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="bmfc1":ip7q5hj1]Enjoy! Just don't try and keep score of early ST games.[/quote:ip7q5hj1] As a kid I used to try and score the All-Star game. Very frustrating, mainly because on TV they wouldn't announce all the defensive changes quickly enough. ="metirish":ip7q5hj1]FYI - the spring training game Thursday will be repeated on SNY that evening at 7PM....then at 9:30 Kevin Burkhardt hosts a Citifield progress special. It's billed as Citi Field Special II , never did see the first one.[/quote:ip7q5hj1] Maybe this should be in Fman's HDTV thread but ever since I started watching games in HD I have a hard time watching non-HD broadcasts. As I recall the ST games are not HD. Maybe this year they will be though... ="bmfc1":ip7q5hj1]Adam Rubin writes: Joseph Ethan Putz was born at 12:40 p.m. ET.[/quote:ip7q5hj1] Joe Putz - good baseball name. metirish Feb 25 2009 11:29 AM I'm the same way in regards to watching baseball in HD or not . soupcan Feb 25 2009 11:29 AM ="metirish":27k4zrtl]I'm the same way in regards to watching baseball in HD or not .[/quote:27k4zrtl] Sad isn't it? metirish Feb 25 2009 11:36 AM Yeah it's sad but the difference is telling, even from station to station HD can differ. I hate the way they box up the sides when it's not HD but it's on the HD channel. soupcan Feb 25 2009 11:42 AM ="metirish":kxywmudg]I hate the way they box up the sides when it's not HD but it's on the HD channel.[/quote:kxywmudg] That drives me crazy. Benjamin Grimm Feb 25 2009 11:47 AM I've had a big-screen HD-compatible TV for over a year now, and we still haven't made the switch to HD reception. We have three TiVo boxes and none of them are HD-compatible, and since just about everything I watch (other than Mets games) are on TiVo (at Medium quality, no less) it just doesn't make sense to me. metirish Feb 25 2009 12:05 PM Would you have to pay more Grim from HD?. Cablevision to their credit does not charge extra for HD channels and they add new ones every week it seems. Benjamin Grimm Feb 25 2009 12:13 PM I'd have to pay to replace all three TiVo's. Each has a lifetime service plan, so I'm not paying any monthly fees. metsguyinmichigan Feb 25 2009 07:39 PM I ALWAYS keep score! Wasn't too bad, they only turned over the lineup once. Didn't see any wives, but I did have a nice chat with Jerry Manuel's nephew Marcellus.

Before the game. Make an evening of it. Dinner rezzies at 6:00, linger and watch the first inning or so through the windas then amble your bloated self down to your seats.

]February 25, 2009 -- MAJOR League Baseball hates scandal, yet two on- air personalities on its new MLB Network were once caught up in controversy. Three years ago, former Se attle Mariner Harold Reynolds was canned from ESPN after alleged sexual harassment. Reynolds called the charge "a total misunderstanding . . . I gave a woman a hug, and I felt like it was misin terpreted," and he won a seven-figure, wrongful termination suit. Still, veteran radio sports pro ducer Tom Somach told Page Six he was sur prised by the hiring, asking, "What kind of message does that send?" And working as a guest analyst is Baltimore Oriole Billy Ripken, whose 1989 baseball card showed him holding a bat with "[bleep] face" written on the knob. The card was yanked and re vised. MLB flack Matt Bourne called Reynolds "an exemplary employee in every way" and said Ripkin's card flap was "a very minor incident and what I would term as seemingly a prank." I never knew that about Ripken. Funny.

