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Very interesting.   This morning, the online version of the Daily News contained the line below.  I could not believe it, blogged about it, and even emailed a few friends.   Here is the line as it was online this morning.

Mets? Did somebody say the Mets? They won’t spend the money for Holliday, Bay or Lackey and apparently, they’re only interested in signing low-budget Latin players, having shown little or no interest in Byrd, Figgins, DeRosa, Wolf or even Staten Island‘s Jason Marquis, while waiting for their markets to come to them. At the same time, the Phillies and Braves wasted no time in addressing their needs. Sad.


Presently (8:02pm) it says:

Mets? Did somebody say the Mets? They won’t spend the money for Holliday, Bay or Lackey and apparently, they’re only interested in signing low-budget players, having shown little or no interest in Byrd, Figgins, DeRosa, Wolf or even Staten Island‘s Jason Marquis, while waiting for their markets to come to them. At the same time, the Philliesand Braves wasted no time in addressing their needs. Sad.

Look, I’m not insane, I’m not going to destroy my site’s credibility by throwing the word Latin in there to cause a ruckus.  It was there.  I have no idea how it got there, and maybe it was unfairly attributed to Madden by whoever posted it online.  I have no idea, but it was there.  The only editing I made to the text was to put spaces back in around the blue text (when you copy the Daily News site’s text to a Blogger template it tends to crunch the text, look after the word Phillies for an example of the scrunching), and I changed the text attributed to the URL, otherwise it looks like this:


Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2009/12/05/2009-12-05_gentlemen_start_your_wallets_gms_rev_their_engines_with_baseball_winter_meetings.html?page=1#ixzz0YxeNqs7c

As I said this morning, it was stunning to me to think a respected columnist would print that view.   If anyone has the newspaper version of the article I’d be curious to know what that version says.  I’d be curious to know how the word got in the original version, and how it came to be revised.

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#52 in our Five Questions For An Average Mets Fan is Lenny who is quick and to the point.

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Set those DVRs for the MLB Network at 6pm tonight as they replay Tom Seaver’s 300th victory on August 4, 1985 at Yankee Stadium as part of their All-Time Games series.

I was there, in the upper reaches of the upper deck. I went up to the stadium that morning and was able to get a ticket.

Things I remember about that day:

• Perfect summer day – you couldn’t ask for better weather.
• It was Phil Rizzuto Day and the Yankees gave Scooter a cow – which proceeded to knock him over
• At one point during the Rizzuto ceremony the crowd started going wild. Phil thought it was for him but it was actually Seaver walking across the field.
• I thought it was amazing that number 41 beat a guy wearing 41 (Joe Cowley) by a score of 4-1. AND the Mets won that day also by a score of 4-1
• Hearing all of Yankee Stadium chanting “Let’s Go Mets” – you will never hear that again
• It was the last really good game that Seaver would pitch. He’s win just 11 more over the next 1 1/2 years. But that afternoon, he was Tom Terrific one last time.

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Update 8:08pm.   The article no longer has the word latin in the paragraph mentioned here.  I comment on that change, and you can compare it to the new version here.


Wow this really caught my eyes….here’s Bill Madden in today’s news.

Mets? Did somebody say the Mets? They won’t spend the money for Holliday, Bay or Lackey and apparently, they’re only interested in signing low-budget Latin players, having shown little or no interest in Byrd, Figgins, DeRosa, Wolf or even Staten Island‘s Jason Marquis, while waiting for their markets to come to them. At the same time, the Phillies and Braves wasted no time in addressing their needs. Sad.

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The Mets are “only interested in signing low-budget Latin players?”  Not low budget players of any ancestry?  That’s usually WFAN caller or even blogger talk.   A respected newspaper writer inserted the word Latin into the copy?   Are the Omar conspiracists right?

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