Mets Geek » Link Dump: December 4th, 2008

Comment posted by Damn it all on December 4, 2008 at 4:46 pm (#902428)

Peace out 71

Comment posted by DL on December 4, 2008 at 4:47 pm (#902429)

what, street? fuck that

omar you suck

Comment posted by Future on December 4, 2008 at 4:52 pm (#902430)

Now I’m an attorney.

Comment posted by Dep on December 4, 2008 at 4:59 pm (#902431)

Congrats Future!!!

Verducci on with Charley Steiner says Teixeira is perfect for the Red Sox while noting the team has been fairly quiet so far about its moves. On Sabathia, Verducci is another who thinks he won’t go to the Yankees:

* ‘Sabathia is looking for a reason not to go to the Yankees,’ which would most likely be either the Giants or Angels. That he’s basically ‘pleading for someone’ to come up with some kind of structured deal whether with deferrals or incentives that would be in the ballpark.

Comment posted by Dep on December 4, 2008 at 4:59 pm (#902432)

Brewers signed RHP Jorge Julio, who had been with the Braves, to a one-year contract.
Julio had to settle for a minor league deal last year after a nice 2007 with the Rockies. He made the Indians out of spring training, but struggled and got cut. He didn’t resurface until September, when he allowed one run in 12 1/3 innings for the Braves. That was enough to get him a major league deal this time around. It’s probably not worth much more than $1 million, so it’s a decent enough signing. Julio is a tough guy to trust when the game is on the line, but he’s a perfectly adequate middle reliever.

Comment posted by Future on December 4, 2008 at 5:09 pm (#902433)

Dep I was listening to sports radio here in SD yesterday and the guys were laughing at the Mariners signing Branyan. I am fully of the opinion I know more about baseball than most of these guys. These guys are morons. Yes, lets bash a low risk potentially high reward move. Branyan can play OF, 1B, 3B, and can mash and be a power lefty off the bench for star teams or above replacement level performance with the bat at first and be an above average bat at third and plays decent defense.

OH NOES HE STRIKES OUT TOO MUCH.

Comment posted by Dep on December 4, 2008 at 5:09 pm (#902434)

hahahahaah, i think that was a very solid low risk/high reward type’a move.

Comment posted by Future on December 4, 2008 at 5:13 pm (#902435)

And for them to be laughing when the Padres seem to be run so strangely, then they spent some times extolling the virtues of the Spanos family who let Bobby Beathard run the only good coach the Chargers ever had out of town and traded a first round pick to draft Mikael “Stone Hands” Ricks…

Comment posted by Dep on December 4, 2008 at 5:14 pm (#902436)

hahahahahahaa. strange is right

BTW, i’m totally hating the AFC West right now. 3 of the 4 jets losses have been AFC West teams. WTF!!!!!

Comment posted by Future on December 4, 2008 at 5:38 pm (#902437)

I know I’d sound whiny, but I’ve never seen a more badly coached and badly officiated against, team in the NFL. The Chargers might have been able to overcome the refs if their coaches weren’t awful. They might have been able to overcome the coaches if the refs weren’t awful. They can’t beat both.

Comment posted by Dep on December 4, 2008 at 5:46 pm (#902438)

ya, the chargers have been involved in some horribly officiated games for sure

Comment posted by Future on December 4, 2008 at 5:46 pm (#902439)

And Norv Turner is the master of wasting challenges on calls too close to over-turn.

Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on December 4, 2008 at 5:59 pm (#902441)

ok ok dep any other nyc geeks out there ??

Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on December 4, 2008 at 6:10 pm (#902442)

dep ever been to tao on 58th st ???

Comment posted by Athena on December 4, 2008 at 6:23 pm (#902443)

I have Booey. What do you need to know?

Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on December 4, 2008 at 6:28 pm (#902444)

how is it ???? takinbg the fut mrs booey there ,, for her bday ,,,

Comment posted by the BurgermeisterMeisterburger in St.L on December 4, 2008 at 6:29 pm (#902445)

I’ve been to Tao….sat in the skybox seating with a rich friends office party, I remember getting drunk and freaked out by a giant buddhah.

Comment posted by the BurgermeisterMeisterburger in St.L on December 4, 2008 at 6:30 pm (#902446)

pan asian I think…but I don’t feel comfortable talking ethnicity…

Comment posted by the BurgermeisterMeisterburger in St.L on December 4, 2008 at 6:31 pm (#902447)

Athena, I told everybody the other day the worst part about having that days thread erased was that there is no record of you saying I was your fave..:) I got hosed.

