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How Michael Conforto helped Mets prospect Dominic Smith this season MIKE VORKUNOV, NJ ADVANCE MEDIA NEW YORK — For the first two months of this season, Michael Conforto and Dominic Smith were teammates while playing for High-A St. Lucie of the Florida State League. At the time, the two were both considered highly touted prospects within the Mets' organization. The 20-year-old Smith was gearing up for his third year with the Mets and his second full season of professional baseball after being selected in the first round of the 2013 draft out of high school. Despite being two years older than Smith, Conforto was preparing to begin his first pro season after being drafted with the club's 2014 first-round pick out of Oregon State. Smith, who was named the Florida State League's Most Outstanding Player after batting .305 with a league-leading 79 RBI and 33 doubles this year, said being teammates with Conforto for that short period of time proved to be an extremely valuable experience. In fact, Smith credited Conforto with helping him grow and develop as a player. "Playing with Michael really opened my eyes," Smith said Monday after being honored by the Mets with a 2015 Sterling Award. "He taught me a lot. He's a polished college player, so I picked his brain a lot day in and day out and watched him hit and play the game. He helped me to get to this point as well. To see the things he did in the minor leagues and then come up here, he's a great player and he was also a great person." While Smith said it was exciting to see Conforto ascend through the Mets' farm system so quickly, he added that he doesn't necessarily expect to be put on a similar accelerated path to the big leagues. Instead, the first baseman is focused on developing at his own pace. "Different players move at different speeds," Smith said. "It did open my eyes that everything is possible. At the same time it didn't make me rush or think, 'Oh well, maybe I can come up faster.' It was pretty fun for me to see that. Obviously for him I'm sure he's on a whirlwind right now and he's really enjoying himself. It couldn't happen to a better person." With two full professional seasons under his belt, Smith said he feels he's now better prepared to handle slumps and the physical and mental baseball grind. "Obviously getting that first full season under your belt really helps you the next year, so that really did help me a lot," Smith said. "This'll be my third year with the Mets, my second full season and going through that last year really did help me prepare myself mentally for the grind day in and day out and physically as well. It helped me prepare each day and not really stress about a bad day or not really stress if you get into a little bit of a funk because it's a long season, so going through it last year really helped my game this year and helped me not stress over a little rough patch." Tuesdays with Brownie: Blame for Mets' situation falls on one man TIM BROWN, YAHOO SPORTS This isn’t Matt Harvey’s fault. This isn’t the fault of his team or his agent or the doctor who fixed Harvey’s elbow. It’s Terry Collins’ fault. Collins, after all, has managed the New York Mets to the brink of their first NL East title in nine years, and none of this would have come up had the Mets been irrelevant like they were supposed to be. It’s the Washington Nationals’ fault too, a little. The 185-inning limit on Harvey, according to sources, was hard and fast and not to be strayed from. Everyone involved agreed. The only way it would become an issue was if the Mets – ha-ha – were somehow to scrape together all this young pitching and make do without David Wright and have Curtis Granderson become good again and then have the front office hit it rich at the trading deadline. Then the Nationals would have to tank, and at some point the Mets would have to take advantage of that and believe in all of this. Ta-da. I don’t know if another man would have led the Mets to the same outcome – the verge of the same outcome – that Collins did. What I know is that Collins was the only guy on this particular top step, juggling six-man rotations, six-foot egos, a desperate fan base leaning over his shoulder, a front office that didn’t always seem to know exactly what it wanted, and about a thousand other things spread over six months. Collins was hired almost five years ago to replace Jerry Manuel and ostensibly to get the franchise, when it was ready to win, to the next guy. It became awkward only because the players arrived and were ready to be good at this, and also because Collins gathered them up and herded them in a healthy, productive direction. Collins is 66 years old. He’s lost games and won them. He’s lost clubhouses and won them. He’s walked all the roads and done all the jobs. It’s what makes him authentic and likely more effective as a leader than he’s ever been. He fits in New York, where the first requirement is – or should be – honesty. He fits in that clubhouse for the same reason. I’m not sure Collins has the time or patience for phony anymore. In a league of Joe Maddon, Clint Hurdle, Mike Matheny and Don Mattingly, who’ve won their games and will get their Manager of the Year votes, nobody’s done more and put up with more and bled more freely than Collins. For a summer, he’s been the best of any of them. Not that it’s over. He’ll still have to walk to the mound at some point and request the ball