DaPennyFan

I think Webb wins it by the numbers, but Dontrelle just did so much more for this team than can be seen in numbers. I think he was the most valuable rookie to his team and that wins it in my book.

I see a distressed Cubs fan buying it only to burn it at home plate in an opening day ceremony. They won't take any chances with the curse of Bartman coming back to bite them in the a** now will they?

An '02 Lancer. So pimp.

I also called the stadium to confirm this today and they told me it was from 11 -12 and the trophy will be there as well. I'm heading up there scene or no. But, yeah, the Ft. Lauderdale thing was horrible. Did they say anything more about it when you called? The article seems pretty vague.

MLB.com Posted and article about Jack's appearance. If you missed here is the recap... McKeon drops in on "Late Show" One night after introducing Harry Joseph Letterman to his viewers, the host of CBS' Late Show with David Letterman looked into the camera Wednesday night and said, "At the age of 72, our next guest became the oldest manager in history to lead his team to a world championship. Please welcome Jack McKeon!" Those were words that even McKeon could not have imagined hearing a year ago at this time, and for the second time in two weeks he did things his way when he got to New York. McKeon walked onto the stage with a big victory cigar in his mouth and reached out to give another one to TV's newest dad. McKeon: "Congratulations!" Letterman, laughing: "And congratulations to you!" McKeon: "I know what you're going through. I had the same problem." Letterman, still laughing: "Thank you" McKeon's appearance was delayed a night because of rescheduling caused by the delivery Monday night of Letterman's first child. Not surprisingly, McKeon was well worth the wait. Bearing an amazing resemblance to George Burns, he explained the pronunciation of his last name, regaled Dave with stories about gun-toting days as a younger manager, gushed over the Josh Beckett phenomenon, and even showed sympathy for the infamous Cubs fan who tried to catch a foul ball. "If our Yankees couldn't win, it was nice to see you have this victory," Letterman told McKeon. Referring to the Marlins' World Series Game 6 clincher nearby in the Bronx, he then asked him what that was like because "it was you and a bunch of kids, essentially." "For our team, it was a great experience," McKeon replied, "A bunch of youngsters who had the best record in baseball since May 23. I managed all those years and never had a group of kids like this. We were very dedicated, very determined to win. When you think about it, they weren't awed by the playoffs or Yankee Stadium. Our philosophy of one game at a time carried over, and they didn't care if they were playing in Yankee Stadium or Woodbridge, New Jersey." McKeon grew up in that area of Jersey, and he referred to his upbringing when Letterman asked him whether he pronounced his name "Mc-KEE-on" (as people pronounce it now) or "Mc-KYOON" (as they pronounced it in his youth). "I'm from the east, up here in New Jersey," McKeon said. "Growing up, it was Mc-KYOON". People wanted to change it. I said, they can call me McKeon as long as they don't call me late for dinner." "I told Paul (Shaffer) you would say that," Letterman said. Letterman asked McKeon how he is able to overcome the age factor as a manager. Many eyebrows were raised in early summer when the Marlins named the ultimate managerial "veteran" to turn around a struggling club of mostly youngsters. "I don't think that was ever a problem, Dave," he said. "I've had my greatest successes dealing with young players. Young players today are very receptive to picking up as much knowledge as they can. After four or five years in the league, they might be a little different." Then McKeon, still mindful of Baby Week on the Late Show set, said, "I had nine grandkids. You only got one -- one child." Letterman asked him, "Did you ever do anything drastic to get anyone's attention, someone who might have been a head case?" Maybe you've heard this one before. Do a Google search and you can find it told five years ago, and probably elsewhere. "There was one situation back in 1960," he said. "I was managing in the Carolina League, in Wilson, North Carolina. I had this Cuban boy, Juan Vistuer. I'd be coaching third, and he'd be running the bases and come around third, I'd try to hold him up . . . bing . . . out at the plate. Next week, bing. I said, 'Look, next time you do that I'm gonna shoot you.' We went to Elon, N.C., the next day, and in the window of a pawn shop I saw blank guns for sale, $3.95. I got blank cartridges. I waited, knew it was gonna happen again. He's on second, ball hit up middle, second baseman knocks it down, I try to flag him down, he zings by me, I go pow-pow, six shots, he thought he was hit in the back. The next time, he scored, we never had any more problems." Then McKeon added: "I did that again in Denver." Letterman busted out laughing. "Dave, it works!" McKeon said. Then he explained, "I was managing Omaha, and we were playing in Denver. They had an exploding scoreboard, (Jeff) Burroughs and all those guys. My guys come up, Tony Oliva comes up, hits a home run, and nothing happens. I said, 'I'll fix that tomorrow night.' He hits a home run again, I get the gun out, pow-pow-pow! "You couldn't get away with it today, though." McKeon did not need to resort to such motivational ploys with the 2003 Marlins. He had Beckett's gun of a right arm, firing one shutout to turn around the National League Championship Series against the Cubs after a 3-1 series deficit, and then throwing a five-hit shutout in the World Series clincher. "Beckett -- what a cool customer," Letterman said. "He's a special kid," McKeon replied. "He's a youngster who has an extreme upside, he was an All-Star, and what a job he did for us stopping the Cubs. Great stuff. He really matured in that playoff series." It is tradition for the World Series manager to appear on Letterman. Last year it was Anaheim's Mike Scioscia. In 2000, it was Joe Torre, who had some of his players spray champagne on Letterman. Wednesday night, the show's host asked South Florida's newest celebrity what it meant to go up against Torre -- just a couple of guys from the New York area who went all the way in the Majors. "Joe and I are friends, he's done a great job for the Yankees for years," McKeon said. "The whole Yankee organization is good. Joe was happy this was first time I had a chance to get to the big dance and finally win it. He said he was happy for me." Every Cub fan in Chicago and around the country probably had to wince when Letterman brought up Game 6 of the NLCS. The Cubs were five outs away from their first World Series appearance since 1945, but the Marlins scored eight runs in an unforgettable eighth inning, and it all went bad for Chicago after Luis Castillo hit a pop fly toward the left-field wall and a fan reached to catch it in foul territory just as Moises Alou was about to make the important catch. "How about that foul ball in Chicago?" Letterman asked. "I felt sorry for the kid over there," McKeon said. "After all, old saying, If a ball's in the stands -- and the umpire signaled it was in the stands -- we should let the fans have a chance to retrieve it. It's like you or I being up there. Only now that you got that new youngster, Harry, you're gonna have to work with those hands so you can grab it."