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 6:32 pm (#902448)

fut?

cat lovers, massive cat fails.

missed it by that much.
ooh fish.
no way im taking a bath, even if i need one.
my show is on.

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 6:36 pm (#902449)

bob let me google that for you.

:)

Comment posted by Athena on December 4, 2008 at 6:37 pm (#902450)

Haha, Tim. I remember. And you remember. That’s really all that matters, isn’t it? ;-)

Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on December 4, 2008 at 6:40 pm (#902451)

ha ha ha athena you crack me up,,,, ok ok im off i will reports tomorrow how it was ,,,

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 6:40 pm (#902452)

wasss up?

Congrats Future. I just saw your good news on facebook

Comment posted by Athena on December 4, 2008 at 6:42 pm (#902453)

bob let me google that for you.

bahahaha! That’s hysterical, Confused!!

But I will answer anyway, Booey, since - unlike Confused - I am a good friend! ;-)

I’ve eaten there twice. Once for a fancy business lunch - and I thought it was great - and again for my niece’s birthday. The second time, it was a little crowded and noisy (Christmas season) but the food is very nice. I think that you’ll have a great time. Maybe see if they can sit you someplace away from the crowds. It will be more special that way.

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 6:45 pm (#902454)

what?

;)

ha ha

Comment posted by Athena on December 4, 2008 at 6:47 pm (#902455)

:-)

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 6:54 pm (#902456)

LALALALALALALALALALALALA

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 7:05 pm (#902457)

LALALALALALALALALALALALA

u cant used that if you dont link to a hot babe.

Comment posted by Athena on December 4, 2008 at 7:10 pm (#902458)

Sure he can! Way too many babes on the site these days. Nice to see a babe-less lalala! ;-)

Comment posted by GrinchFanSince71 on December 4, 2008 at 7:14 pm (#902460)

LALALALALALALALALALALALA

I believe if they’re used all upper case, with no spaces, that’s acceptable.
Dep’s are always lower case, such as: lala or lala lala and the occasional la la la la

Comment posted by GrinchFanSince71 on December 4, 2008 at 7:15 pm (#902461)

bob let me google that for you.

how the eff did you do that??

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 7:18 pm (#902462)

goto http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/
type in the search.
copy the url or click tiny url and paste.

Comment posted by GrinchFanSince71 on December 4, 2008 at 7:21 pm (#902463)

ahhhh, very clever….thanks Confused!

now please feel free to enjoy the lala’s in post 31 above :)

Comment posted by GrinchFanSince71 on December 4, 2008 at 7:25 pm (#902464)

E-mails Show NYC Played Ball for Luxury Boxes
Updated: December 4, 2008, 6:56 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) - When it comes to getting a luxury box at the new Yankees and Mets stadiums, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s aides appear willing to play ball.

Recently released internal e-mails between the mayor’s aides, city lawyers and Yankees officials show that City Hall gave the team even more parking spaces than had been negotiated previously, plus the rights and revenue from three billboards near the stadium in exchange for a suite.

For months, the city had publicly played down the importance of having exclusive use of the suite, but the e-mails obtained and released by state Assemblyman Richard Brodsky show luxury boxes in both ballparks were “a big issue to the mayor,” as one official put it.

Brodsky is investigating the city’s deals with the Mets and Yankees, who are receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies for new stadiums that are scheduled to be completed next year.

The Yankees are financing their $1.3 billion park with about $940 million in tax-exempt bonds and $25 million in taxable bonds, while the Mets are getting about $550 million in tax-exempt bonds and $66 million in taxable bonds for their $800 million stadium. Both teams have indicated they will seek more bonds as costs creep higher.

“The only thing missing from the negotiations was the public interest,” Brodsky said. “These boxes are perks that the taxpayer pays for and knows nothing about, and that’s wrong.”

Bloomberg, a billionaire, typically does not sit in luxury boxes when he attends ballgames. He has his own season tickets, and when he goes as someone’s guest he pays his way and plans to continue those practices, spokesman Stu Loeser said.

For paying customers, the Mets suites were priced at $250,000 to $500,000 apiece, and are sold out. Yankees suites cost $600,000 to $850,000 each, and a few of the lowest-price boxes are still available.

When city officials were angling for exclusive suites, their list of demands included perks such as free food, the e-mails show.