="John Cougar Lunchbucket":3jt4o9zu] The Diamond Club was aight. They have a real chef and everything.[/quote:3jt4o9zu] Was it? What kind of stuff did they serve in there? ="John Cougar Lunchbucket":3jt4o9zu]The point is that concessions were an afterthought in the design of the old park and are central to the business plan of the new one. [/quote:3jt4o9zu] I hear you. John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 25 2009 09:00 AM ="soupcan":11qp1uhg]="John Cougar Lunchbucket":11qp1uhg] The Diamond Club was aight. They have a real chef and everything.[/quote:11qp1uhg] Was it? What kind of stuff did they serve in there? [/quote:11qp1uhg] How am I supposed to know? I was drunk. No, I think it was, you know, decent restaurant-quality food. themetfairy Feb 25 2009 09:06 AM I had a nice buffet lunch at the Diamond Club in August. It had an omelet bar, salads, etc., and the quality was very good. HahnSolo Feb 25 2009 09:49 AM What's the etiquette on eating in ballpark restaurants? Before the game, during the game, after the game? soupcan Feb 25 2009 09:53 AM Before the game. Make an evening of it. Dinner rezzies at 6:00, linger and watch the first inning or so through the windas then amble your bloated self down to your seats. Vic Sage Feb 25 2009 11:35 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 25 2009 12:25 PM I grew up in Coney Island, where the "Chicago-style Hot dog" is considered an abomination. Hot dogs (or, more properly, "Franks" or "Frankfurters") were invented by Charles Feltman in 1867, who put a Vienna sausage in a roll and called it "Coney Island Red Hots." Some people, unsure of its ingredients, called it a hot dog. It is still sold at the world famous original Nathans the way God, Feltman and Nathan Handwerker intended... grilled (not boiled!) and served plain or with sauerkraut on a bun without other adornment except the availability of mustard, applied by the customer. A little relish is acceptable, even a drop of ketchup for the pre-teens who put ketchup on everything... even some "red onions". But a chicago dog is boiled (on edit: or steamed) and then buried in an overwhelming bun with a warehouse full of veggies. You might as well not have the hotdog in there at all, for all it matters. If you want to do that to a big polish sausage or a kielbasa, then fine. But a hot dog is a subtler creature and needs a tad more minimalism for its true appreciation. And don't even get me started on their pizza. Second City? I wouldn't even rate it in the top 5. Gwreck Feb 25 2009 11:46 AM First off, a Chicago hot dog is steamed, not boiled. I have nothing against New York hot dogs. I think they're great. I've been to Nathans at Coney Island many times and always look forward to a return. That being said -- as a New Yorker, to boot -- the Chicago product is superior. A New York hot dog is a snack. A Chicago hot dog is a meal. The inferior nature of Chicago pizza when compared to that in New York has no bearing on the fact that Chicago hot dogs are superior to those from New York. [We're probably at the point where we need a thread split and move to the NBF...] Vic Sage Feb 25 2009 12:22 PM steaming is equivalent to boiling. Both processes render meat flavorless, while grilling enhances flavor. And yes, a hot dog is a snack, while the chicago dog is a meal.... but it's a meal with very little to do with hot dogs. It's a seeded hero loaf of veggies, with some steamed meat underneath. YUMMM! metirish Feb 25 2009 12:40 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 25 2009 12:43 PM ="Vic Sage":xf821h86] And don't even get me started on their pizza. Second City? I wouldn't even rate it in the top 5.[/quote:xf821h86] I really dislike the Chicago style piazza...has got to be thin crust regular for me.... Anthony Bourdain's "No reservations" went to Chicago recently and of course he was very skeptical of their style of pizza , he went to a famed pizza place and professed to like it after talking to the owner and sampling it but I got the feeling he'd not eat it again. The y sampled some hot dog style fare and really those things were like nothing I'v ever seen... Vince Coleman Firecracker Feb 25 2009 12:42 PM I, for one, thoroughly enjoy both varieties. While my ideal dog- Boar's Head or Hebrew National on a potato bun with Gulden's or Boar's head spicy brown mustard and a little bit of kraut- is the traditional one Vic likes, I will never look down my nose at a Chicago-style dog. I think we can all agree on one thing, though: putting ketchup on a hot dog is, basically, treasonous, and should be punished by deportation. Vince Coleman Firecracker Feb 25 2009 12:45 PM ="metirish":3hh2eoiz]="Vic Sage":3hh2eoiz] And don't even get me started on their pizza. Second City? I wouldn't even rate it in the top 5.