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When Benitez Blew a 'big' save I felt very sad And then I'd remember our friend Mel Rojas And I wouldn't feel so bad.

Montanez hotdogging and Flynn having tripled Stearns stealing bases and Pat Zachry crippled Mazzilli's tight ass made them Jokers not Kings But these were a few of my favorite things

Eh. Granted I'm not a Twins from but I'll just say I'm glad we have 'Meet The Mets'.

That's pretty cool. Nice job.

Yeah - Ojeda had quite a bit of nothing to say on SNY last night too.

So he only said it as an aside to show that he knows more than we do? Sounds right.

What point was Francessa attempting to make when he said Madoff didn't take on non-Jews?

That's true. Guys that work for their dads often say they work 'with' their dads and the guys I know that work 'with' their dads always refer to them by their first name.

Good thing I read this entire thread. One of my son's best friends lived in SF when Dusty managed the Giants and this kid went to school with Dusty's kid and became friends with him. I was just about to email that pic to my son saying 'show this to Ross and tell him this what Darren Baker looks like now...'. Sure, I thought 'that kid does look a little older than 13 but my Cranepool peeps wouldn't steer me wrong...'

This was the first sentence in an article in the NYTimes today - "An item in a Connecticut newspaper on Sunday said that Jeff Wilpon, Bobby Valentine, Omar Minaya and Wally Backman were seen dining recently at a restaurant in Norwalk called Quattro Pazzi, igniting speculation about the Mets� future plans until the report was roundly dismissed. " I read it and immediately started salivating at the prospect of a Bobby V. GM / Wally B. manager combo. The last 5 words did not even register on the first read-through. Then of course...they did. Booo. Good restaurant though - excellent Chicken Milanese.

I don't allow my children to tease one another so I'm certainly not going to allow Peter Gammons to tease me. Go to your room Gammons!

The Second Spitter wrote: The plot is complex, multi-layered and demands your full intention... An extra degree of suspension of disbelief is required and if I have to make a criticism here, it is that the movie makes-up its own rules as it goes along. This almost exactly how I've described the movie to people. The difference bwtween Spitter and I is that I didn't think much of it as a whole. I think the fact that it did make up the rules as it went along was a big reason that it was hard to follow. I've no problem with a complex plot, but give me a chance to follow it, you know?

When Fred said 'will the sun rise tomorrow?' could he possibly have meant, 'relax, yes I know the team looks dreadful right now, but its not the end of the world and we can deal with the personnel issues in due time.'? Because I can't find any other quote where he defiitively states that Omar will be back and the above quote is a bit ambiguous. That being said - Omar is in the first year of a three year extension.

This remind anybody of Gary Carter being stuck on 299 for what - like 3 months?

Edgy DC wrote: What is with all this faith in Wally Backman? Not that he would be my first choice but my 'faith' comes from the fact that he seems to be the organization's pick. So I resign myself to going with him and putting Bobby V. in the front office so B.V. can 1) come downstairs in an emergency and 2) be kept away from other clubs.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Someone linked an article suggesting hiring Backman would be a mistake based on how often he bunted with the Cyclones as if all else would be the same. I feel like I'm only pointing out the very obvious -- that first-year players may very well require a different approach than big-leaguers. I was answering the question of why there's popular acclaim for Backman: Because he's popular, and for better or worse there's a feeling the Mets could use a leader who's popular. Backman's won wherever he's been. Couple him with Bobby V. and I'd bet you'd have more than just a little success.

Centerfield wrote: Agreed, Cora should be cut. Agreed. And while they're at it - Release Ollie and Luis, fire Omar and Jerry. Make Bobby V. the GM and put Wally in the dugout. Boom. Done.

What's up with the schnozzes on the Met rooks?

Can't really take credit for the chart - I just mashed them together from espn.com.

For 2010 NL Rookie of The Year. I'm sorry if this topic has been recently visited and I've missed it. Who are the other candidates besides these guys? I think he stacks up.

Cue Valadius...

The more of this kind of stuff I read, the more I believe the rumors that the Wilpon's are averse to spending money they may not have. Thanks Bernie!

Edgy DC wrote: The orange shoes, on the other hand hand, are Sheariffic. Agree! Agree! And we aren't alone in our love for the kicks...

Zvon wrote: I think he died last week, but had the time to tell one of his lieutenant's to sit on him til the All Star break. You know what's interesting about this? I do a lot of work with trusts and estates attornies. We provide a service for Guardianships and Administrations, Executors, etc. About 3 months ago I got a call from an attorney I deal with on a semi-regular basis. A big guy in those circles, he has lots of wealthy clients. He was talking about a client of his - in Florida - who had slipped into a coma. Again, this was maybe late April, early May. He didn't give us a name but told us that his client was 'extremely well-known' and a had a 'very substantial estate'. Sometimes we get calls like that and we play a little game around the office trying to figure out who the incapacitated person might be. In this case, the best guess we came up with was Steinbrenner. Knowing he was not in good health, was in Tampa, had a large estate and would have an attorney like this guy handling his affairs. So over the past few months I've been paying attention to any public appearences by George. I don't believe there have been any. Perhaps this attorney was/is representing the Steinbrenner family. I'm thinking Big George had been in a coma for a few months and finally succumbed. Or perhaps the family figured that this would be a good time to pull the plug. Who knows? And interesting footnote here is that by expiring this calendar year, the family gets to take advantage of a loophole in the estate tax law and pay a significantly reduced amount of taxes.

Am I jealous of the Yankees success? Sure, who wouldn't be? But this revisionist history of 'The Boss' being the architect of the Jeter-Mariano-Pettite-Posada dynasty just is not true. If he weren't suspended at the time those guys came up his track record prior to that shows that in all likelihood, each one of them would have been traded. Yankee fans should be kissing the feet of Gene Michael and Bob Watson for allowing those players to mature and become the players they became as Yankees and not Mariners or Braves. Once Steinbrenner was allowed to come back, those players were already entrenched as key contributors. It was a no-brainer to keep them. I wonder what Dave Winfield has to say about Herr Steinbrenner? I don't think you can blame a lot of these Yankee fans for having no clue though, most of them only became self-aware circa 1994. The only good thing I can say about Steinbrenner is that he wasn't cheap when it came to paying for free agents and I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing.