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Some great stuff on the Busch Stadium auction, including all the championship banners, retired number flags, signs, stools, locker room goodies... I had better start saving money for the Shea auction in a few years. Lot 251 . Mets vs. Cardinals Limited edition signed print commemorating the Mets' final visit to Busch Stadium and signed by that team�s players and coaches. Number of Bids: 5 Current Bid: $333 Lot 322 . Busch Stadium Final Game Locker Tags Current Bid: $1,139 Lot 37 . Neon �Slugger Bird� from Stadium Club Suite A Current Bid: $1,264 Lot 111 . Players Urinal Number of Bids: 14 Current Bid: $487 136. Visitors� Bullpen Phone $442.88 Number of bids: 8

That lamp picture -- and Bobby V -- make me laugh out loud every time. This thread rules. Nice job, CF.

Willets, you know that there are at least some of us who appreciate that kid. Not that this thread is all about piling on A-Rod and Jeter, but...

Is it crazy to think that there might be some interest in dealing Tom Glavine and/or Cliff Floyd this offseason? Glavine is due $11,000,000 and Floyd a very reasonable $6,500,000 in the final years of their deals. Consider: Floyd: ** He played 150 games for the first time in a season since 2001. I don't want to say he's "due for an injury," but... ** He's coming off the best season -- at the plate and in the field -- he's had since 2001 also. ** He plays the same defensive position as a certain guy whose name starts with M and rhymes with "Fanny Ramirez." ** His best friend on the team was just dealt. I'm sure Cliff has plenty of friends, but perhaps this is a concern of his. Glavine: ** Will be 40 next year. ** Ain't getting any younger. ** Is a Hall-of-Fame pitcher who had a strong second half. ** Still smells like Atlanta. Should Omar shop them? Or does he wait until summer, and if it looks like this whole contraption is collapsing onto itself, do he move them then? I don't know that Glavine is movable, because of his age and the fact that any contract that we'd take back would probably be a monstrosity. If Boston were willing to take him in a Ramirez deal -- I know, it's a pipe dream -- then maybe, but other than that, I don't see a fit anywhere. Just throwing the thought out there.

I will always love this photo. It was my desktop background until a few weeks ago.

Sorry. Saw the other thread first. Eyre's deal is 3 years for $11 million, which isn't that bad.

Must have been that tenth-place MVP vote. (It's 3 years/$11 million, FWIW, which makes it better.)

Valadius' dad knows B.J. Ryan.

If only we had a photo of Kisa cuddling a kitten...

That's impressive statistical guesswork, Edgy!

Loved that Coover book. Big thumbs up.

Yeah, there's no way the Giants would have earned that 3rd-place 71-91 finish without Scott Eyre playing the LOOGY. Gimme a break. I agree with 62.

Me neither; I'm just saying that if you're going to air Somers the way they air Mike & The Dog... (Not that Mike & The Dog are Esquire cover models either, but you know what I mean.)

Steve Somers... well... let's just say he has the perfect face for radio. Let's leave him there. Glad to see they're sticking with the FAN.

CF- Nady is younger, cheaper, creates offense at a position where we need some offense (those stats are in 350 AB), can play the outfield if need be, and yes, he can be used as better trade bait down the road than an aging strikeout machine who can play defense. I still like this deal.

Wh-WHA?!?! Interesting deal. (1) Solves the first-base problem. He can platoon with Jacobs; they're probably very similar offensively. (2) He's going to be 27 next year, which puts him smack-dab in the beginning of his prime. (3) Saves the Mets some cash (unless they paid part or all of Cameron's salary, which is likely). I like it.

Pressure's on now, baseball. I see they included uppers; interesting. We'll see how this goes.

Yeah, an applicant with a name like "Nikkee" gets passed around the office and laughed at, much like "Special To-Me" (first and middle names, and no, I'm not making that up) did the other day.

First of all, what the hell was the point of that piece? Why throw that random anecdote from the CVS or whatever in there?Second, I love how Edgy combs papers nationwide -- like the [u:de9afd55ee]Central Illinois Pantagraph[/u:de9afd55ee] -- to find stories for us.Third, what the hell is a "pantagraph"? I think Central Illinois made that up.

My first thought was "Who the hell are the Connecticut Defenders?"Apparently, they're the old Norwich Navigators -- which is weird to me, because we went to a Gators-BMets game this year, and I never saw any news of a pending name change on their Web site. I guess my free giveaway Gators hat is a collector's item of sorts now.

Soup... You're fired.

Silver's one of the Baseball Prospectus wunderkinds; he's a stathead. A lot of PECOTA is common sense, in a way -- like saying BJ Ryan is a smarter long-term investment than Billy Wagner -- but it quantifies things on a much more concrete level.

I enjoyed Ted too. Funny-looking dude, but I liked his voice.

I'm not even 100% sure why I'm getting all defensive over him all of a sudden... I just can't say unequivocably that it's an "awful" idea. Asking Al Leiter to play 150 games at second base in 2006 is an "awful" idea. Signing Darryl Strawberry to a minor-league deal "just in case he rediscovers his stroke" is an "awful" idea. Adding a guy who goes .310/.420/.600 on a regular basis and drives in runs just by falling out of bed is never, ever, ever, ever an awful idea.

I just don't get what's not to love about this guy. We spooge all over Carlos Bonilleltran -- and I'm not saying that's a bad thing, because I still think he'll be great -- but when you have the chance to add one of the premier offensive players in the game, you do it, and you don't let a 20-year-old outfielder stop you.