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nypost.com - 5 hours ago
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CHICAGO – Omar Minaya has told several of
his friends in the industry that he badly wants
to add a run-producing bat at either first base and/or left field. He is not alone, however. The Yankees and Red Sox both have left field issues, but ...
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Mets desperate for power bat, but face competition
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theropolitans.com - 18 hours ago
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In his “ 2010 Top 50 Free Agents
” post, Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors goes
through his personal top 50 free agents from the off-season. He then posts where he thinks the player will land. Dierkes tabbed No. 1 free agent Matt Holliday as a future-Met. He also pegged No. 5 Randy ...
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MLBTR pegs Holliday, Wolf and Penny for the Mets
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Omar Minaya Latest Blog Posts
Sherman: Mets desperate for power bat, but face competition
4 hours ago at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Sherman: NY GM seeks PHB for 1B or LF
5 hours ago at MetsBlog.com
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metsmerizedonline.com - 31 hours ago
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On Friday, veteran sports writer Marty Noble wrote
a great column which was featured on mets.com .
Noble reveals some of the buzz surrounding the Mets front office, including some potential strategies and even some of the specific players that they may be targeting this offseason. The ...
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A Peak Into The Mets Offseason Plan
nleastchatter.com - 43 hours ago
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Bridge near Massana, Andorra The bridge shown above,
near Massana, Andorra, collapsed Saturday . There are no
reports that Cuban defector, pitcher Aroldis Chapman, was nearby. Thus New York Mets GM Omar Minaya still has the chance to waste $40-$60 million dollars signing the rookie free ...
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Bridge Collapses In Andorra, Aroldis Chapman Feared OK
nleastchatter.com - 2 days ago
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Hang on to your hopes, my friend That’s
an easy thing to say, but if your hopes
should pass away Simply pretend That you can build them again Look around, the grass is high The fields are ripe, it’s the springtime of my life Ahhh, seasons change with the scenery Weaving ...
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This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty - 11-07-09
nleastchatter.com - 2 days ago
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According to Jim Salisbury of the Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Phillies Pitcher and Husband of the Year winner,
Brett Myers was told today by Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr. that the team will not pursue a new contract with him, Myers said that he’s open to starting or relieving with ...
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Brett Myers To Be A Free Agent !!
cleveland.indians.mlb.com - 3 days ago
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By Jason Beck / MLB.com 11/06/09 4:42 PM
EST On the same day the Indians began to
fill out their coaching staff, they also filled a key scouting role Friday by hiring Ramon Pena as their director of Latin American operations. For Pena, it's a return ...
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Indians hire Pena as key scout
baseballamerica.com - 3 days ago
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We ranking the top prospects in New York's
farm system and rate the system's best tools.
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New York Mets Top 10 Prospects
metsmerizedonline.com - 3 days ago
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As reported on MetsBlog , yesterday on MLB
Network, Jon Heyman of SI.com said that “ the
Mets would love a do-over” with free agent pitcher Randy Wolf. Stop the presses… Exactly what does that mean? Did Heyman get a call before his scheduled appearance from Omar ...
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Some More Mets Do-Overs…
nleastchatter.com - 4 days ago
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Bobby Abreu has resigned with the Angels. Abreu
will be paid $9MM in 2010 and 2011, plus
a $1MM buyout of a $9MM option for 2012 that could vest based on plate appearances. The Mets will not pick up J.J. Putz’s option. The Mets have told J.J. Putz that they don’t intend to ...
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th the Angels.Mets Hot Stove: Abreu and Putz
metsfever.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Adam Rubin takes a first look at the
Mets free agents and possible non-tender candidates. Rubin clarifies
just how much J.J. will get paid if the Mets pick-up his option and while I'd like to have an elite closer as my set-up man, that's just too much money. I was a huge supporter of the Putz ...
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Don't expect J.J. back...
nleastchatter.com - 4 days ago
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Let the day begin Let the horror start
Let the fury swell Let the skies all cry
Let the day begin !! Let The Day Begin - Samhain Well at least part of this nightmare is over but we all know the pain is gonna fester for the next five months due to The Yankee fans self righteous back ...
