Me too, Jerry. Me too.

"I'm excited," Manuel said. "We're healthy. We're looking forward to it. We can't wait to get going."

--on the beginning of the season... tomorrow!

Quotable Cohen

Don’t you think that it would make more sense for Axe Men to be sponsoring the batting line-up instead of the defensive line up?

--Gary Cohen, commenting on sponsorship.

Quotable Cohen

The Philadelphia Phillies, your defending National League East Champions. If that doesn't make you gag, I don't know what will.

--Gary Cohen, discussing the next two weeks of the Mets schedule

Quotable Darling

"No! No innings! You gotta stay with the scorecard, man."

--Ron Darling on Mets Post-Game Live, responding to a request from his interlocutor to be honest, and admit the inning in which he gave up on his scorecard during tonight's 13-9, 35-hit game.

Quotable Darling

"Things not to have on Get-Away Day: large pitch-counts, lots of runs scored, Steve Trachsel starting, Tim McClellan behind the plate."

--Ron Darling, enumerating the things that can make a game go on forever.

Quotable Randolph

"Today's world is going as fast as Jose Reyes moves from first to third -- and that's fast, believe me. That brother can run."

-- Willie Randolph, addressing Fordham University's Class of 2007, which includes his daughter Ciara.

Quotable Hernandez

"You Mets fans, you're nuts. Absolutely out of your minds."

--Keith Hernandez to Gary Cohen, who had just admitted to keeping a hunk of grass and dirt from the field at Shea the night the Mets won the '69 pennant in a tupperware container in his mom's shed for more than 20 years.

Quotable Hernandez

"It's a 25 man team. That's a bunch of bull."

--Keith Hernandez, on Roger Clemens' contract stipulation that he goes home to Huston when the Yankees go on the road.

Quotable McCarver

"They can ugly up a pitching staff real quick."

--Tim McCarver on the Mets lineup, 4.7.07 (that day's performance notwithstanding).