[/quote:3hh2eoiz] I really dislike the Chicago style piazza...has got to be thin crust regular for me.... Anthony Bourdain's "No reservations" went to Chicago recently and of course he was very skeptical of their style of pizza , he went to a famed pizza place and professed to like after talking to the owner and sampling it but I got the feeling he'd not eat it again.[/quote:3hh2eoiz] The problem with Chicago pizza is that it isn't, in any sense, pizza. That stuff Bourdain was eating in that episode looked delicious, and I bet it was, but it wasn't pizza. If they called it a savory, vegetable-y pie I would hold nothing against it, but the "pizza" label makes it an imposter. Vic Sage Feb 25 2009 02:40 PM ] think we can all agree on one thing, though: putting ketchup on a hot dog is, basically, treasonous, and should be punished by deportation. So Chicagoans can put tomatoes on their dogs, but look down their noses at ketchup? Feh. Personally, i don't mind "red onions" which are in a tomato-based sauce, but wouldn't use ketchup. As a parent, on the other hand, I'm more forgiving of my kids' affection for ketchup on their dogs, and would certainly resist their deportation. Gwreck Feb 25 2009 08:18 PM ="Vic Sage":1msm2noi]So Chicagoans can put tomatoes on their dogs, but look down their noses at ketchup? Feh. [/quote:1msm2noi] I'm pretty sure that everyone (except perhaps Ronald Reagan) understands the difference. SteveJRogers Feb 25 2009 09:08 PM ="soupcan"]Before the game. Make an evening of it. Dinner rezzies at 6:00, linger and watch the first inning or so through the windas then amble your bloated self down to your seats. Well at Shea you had a couple of reasons for this. 1) The Grill Room was directly behind the press box. Would have been neat if they created a window so fans could see the press doing their jobs, but it would have been brutal to try to follow the game on anything other than the TV monitors around the bar and the restaurant. It had a nice sports bar feel going, at least for the 10 years I was kind of a "regular" there! The Diamond Club itself did have a panoramic window, but the sightlines for watching it from the restaurant were not the best. Had a nice ritzy restaurant feel. Gwreck Feb 26 2009 08:16 PM ="John Cougar Lunchbucket":ix6vvn2o]I gotta confess my dismay at the rash of food stories about the stadiums coming out now. I scooped 'em all by digging up much of this info back in December for an article -- but its only getting out there now (in the Meet the Mets 09 annual). I had the Neiporent/Tribeca Grill stuff and an interview with him, for instance.[/quote:ix6vvn2o] Saw this at the newsstand today and picked up a copy. I still think the story is under reported in that I haven't seen any articles acknowledge that most of these restaurants are never going to be accessible except to a few thousand select ticketholders and Jimmy Blue Collar fan isn't welcome. John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 26 2009 09:12 PM Well, no one would be pinned down on that point. I don't think, for example, if the restaurant isn't doing gangbusters they'll enforce any kind of ticketholder policy. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 26 2009 09:33 PM I'm not sure that I speak for every Mr./Mrs. Blue Collar, but I'm okay with conceptual tacos and Shack Burgers. Bar me if you want-- If I want Nobu, I'll go to Nobu. (You know, once a kid graduates, or Nobu starts taking part in restaurant week.) I do like that Citifield's food selection shaping up as a LITTLE more of a people's-choice, NEW-YORKER'S-New-Yorker menu-- complete with frou-frou options-- in comparison to laser-etched steakhouses/f'-ing Hard Rock. metsguyinmichigan Feb 26 2009 10:10 PM ="SteveJRogers":1i4q3vr9] 1) The Grill Room was directly behind the press box. Would have been neat if they created a window so fans could see the press doing their jobs, but it would have been brutal to try to follow the game on anything other than the TV monitors around the bar and the restaurant. [/quote:1i4q3vr9] Trust me on this, you do not want to watch what happens in the press box. Especially during a meal. soupcan Feb 27 2009 07:08 AM On that Citifield special on SNY last night, Jeff Wilpon stated that there will be a New York pizza joint. I couldn't catch the name - Started with a 'C', multi-syllabalic, something Italian. Gwreck Feb 27 2009 07:57 AM Cascarino's. They were mentioned in the Post's article, I believe. Same pizza provider at Shea as last year, I think. G-Fafif Feb 27 2009 01:18 PM Cascarino's held court in the mid-'00s, giving away to the abysmal Sbarro's in 2007 and 2008. Pizza at Shea hasn't been any good since the personal pizzas of the early '80s disappeared. SteveJRogers Feb 27 2009 04:16 PM ="G-Fafif"]Cascarino's held court in the mid-'00s, giving away to the abysmal Sbarro's in 2007 and 2008. Pizza at Shea hasn't been any good since the personal pizzas of the early '80s disappeared. Hey don't knock the favorite "New York Style" pizza of Dunder Mifflin's Michael Scott (The Office)!