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This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty - THE EMPIRE STRIKES ...
metsfansforever.com - 4 days ago
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Author: Greg Pomes Thankfully the World Series is
finally over, meaning that the 2009 baseball season is
over and the Hot Stove season is upon us now. There is going to be a lot of pressure on the Mets now to improve the team and not just for the way the 2009 season ...
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Will Hideki Matsui Be A Met Next Year?
metsmerizedonline.com - 5 days ago
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I guess writing for this awesome site has
been good for something this off season–it’s forced me
to think about the Mets at least once a week. Because honestly, I haven’t been thinking about them much since their season ended a month ago. In fact, since I’m being ...
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How much I’ve been thinking about the Mets
metsfansforever.com - 6 days ago
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Author: Will Hernandez Last October, Mets GM Omar
Minaya was trying to figure out how he was
going to revamp his bullpen after another dreadful performance down the stretch. In the last two weeks of the 2008 collapse, the bullpen had a 5.63 ERA. The Mets went 5-8 over that span . ...
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Analysis: Mets Bullpen
theropolitans.com - 7 days ago
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I took to Twitter to ask that very
question. Which outfielder would Mets fans most want to
see patrolling the grass in Citi Field next year (or, if they thought the team would be better off without them, why?). Here are some responses… saffir_99 said: Hmm.. Holliday, he could hit and is ...
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Twitter Poll: Holliday or Bay (or neither)?
amazinavenue.com - 7 days ago
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On July 27, 2002, Omar Minaya, then General
Manager of the Montreal Expos, traded Lee Steven, Brandon
Phillips , Grady Sizemore , and Cliff Lee to Mark Shapiro's Indians for Bartolo Colon and Tim Drew . In 2002, Major League Baseball owned the ...
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Why Omar Minaya Failed And What It Means For The Future
nleastchatter.com - 9 days ago
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Hey while I was waiting for all the
little kids dressed up as everyone from President Obama
and Batman and their parents dressed up as everything from Hannah Montana and Uncle Floyd , I started wondering who is the scariest Met ever. I know alot of people would probably say Turk Wendell with ...
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Who is the Scariest Met ever?
nleastchatter.com - 9 days ago
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Happy Halloween to all my favorite gargoyles &
ghouls out there. This year I figured I’d go
as something scary for Halloween so I figured I’d go as Jeff Wilpon & Omar Minaya’s love child he looks just like his mother ...
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This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty - The Happy Halloween ...
metsfever.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
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I know baseball is a business and money
talks but are the Mets really good enough to
schmooze things over with Yorvit Torrealba. Just early this month when discussing his pending grievance the catcher made it sound personal, that he felt he had a deal in place and that he was up set over ...
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Are the Mets good enough to Schmooze Torrealba
thebullgator.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
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Heading into the World’s Largest Cocktail Party, let’s
look at the positives, shall we. Florida is behind
only Alabama and Auburn in the SEC for total points scored (and the Gators have played one game less). Each other SEC East team already has at least two losses. And the ...
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Game Preview: Florida Gators vs. Georgia Bulldogs – ...
metstradamus.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
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I'd love to play Stratego against the Wilpons
... they'd turn all their pieces facing me to
start the game. Not enough that they're bringing in former Diamondback Chip Hale to coach third base, but they're also talking to former Diamondback Bob ...
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Mutiny For Dummies
mlbtraderumors.com - 10 days ago
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From Larry Walker to John Wetteland to Pe
dro Martinez , Montreal Expos talent seemed to head
south as quickly as the club could develop it. By 2002, it seemed possible that the Expos were playing their final season in Montreal and the threat of ...
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Trades Of The Decade: Colon To The Expos
cantstopthebleeding.com - 11 days ago
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NY Baseball Digest’s Mike Silva has it on
good (albeit anonymous) authority Mets GM Omar Minaya is
a lousy listener . This winter, Minaya might want to feign fascination with what others in the organization have to say, if not learn to work by committee, as SI.com’s Jon Heyman ...
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Heyman : Mets Re-Introducing Candidate To Breathe Down ...
metsfever.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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I'm not really sure why the Wilpon's decided
to keep Omar Minaya, is it really his contract
extension which equates to little more then what Alex Cora would make in a season or do they want a figure head who could easily become a sacrificial lamb if things go bad. It makes sense from Omar ...