“Yankees said they don’t want to pay for food for our suite,” wrote Seth Pinsky, who was then the executive vice president of the city’s Economic Development Corp., in an e-mail to Dan Doctoroff, then a deputy mayor. “My position is: if others get food with their suites, so should we.”

In a separate conversation, city lawyer Joseph Gunn wrote Yankees officials to say, “if others get food as part of a base price, then so does nyc.” It wasn’t clear whether the Yankees gave in.

While the e-mails give a sense of the additional benefits the Yankees got from the city in exchange for the luxury box - like the extra parking spaces - the deal with the Mets is murkier.

In response to questions from The Associated Press, the Bloomberg administration and the Mets declined to say what the city traded for a box at the new stadium.

“There were discussions about a number of different elements as it related to our partnership, and the suite was just one,” said David Newman, a Mets spokesman.

The Brodsky e-mails indicate the Mets resisted the city’s request for a luxury box for months during talks in 2006.

“We’ll concede if they stop dickering over the luxury suite,” Gunn wrote in an e-mail to several administration officials on Jan. 21, 2006. It was not clear what concession he was describing.

A few days later, in an e-mail chain where several officials were expressing their dismay about how the Yankees were balking at their luxury box request, Pinsky wrote, “We’re still arguing over how much” the Mets were going to bend in luxury box negotiations.

In April, Pinsky wrote to other mayoral aides that “the deal-in-principle that was outlined was that we wouldn’t have a PARTICULAR box, but that we would, on every night, be guaranteed that SOME box would be available for the city’s use.”

In a July message, Pinsky reported to Doctoroff that the Mets had agreed to give the city a luxury box to use for free during all regular-season games.

But for playoff games, All-Star games and concerts, the Mets were insisting the city would have to pay for tickets at face value.

“Since this is a big issue to the mayor, I wanted to confirm that you would be OK with this,” Pinsky wrote.

Doctoroff fired back three minutes later:

“We are giving them how much money? For whatever it is, we should get the tickets for free.”

Two days later, Pinsky reported to Doctoroff that there was a deal.

“They are putting us on the edge of the infield dirt along the third baseline,” he wrote.

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 7:33 pm (#902465)

the gambino’s have nothing on the mayors office.

Comment posted by Future on December 4, 2008 at 7:35 pm (#902466)

Bloomberg is a Mets fan, right?

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 7:36 pm (#902467)

i think he is.

Comment posted by GrinchFanSince71 on December 4, 2008 at 7:36 pm (#902468)

Bloomberg is a Mets fan, right?

I think he’s actually pretty neutral for both teams.

Comment posted by Future on December 4, 2008 at 7:38 pm (#902469)

What a politician. ;)

Thankfully he only takes 1 dollar a year as his salary. Somehow I feel like NYC is still getting ripped off. ;)

Comment posted by GrinchFanSince71 on December 4, 2008 at 7:40 pm (#902470)

It’s odd because Mayor Mike doesn’t need the seats from anyone, he’s worth $20B.
Forbes lists him as the 8th richest man in America.

I also just remembered someone saying he’s a Red Sox fan, having grown up in Mass.

Comment posted by GrinchFanSince71 on December 4, 2008 at 7:42 pm (#902471)

What amazes me is that the new Yankee Stadium is costing significantly more than CitiField.
Lots of controversy swirling around the financing of the new Yankee Stadium.

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 7:43 pm (#902472)

you know these seats are for his underlings. maybe if they would raffle (free) them off to city employees.

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 7:44 pm (#902473)

What amazes me is that the new Yankee Stadium is costing significantly more than CitiField.

gold commodes for the executives.

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 7:47 pm (#902474)

Mayor Trades His Sox For the Local Pinstripes
By MIKE MCINTIRE

He made his first big fielding error two years ago during the mayoral campaign, when he bobbled a tricky one-hopper about whether he liked the Yankees or the Mets.

”I grew up in Boston,” Michael R. Bloomberg replied, as his gleeful opponents ran for extra bases.

Then came the easy pop-up that bounced out of his glove — his mispronunciation of the name of the Yankees’ manager, Joe Torre, at a New York University graduation ceremony in May. The tabloids blamed ”the Boston-bred” mayor’s accent, while noting, suspiciously, that he ”grew up a Red Sox fan.”

Determined to prevent the ball from rolling through his legs again, à la Bill Buckner, Mr. Bloomberg is taking no chances as he warms up for the most important game so far of his mayoralty: the American League Championship Series between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

”I’m rooting for the Yankees, make no mistake about that,” the mayor declared yesterday. ”This team’s going to go all the way.”

