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>Down On The Farm

>Since the Mets are off tonight now is a good time to take a look at what the farm clubs are doing.

At AAA, the New Orleans Zephyrs (I will never get used to that) went 1-5 this past week, finishing the week in 3rd place in the PCL American South Division at 21-23 overall.

OF Jesus Feliciano led the team going 9 for 26 (.346) with 3 RBIs. Meanwhile Tony Armas, Jr. went 1-1 with a 1.38 ERA in 13 innings (when will he get called up?)

The Binghamton Mets (AA) had a much better week going 5-1, improving to 21-22 on the season, 6.5 games behind Trenton.

The team as a whole batted .297 for the week, led by OF Caleb Stewart (9 for 23 .391) and 1B Nick Evans (8 for 24 .333).

Down in the Florida State League at Port St. Lucie (A), the Mets have lost 11 straight, and are now 19 games out of first place with an 8-36 record. The team batted a pitiful .183 this week – obviously no stand outs here.

Finally, the Savannah Sand Gnats (A) went 3-4 this week, holding on to 7th place in the South Atlantic League’s Southern Division. Jordan Abruzzo (C/DH) maintained his .333 season batting average, going 9 for 27.
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>Willie Asks: Is It Racial?

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Real article folks. I pass along with editorial comment, and you can read the entire thing in the Bergen Record.

Tomorrow, editorial comment. Tonight I’ll let the words speak for themselves.
http://www.northjersey.com/sports/Angry_Randolph_attacks_critics_who_hurt_me_to_my_core.html

“Is it racial?” Randolph asked. “Huh? It smells a little bit.”

Asked directly if he believes black managers are held to different standards than their white counterparts, Randolph said: “I don’t know how to put my finger on it, but I think there’s something there. Herman Edwards did pretty well here and he won a couple of playoff [games], and they were pretty hard on Herm. Isiah [Thomas] didn’t do a great job, but they beat up Isiah pretty good. … I don’t know if people are used to a certain figurehead. There’s something weird about it.

“I think it’s very important … that I handle myself in a way that the [African-American managers] coming behind me will get the opportunities, too … .”

Willie also mentions SNY’s coverage:

“Why [isn’t] SNY shooting me when I’m ready to go down the dugout clapping my hands and patting guys on the butt, schooling them during the game? I’m on the top step every game. … Why don’t you show that side of me so people can say, ‘Wow, jeez, Willie’s fiery’? … You watch any manager in baseball, you see him look like a bump on the log sitting there. They don’t move, they don’t talk. I’m as animated and as demonstrative and as involved and as intense as any manager in baseball.”

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>Bobby V

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John Heyman asks why Bobby V doesn’t have a job in MLB.
Well John, it’s because his teams always finish second. That’s not the goal.

It’s a travesty that Valentine doesn’t have a managing job here. He won a Japan League title in 2005 and took a Mets team which featured Benny Agbayani, Derek Bell and Jay Payton as the starting outfield trio all the way to the World Series in 2000 against a much better Yankees team.
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>Can't Trust ESPN

>Apparently ESPN’s skyline shots on NYC that they use during broadcasts aren’t live but rather canned shots that were taken who knows when. Deceive the public in one thing, how do we know what else they are deceiving their viewers with.

An alert employee at the Yankees flagship radio station WCBS-AM noticed the discrepancy during Sunday night’s game when he saw different colored lights on the Empire State Building in the ESPN shot than he could see out of his window.

Come on ESPN – is it so difficult to get a live picture of the Empire State Building?

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