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I misunderstood your question. Sorry.

sharpie wrote: The sound intermittently cuts off on my SNY broadcasts. Does it on all TVs in my house and on no other station. It only lasts about 5-10 seconds but it is annoying. This happening to you guys? YES! Maddening. Lately my Cablevision service has s-u-c-k-e-d. Pictures get pixelated, freeze, black out and the sound cuts out. Then I read in The Times and The Post this morning that Jams Dolan and his band 'JD and The Straight Shot' spent the evening performing for patrons at a 'midtown club' that had a cover charge of $15.00. Want to know the worst part? One of my best friends owns the club - Coda - where this fat billionaire bastard sang the blues last night! OE: James Dolan not Charles

Right click the logo, select 'properties', copy the URL address, paste it into your post as an 'img'. OE: Is that what you were asking?

Elster88 wrote: Nice article...but the comparisons to Bonds are totally unnecessary. I know that San Francisco is coming to town and that putting an "I hate Bonds" spin helps add words to your article, but ENOUGH ALREADY. I DON'T NEED TO READ ANYMORE ABOUT HIM. Why does capital letters make me feel better? I posted it more because of the Floyd/Milledge angle toward the end.

June 2, 2006 The Other Left Fielder at Shea By BEN SHPIGEL As a flood of reporters swarmed Lastings Milledge after the Mets' 13-inning victory Wednesday night, Cliff Floyd stood alone by his locker observing his latest pupil. Milledge answered each question patiently (like Floyd), mixing self-deprecating humor (like Floyd) with brief asides (like Floyd) and an occasional platitude (unlike Floyd). When he finished, the flock scattered and Floyd finished dressing in peace. For one night, the veteran and the rookie had switched places, though it will surely not be the last. In his fourth, and perhaps final, season with the Mets, the 33-year-old Floyd is enjoying his first taste of first place in New York even though he is battling a slump that he is finally starting to shake. In the past two weeks, Floyd has hit three home runs and raised his average 36 points, to .234, as some of those sharp liners have started to find grass instead of leather. More and more, he is looking like the Floyd of 2005, who stayed healthy all season, batted .298 with 34 home runs and surprised people with some standout defense in left field. But Floyd's contract expires at the end of the season, and the Mets may have already identified his successor in Milledge, a 21-year-old phenom who can do it all, and who made his major league debut at Shea Stadium on Tuesday night. Floyd is not dumb. He understands that he may be helping groom someone who will soon take his job, and that every tidbit he shares with Milledge could make it easier for the Mets to say goodbye at the end of the season. "The dude can flat out play, and he's going to be playing here next year no matter what," Floyd said of Milledge. "He's too good not to. Whether that's in right field, or where I am, I don't know. But it's going to happen sooner than later, and I'd like to be the one helping him through that experience." This weekend, Floyd will be doing that tutoring as the other guy in left field. The San Francisco Giants begin a three-game series in Queens tonight, which means that their polarizing slugger, Barry Bonds, will be patrolling the same section of Shea Stadium as Floyd and drawing most of the attention. Like Floyd, Bonds is in the last year of his contract and possesses an equally uncertain future. But that is where the similarities between them end. For in many ways, Floyd is the anti-Bonds, popular and personable. He will talk easily about his hometown, Chicago, or his adopted one in South Florida, about his retro Charles Barkley jersey or his adored Miami Heat, whose playoff game he attended last Saturday after the Mets played the Marlins. A bunch of celebrities were there, too, though Floyd went mostly unnoticed, especially by the television cameras. "They check your stats before they put you on," Floyd deadpanned. Bonds tunes out teammates with his iPod. Floyd lets teammates listen. Bonds often walks through corridors without touching a soul. Floyd rarely makes it from the clubhouse door to his locker without punching Jos� Reyes on the shoulder or cackling at David Wright's wardrobe. Picture Floyd as a cockier version of 47-year-old Julio Franco, the Mets' unofficial coach and diplomat. He's like the cool uncle, the man who will let his nephew stay up an extra half-hour to watch television. But implicit in that permission is trust. He makes the younger players earn it, just as he did 13 years ago, when he was a rookie with the Montreal Expos. "Marquis Grissom, Delino DeShields, Randy Milligan, Ken Hill � these guys helped make me who I am," Floyd said. "It's like parenting. They allowed me to grow into who I am, but they didn't tell me not to do things. They just told me about the consequences of my actions. And it made a big difference. "When talking with younger guys, I've always said that the less spoken, the better. You have to pick your times to give them that boost." In June 2004, when Reyes was stuck in Port St. Lucie, Fla., nursing a sore hamstring that never seemed to get better, Floyd helped persuade the front office to bring him to New York so Reyes could spend some time with his major league teammates, and maybe get more motivated to get healthy. When Wright broke into the major leagues, during the 2004 season, Floyd essentially adopted him. "There was some feeling out early, like he was testing me," Wright said. "But I know that if I were alone, at 3 in the morning, in the middle of December, I know that I could call Cliff and he'd answer the phone." The differences between Floyd's charges are striking � Reyes, the perpetually laughing Dominican, and Wright, the Virginian who is as wholesome as freshly baked bread � and yet, there is always room for one more. Enter Milledge. The Mets clubhouse is one of the more diverse in baseball, a place where a Puerto Rican and a Mississippian bond in the bullpen, where a country boy left-hander has a locker between an oenophile from California and a golf nut from Massachusetts, where half the roster is Hispanic. But until Milledge arrived, there were only two African-American players � Floyd and reliever Darren Oliver � and Floyd said he expected Milledge to gravitate toward him because of their shared background. "When times are rough, we can walk around the mall, go into music stores, and, you know, just talk man to man," Floyd said. "I think it's a great thing." Milledge said: "In spring training, Cliff showed me the ropes. And when we talk sometimes, I feel like we're the same person. We relate." That relationship will continue to develop over the weekend, while many fans watch Bonds, and some heckle him, and Floyd, less noticed, does his best for a team he may not be with in 2007. INSIDE PITCH The Mets lead the major leagues with eight victories that came at home in the ninth inning or later this season, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Colorado and Minnesota are tied for second with five, and the Yankees have one. The Mets had a total of eight in 2004 and 2005. ... The Mets are not projecting any sellouts for this weekend's series against Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants. They said 119,000 tickets had been sold as of Wednesday.