from a rested and effective and bull-headed Harvey, who’ll have developed a temporary case of amnesia. But that’ll be part of it, part of the whole Harvey mess. But Collins only brought it on himself … by winning all these games. No easy way for Matt Harvey That said, Matt Harvey’s got to pick a lane. He is a grown man, 26 years old, facing a difficult decision, one that could run his career – his life, even – in so many directions. Harvey, who has thrown 176 2/3 innings with 12 games left in the Mets' schedule, is surrounded by strong adult figures with strong opinions, people with his best interests in their hearts but also their own to abide by. They’ve gotten him this far, too, to where he perhaps hasn’t had to make too many consequential decisions, beyond fastball or changeup. So here he is, to pitch and help the Mets and win the hearts of Mets fans, or to part-time pitch and help the Mets a little and possibly hurt them and risk the ire of Mets fans. And all for a hazy concept of elbow preservation that may or may not be real, along with – let’s be honest – a quarter of a billion dollars that may or may not be waiting. It’s a lot to consider. Harvey is not a bad person, or a soft person, or a greedy person, for hesitating. He has one pitching arm. One career. The Mets will have many seasons of baseball. It is, however, time to make that decision, and then to defend it. He cannot act the victim, not as a 26-year-old, as a grown man, as the one in charge of what happens from here. When Terry Collins removes him from a game, Collins owes him no explanation. When Collins explains himself as a courtesy, Harvey should look him in the eye and thank him for his time and concern. When reporters ask him if he is on board with the club’s decision to limit his innings and therefore put itself at risk for games such as Sunday night’s, Harvey must be accountable for his part in that. The plan, after all, is his. The agent works for him. The doctor is merely guessing. The team has its own agenda. Matt Harvey is in the middle. That’s why he has to decide. More, he has to own it, whatever it is and whatever becomes of that. He may as well get used to it, because he has a whole life of the same ahead. A truly lame situation Eleven days have passed since reports surfaced that Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus would be fired in 24 days. The Tigers have responded by winning some of their games. The bullpen has responded by being worse than ever. (Anymore, it’s unclear if box scores are listing Tigers relievers’ ERAs or their hat sizes. It’s close.) Additionally, David Price hasn’t won a single game for the Tigers since, and Yoenis Cespedes does not have a single hit for them since. Makes it kind of hard to win, but the Tigers have hung in there in spite of these obvious flaws. Ten days have passed since general manager Al Avila, on the job for just more than a month, issued a statement that said, in essence, “Well, hey, that’s not necessarily true but it might be. I’ll get back to you, K?” Which is all kinds of crappy for Brad Ausmus, who, given the man he is and the public nature of his teetering job status, deserves better than to spend these weeks in humiliating limbo. There is nothing to learn here about Ausmus. He manages a team that was flawed before it was picked over at the trading deadline. He manages it in September, from 15 or 16 games behind in the AL Central, with a bullpen only slightly more stable than Curt Schilling’s Twitter account. By now, he is qualified to be your manager or not. The notion he will be reviewed in October, after being measured in September, is insulting to a man who deserves better. Presumably Avila and Mike Ilitch know this and would not so corner Ausmus, which would be beneath the organization. So we’d expect word Ausmus will be back any day now. A potential ace rounding into form The Arizona Diamondbacks, like most, have stuff to fix this winter, their second under Tony La Russa and Dave Stewart, seeing as they’re mediocre again and the Dodgers aren’t getting any poorer. They’re sliding into their fourth consecutive dark October, and their seventh in eight seasons, yet there is reasonably good news as far as making up ground on the Dodgers and, presumably, an even-year Giants team. That is, they hit all year, they defended, the bullpen held up, and it looks like they’ll be adding an ace. His name is Patrick Corbin. When we last left Corbin, the left-hander was tiptoeing into his comeback season, some 16 months after Tommy John surgery, unhurried in a division in which the Diamondbacks were left behind months ago. His July 4 start was his first since September 2013, and the eight that followed revealed a pitcher seeking reassurance from his elbow, along with any other body parts that lagged behind. The five since: 31 1/3 innings, 1.44 ERA, 25 strikeouts, two walks. Both walks came in the first of those five starts, Aug. 26 against the Cardinals, so Corbin has not walked a batter in his last 25 1/3 innings. The velocity is better than it was pre-surgery. The slider is sharp, especially so across seven shutout innings Saturday in San Francisco. This was the pitcher who was developing into a No. 1 before the elbow pain, the MRI, the examination, the surgery and the rehab. You know the story. “My arm is catching up,” he told reporters afterward. “My body is getting used to doing this again.” The Diamondbacks, then, are a couple starting pitchers from