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A pretty good Peter Gammons column the other day that included this observation (useful to GMs that like 41 year old outfielders).

Dave Studenmund has a great piece in this year's Hardball Times Annual about how the game is getting younger. Studenmund points out that the decline in average age between 2007 and 2008 was the largest in major league history and that 24 of the 30 teams got younger between 2007 and 2008. The Twins were the youngest team in the major leagues at 25.5, and won 88 games -- one fewer than the New York Mets -- without the great Johan Santana.

Also:

The Yankees are going to be really good, but as Joe Posnanski points out, for all the talk of a salary cap, only twice in the past 30 years has a team won the World Series with a $100 million payroll: the 2004 and 2007 Red Sox.

In those 30 years, 20 different teams have won World Series titles, and it would likely be 21 without the 1994 strike that cost the sport's best team -- the Montreal Expos -- a chance to win it all. In those 30 years, 14 different teams have won the Super Bowl, 13 have won the Stanley Cup, nine have won the NBA championship.

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Peter Gammons was just on ESPN's Mike & Mike In The Morning Show and when asked about Randolph had this to say:

"To be honest, I think that if there were another manager out there that they thought was an immediate fix, Willie would be gone."

Gammons continued that maybe there needs to be a fire lit under the team and that Jerry Manuel, while a good man, is too much like Willie.

Peter, as we have been saying here at the Mets Police for a few weeks now, there is someone that can step in immediately.

Let the Lee countdown clock start.

If Peter Gammons is in the Baseball Hall of Fame why isn't Bob Sheppard? The iconic voice of baseball stadiums for over 50 years. Honor him while he's still around to appreciate the honor.