Word: pedro
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...absurd spending has continued in both boroughs this offseason. Interestingly, the teams seem to be moving in opposite directions. While the Mets have acquired Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran to add to a competent core of veterans and top prospects, the Yankees are slowly but surely becoming a team of overpaid has-beens. The Mets could be the best team in New York in as little as two years...
...from opponents of Octobers past, but rather from brash investments that didn’t exactly work out. If you listen carefully and try to block out the din of airplanes flying overhead from LaGuardia Airport, you can make out the whispers of Mo Vaughn, Roberto Alomar, Shawn Estes, Pedro Astacio and Jeromy Burnitz, laughing as they count their money...
Over in Queens, it looks like the Mets may actually emerge as the best team in New York by as early as 2006. The Mets are finally spending money on first-tier talent instead of washed-up injury risks, and greatly improved their team by signing Pedro Martinez and the five-tooled Carlos Beltran. If top prospects like David Wright and Jose Reyes develop quickly, the Mets will be dangerous...
Near the end of Pedro Almodovar’s newest film, Bad Education, two of the principal characters emerge from a movie theatre screening a series of classic film noir. One of the characters says, “I feel like we were watching ourselves.” Considering that the two men were hiding out at the theatre after performing a grisly murder, the comment becomes an obviously self-referential wink. Almodovar’s camera lingers on the vampy posters as they leave the theatre, putting the stylistic cap on yet another strange piece of meta-cinema that...
...three are employees of Cuba’s Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine, a division of the Cuban government’s Ministry of Health...