I used to eat in The Grill Room on occasion. It was a restaurant so they must have had an adequate kitchen. Unfortunately that didn't stop them from preparing and selling lousy food. I think the last time I ate in the Diamond Club I was 11 years-old so I can't really speak to the quality of the food they served but I don't recall anybody ever raving about the prime rib in there. That's two kitchens and nothing stellar coming out of them. I've got to think that it was less that they didn't have the facilities to serve up some tasty fare and more that they felt no need to spend the money to do whatever it would take.

'Zactly.

These I guess are almost a week old. From http://www.stadiumpage.com

We're flying Continental - what could go wrong?

I'm at LaGuardia waiting for a flight. Drove past Citi and Shea. Shea looks so sad and insignificant. I'm excited and wistful at the same time.

Yankee Summer Home... Yankees Building New Vacation Stadium In The Hamptons

If anyone's interested - Pete Rose is going to be on WFAN with Francesa in a couple of minutes. I'm sure he'll be talking about Alex.

Another from baseballfever.com

As long as Murphy stops short of swinging a bat in a pool, I think he'll be okay.

Oh my.

RE: Russo-Stern It was Chris Russo with Stern not Francesa. Not much. He asked him about the rift betweeen he and Francesa but Russo sort of evaded the questions. No earth-shattering declarations made, nothing spoke about that a listener of M&MD didn't already know. Stern did ask Russo at one point if it was true that Francesa's wife had offered herself to Russo sexually.

I dunno - he don't look so good to me.. Of course I'm looking at him thinking he's got full-blown AIDS and he's trying to hide it but doesn't he look a little gaunt? He looks older than a 41 year-old former professional athlete should and he was always a pretty youthful looking guy.

Of course you can 'catch' AIDS in ways that have nothing to do with homosexual sex. The fact remains however that it originated as a disease specific to the homosexual community and rightly or wrongly, still remains something that many people consider a 'gay desease'. The rumor that Alomar is gay combined with the rumor that he has AIDS makes the statement valid.

="Benjamin Grimm"]That kind of rings a bell with me. (The gay Alomar rumors.) There was some article making the rounds written by a gay writer who said he had an affair with a 'prominent baseball player with an east coast team'. At the time I think that many people assumed he was talking about Piazza but there were also whispers that it could have been Malomar. We used to joke here that Mary Pierce was a bad choice for a beard for Robbie because she looked more like a man than he did..

