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Congratulations to Joe Torre for moving into the fifth spot all-time for Wins as a Major League Baseball manager.  I have always liked Joe Torre and with his gold glove abilities at catcher, third base, and first base, his tremendous hitting skills and MVP award he should be in the MLB Baseball Hall of Fame (in Cooperstown) as a player.  He will easily get in as one of the greatest managers in the history of the game.  He has had a long career managing and in 1996 he brought the Yankees from out of the toilet to win their first World Series title since the 1970's! 

The HISTORY OF THE TORRE CURSE:  Joe Torre's reward for taking the overpaid rosters (that Brian Cashman gave him) to the playoffs every year was to be black-balled by ownership for not winning the World Series every year (an impossible feat - especially given the circumstances)!  This began in the early 2000's and reached its zenith in 2004 when Torre was almost fired and it was made clear that he had no control in player acquisitions, or even his own coaches (who would start to be pressured/or fired in 2004).  Thus began the Torre Curse and the Yankees have yet to be able to handle the Red Sox, or win a World Series title.  How many games have the Yankees won against the Sox in 2009?  0.  How many World Series have been won since the turn of the century 9 years ago:  the Mets have 0; the Yankees have 0; the Red Sox have 2.  The Steinbrenners were threatening Torre's coaches and pressuring him to play who they said and win or else in 2004 which culminated in the departure of Don Zimmer before the 2004 season and Mel Stottlemeyer in 2004!  Once the tandem of core coaches that had been the heart of the Yankees (along with players Jeter, Williams, Posada, and O'neil) for the championships had been ripped out it was forever over.   "In 2004, Torre suffered his greatest setback, marking the end of Yankee dominance. After building a 3-0 lead [in the 2004] ALCS against the Boston Red Sox, his team would go on to suffer the greatest collapse in baseball history and lose the next four games and the ALCS while the Red Sox would go on to win the World Series" (Wikipedia).   And as a Mets fan I love to point out that the Yankees have not won a damn thing more than the Mets in this century!  Go Mets!  Go Red Sox!  Long Live the Torre Curse!  Torre should have died as one of the Yankees top 3 greatest managers and still a Yankee.  He now wears the Yankees bitter rival's threads (of old) the Dodger blue.  The Dodgers made the playoffs in 2008, Torre's 1st year there.  The Yankees missed the playoffs in 2008, the 1st year without Torre.  In 2009 the Yankees have yet to win one game against the Red Sox (the team that made the game's greatest closer Rivera a mortal in 2004).  It just goes to show you you can buy C.C. Sabathia and Mark Teixera...but the Red Sox still own you (since 2004)!  Long Live the Torre Curse!!  Thank You Joe Torre and Congratulations on being 5th in all time wins as a manager!

I would like to wish my sister a Happy 23rd B-day!!!

The time has come to tweet.  Enough said (it's all about short speech anyway on Twitter).  Check it out:
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Up and down, up and down, the Mets have made even the most faithful fans seasick over the last three years.  This year is no different (except maybe that Shea has been replaced with a beautiful new ballpark).  Consistency has eluded the now beat up and oft-injured team.  When multiple second and third string players and pitchers all get hurt at once you can many times kiss a season good bye...but not these Mets.  They fight every game.  They make Luis Castillo mistakes sporadically missing bases and dropping balls and losing games by the most unimaginable circumstances, but they have that elusive "never say die attitude" that was with Bobby Valentine's Mets in the late 1990's and was with (the current W.B.C. manager for the American team) Davey Johnson's Mets in the mid 1980's.  This fight was not with Willie Randolph's Mets after the Cardinal's ruined their World Series bid prematurely in 2006.  Jerry Manuel has it back and he has the Mets playing as the most aggressive team in baseball...because they have to.  They are way too undermanned to do anything but go all out, balls-to-the-wall every outing.  They have no business being just a couple of games back of the Phillies and I am begging Omar Minaya to please get us a bat and maybe a starter (to put down Tim Redding like a horse with a broken leg, like he deserves).  Despite the cheap homerun derby for the Yankees, the Nationals have just won their series with them at the new Yankee Stadium and the Phillies have just been swept.  It could be our time!  I have certainly said and felt it before, but the miracle Metsies, as Keith Hernandez would say, won't go down quietly in the year they should have no chance.  Let them get healthier (healthy, I think is too much to ask), get a bat, get a lead, and let the best closer in baseball shut down the opposition now until November!!

Phish has returned after nearly five years of retirement!  One of the greatest living guitar players, Trey Anastasio, and his mates are together again, sending slammin' songs on a 2009 Summer Tour.  See pictures below.