Gary Sheffield News

Matsui and Damon both said after the Yankees ' six-game victory over Philadelphia last week that they would like to stay with New York.

Performers Alicia Keys, left, and Alejandro Sanspose backstage at the 10th annual Latin Grammy Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

The filing period for Free Agents to begin negotiating with their incumbent teams has begun with the end of the World Series.

The Mets need an everyday left fieldera 'on that we can agreea 'but the question of who Omar Minaya will make the effort to acquire and who he is willing to give up in the process is what fans are concerned about this winter.

Admitted baseball cheats Alex Rodriguez and Andy Pettitte. Go Yankees ! Hail to the cheat! Greed is great! This is what kids who are falling in love with baseball today learned from the 2009 season in New York.

Jimmy Rollins hits a game-winning two-run double in the bottom of the ninth inning to put the Phillies one game away from the World Series.

Hideki Matsui hit .274 for the Yankees this season, with 28 HR, 90 RBI and a .367 OBP.

Baseball super agent Scott Boras has hit Mets slugger Gary Sheffield with a $600,000 lawsuit.

THE CALLING hours last night began shortly after 7 and will extend into today and tomorrow.

For clubhouse passers-by, the lone sign of Jerry Manuel on Tuesday afternoon was his feet.

Some quick pre-game notes from Citi Field, where Snoopy is prancing around the Mets' dugout before the game and posing for photos with players : -- Manager Jerry Manuel said Pat Misch will be available out of the bullpen Wednesday and could be replaced in the rotation Sunday by Tobi Stoner or Lance Broadway .

Imagine the Braves' dugout without the man seated conspicuously and shouting words of encouragement to his players or shouting generally to -- and at -- umpires.

April saw Justin Upton play like a 21-year-old. Since then, he's been a seasoned vet.

Gary Sheffield plans to return next year for his 22nd major league season. Sheffield will become a free agent this fall and, according to the New York Post, has his eye on five teams -- the Mets, Rangers, Astros, Rays and Marlins.

Metstradamus Nine Friday, September 18, 2009 Nice of the Mets to improve everybody else's playoff hopes since they really haven't had any since Shea still stood.

Ike Davis once hit off Goose Gossage before an Old-Timers' Day in the Bronx. Now, the son of former Yankees pitcher Ron Davis is closing in on playing in Flushing.

Baseball's schedule-makers didn't do the Mets many favors yesterday with the release of the preliminary 2010 slate.

A ground ball by Chico Walker bounced into the glove of Mets second baseman Wally Backman, and as Backman flipped the ball to Keith Hernandez for the final out of a Mets victory, the TV call of Mets announcer Steve Zabriskie was this: "The inevitable has become reality." The Mets had clinched the 1986 National League East championship on that play.

I conducted exactly zero research to verify this, but Jim Riggleman has to be the first person in baseball history to serve as interim manager for two different teams in successive seasons.

John Maine wants to pitch again for the New York Mets this season. Sidelined since June 7 with a sore shoulder, Maine was back in the Citi Field clubhouse yesterday, one day after throwing four scoreless innings in a rehab outing for class-A St.