="Nymr83":328ycyjo]="metsguyinmichigan":328ycyjo]Always lots of rumors that Alomar was gay. Supposedly he spit at the umpire because he made a homophobic slur.[/quote:328ycyjo] which has what to do with anything here?[/quote:328ycyjo] AIDS. Gay. There's relevance. Met Hunter Feb 11 2009 08:19 AM I have to say, I'm surprised by this story, but not shocked. The rumors of Robbie's sexual orientation have been around for years. I always felt that Piazza took some hits for Robbie back in the 'there's a gay Met' days. Hirschbeck did in fact call Alomar a name (faggot) that infuriated Roberto. A couple years ago, I attended an autograph show that both Sandys were at and we saw Roberto in the lobby. He looked like hell and we thought he was dying. We were told that he recently had surgery and was a litle under the weather. Either way, this is a sad story. If he indeed is infected, knew about it, and convinced his girl to have sexual relations with him, that is irresposible and criminal. Despite that, I hope for the best to the entire Alomar clan. A great baseball family. soupcan Feb 11 2009 08:22 AM ="Benjamin Grimm"]That kind of rings a bell with me. (The gay Alomar rumors.) There was some article making the rounds written by a gay writer who said he had an affair with a 'prominent baseball player with an east coast team'. At the time I think that many people assumed he was talking about Piazza but there were also whispers that it could have been Malomar. We used to joke here that Mary Pierce was a bad choice for a beard for Robbie because she looked more like a man than he did.. MFS62 Feb 11 2009 08:25 AM Yiles! No wonder she was fronting for Virgin. Who would want to .... ? Later Edgy DC Feb 11 2009 08:28 AM She gets a tough rap. A funky nose, but she had a wonderful athletic build, even by tennis player standards. Centerfield Feb 11 2009 08:31 AM I have confirmed with four different sources that Mary Pierce is one of the unnamed 103. Nymr83 Feb 11 2009 08:38 AM ="soupcan":1r1auihp]="Nymr83":1r1auihp]="metsguyinmichigan":1r1auihp]Always lots of rumors that Alomar was gay. Supposedly he spit at the umpire because he made a homophobic slur.[/quote:1r1auihp] which has what to do with anything here?[/quote:1r1auihp] AIDS. Gay. There's relevance.[/quote:1r1auihp] You can catch AIDS by having normal heterosexual sex. You can also be raped by men even if you yourself are not gay, I still fail to see the relevance. metsguyinmichigan Feb 11 2009 08:44 AM ="soupcan":1hl6exl4]="Nymr83":1hl6exl4]="metsguyinmichigan":1hl6exl4]Always lots of rumors that Alomar was gay. Supposedly he spit at the umpire because he made a homophobic slur.[/quote:1hl6exl4] which has what to do with anything here?[/quote:1hl6exl4] AIDS. Gay. There's relevance.[/quote:1hl6exl4] Well, the point was that if he was saying he got the disease because he was raped by two men in Mexico, that might not be entirely true. But certainly there are multiple ways to get AIDS, and I wasn't casting any dispersions on him because he might be gay. Just saying the rape thing seemed odd, as did the refusals to be tested over the years. soupcan Feb 11 2009 09:00 AM Of course you can 'catch' AIDS in ways that have nothing to do with homosexual sex. The fact remains however that it originated as a disease specific to the homosexual community and rightly or wrongly, still remains something that many people consider a 'gay desease'. The rumor that Alomar is gay combined with the rumor that he has AIDS makes the statement valid. Fman99 Feb 11 2009 09:13 AM ="soupcan"]="Benjamin Grimm"]That kind of rings a bell with me. (The gay Alomar rumors.) There was some article making the rounds written by a gay writer who said he had an affair with a 'prominent baseball player with an east coast team'. At the time I think that many people assumed he was talking about Piazza but there were also whispers that it could have been Malomar. We used to joke here that Mary Pierce was a bad choice for a beard for Robbie because she looked more like a man than he did.. Wow I can't believe Robby Alomar had sex with Geddy Lee. Benjamin Grimm Feb 11 2009 09:17 AM You know, millionaire professional athletes have trouble getting the prettiest of women, and often have to settle for those who look like Willie Nelson. Edgy DC Feb 11 2009 09:26 AM Cruel room. Vic Sage Feb 11 2009 10:00 AM my observations: 1) saying someone has AIDS could be actionable, unless it were true, so it is unlikely the woman would make this accusation without some good faith basis to believe it to be true; 2) The gay rumors (which i recall) and his sudden and precipitous drop in performance add further credibility to the claim and therefore are relevent issues to raise without pretending otherwise, or implying veiled innuendo of homophobia for having done so, 3) There doesn't seem to be an allegation that Alomar knew (or even that he necessarily should have known) that he had AIDS at the time they were having unprotected sex, so there is no criminal liability (or moral culpability); 