I think Lance is bi/gay.....but he's still hot. I kept hearing something about Lance giving guys a neck massages during CFTC weekend.... At the basketball charity event, I kept drooling at him. He looked amazing that day. Were you at the beach event to see Lance's topless peep show? Niiiice. I'm a JC girl myself He's HOT

I knew there was a reason I didn't schedule any Friday classes.

Poor Lance. The kid used to look like a transvestite. He's made some major improvements. And let's please ignore the fact that he is wearing a woman's shirt. And Viggo only looks good dirty. Cleaned up he doesn't do it for me.

How early on in the show are they on? I'm gonna run home from work to record it...

My family has has season tickets for 7 seasons and will continue to buy them until the team moves. I consider a downtown stadium a downright betrayal. That is just a miserable miserable place to go with a large crowd.

I watch hockey when I'm home and listen to hockey when I'm at work. I've also discovered ESPN's Classic Baseball being shown almost nightly and wind up watching games where I know maybe one player cause he's now a coach or announcer. It's lame, but it's helping with those hunger pangs.

I know with a downtown stadium that I can kiss mooching my parents season tickets goodbye. They just won't buy them. Of course by then hopefully I can stop mooching alltogether. I think I talked them into going to ONE hockey game at the Miami Arena and ONE basketball game in all the time that those teams played there (when I was young and without a vehicle). This would just seriously suck. New ballparks don't mean much when it means me going to 5-10 games a season instead of 40-50. Blah!

Well, I am personally hoping to sneak under the table and grope his thighs, but that's just me. The autograph isn't what I'm there for nor the mass amount of autographs you seem to think is so god awful important.

Where is this place located?

I give up on Billy. Who hit the first Marlins home run and in which park?