Tom Keegan
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THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
September 1, 2002 | 4:00amGet Shorty - Van Gundy hasn't gotten his Phila. coaching just yet Never too early to speculate where Jeff Van Gundy will land. JVG loves his time off, but is...
PASTIME IS SAFE AT HOME AFTER ROUGH COLLISION
August 31, 2002 | 4:00amNEGOTIATIONS were moving ahead at a slow yet steady pace Thursday night when a familiar storm from years and decades past blew into the conference room at Major League Baseball's...
TOM KEEGAN'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
August 31, 2002 | 4:00amWINNERS: 1. BASEBALL FANS: This World Series and the next three have been saved, thanks to the four-year agreement. The focus returns to the field and away from the dollar...
DOWN TO THE WIRE IN BASEBALL SHOWDOWN
August 30, 2002 | 4:00amPlayers and owners edged closer early this morning in extra-inning talks to save the 2002 baseball season. Contract negotiations at Major League Baseball's Midtown headquarters were expected to continue overnight,...
IMPROVED TALKS MOVE SIDES CLOSER TO DEAL
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amBaseball boss Bud Selig was heckled as he strode into a Park Avenue office yesterday to join negotiators deciding if Major League baseball will go on strike tomorrow. The drop-dead...
MIND-NUMBING NUMBERS HIT LOGIC OUT OF THE PARK
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amBaseball labor stories are filled with as many dollar signs as baseball stories told from the dugout are laced with expletives. The numbers are numbing, too complicated to make any...
FANS CAUGHT IN THE STRIKE ZONE: AS FRIDAY DEADLINE LOOMS, HERE'S WHAT BATTLE IS ALL ABOUT
August 27, 2002 | 4:00amYou don't need a Harvard Business School degree to understand the central issue in the coming baseball strike. Management wants to hold the line on salaries, while labor - employees...
NEW PITCH BY OWNERS ON TABLE
August 26, 2002 | 4:00amOne side makes a new proposal, trumpets it as a significant move toward a compromise and the other side paints it as far less than that. Welcome to baseball labor...
WHIFF OF FAILURE OWNERS: UNION 'REGRESSING'
August 25, 2002 | 4:00amThe owners yesterday lambasted the union labor proposal for which they waited 10 days as "regressive," a charge dismissed as ludicrous. In other words, all the talk of optimism was...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
August 25, 2002 | 4:00amDOUBLE TEAM: BACKMAN, BOBBY V TANDEM WOULD SUIT WALLY JUST FINE Wally Backman was one of the most passionate players in Mets history. The Mets are as lifeless as an...
MO'S ABSENCE ISN'T THE END OF THE WORLD
August 21, 2002 | 4:00amOH no, the Yankees lead the major leagues in home runs and not by a little! This means they're in serious trouble come October because far fewer fat pitches are...
LOSING RIVERA NOT NECESSARILY END OF THE WORLD
August 21, 2002 | 4:00amTHE image of the Yankees' late-inning success during this dynasty seldom has varied. It's a catcher pinning a high five on smiling closer Mariano Rivera, with champagne bubbles to follow....
HEAD TO THE PARK AND BEAT THE METS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE ELEVATOR doors swung open and in walked the new sole owner of the Mets, Brooklyn native Fred Wilpon. "I'm not doing too well right now," Wilpon understated after a...
COME TO THE PARK & MEET THE MESS
August 19, 2002 | 4:00amTHE ELEVATOR doors swung open and in walked the new sole owner of the Mets, Brooklyn native Fred Wilpon. "I'm not doing too well right now," Wilpon understated after a...
THE INSIDERS
August 18, 2002 | 4:00amMINI-SIZE IT! - BEST WAY TO HELP MET HITTERS? BRING IN THE FENCES AT SHEA If you can't beat em, bring in the fences. Only the Florida Marlins play in...
TAKE YOUR GAME AND SHOVE IT, GUYS!
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amSKANEATELES, N.Y. I M sitting on the jewel of all Finger Lakes, my feet stirring the water. The sun is competing with the breeze for my affection and I'm supposed...
METS MUST KEEP FONZIE IN THE FOLD
August 15, 2002 | 4:00amAS difficult as the Mets have been to watch all hot, summer long, try to imagine what they would be playing like if they didn't have Edgardo Alfonzo having a...
UP CLOSE OR FAR AWAY, METS STINK
August 15, 2002 | 4:00amI didn't much care for the view of the Mets from the pressbox, where it was so muggy and full of hot air, so I ventured into the left field...
BUT MOOSE STILL WINNING UGLY
August 12, 2002 | 4:00amHE needed 110 pitches to negotiate six innings, half of them coming in the first two innings. He surrendered 11 hits, one of them a Terrence (very) Long two-run home...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
August 11, 2002 | 4:00amSTAYING ALIVE Despite the Mets' $100 million crash and burn, Bobby Valentine and Steve Phillips will be back in their jobs next season, according to sources familiar with the thinking...