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A Johnson/Ricco coup coming...
bases.nbcsports.com - 11 days ago
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It may not happen right now, but according
to Jon Heyman's sources, the Mets are putting people
in place with the intention of ensuring a smooth transition in the event Minaya is fired early in the 2010 season. Indeed, the source refers ...
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The Mets are setting the stage to fire Omar Minaya
mostlymets.golddave.com - 11 days ago
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Lost in all the hoopla of game 1
of the World series was some news out of
Mets camp. These are only rumors at this point but are expected to be announced as fact right after the series. The juicier story was reported by Jon Heyman of si.com. Heyman reports that the Mets have talked [...]
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Mets Preparing For Big Changes?
nybaseballdigest.com - 11 days ago
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During the summer I was talking to a
league source that believed one of Omar Minaya’s biggest
failures was that he ignored some of the good baseball people in the Mets organization. One of those people was Sandy Johnson who originally was brought in to mentor Minaya in 2004. I was told ...
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Maybe Now Omar Will Listen
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11 days ago
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Sources say longtime scout Sandy Johnson has agreed
to return to the Mets as VP of scouting
to continue assisting embattled general manager Omar Minaya after suggesting for weeks he was likely to retire, and some Mets officials believe the unusual ...
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Mets' maneuvers bad news for Minaya
nleastchatter.com - 13 days ago
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Well so much for the Mets getting Gabe
Kapler to man Left field According to the St.
Petersburg Times writer , Marc Tompkin, The Tampa Bay Rays Have re-signed outfielder Gabe Kapler to a one-year, $1.05MM deal. The 34 year old Kapler, hit .239/.329/.439 in less than 300 at bats while playing ...
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BREAKING NEWS !!! Kapler re-signs with the Rays
metsfever.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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Marty Noble responds to questions in regards to
the Mets off-season plans. The Mets are going to
be looking for a catcher and according to Noble there are three on their wish list. Bengie Molina is a 35 y/o right handed catcher who is one of the top hitters at the position along with being ...
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Three catchers on Mets radar...
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 14 days ago
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I know there are a handful of Mets
fans who read the blog, so I really don't
mean to pour salt in the wounds. But how incredible is it that, in a season in which the Metropolitans spent 150 million dollars and lost 92 games due mostly to injuries to essentially every good player on their team ...
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Metsenfreude
metstradamus.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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What Have You Learned is our very special
off-season series that will outline what you've learned, what
I've learned, and hopefully what the 2009 Mets have learned about themselves, others, and 2010. Today, in a very special "What Have You Learned", ...
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What Have You Learned? Daniel Murphy
metsblog.com - 15 days ago
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The Mets outrighted C Robinson Cancel , SS Wilson Valdez
, SS Argenis Reyes and RHP Carlos Muniz to Triple-A
yesterday, meaning they have been removed from the 40-man. … from what i can tell, the Mets now have five spots ...
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News: Mets outright Cancel, Valdez, Reyes and Muniz
nleastchatter.com - 16 days ago
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Ugh so the gruesome twosome that are Omar
Minaya and Jeff Wilpon are at it again !!!
Jeff Wilpon Omar Minaya David Lennon from Newsday via his twitter account,reported that the Mets will not bid anywhere near the $40 - 60 million dollars for cuban defector Aroldis Chapman. So far it ...
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This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty 10-24-09
nleastchatter.com - 18 days ago
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“ I guess I have just entered the
sixth circle of Hell ! “ That’s the first
thing that came to mind when I woke up this morning and turned on the television only to find to my grand ambivalence that the Philadelphia Philthies had clinched the NLCS Crown , bringing them one ...
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This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty 10-22-09
theropolitans.com - 19 days ago
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Everyone (OK, maybe not everyone ) wants to
run/own/control a team. I asked my Twitter followers what
they would do if they had one move to make for the Mets. Roster move, coaching staff change, uniforms, front office…anything. Here are some responses… dmoneymania said: Bring ...
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Twitter Poll: One move for the Mets, what would it be?
metsfever.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
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Regardless of who's in his entourage it's important
that Omar has a full staff entering the winter,
since this off-season is going to be extremely busy and some of the moves are going to be very creative. One of the guys he has been looking to join his staff is former San Diego Padres GM ...