4) this is tragic all the way around; and 5) Namor's perspective does not surprise me in the least. John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 11 2009 10:01 AM View the suit: [url:xutp2sq2]http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0211091alomar1.html[/url:xutp2sq2] metirish Feb 11 2009 10:08 AM 12 pages..... Not sure if it was last season or the one before that Alomar was shown in the stands at Shea watching a game , looked pretty good then , may have been Father's Day IIRC. Nymr83 Feb 11 2009 10:16 AM I always thought "Ilya" was a guy's name, at least the one Ilya I know is, unless I'm spelling his name wrong? ]There doesn't seem to be an allegation that Alomar knew (or even that he necessarily should have known) that he had AIDS at the time they were having unprotected sex, so there is no criminal liability (or moral culpability); #29-34 on the first cause of action seems to allege just that, even if it isn't true it is certainly being alleged. HahnSolo Feb 11 2009 10:24 AM ="metirish":z7miuiq4]12 pages..... Not sure if it was last season or the one before that Alomar was shown in the stands at Shea watching a game , looked pretty good then , may have been Father's Day IIRC.[/quote:z7miuiq4] I believe so. I think he, his dad and brother took the Shea countdown number down on Fathers Day. I didn't see him that day. Vic Sage Feb 11 2009 10:51 AM there is no evidence that he knew he was positive until 1/06, and the complaint doesn't allege any. That he SHOULD have known before then, based on his various symptoms, is a matter of conjecture, and not the basis of "criminal" conduct. It might rise to tortious conduct, if her allegations are proven true, and though sections 29-34 of the complaint are worded broadly (as such complaints generally are), they clearly are about what he SHOULD have known. Of course, during all this time HE should have known, shouldn't she have? Why would she continue to have unprotected sex with someone whose symptoms she alleges were so obvious that ignoring or denying them rose to the level of negligence (civil, much less criminal negligence!). Wasn't she contributorily negligent? Oh the other hand, if he actually told her that he'd been tested on the numerous times that she alleges, and always told her he had tested negative, that's fraudulant behavior. Still, in most jurisdictions "emotional distress" needs at least some element of physical damage to be actionable, and certainly so for a criminal prosecution. She doesn't claim any battery, and as long as she tests negative, neither she nor any state may have a claim against him for what he might have or should have known. But certainly, if her allegations are true, there is moral culpability here. Edgy DC Feb 11 2009 11:05 AM Possiblities also exist that (1) he honestly had been tested, and received a false negative, and (2) had honestly been tested, and received an accurate negative, but contracted the disease subsequently. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 11 2009 02:20 PM A suit for distress several years after the supposed diagnosis... and after she continued to cohabitate (and, presumably, perform girlfriend-ly duties) with the guy for 3-plus years after THAT? I'm guessing that he's not a fantastic breaker-upper. metirish Feb 11 2009 06:05 PM My wife tells me that of course this is shocking news in Puerto Rico , anyway Robbie's current squeeze is a TV personality and model and she has been all over TV over there today talking about how all of this is false and that in due course all will be reveled , she did say that the ex told Alomar that when they broke up she was going to ruin him.Current GF also claims that Robbie is in good health. Edgy DC Feb 11 2009 06:16 PM I hope that's true. Good health doesn't necessarily mean virus-free, but it's good to have a woman stand by you when another is airing you out. metirish Feb 11 2009 06:22 PM More news , that picture is recent because they have been dating for only six months , current girl is the object of much scorn and ridicule in Puerto Rico , she is known for being an air head...also known as "dark cloud" as a BF from a few years ago killed himself and a guy she dated last year got cancer.....crazy stuff. Edgy DC Feb 11 2009 06:27 PM La Nube Oscura. Ouch. Frayed Knot Feb 11 2009 07:03 PM Robbie will be part of next year's 1st timers club for HoF consideration. Fman99 Feb 11 2009 07:56 PM ="metirish"]My wife tells me that of course this is shocking news in Puerto Rico , anyway Robbie's current squeeze is a TV personality and model and she has been all over TV over there today talking about how all of this is false and that in due course all will be reveled , she did say that the ex told Alomar that when they broke up she was going to ruin him.Current GF also claims that Robbie is in good health. I'd shake that shack. soupcan Feb 11 2009 08:37 PM I dunno - he don't look so good to me.. Of course I'm looking at him thinking he's got full-blown AIDS and he's trying to hide it but doesn't he look a little gaunt? He looks older than a 41 year-old former professional athlete should and he was always a pretty youthful looking guy. SteveJRogers Feb 11 2009 09:11 PM Shots of him getting inducted into the Blue Jays' Level of Excellence (they don't retire numbers) last spring Edgy DC Feb 11 2009 09:39 PM ="The New York Times":gev7takj]After he joined the mediocre Mets in 2002, Alomar�s play took a sharp turn for the worse.