Filled With Hate And Rage As Society Destroys Everything I Like

My baseball team is held hostage to the Madoff scandal. Every piece of my life is permeated with disaster, or IMPENDING disaster. Beltran, he is a gifted player with one leg. Knee. He deserves his props, and he might need them to walk. For years I would watch him and think, he is the best center fielder in the National League. I almost feel bad that he can't make more than a few million a year now, in the twilight of his career.

But what difference does it make? The people owning the team are meddling dimwits who got suckered by their pal. And they were WARNED. Repeatedly. I have good friends but if enough MBAs call me and say "your friend is at least potentially a crook" I would listen.

I like horse racing. They are KILLING horse racing now. If you don't have slots at your track you are DONE. NYC OTBs closed this year. Do you know how much I learned at OTB? Come on. I've had it with everything. Fuck it all. Not you though.

The commonly held assumption regarding Carlos Beltran is that he played his last game at Citi Field in a Mets uniform on Thursday afternoon. But that is not necessarily how the Mets look at it.

Beltran went 0 for 3 against the Cardinals, the same team against which he had his most famous at-bat as a Met.

Although the team is intent on trading Beltran, who is in the final year of his contract, before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, they are also considering the possibility of trying to sign him again as a free agent after the season.

According to two people in baseball familiar with the situation, the team contacted Scott Boras, Beltran’s agent, and asked if he would be amenable to that notion. They were informed that Beltran would indeed be willing to consider the idea of re-signing with the Mets in the off-season, even if he is traded in the coming days.

While a re-signing may never happen — and the Mets’ financial problems could make it an impossibility — the idea that the team is entertaining a Beltran return demonstrates how far the team and the outfielder have come after their bitter dispute surrounding Beltran’s knee surgery 18 months ago. At the time, Beltran and the Mets’ ownership were at odds over Beltran’s decision to have the operation, and the misgivings only grew after Beltran took so long to get back in uniform after the 2010 season began.

[New York Times]