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Milli Vanilli.

Can't find am image on-line but I believe also that on the back cover of 'The Stranger' one of the band members is wearing a Yankees jersey.

You know - pictures of presidents are pretty damn easy to find...

Edgy DC wrote: If he's Sinatra, who is Gene Simmons? Caruso? I'm assuming you are referencing 'New York Groove'? Always thought that was an Ace Frehley solo project, am I wrong? And put me on record as saying I prefer that song at the end of Met victories to 'New York State of Of Mind'.

Today's NYTimes... September 12, 2007 Glavine, Not Green, May Be Back With the Mets Next Season By BEN SHPIGEL Toward the back of the Mets� clubhouse yesterday, Tom Glavine faced a group of reporters and let out a familiar sigh. There are three topics that when broached with Glavine seem to elicit such a response: steroids, Barry Bonds or, in this instance, his plans for 2008. But even as Glavine was musing about the possibility of playing next season, off in another corner, Shawn Green, a two-time All-Star whose career has declined into a part-time role, was mulling his future, too. Green said he planned to sit down with his family at the end of the season and discuss whether he wanted to continue playing. Green was displaced as the starting right fielder last month and is platooning with Jeff Conine at first base until Carlos Delgado rejoins the lineup. Then he will return to what he had been doing, receiving an occasional start or pinch-hit appearance. The Mets can buy him out for $2 million, preferring not to exercise his $10 million option, and make him a free agent. But Green, who turns 35 in November, said he would not accept a similar utility role, and it seems unlikely that a team would sign him and guarantee a starting job. �I�ve always enjoyed this, and I�m grateful for the opportunity,� Green said. �But it�s not like I live and die by it.� Green has accepted, with resignation, this stage of his career. He no longer steals 35 bases, as he did in 1998, or bats .309, as he did in 1999, or even hits 20 homers, well short of the career-high 49 he hit in 2001. He has come full circle, becoming the modest complementary player he was for his first few seasons, but this time it is harder for him. �When you reach a certain level, a bar gets set, and there are expectations and all that,� said Green, who grounded out as a pinch-hitter in last night�s 13-5 loss to Atlanta, is batting .276 with 8 home runs and 42 runs batted in. �Every year, I come in expecting to get back to where I was, and it�s been very frustrating that I haven�t been able to do it.� Green has 1,987 hits, and he said that getting 13 more to reach 2,000 would be nice, but it would not be as important or momentous as 300 victories was to Glavine. Since spring training, Glavine indicated that, assuming he won his 300th game this season, he would wait until after the season before deciding if he would play in 2008. He has remained uncommitted throughout, although he was quoted in The New York Post yesterday as saying that he was at least entertaining the idea of coming back. Glavine is 13-6 with a 3.95 earned run average. �There are times right now, even with me pitching good and feeling good, I�d rather be home some days,� Glavine said. �I know that I can�t honestly answer that question from a physical standpoint and an emotional standpoint until I get home and assess how important baseball is to me versus how much I want to be home.� Glavine has a player option for next season that is worth at least $11 million and could increase to $13 million, assuming he reaches the 200-inning plateau (he is at 182 1/3). General Manager Omar Minaya said yesterday that the Mets were, �of course,� interested if Glavine wanted to come back. The Mets would seem inclined to decline the option and try to negotiate a new contract at a lower price. The Mets gave Glavine as much time as he wanted after last season to make his decision about playing in 2007, but circumstances were different then. Glavine was choosing between the Mets and the Braves. This time he will determine only one thing, and that is whether he wants to play at all. If he does, it would almost certainly be with the Mets. �The determining factor becomes how much does my enjoyment of the game outweigh the sacrifices that they�re making because, with each year that I play here, they�re older, they�re into more things,� Glavine said of his children. �They miss more things when they come up here, whether it�s baseball games or hockey games or things like that. The way I was brought up and the way I try to parent, I have a hard time accepting that they�re making sacrifices for me as opposed to the other way.�

C'mon. Beating the Yankees in the World Series wouldn't be the utmost? I'd hate for the Mets to lose to them again but they can't beat them if they don't play them.

Edgy DC wrote: Wear your FDNY and NYPD caps. Yeah, really. This year is the first year since '01 that 9/11 fell on a Tuesday. Makes it doubly unsettling. Couldn't have nmore different weather today though.