[/quote:gev7takj] Hey, paper of record, easy on the editorializing. That's not a blog you're writing. metirish Feb 19 2009 08:32 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 19 2009 08:44 AM Nothing new in this case , some pictures here of Alomar's GF... Be careful Opening These At Work[/url:2ob5iosb] scroll down John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 19 2009 08:35 AM Looks like she's smuggling a few batting helmets in her top. metirish Feb 26 2009 07:03 PM Update if anyone is interested......Gisselle a famous Puerto Rican Merengue singer and ex squeeze of Alomar's felt compelled to take a HIV test and go public with the results today because of a smear campaign down there in the gossip pages....she tested negative. Also his current GF holds daily news briefs on Robbie and has taken to calling him her husband....my wife tells me this girl is really a hate figure down there and it's worse now because she is seen to be using Alomar for her own publicity. I didn't appreciate how highly thought of the Alomar family are in Puerto Rico and it's a circus there right now. TransMonk May 06 2009 01:00 PM That's settled: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/05/06/2009-05-06_alomar_settles_suit_with_former_gal_pal.html Ex-Met Roberto Alomar settles suit with former gal pal in AIDS lawsuit BY John Marzulli DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, May 6th 2009, 4:00 AM The ex-girlfriend of Roberto Alomar has settled her lawsuit that accused the former Mets' second baseman of being stricken with full-blown AIDS and having unprotected sex with her, according to court records. No terms of the settlement was disclosed. Ilya Dall, 31, had alleged that Alomar had been in declining health for years, but insisted he was disease-free before testing positive for AIDS in February 2006, according to the suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court. She sought $15 million in damages. The couple had been dating since 2002 and broke up last October. Dall claimed in the suit that Alomar had told her he was suffering from erectile dysfunction and had been "raped by two Mexican men" when he was 17. Asked if she regretted the public disclosure of intimate details of Alomar's health, Dall told the Daily News: "I'm sorry, but I have no comment." Alomar's lawyer would not comment on whether the baseball legend had AIDS. "He's healthy and he looks great," said Charles Bach. "The matter is over. The plaintiff [Dall] has withdrawn her complaint." As part of the settlement, Dall agreed not to file any future lawsuit against Alomar. Dall's suit originally filed in Queens Supreme Court in January, was transferred to federal court at Alomar's request because they live in different states - he in Florida and Dall in Whitestone, Queens. Dall's lawyer, Robert Sullivan, also declined to comment on the settlement. jmarzulli@nydailynews.com metirish May 06 2009 01:06 PM My wife was telling me last night that Robbies current GF who also serves as his spokesperson in PR has been all over TV there boasting that they are getting married and showing off a ring that she says cost $300K . This information was blurted out during a press conference yesterday to announce the settlement. Benjamin Grimm May 06 2009 01:16 PM Of course, this settlement doesn't settle the issue of Alomar's health. It just got the plaintiff to agree to shut up. He's still just as HIV positive, or not, as he was before today. So that issue remains up in the air. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 06 2009 03:18 PM ="metirish"]My wife was telling me last night that Robbies current GF who also serves as his spokesperson in PR has been all over TV there boasting that they are getting married and showing off a ring that she says cost $300K . This information was blurted out during a press conference yesterday to announce the settlement. This GF... is she actually made of plastic, or does she just seem as if she must be?

Maybe its a blackmail thing and he chose not to pay her so she puts this out there under the guise of suing him?

Horrible story all-around. Assuming her story is true though and that my reading comprehension isn't as poor as I think it might be, how valid is Alomar's contention that IF he had AIDS it was a result of being raped by two men at age 17? Wouldn't subsequent medical tests administered by various teams over the course of his carrer have picked up HIV?

Fucking funny!

Whiffle ball field I guess... Is it supposed to be the same rough shape as the field?

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