "old guard." They're still generally the most approachable from a young person's standpoint; the basic set is relatively inexpensive and easy to find (everywhere from hobby stores to Target). As far as online sources go, I'm a member of The Bench, which is a baseball card discussion board where we do a pretty good deal of trading (I've been a member for a year, and I've made almost 200 trades). I've picked up a lot of cards that way, both Metly and not. My advice for new collectors would be to pick something and stick with it. There is an enormous amount of variety, both price-wise and idea-wise, in the market right now. I collect three things: cards of my favorite players (Kevin McReynolds, Keith Hernandez, Pete Harnisch, Wright and Reyes), Topps base sets (1976 - my birth year, 1980-88 - the years I was a big-time collector as a kid, and 2006+), and Mets Topps cards, as a fun history-type project to build with Miniwolf some day. I'd advise her to do the same. If she wants Mets cards, tell her to go for it; eBay is a good start, as I've picked up a lot of things there also. If she needs help, shoot me an e-mail or a PM and I'll help her out. She can use me as a reference on the Bench if she'd like. (I don't know how old she is; there are a good number of kids on the board, but not really anyone younger than high-school age.) I'd also advise her to register at beckett.com -- they have a free "My Collection" tool where she can catalog what she has, and she can easily see the values of her collection. If she wants to pay, she can get the full online price guide, but I don't know that it's worth it; you can generally figure out what you need from the My Collections pages. (It'll give you the total value of each folder, but not individual values -- but if you move cards around between folders, it's really easy to see the value of one card if it's in a folder by itself, or if you move it out of a folder, you can just do the quick math to figure out the difference in the price of the total folder.) As far as storage, I keep my sets and my player collections in binders, and my extra cards that I use for trading in 800-count boxes. Storage can actually get pricey if you want it to, but you can pick up storage boxes cheaply at your local baseball card shop. I'm very willing to help if need be, or if you or she have specific questions. Let me know. My site is linked on my profile here, as well as at the Bench. edit: JD's right. There's no "correct" way to do it. Just tell her to do what she wants to do with them. My ten-year-old cousin collects, and has some relatively valuable cards (game-used relics, gold parallels, etc.) just jammed in with everything else. I cringe every time I see them, but ultimately, it's his collection, and he can do whatever he wants with it.

Edgy DC wrote: That looks like the worst-attended pep rally in history.

And oh, you don't want to see their... um... "Pam and Tommy" video on YouTube.

Relinked the image... perhaps better now?

Weird to start this thread with an MFY image, but I thought this was freaky - I saw it on a baseball card board I visit. That's a 1994 SP Holoviews Carlos Delgado card (when he was a catcher!), with a hologram in the bottom right corner... of Don Mattingly. Theoretically, that's supposed to be of the same player; the hologram is freaky enough as is, but it's just bizarre when it's the wrong player. The correct card: Error cards are funny.

Yancy... first Bohemian Rhapsody, now ESPN The Magazine? You should leave the Baxter Building and join society for a while.

How 'bout this? Casey's address book Neat.

How does Anderson Hernandez suck balls up here, but he goes down to winter ball, and he's Tony Gwynn? Small sample sizes are a funny game.

Hmm, I'm Barry Bonds, walking around the clubhouse... Hey! Mark! What's that? Can I try some? Effing moron.

Don't forget about Pedro Martinewitz and Jose Reyestein.

Paul LoDuca, career vs. John Thomson: 4-for-10, double, 2 HR, 2 RBI Suck it, JT.