In politics, where perception is as important as reality, candidates can be undone over trivial issues that suddenly gain traction in the shifting sands of public opinion. (Hillary Rodham Clinton is still trying to live down a gaffe from her Senate race in 2000, when she suddenly declared her love for the Yankees although she had rooted for her hometown Chicago Cubs all her life. She is now having to explain her seeming duplicity in professing affection for both the Yankees and the Chicago Cubs in this year’s postseason.)

In the 2001 campaign, Mr. Bloomberg’s clumsy handling of questions about baseball seemed to raise larger questions about his ability to relate to average New Yorkers.

The last thing Mr. Bloomberg needs now is a discontented electorate finding something else not to like about him. So the Manhattanite mayor from Medford, Mass., whose sports-fan credentials have never been all that convincing to begin with, is hoping to avoid Bronx cheers by jumping on board early with the Bombers.

During a public appearance in Lower Manhattan, Mr. Bloomberg took up the Louisville Slugger that his predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani seemed to heft so easily, and gamely swung away. Asserting that ”the Yankees are going to win,” he waxed nostalgic about the great baseball rivalries of yesteryear and pledged to be at Yankee Stadium tomorrow for the second game of the championship series, although he said he could not attend tonight’s opener.

Later, the mayor’s office announced that Mr. Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino had made a ”friendly wager” about which city’s team will win the championship series, set to begin tonight in New York. In a prepared statement that referred to Babe Ruth, Mr. Bloomberg laid it on thick.

”I share a bond with Yankees past and present who have left Boston to find success in the greatest city in the world,” he said, ”which will make me especially proud to watch the Bombers send the boys from Beantown home empty-handed.”

Asked later about Mr. Bloomberg’s abandonment of his Red Sox roots, Edward Skyler, the mayor’s spokesman, suggested nothing had really changed. The mayor’s decision to root for the Yankees was ”a no-brainer for him,” he said.

”Keep in mind, he’s lived in New York most of his adult life,” Mr. Skyler said. ”He left Boston as a teenager.”

Mr. Bloomberg went so far as to say yesterday that he could barely recall ever attending a Red Sox game in Boston.

”Maybe I was in Fenway Park once when I was kid,” he said. ”I just don’t remember.”

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 8:03 pm (#902475)

I think I brought the non-babe LALALALA to this site a loooong time ago. I like the lowercase ones a lot

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 8:06 pm (#902476)

Alex Rodriguez, who nearly sat out the inaugural World Baseball Classic because he did not want to choose between playing for his native United States or the Dominican Republic, the country of his parents’ birth, is changing uniforms for the 2009 Classic.

The New York Yankees’ third baseman, who was on a star-studded U.S team that failed to advance to the semifinals of the first WBC, plans to play for the Dominican Republic this spring, according to Dominican slugger David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox.

Ortiz is hosting a charity golf tournament in the Dominican city of Punta Cana this weekend. He said Rodriguez, who is playing in the tournament, is expected to announce his decision at the function. Rodriguez and Ortiz are close friends.

“He wants to play for the Dominican team,” Ortiz said by telephone Thursday. “We’ll talk about it now after he gets here, and he’ll probably announce it here.”

Comment posted by Chaucer 2.0 in Westchester on December 4, 2008 at 8:08 pm (#902477)

Athena, I told everybody the other day the worst part about having that days thread erased was that there is no record of you saying I was your fave..:) I got hosed.

She asked the thread be deleted so that you wouldn’t see that later she said the same about me and Bob. Athena is wise, but fickle.

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:10 pm (#902478)

Uhhhh… isn’t Mr. Rodriguez an natural born American? Or am I mistaken?

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 8:11 pm (#902479)

dominicans, like most humans dont like him. maybe this will turn it around.

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 8:13 pm (#902480)

Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975 in New York City), commonly nicknamed A-Rod, is an American, power-hitting third baseman for the New York Yankees baseball club. He previously played shortstop for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers.

but because his parents, he can play for them. just like i can play for the puerto rican team (if i had any athletic abilities that is).

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 8:14 pm (#902481)

Will Madonna adopt a Dominican Accent now?

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:14 pm (#902482)

Wow. 50 posts on the Heilman thread. Is that a record for a non dump or game thread?

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:16 pm (#902483)

Silly. That’s like Piazza playing for team Italia. Please. If you were born in the US, then you play for team USA. If you were born in the DR, then you play for the Dominican Republic.