Hail!

How about we look forward to a World Series rematch so we can kick their ass this time?

So I guess the plan is for Joel to suck so bad that Shea will swallow itself like a black hole?

If he can win 15 games why not?

This one was tough.

Is 2B a question mark? If Castillo's a FA I would like to think they'd sign him.

Valadius wrote: Show me evidence that he's used it this year. Back then, technically he wasn't breaking any rules. It kinda leaves a smudge on the comeback story for me, but it's still a pretty good feel-good story in my mind. Stuff that happened three years ago really doesn't ruin it for me. Rules, no. Laws, um, yup.

I liked this line though - Sunday is �Take Her Out to the Ballgame� Day, when they'll give away 25,000 man-purses that Mike Piazza left behind.

Why don't you accuse John Sterling of taking amphetemines? You could make a case for it AND he's a Yankee.

I love reading Mushnick. Entertaining, observant and I usually agree with him. Today though I don't. I just think Keith is funny. WE KNOW: YOU'RE KEITH HERNANDEZ September 7, 2007 -- "GILLIGAN'S Is land" had Thurston Howell III; Mets' telecasts have Keith Hernandez, the one and only. We warned you, even before Hernandez began as an SNY/Mets regular, that he'd be a load. That's because his strengths and weaknesses are roughly the same. His arrogance, condescending manner, impatience, sarcasm, naughtiness, knowledge, and brutal candor would make him both cherished and scorned. But he must lose, or at least curtail, one habit, the one where he makes it seem that he considers his gig (calling games, traveling to and from them, and anything else that comes with the job) drudgery, as if such backbreaking work is beneath him. OFF BASE: Keith Hernandez's shtick � that working Mets games is such hard work � was on display this week during the Mets' 10-day road trip. If he's only half-kidding, that leaves half-serious. Wednesday, late in the Mets-Reds game, Hernandez went on a patrician trip that would have left divas feeling neglected and Louis Vuitton holding the bag. When Gary Cohen said that after the game the Mets have one scheduled road trip left, Hernandez made it sound as if it were his prison release date. "That's outstanding!" he said. Just before that, Hernandez complained he "couldn't get anything to eat" in Cincinnati on Labor Day because, "The Morton's steakhouse was closed." How terribly sad. But kinda funny, too. How many public figures, on a televised baseball game no less, would say such a thing? For those scoring at home, dinner for two at a Morton's, if you're a moderate eater and drinker, will run you about $200. Also, after Cohen said boothmate Ron Darling would be appearing at an SNY promotion in New York the next day, Hernandez said there was no way he'd spend an off day doing any such thing. Nope, Hernandez later said, he'd be landing at 7:40 at LaGuardia, where, "I've got the car waiting; it's already ordered." The next day, he continued, would begin with him and his wife breakfasting "at the Java Nation in Sag Harbor, then we'll come back and just laze around the pool." Geez, Keith, why not just throw the cabana boy a few bucks and have him laze around the pool for you? Cohen gave Hernandez's itinerary a moment's thought, then said, "Can I tell you something? Our lives couldn't be any more different." Again, Hernandez sounded too serious to be completely kidding. Regardless, that get-me-out-of-here stuff was better left to Phil Rizzuto, who made it a charming (and active) element of his on-air persona. And he didn't even pretend he didn't want to be there until he was on the job for 20 years. On the other hand, had Hernandez's butler only phoned ahead to let Morton's know he'd be in town . . .

I don't think anyone here thinks that just because a guy played for our favorite team that means they didn't use performance enhancing drugs. Panda baseball: 548. Beat that Ankiel.

-Ankiel has had several injuries/surgeries since 2001 that anyone in his position would have wanted to recover from at a rapid pace -Evidence was also found of shipments of HGH to former major league pitcher Steve Woodard. Woodard and Ankiel were teammates with the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds in 2004 -Hit two home runs, a double and had seven RBI yesterday against the Pirates at Busch Stadium, giving him nine home runs in 81 at-bats since his remarkable major league comeback began on Aug. 10. Guilty as charged! However - -No proof that he recieved any HGH after the MLB ban was implemented in 2005.

The favorites in my house were Barney, Teletubbies and the Wiggles. Big Comfy Couch and Dragon Tales also got some air time. I always thought the clown chick on BCC was pretty cute.

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