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Towers to pick around winter meetings
metsfever.blogspot.com - 20 days ago
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Forty year old rookie Ken Takahashi has been
let go, in another odd move the Mets have
released the veteran Japanese pitcher. Omar and Co. have been long portrayed as the Herman Edwards of roster management, and the timing of the Takahashi release is another head scratcher. Despite being 40 ...
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Takahashi released but why now...
metsmerizedonline.com - 21 days ago
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The recent debate of whether or not the
Mets should pick up the $8.6 million dollar option
on J.J. Putz shouldn’t even be a debate at all. With all the problems the Mets have right now, why would they even consider paying almost nine million bucks to a setup man who hasn’t ...
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Picking Up Putz Option Would Be A Waste Of Money
kranepoolsociety.com - 21 days ago
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I have to confess, I haven’t thought about
the Mets offseason plans too much lately. What with
the Giants and Rangers playing lights out and the Celtics getting ready to start the season with so much fire power a date with the Hollywood Fakers in the ...
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IF THIS POST SEASON HAS PROVED ANYTHING, IT’S WE’RE NOT ...
nybaseballdigest.com - 21 days ago
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So Tony Bernazard is about to join the
Scott Boras Corporation. Apparently Boras is going to elicit
Bernazard’s help in stealing Latin clients away from the competition. Knowing Bernazard’s history of how he poisoned the Mets organization I wonder if he will do the same with Boras ...
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How Does Bernazard With Boras Impact Mets?
213milesfromshea.metsblog.com - 23 days ago
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Over at Fan Huddle , I just wrote
an article about a disturbing situation that occurred this
week. In a report by Peter Gammons, it has become unclear who the real GM is. He states that it really is Jeff Wilpon, with Minaya more as a puppet to accept criticism for bad decisions. This could do ...
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Read: Disturbing Situation, Who is the Real GM of the Mets?
nleastchatter.com - 24 days ago
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Good Afternoon all. Well what can I say
about last nights Dodgers/ Phillies game except I’m not
rooting for any team for the rest of this post season because whoever I root for ends up losing ( See Twins, Minnesota and Rockies, Colorado ) . And If I do root even half heartedly for the ...
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This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty 10-16-09
metsmerizedonline.com - 24 days ago
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This is a story making the rounds on
the web the last 2 days and it has
really started to pick up steam. According to ESPN.com’s Peter Gammons, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon is the real general manager for the New York Mets and Omar Minaya is just a puppet, designed to take the heat when ...
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Jeff Wilpon The Real Mets General Manager?
baseballmusings.com - 25 days ago
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Matt Cerrone reacts to Peter Gammons telling Michael
Kay that Jeff Wilpon is the GM of the
Mets : …i don’t know what it is, but something is off with the Mets… …maybe it’s financial, maybe it isn’t, maybe gammons is right, maybe he isn’t… who knows… but, what i do know is, teams that win ...
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Minaya a Figurehead?
hardballtimes.com - 25 days ago
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If anyone cares, I finished season three of
"The Wire" last night. It just gets better and
better, as you all said it would. Again, no spoilers for those of us who haven't seen it all yet, but I will offer a question: why on Earth didn't HBO do an Omar/Brother Mouzone spinoff? If people watched ...
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My Morning in Exile
metsblog.com - 25 days ago
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Yesterday, ESPN.com’s Peter Gammons told 1050 ESPN Radio
that Jeff Wilpon is the real GM of the
Mets, not Omar Minaya . The show’s host, Michael Kay, asked Gammons if the Mets will look to hire hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo , saying, ...
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Gammons: Jeff Wilpon is GM of the Mets
blog.nj.com - 25 days ago
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Ron Jenkins / McClatchy-Tribune Lost in the Billy
Wagner may-or-may-not retire storyline that's floated around lately, you
probably missed the news that Texas Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo will not return to his post in 2010 after what Evan ...
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Give Minaya His Man
theropolitans.com - 25 days ago
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This is just strange. But I’m not really
surprised. From Justin Terranova in the NY Post …
Peter Gammons today called owner Jeff Wilpon the general manager, and said Omar Minaya is only "out there to take the heat." Gammons, as heard on the Michael Kay Show on 1050 ESPN ...
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Is Jeff Wilpon the real GM?








