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 8:17 pm (#902484)

AROD is Dominican!

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 8:17 pm (#902485)

Wow. 50 posts on the Heilman thread. Is that a record for a non dump or game thread?

Nope

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:19 pm (#902486)

LOL! Man I used to love Scrubs. At least it was a quality show through the first 4 seasons. Unlike most shows today which can’t seem to get past the first. Sometimes the second, but barely.

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:21 pm (#902488)

Nope

Care to elaborate? Wait! Lemme guess: nope.

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 8:21 pm (#902489)

DING! Airline pricing could soon soar into your local ballpark

By ‘Duk

Have you ever been on a plane and been able to shut up the loudmouth next to you by telling him how much less you paid for your seat than he paid for his?

Good stuff, right? Well, that simple pleasure — or pain, if you’re on the other end — is beginning to infiltrate the stands at America’s ballparks. Starting in 2009, the Giants will introduce “airline pricing” to about 2,000 of their seats in the upper deck at AT&T Park. If it proves successful, CNBC’s Darren Rovell believes the system will spread to other teams across MLB.

Bolstered by a new computer system that will be able to handle minute-by-minute variable pricing, the seats that San Francisco sells on game day will be treated just like seats on an airplane. In other words, as perishable goods subject to the whims of supply and demand.

Though the price changes will probably only fluctuate between 25 cents and $2, Giants team president Larry Baer thinks “dynamic pricing” could be the wave of the future, allowing teams to tap into some of the inflated profits that scalpers currently enjoy. (Most MLB teams have already commandeered a share of that market, raising prices when division rivals and “premier” teams like the Yankees, Red Sox and Cubs come to town.)

Of course, the possible increases would seem to be nothing but bad news for you, the consumer, at first. But if you consider that teams would have a greater incentive to build a winning lineup and that you’d only be paying it if there was a product worth watching on the field, maybe it’s not such a bad thing after all.

Regardless, it’s worth noting that this would never work for all the seats in a ballpark, at least not when teams are addicted to all that guaranteed season ticket money that they get up front. (Ditto for the top teams that sell millions of advance tickets before a pitch is ever thrown in spring training.)

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 8:23 pm (#902490)

I can’t give you specific blogs that were more than 50 comments but I can say there have been a few. I believe a religion or a political thread got over 100

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 8:24 pm (#902491)

there was a thread once where someone wanted something that went pretty long.

yeah, not a lot of help.

sorry.

mike piazza did play for italy didnt he?

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 8:26 pm (#902492)

AROD is Dominican!

yeah, we seem to hate when someone gets that wrong.

Comment posted by the BurgermeisterMeisterburger in St.L on December 4, 2008 at 8:27 pm (#902493)

the blog for Woody garnered a lot….

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:27 pm (#902494)

It’s just that I don’t remember seeing a topic that wasn’t a link dump or a game thread have so many posts.

And yeah, Mikey did play for the Italians.

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 8:27 pm (#902495)

Mike Piazza played for Italy

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:31 pm (#902496)

yeah, we seem to hate when someone gets that wrong.

It’s that DR v.s. PR thing. I know when I went to HS in Manhattan, there was quite a bit of friction between some of the Dominican and PR kids.

Comment posted by Chris in Ga on December 4, 2008 at 8:35 pm (#902497)

78 comments
98 comments

I just found this after a minute of searching. It takes controversial or talking the geeks down to get a lot of comments

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 8:36 pm (#902498)

dr, pr, cuban.

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:37 pm (#902499)

Talking Mets Fans off the Ledge was recent and I should have remembered that. Well, now I do!

The Arod one is funny. Man, how do ya leave that baby at 98 posts! What a waste.

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:40 pm (#902500)

dr, pr, cuban.

Cubans too? I never realized that. Maybe cause I’m a guinea and I tended to stay out of that shit. Or maybe cause I don’t think there was a single Cuban in my HS!

Comment posted by Future on December 4, 2008 at 8:44 pm (#902501)

If A-Rod really does play for the DR…I hope he takes the endorsement hit. All the sportswriters should call him out on it. It’s one thing to play for another country when you are American it’s another to represent America and then change uniforms. What a disgrace.

Comment posted by The Mad Stork on December 4, 2008 at 8:51 pm (#902502)

AP Sources: Cashman meets Boras, Sabathia next

By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer 21 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP)—Yankees general manager Brian Cashman met Thursday with agent Scott Boras and planned to get together this weekend with free-agent pitcher CC Sabathia ahead of the winter meetings.