being legit. Not that that’s easy, or cheap, but at least it’s obvious. Brewers going with youth movement David Stearns graduated from Harvard (eight years ago), worked under the likes of Dave Littlefield, Omar Minaya, Dan Halem, Chris Antonetti, Mark Shapiro and Jeff Luhnow, grew up in New York a Mets fan, wears a nice suit and practical watch, is 30 years old, looks it, and on Monday became the general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers. What we know is he is bright (he briefly considered and rejected a career in journalism), respected and quite likely the right man to take a shot at reviving the Brewers. What we don’t know yet is how, beyond the usual references to drafting smart, developing wisely and sorting the good players from the average. He did speak Monday of being fond of manager Craig Counsell, whose record since replacing Ron Roenicke is 56-69, so it would seem there’ll be no change there. The past 13 months haven’t been the best for the Brewers, an otherwise competent franchise that led the NL Central in mid-August of last season and has played .400 ball since. They’re trending poorly and are in a bad division for mediocre. So along comes Stearns, who just finished having a hand in the Houston Astros’ rebuild, and he said exactly what you think he would: “I would not have come here if I did not believe it was possible to win a World Series in Milwaukee.” He’ll have to climb over the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals just to start. It could take some time, energy and patience. But, hey, he’s young, and no one who knows him is betting against it. Harvey Danger JOE POSNANSKI, NBC SPORTS The thing people miss about this bizarre free-for-all over Matt Harvey’s innings between Harvey, the Mets, Scott Boras and Sandy Alderson is that it isn’t really about the pitcher’s health. Oh, sure, on the surface the whole mess is about how to keep pitchers healthy in 2015, but the trouble is: When it comes to health, everybody’s guessing. Nobody knows. Harvey’s agent, Boras, citing doctors, says that because Harvey is coming off Tommy John surgery, he absolutely should not pitch more than 178 innings he pitched in 2013 or he will be putting his arm in very real danger. Might be true. But they don’t know if that’s true. The Mets’ GM, Alderson, believes that the Mets can find a way to manipulate the number of innings Harvey pitches the rest of the season and allow him to be healthy for years to come. Might be true. But he doesn’t know if that’s true either. Sure, everybody has an opinion of what will or won’t endanger Matt Harvey’s future, and everybody has an opinion about what Matt Harvey’s responsibility is to a Mets team that has shocked everyone and is in position to make the postseason. But this is exactly the issue: All of these are opinions, some based on data, some based on common sense, some based on what people value most (loyalty or immediate success or long-term success). But they’re still opinions. All of it is based in that dreamy world of the unknown. Here’s what we DO know: The Harvey thing is about money. And, more than money, it’s about a baseball salary structure that really defies common sense and, at some point, might just crumble and fall. Here, in very, very general terms, is how baseball works these days: A player comes up and, for his first three or so years, gets paid whatever the team wants to pay him (within reason). In the fourth year, the player can begin to use an outside arbitrator to help determine his true worth to the team, and this is also true in the fifth and sixth years. There are other factors that can move the checkpoints for when a player gains eligibility for arbitration and free agency up a year. Regardless, at this point, the player becomes a free agent, and he is free to go to the highest bidder. This is when he can make his true market value and, often enough, much more than his true market value. Here, in very, very general terms, is how baseball pitchers’ careers go: They generally peak at about age 27, stay pretty close to their peak for three or four years, start to decline, slowly at first, and then they begin a steady and sometimes precipitous fall. This means that a pitcher’s prime years will generally be between ages 26 and 30. This is also true for everyday players. So here’s what happens: — Young baseball players are some of the most underpaid people in American professional sports. — Old baseball players are some of the most overpaid people in American professional sports. You can see this in action: The Website Fangraphs gives an estimate, based on a players Wins Above Replacement value, how much a player is worth in actual dollars (figures through Monday). Young player: Bryce Harper fWAR: 9.7 Worth: $77.2 Paid: $2.5 million Old player: Ryan Howard fWAR: -0.5 Worth: ($3.7 million)* Paid: $25 million *Fangraphs actually has Howard worth a negative value because he’s below replacement level. Young player: Kevin Kiermaier fWAR: 4.9 Worth: $39.3 Paid: $513,800 Old player: Albert Pujols fWAR: 1.2 Worth: $9.9 million Paid: $24 million (with $165 million still to come) Young player: Gerrit Cole fWAR: 5.2 Worth: $41.5 million Paid: $531,000 Old player: CC Sabathia fWAR: 1.2 Worth: $9.8 million Paid: $23 million, with another year left on the contract and vesting option for 2017 The system is so familiar, we don’t even think about it anymore. The concept is that it all evens out. And it does all even