Elster88 wrote: I've read that thing twice now and I have no idea what Raissman is talking about. Moving on... Agreed. I'll tell you what pissed me off though was the Daily News article the other day (Bill Madden?) that rehashed Milledge's 'molestation' issues. It's old news is it not? Didn't he do whatever he was instructed to do be it probation or community service? When he was 16-17 years old he did something bad, was punished for it (in more ways than one if you can't the lost income due to the drop in his draft position) and paid his debt to society. I understand why it was rehashed - to sell papers - but its a years-old story that we all knew about. As far as we know he's kept it in his pants since. So the kid slid into a base spikes high. Oooooh, he must be a bad guy. I'm glad he spiked Schuerholzes kid. Fuck the Braves. These reporters have such a jones for pulling back the curtains that they take things that are simply irrelevant and make it news. If there's a story, great, I'll read it but there's nothing here except a young flashy, cocky kid. That's all the story is. Daily News - Let. It. Go.

seawolf17 wrote: So is The Wave. Just cut it out, all of you. I long for the day when some frigging moron stands up to do The Wave and gets drilled by a foul ball. At the Carrier Dome we used to do the Anti-Wave and it was quite remarkable in its ability to stop the Wave. As you see a Wave beginning to gain momentum in another section you stand up and get as many people in your section to stand. Once the Wave comes 'round and hits your section you all sit down. It throws off the timing of the next section and the Wave just quickly dies. Seeing as the people who are doing the Wave are morons anyway it is quite understandable that they get confused quickly when a section of people standing just sits instead of vice-versa. Try it next time, you'll be pleasently surprised how few people it takes to do an effective Anti-Wave.

Michelle Simon #1 looks most like her but it ain't her. I don't recall if she had a cat or not.

Uh, no. She actually liked me.

Don't bother - it was junior high school. I'm sure she's married for years now with a different name. Perverts.

Michelle Simon let me feel her up after we went rollerskating to 'Last Dance' So that might be oddly appropriate for him.

When I was a kid I spent a lot of time in Los Angeles. We used to go to a lot of Dodger games and Dodger Stadium was, to my knowledge, the first stadium to electronically induce crowd enthusiasm. They would play the bugle thing, you know...'Charge!' Even as an 11-12 year-old, the first time I heard it I was like 'no one's going to TELL me when to cheer.' I'm a baseball fan, you don't have to tell me when the drama's unfolding, you don't have to tell me when get excited. I find it insulting really.

Oh, I don't miss him. Just wondering where he went.

Where have you gone Matty Loughlin...

Looked safe to me but the throw beat him so it was Green's fault he was out not the ump's.

Green was safe on that play. Metsies got lucky.

metirish wrote: I'd be embarrassed to strut to the plate with that music playing, and it doesn't seem to fit LoDuca's hot temper, I thought he'd be more an Anthrax or Type O Negative kinda guy. There is nothing wrong with that music. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack is, I believe, one of the best selling soundtrack albums of all-time. I know that sales don't necessarily translate to good music (see American Idol cd sales) but it says something. Besides the fact that Earth Wind & Fire and KC and The Sunshine Band are pretty awesome. Hey, disco may not appeal to you but it doesn't mean it was bad. It was the soundtrack to my adolescence.

I don't. I think its pretty accurate.

seawolf17 wrote: Wouldn't seeing Maddux and Glavine win a title in Mets unis kinda be like us seeing Gooden & Straw win titles as MFYs? If there were any Braves fans down there, it'd blow their minds. Ask anyone from Atlanta and they'll tell you that Braves fans don't give a crap about the Mets. Why should they? We've never been a legitimate threat to them.

Dreadlocks, '44', oversized crucifix... Enough. I don't like this kid. Package him for Dontrelle and be done with it.

Can you trade a guy on the DL (Bannister just moved to the 60 day btw)?

Works for me. Omar?

I hope he gets lit up like a Christmas tree in every start he makes.

See, my wife will tell you that's just typical of me. Did I totally miss it or did you just add it?

I remember him wearing it for a series in San Francisco but as JD said it didn't last long. Why no mention of it on the website JD?