While we wait for the Mets to make a counter offer to Ollie Perez (3yr/$30mil, plus unlimited White Castle burgers after every home start,  20 free oil changes in one of the auto repair shops next to $iti Field, use of the Oscar Myer Weiner car from the 1964 World Fair on weekends, 10 free hair cuts at Hiram’s House of Hair Styling in Corona and the right to pick the in-flight movie on flights to Pittsburgh) and due to the fact that have to do some real work here a few links that are well worth your while..

 

A big Happy Birthday to Mike Silva of New York Baseball Digest, check out his great Q&A with Dr. Mike Marshall.

 

Mike Steffanos of Mike’s Mets has the first part of an interview with Joe Janish of Mets Today up on his site for your entertainment

 

This Joe Torre tell all is a bit over blown but in these tough times when it’s tough to spend $25 bucks on a book (There is no greater place on earth than the New York Public Library) you have to admire the publisher to get the word spreading like a five alarm fire through the media for this book.  I love Tom Verducci and I’m sure this book will be well worth the read so I may drop some of my limited discretionary funds on this tome.

 

I always wondered why Wes Westrum never wrote a book about what a pain in the ass Jack Hamilton was or the how Kevin Collins used to stalk Ken Boyer

 

 

 

 

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