out in some cases, like, say, Justin Verlander. In Verlander’s first four full years, he was paid about $6 million, though he was worth more than $100 million to the Tigers. But Verlander, now age 32, still has $120 million left on his deal and, unless his career arc makes an unlikely shift, he’s not likely to be worth anywhere near that. It’s like deferred payments. Pitch great now, get paid later. This is the system baseball sort of fell into after the 25-year labor war. Albert Pujols is another great example. In his first 11 years in St. Louis, he was paid about $100 million, a huge sum of money. But just in baseball performance, he was probably worth closer to $400 million. Add in what he did for the Cardinals’ success, and what he did off the field, he was an astonishing bargain. Now, he will make $250 or so million from the Los Angeles Angels over 10 years. He almost certainly won’t be worth even half that. So it all evens out — except it doesn’t. The Cardinals got a steal. The Angels got the bill. This is what repeatedly happens. And we all accept it. But the Harvey conundrum brings up a powerful question: How long can the system thrive when players and teams are working at odds with each other? Matt Harvey is no kid — he’s 26 years old. He doesn’t become a free agent until 2019. He is getting paid $614,125 when Fangraphs estimates he’s been worth more than $30 million to the Mets, even if he stopped right now. Both the Mets and Harvey, technically, want the same things: A. Both want Harvey to pitch in the Mets run to the postseason , then to pitch in October and lead the team to the World Series. B. Both want Harvey to stay healthy and have a long and fruitful career. There’s no doubt in my mind that the Mets and Harvey each want Options A and B. But … they don’t want them with the same fervor. For the Mets, naturally, Option A is more important. For Harvey, just as obviously, Option B is more important. So there’s your conflict. Then you throw in the natural fact that that nobody really knows exactly how to keep pitchers healthy — nobody even knows for sure if reducing innings or spreading out starts is a key to pitcher health — and you have general mayhem. Sure, Mets fans want Harvey to pitch now. How could they not? Nobody knows when or if the Mets will be in this position again. The Nationals did not pitch Stephen Strasburg in the 2012 playoffs on the premise that his long-term health mattered more and that there would be plenty more chances. Three years later, it looks like there might not be many more chances at all, and Strasburg has not been a picture of healthy this year. To them the whole things seems silly. Sure, Harvey and Boras want to make absolutely sure they are doing everything in their power to keep him healthy … and get him to that payday that is three or four years off. Nobody knows if a few extra innings could increase the injury chances. And look at Mark Prior. In 2003, he was the probably the best pitcher in the National League. He carried the Cubs to the postseason. He got paid $1.45 million — he was worth roughly $60 million in today’s dollars. But, hey, the idea was that he would get his money later. He got hurt. And he never got the big payday. It’s a difficult one, no question. But here’s the thing that gets me: I don’t get why Harvey is expected by anyone to accept all the risk himself. If the Mets want him to pitch, why don’t they take on some of that risk themselves? Why don’t they pay him close to his true value? Why don’t they offer him guaranteed money in case he does get hurt? Why do they expect him to go against doctor’s recommendations and potentially gamble his future? For love of team? Will the team love him if he blows out his arm in the process? Of course, that’s the system. Maybe it changes at some point because I don’t think Matt Harvey is going to be the last pitcher demanding all sorts of precautions in the early years when the players’ salaries are controlled. Maybe it changes at some point because I just don’t see how teams will continue to spend insane money on 30-something players who have no chance of being the players they once were. Maybe it changes because the system isn’t too logical. Or … maybe it doesn’t change. Someone next year will give a huge contract to a 30-something player who is freefalling, and someone this year will pay around the league minimum for one of the league’s best players. And it will happen again the year after that. And it will happen the year after that. And the year after that, maybe Matt Harvey will get paid what he earned this year — if only he can stay healthy. Ballparks Attract Foodies with Distinctive Offerings ANNELIESE KLAINBAUM, SPECIALTY FOOD f the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” were written today, the lyrics would change from “buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks” to “buy me some nachos and garlic fries,” according to Bennett Jacobstein. “Those seem to be the two mainstay snacks,” said Jacobstein, author of The Joy of Ballpark Food. “They’ve become a ballpark standard.” Nachos, in particular, have taken on creative spins that push them far beyond queso and salsa. Some offerings are topped with brisket and others use potato chips in place of tortilla chips. Other snacks like specialty jerky and gourmet potato chips are on the rise as well, as are nuts roasted onsite and freshly made popcorn, either flavored or coated in caramel. Jacobstein toured each