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Jose Iglesias, Rey Ordonez, And Bobby Valentine
Yesterday at ESPN, Christina Kahrl asked if Jose Iglesias would be the next Rey Ordonez. Ordonez, if you recall, was a no-hit, all-glove shortstop who came to the majors in 1996 at the age of 25, and retired as a career .246/.289/.310 hitter in 2004 at the age of 33. It's a legitimate question,...
KO Goes for Bobby V Knockout
When I posted my story on the question of Bobby Valentine: True SABR?, I promised that would be my last Bobby V post for a very long time. AA colleague Chris McShane doubted my ability to make good on this promise; an obvious choice, in retrospect, because here we are. The reason I'm writing about...
Thoughts On Bobby Valentine, From Those Familiar
Bobby Valentine is the new manager of the Boston Red Sox. For some, this has caused a problem, as they think Valentine is the personification of old-school manager that Boston needed to avoid. There are some major issues with that thinking that need to be addressed, though. For one, Valentine has...
The Case for Bobby V
The Red Sox' offseason has been a turbulent one, as befits a team that committed one of the worst regular season collapses in baseball history. (Nearly as bad as...well, never mind.) Their curiously torturous managerial search is the latest example. You'd think there'd be no shortage of candidates...
Wire Taps: Jim Riggleman Resigns. John McLaren On Bench, But Who's The Washington Nationals' Next Skipper?
• ESPN.com's Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN), if he had to "bet the farm" as he put it on Twitter, would, "...bet that Davey Johnson will be the next manager of the Nats." "I'd put confidence level at 85-95 percent that Davey will be summer-long manager," Mr. Olney wrote later, "Same way I felt...
Let's Go to the Archives: Izzy's Last Win
Yesterday's 9-8 win over the Pirates contained two significant milestones for the Mets. The most obvious is that they overcame a 7-0 deficit, their second largest comeback in franchise history, and their biggest since the raucous, cathartic win of June 30, 2000, when they scored 10 runs in the...
Murray Chass's Valentines Day
When last we saw blogger Murray Chass, he was convinced that the new Mets front office was trying to pull a fast one over the fanbase by admitting it had payroll issues. (No, it doesn't make any sense.) But if there's anything Chass likes better than not making sense, it's settling personal scores....
Amazin' Avenue Restaurant Review: Bobby V's Sports Gallery Cafe
Bobby V's Sports Gallery Café225 Main StreetStamford, CT 06901 This sports bar and restaurant is unmistakably a Bobby Valentine production. The former Met manager's name adorns the awning outside the establishment, and his likeness is all over the inside. Two dining rooms and a centrally...
Bobby Valentine Conducts Traffic In Stamford Connecticut
Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine stepped in to help alleviate a snow-related traffic fustercluck in Stamford Connecticut today. Video after the jump. I'm not quite sure what to say. Click to the 1:00 mark for Bobby V goodness. Also note that we had to create a new tag for this story: !@#$ my...
The Brief, Wondrous Baseball Life of Benny Agbayani
Yesterday marked the 39th birthday of Benny Agbayani, the former Met outfielder who rose to fame in the playoff years of 1999-2000 and came back to earth shortly thereafter. Benny is one of my all-time favorite Mets, and I know many fans of my relative generation (and beyond) feel the same way. I...
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