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I have always hated the Yankees simply because they were the Yankees.

I just don't understand why San Diego is even entertaining offers for him. They've got him for 2 more years at something like $10 mil (total). He's a local boy, grew up in San Diego and is very involved in the community. If they're bent on getting something for him rather than try to resign him (again - 2 years from now), keep him for 2010 and then trade him.

seawolf17 wrote: Shit, these sound awesome. I second that emotion.

Found out last week that my son's baseball coach played college ball with Holt. UNC Wilmington I think?

If not the worst, then 2009 is top 3 at least. High expections, injuries, lackadaisical play, bad losses, embarassing PR missteps, Phillies and Yankees...and you can throw a pinch of Madoff in there as well.

I'm downtown and having to deal with the 'parade' Its bad enough that at 8:45 am I had to walk 2-3 blocks just to cross the street, but 'they' were throwing rolls of toilet paper at each other from across the street. Gotta remember to avoid the puke puddles on my way home tonight.

It's going to come down to which pitcher (Pedro or Pettite) gets hit harder. I think they're both going to get shelled.

Patterson?

October 27, 2009 Mets Fans Have Choice of Two Evils in World Series By A. G. SULZBERGER In recent years Mets fans could measure baseball seasons by degrees of suffering. Since a called third strike dashed championship hopes in 2006, the team has been defined by fall flameouts, until this year, when there was an early summer flameout. But the misery of this uninspired season has been unexpectedly heightened by the indignity of watching their most despised division rival face off against their despised crosstown rival in the World Series. Chuck Rose, the owner of the Pine Restaurant and Sports Bar near Citi Field, said he was so disheartened that he could not even choose between the Phillies and the Yankees. �I hope it rains for 40 days and 40 nights,� he said, adding that he might dedicate one television in the bar to a replaying of the 1986 World Series, when the Mets last won the championship. Mets fans have approached the looming showdown, which one blogger nicknamed Satan�s Series, in a variety of ways. Some have sworn off baseball until spring training, while others have tried to sort out which team they dislike less. �This, my friends, is Baseball Armageddon,� wrote John Coppinger on his blog, the Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus, who falls in the boycott category. �There is no happy ending. Satan has been unleashed.� And, he continued, �The next two weeks are going to be the worst two weeks on earth.� The Mets Clubhouse store, where everything from shot glasses to winter jackets carry the team logo, had an air of desolation Monday afternoon as a trickle of frustrated fans wandered in. (Just blocks away, the Yankees Clubhouse was doing brisk business and was decidedly more upbeat.) �I had to come somewhere and commiserate,� said Dave Rakowski, 48, a lawyer in town on business from Allentown, Pa., which he said had an even mix of Yankees and Phillies fans. �I just needed to be around this stuff,� he said against a backdrop of blue and orange. While Mr. Rakowski swore that he would not watch any of the series, other customers tried to explain their calculus for new allegiances. The Yankees, some suggested, at least represent New York (even if they did buy their way into the World Series). The Phillies, others offered, play baseball the right way as part of the National League (even if they have repeatedly assaulted the Mets with phrases like �choke artists�). �I�m going for the Yankees because I can�t stand Philly,� said Anthony Ciarcia, 25, a Mets fan from Pine Bush, N.Y. �It�s not an ideal situation, but that�s what it comes down to.� Said Ravi Ramcharan, 35, from Valley Stream, N.Y.: �I hate the Phillies, but for this series I am rooting against the Yankees hard. I really don�t like the Yankees.� Jason Tejada crossed his index fingers, as if trying to ward off a vampire, when either team was mentioned by name. As a lifelong Mets fan, he has been miserable throughout the playoffs, which he could not escape because the games were always on at the Knollwood Country Club in Westchester County, where he is a bartender. As the Yankees inched toward victory on Sunday night, he left the bar for 20 minutes to avoid witnessing the celebration. �My stomach couldn�t take it,� he said. At a Modell�s Sporting Goods store in Midtown Manhattan, Eli Vargas was at his station within hours of the Yankees� victory on Sunday, dishing out celebratory caps, shirts and other pinstriped paraphernalia to ravenous crowds. But amid the bustle, looking both ways and hushing his voice before proceeding, he confessed to being a Mets fan. �But it hurts because I imagine what if this is all Mets stuff, how happy I�d be.� As he described growing up in Flushing, Queens, close enough to see Shea Stadium, he said: �I�m having a real tough time right now. They tell me the longer I wait, the sweeter it�s going to be. But I was 3 years old in 1986, so I don�t really remember. I want to know what it feels like to win.� Looks like the Sulzbergers get started in the family biz by writing puff pieces. I do like 'Satan's Series' though.

Wonderful, but long ago and far away. I was in my senior year at Syracuse. After the game we drove around campus honking and waving our Mets caps out the window. It was a great season and a great post-season. I want some more of that before I die.

It would be less tolerable if the Yankees won. That's the best I can do.

Can't the Mets do anything right? Oh, wait...

Trump was more interested in having his team be absorbed into the NFL than growing the USFL.

Cool logo for the New York Sentinels:

My wife looked into the Bar Mitzvah. They didn't return our calls either. Turned out we knew someone who knew someone who worked in the event planning dept. at Citi and finally found out it was too expensive. Word is that Jeff Wilpon's kid didn't even have it there. Supposedly his was at either the Greenwich YMCA or Boys and Girls Club. Can't remember which but it was one of those.

Grimm had the best idea - sensory deprivation tank until it's all over.

I saw these guys on The Tonight Show last week after reading about the movie somewhere (NY Times maybe). They were very entertaining while talking to Conan and then they played. It was great. They seem like they deserve all the attention they are gettinng. This movie is in my queue.