Cashman’s meeting with Boras and intention to meet with Sabathia were disclosed by separate baseball officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Yankees did not announce Cashman’s plans.

The Yankees head into next week’s winter meetings needing starting pitching. They made a six-year offer to Sabathia on Nov. 14, the first day free agents could start negotiating money. The proposal exceeds Johan Santana’s $137.5 million, six-year contract with the New York Mets both in total and average, but there has been no public response from Sabathia or his agents.

New York has been trying to gauge its odds of landing the top available free-agent starting pitcher.

Boras represents pitchers Derek Lowe and Oliver Perez, who also are free agents. In addition, his available clients this offseason include first baseman Mark Teixeira and outfielder Manny Ramirez. In addition to Sabathia, the Yankees may be interested in Lowe and A.J. Burnett, another free-agent pitcher.

Cashman and Boras did not immediately return messages.

In other free-agent news, agent Barry Meister planned to meet with teams at the winter meetings to discuss left-hander Randy Johnson. Meister said 10 clubs had contacted him about the Big Unit, who needs five wins to reach 300.

Comment posted by the BurgermeisterMeisterburger in St.L on December 4, 2008 at 11:04 pm (#902503)

Mr. Belvedere died….huh…

Comment posted by Confused on December 4, 2008 at 11:04 pm (#902504)

Jets DE Ellis charged with marijuana possession

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr., AP Sports Writer 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP)—New York Jets defensive end Shaun Ellis was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, speeding and driving without insurance after being pulled over by police last weekend.

Ellis, the Jets’ longest-tenured player, was stopped last Saturday in Hanover, N.J., a few miles from the team’s training facility after speeding, the Daily Record of Morris County reported on its Web site Thursday.

Capt. Shawn Waldron, the information officer for the Hanover Township Police, wasn’t available for comment Thursday night and wasn’t due back at the station until Friday morning.

Ellis played the day after the arrest in New York’s 34-17 loss to Denver, and a team spokesman confirmed that he will play Sunday at San Francisco.

“I apologize to my family, the fans and the organization,” Ellis said in a statement issued by the team Thursday night. “As a captain, I set a poor and selfish example for my teammates, as well as all NFL players. Although this is a pending legal matter, I understand that I have to be responsible for my actions.”

This is believed to be Ellis’ first offense, which means he won’t be suspended by the league, but will be enrolled in the league’s substance abuse program.

Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum said in a statement that he and coach Eric Mangini both spoke to Ellis about the incident.

“He is disappointed with himself and has apologized for his actions,” Tannenbaum said. “Personal conduct is important and an area that we stress to the entire organization. Shaun has been a leader on this team and I am confident that he will handle this in the appropriate fashion. The legal process will run its course and the league will handle this matter.”

Ellis has enjoyed a resurgence this season with a team-leading seven sacks, his most in four years. He was the 12th overall pick out of Tennessee in the 2000 draft and has 60 1/2 career sacks.

It’s the latest legal incident involving players from the New York-area NFL teams.

Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the right thigh at a nightclub last Saturday morning and was charged with illegal weapons possession, a felony that requires a mandatory minimum 3 1/2 years and a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted. The Giants also fined and suspended Burress for four games, and placed him on the reserve non-football injury list, which means he won’t be back for the playoffs.

Giants offensive tackle Kareem McKenzie was charged with drunken driving after a traffic stop on Nov. 14. A Breathalyzer test found McKenzie’s blood-alcohol level was above New Jersey’s legal limit of 0.08. He wasn’t suspended by the team.

Comment posted by Dep on December 4, 2008 at 11:18 pm (#902505)

damn, mr. belvedere died and shaun ellis gets busted for pot????

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Comment posted by Dep on December 4, 2008 at 11:23 pm (#902506)

Time shits all over Dollhouse

its gonna be a duddddddddd

Comment posted by Athena on December 4, 2008 at 11:55 pm (#902507)

Time shits all over Dollhouse

its gonna be a duddddddddd

Frak!! I’m not really surprised. Since I don’t like Dushku. But I’m sad. And a bit drunk! Perfect situation for an overreaction. ;-)

Comment posted by Athena on December 4, 2008 at 11:58 pm (#902508)

By the way, apparently, two exclamation points amount to an overreaction.

Comment posted by Jessica on December 5, 2008 at 12:46 am (#902517)

Isn’t this kind of the best possible week for an NY athlete to get busted for something? Nobody’s going to give a shit because everyone is focused on Plaxico.

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