| Torrealba, Mets agree on contract
Free-agent catcher Yorvit Torrealba will agree to a three-year contract with the Mets, according to Torrealba's agent, Melvin Roman. Roman told 1050 ESPN New York that he expected to formalize the agreement with the Mets yesterday afternoon. Roman declined to reveal how much the contract would be worth. GM Omar Minaya did not immediately return a message seeking comment. If Torrealba passes a physical, an announcement is expected in the next day or two. Newsday reported on its Web site that the contract will be worth $14.4 million over three years. Torrealba, 29, is expected to be the starter. Ramon Castro will remain the backup but will receive more playing time than he did when Paul Lo Duca was the Mets' starting catcher. Lo Duca is also a free agent. Last season, Torrealba hit .255 with eight homers and 47 RBI or the NL champion Colorado Rockies.
WEIRD BUT TRUE
If you love somebody, set them free. If you're obsessed and can't let go, claim their new partner is a porn star on Web sites. That's the path Pilar Stofega followed after learning her ex-boyfriend had married. Waterford, Conn., police arrested Stofega after her ex, whose name wasn't released, complained that she posted phony information about his wife, leading to strange men calling their house. ***** No good deed goes unpunished. Steven Rivers was arrested for clashing with rescue workers after he twice ran into a burning building to rescue an elderly couple. Police in Concord, N.H., allege Rivers hit a firefighter who came over to help him after he escaped from the blaze. Rivers insists he was disorientated from a combination of smoke inhalation and prior medical conditions.
Stocks Finish Lower in Erratic Session
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street closed an uneasy session lower Wednesday as investors, uncertain if the worst of the credit crisis is over, refrained from extending Tuesday's huge advance. Stocks bobbed in and out of positive territory for much of the day before taking a sharp turn lower in the last half-hour. Traders may well have been rattled when the chief executive of e-Trade Financial Corp., Mitch Caplan, appeared on CNBC and talked about the online brokerage's problems resulting from losses in its $3 billion portfolio of mortgage debt. While Caplan was upbeat, any reminder of credit-related uncertainty has easily unnerved the market - especially late in a session. "All month long, once a direction has been established, it tends to accelerate in the last hour," said Steven Goldman, chief market strategist with Weeden & Co., in Greenwich, Conn.
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