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Looks like Beltran's bat headed elsewhere
From staff and wire reports
HOUSTON — Carlos Beltran's stay in Houston almost certainly will be short.
The Astros failed to reach an agreement with the All-Star center fielder before an 11 p.m. CT Saturday deadline, and Beltran is all but certain to leave the team he helped come within a win of its first World Series appearance.
Beltran's desination: The New York Mets, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The newspaper reported that Astros owner Drayton McLane was told by Beltran's agent, Scott Boras, that a deal is being finalized with New York.
"It slipped through our fingers in the last, last few minutes," McLane told the Chronicle. "It was just some sticking points. It should never, never have gotten to this."
Under the rules of baseball's labor contract, Houston cannot sign Beltran until May 1 — virtually assuring he'll go to another team. The Astros had been bidding against the Mets and perhaps other teams.
Beltran and Boras made the Astros sweat this one out. Houston general manager Tim Purpura had said that Houston made its final offer to Beltran on Thursday. Boras had been seeking more than $100 million and the Astros reportedly had offered $105 million over seven years.
"Scott called us to let us know they were going to go in a different direction," Purpura told the Associated Press. "I don't know if shaken is the right word, certainly disappointed."
The Mets dispatched a delegation to Puerto Rico to meet with Beltran and Boras on Monday. Over the past few months, the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers also were thought to be pursuing Beltran.
Regardless, the courtship of Beltran will be a bittersweet memory for Houston.
The Astros were 38-34 and two games behind in the NL wild-card race before they acquired Beltran in a three-way trade on June 24 that sent closer Octavio Dotel to Oakland and catcher John Buck to Kansas City.
With Beltran, Houston went 54-36 (.600) overall including a 36-10 finish to win the wild card .
Beltran, who spent parts of seven seasons with Kansas City, then sent his price soaring during a remarkable postseason run with the Astros, batting .417 in the NL championship series with four home runs, five RBI and four steals. He also hit .455 with four homers and nine RBI in the first round.
Since the Astros' season ended in Game 7 of the NLCS in St. Louis, Houston officials had little contact with Beltran.
During negotiations, Purpura said the Astros only talked with Beltran once. That was during a Dec. 22 meeting at the team's spring training camp in Kissimmee, Fla.
And as the deadline approached Saturday, Purpura said the Astros and Boras didn't really discuss specifics of the offer until late in the afternoon.
"The serious parts of this only happened in the last six hours," Purpura said. "Really, I think we ran out of time. Mostly, it's time and distance. Certainly I regret the fact that we didn't deal with some of these things earlier — but we didn't control the pace of the negotiations."
Without Beltran and the loss of All-Star second baseman Jeff Kent to the Dodgers, the Astros will have a hard time persuading Roger Clemens not to retire.
Clemens, 42, has said he would make a decision in January whether to retire or play. The Rocket intended to quit after the 2003 season, then changed his mind and signed with his hometown team, winning the Cy Young Award for a record seventh time.
"Certainly we will welcome Roger back," Purpura said. "We're not going to shift into a rebuilding mode because of this."
Purpura said the candidates to replace Beltran in center will most likely be Jason Lane, minor-league prospect Willy Taveras or Craig Biggio, who held the position before Beltran joined the team. He also said Houston had not ruled out a trade to upgrade the spot.
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Contributing: The Associated Press and Houston Chronicle
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Boston needs Clement more than ever now. With Schilling missing the frist part of the season it's definetly gonna hurt Boston. But I'am liking the batting order...Damon, Renteria, Ramirez, Ortiz...
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Master of Puppets and the Black Album are without a doubt the best Metallica albums ever.
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I'm a huge fan of Pantera and was a pretty big fan of Damageplan as well. This is one of the worst events in metal ever. A band at my school is going to play at lunch and I hear they are dedcaiting the entire set to Dimebag, playing nothing but Pantera and Damageplan.
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PPV was great, ck. Even though I would have like to seen Shelton win the championship, but it was still great anyways and I can't wait for Smackdown
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I flew into Area 53 on a jetpack. Jetpack CJ + Getting shot alot = Extra Crispy....
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My favorite gose with two rival high schools, Red Mtn. and Mtn. View...when all of Red Mtn. started chanting..."FUCK MOUTAIN VIEW!"
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Pittsburgh is going to fucking own Indy in the playoffs, and I'm going to laugh.
Indy is like a more consistent New Orleans Saints. Lots of offense, a good Defensive End, and nothing else.
Their out when they have to play New England or Pittsburgh, and it dosen't matter if its in the dome or away.
Peyton Manning will never lead Indy to the Super Bowl, he's costing them too much money, and they don't have cap space to build a defense.
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Why is Reggie Miller suspended for a game...as far as I can see, he was trying to get Artest out of there?! Why is Wallace suspended for only 6 games after how he reacted to that foul?! This is bull! Well, I hope Pistons fans are happy now.
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Ok, so let's just pretend that a metal folding chair didn't get thrown at O'Neal thats was intended to do some major damage...
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How do you figure O'Neal deserves the gate for the season when he punched a fan who was on the court? Seems like self-defense, albeit excessively so, to me. Artest & Jackson should be done for the rest of the year, O'Neal & Wallace should get 10 games each. Wallace started the whole shit, and deserves more than the usual suspension for being involved in a fight.
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Great RAW, CK and by the looks of it, No Way Out is gonna be a incredbile show.
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Yeah, i get the same problem, too, but anyways, this is a great diary CK. Good to see that my boy Shelton has a Title Shot, but still questioning putting Scott Hall in the Championship match, though, but Still, It's great.
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There was also a small rumor about the Mets being interested in getting Manny, but I highly doubt that will happen now.
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Number 5.
Number 4 was Tolerance Camp
Number 3 was the Mr. Hankey Christmas Episode...
Now they're at number 2, which is one of the newer episodes, judging from the intro.
EDIT:
Number 2 is the one where the boys buy the Ninja weapons.
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'Hi, we're the St. Louis Cardinals. Our lineup reads like the NL Murderer's Row, and we have, more then likely, the reigning NL MVP, as well as a former MVP. We are also the most well rounded team in baseball this year, with a starting rotation that is pretty damn good. Oh, and yeah, we ran away with our division, a division that gave us the team we're playing in the NLCS.'
'Hi, we're the Houston Astros. You might remember us as the team that fired their manager at the halfway point, and since then has made your little 4 game comeback look like a midseason homestand. We also have Carlos Beltran, who is killing in the playoffs. Oh, and a guy named The Rocket... we think you've met before.'
In other words... It ain't over til' its over.
The curse isn't about beating the Yankees, or being better then them, the Sox have done that before, though not like this. Its about winning the World Series.
Bucky Dent
Aaron Boone
Craig Biggio?
I hate the Sox as much as I hate the Yankees. And right now I hate the Cards too. GO 'STROS!
A very large amount of true Red Sox fans will take the victory over the Yanks even if it meant a loss in the W.S. A loss to either one of the NL teams isn't that likely.
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All is right with the world and God has a new favorite player....
Johnny "Jesus" Damon.
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Johnny Damon>Ghost of Babe Ruth...which..means...
ANOTHER GHOSTBUSTER MOVIE!
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Damn it, Manny, knock the hell out of this ball!
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Well, if there's a God - and I always believed in one - He's a Yankees fan. So that means any Red Sox fan gets to suffer an eternal destiny in the lake of fire. Which makes us wonder why we deserve such fate?
Well, better get drunk, high, and laid as much as you can while you can Doesn't matter if you're good or evil if you root for Boston - you still burn.
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