of the major league stadiums—and many of the minor league spots—to investigate the latest in ballpark food and discovered that stadium food continues to evolve today, with ballparks expanding space for concessions and partnering with top chefs to curate a family-friendly, foodie-focused experience. Here’s what Jacobstein found: Super-Sized Foods “The biggest trend of this year is to serve large items—outlandishly big items,” said Jacobstein. Ballpark food is becoming notoriously outrageous and oversized, and it’s these game-day indulgences that are drawing in new spectators. Eight-pound hamburgers, potato chip-topped patties, deep-fried nachos on a stick, and many more items are the latest buzz among fans at both major and minor league stadiums. In fact, said Jacobstein, minor league stadiums are emphasizing this trend. “It’s all about family entertainment,” he said of the lower-key environment. The baseball food aficionado says kebabs are gaining in popularity, too, with items like the berry kabob, chocolate-drizzled bananas and berries, offered at Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field. Here are just a few kebabs, mash-ups, and super-sized treats being served this season: Bacon Cotton Candy. A sweet and savory offering from the new Just Bacon stand at Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park Churro Dog. Chocolate-glazed doughnut bun for a fried churro, with frozen yogurt and chocolate sauce at Arizona Diamondbacks’ Chase Field Inside the Park Nachos. Nachos on a stick at Milwaukee Brewers’ Miller Park Fried S’mOreo. Skewered, charred marshmallows and fried Oreos at Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park Kaboom Kabob. A 2-foot long chicken and veggie kabob at Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park Moby Dick Fish Sandwich. A 3-pound fish sandwich at The Lake County Captains’ Classic Park in Cleveland Pulled Pork Parfait. A layered, savory parfait of mashed potatoes and pulled pork The Milwaukee Brewers’ Miller Park Sausage Sundae. A savory treat with smoked sausage, brisket, mac-n-cheese, and mashed potatoes at Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park StrausBurger. The infamous 8-pound burger at Washington Nationals’ National Park Teddy Roosevelt Cupcake. Creative creations like presidential cupcakes from Fluffy Thoughts Bakery at Washington Nationals’ National Park Triple Triple Burger. A nine-patty burger from Wayback Burgers at Philadelphia Phillies’ Citizen Bank Park Chef-Inspired Eats Chefs are gaining an bigger presence than ever before at concessions, bringing an authentic local flavor to ballpark eats—along with beloved food and restaurant brands—through partnerships with well-known culinary personalities, said Jacobstein. This year, the New York Mets partnered with Josh Capon, the chef behind Manhattan’s Lure Fishbar, B&B Winepub, and Bowery Meat Company to add to a roster of top-notch gourmet bites that include those from vendors Shake Shack and Pat LaFrieda. At Pressed, Capon’s fancy grilled cheese stand, baseball fans can find a slow-braised shortrib grilled cheese. On-trend cauliflower sandwiches are available at the Washington Nationals’ National Park, and Minnesota Twins’ Target Field has even brought the farm-to-table craze to the ballpark by partnering with community gardens through the Roots for the Home Team program to provide produce to the stadium. At Seattle Mariners’ Safeco Field, local chef and restaurateur Ethan Stowell helped turn the stadium into one of the foremost sports-food destinations earlier this year with creative new food concepts like Hamburg+Frites, where diners can find dogs and burgers served Seattle-style: topped with cream cheese. General manager Steve Dominguez said the stadium's relationship with the chef has enabled them to connect to local providers creating fantastic artisanal and small-batch products for restaurants and retailers in the area. “We do a lot of field research and when we find an item we think would be a good fit, we bring in Ethan to work with our culinary team to develop the recipes, essentially translating restaurant feel and flavor to the highly specialized skill of high volume concession style food items,” he explained. “We focus on simple dishes that feature two to three signature ingredients that are fresh and deliverable in a fast-pace sports environment, while keeping up with the consumer demands.” The stadium’s Dungeness crab sandwich and bacon-wrapped hot dog are simple builds that pack in great flavor, high quality ingredients, and consumer appeal. Dominguez says that bacon, sriracha, garlic and beer-infused items are seeing the most demand, and so the stadium has developed a number of sriracha-specific items—from milk shakes to mac-n-cheese balls featuring product from Beecher’s Handmade Cheese. Signature Dogs “Even though all sorts of other foods have come in to ballparks, hot dogs are still the staple,” said Jacobstein. But today’s top dogs are anything but average. “There’s much more variety,” explained Jacobstein. “Now, a lot of ballparks have 10 or 15 types and all sorts of specialty sausages, too,” he said. “They try to regionalize them.” Dogs have become decidedly modern, sporting everything from vegetarian tempeh links to gluten-free buns, to a variety of meats ranging from elk to sausage and bison, but decadence still reigns at the ballpark. Here are just a few ballpark hot dog specialties you can find at stadiums this year: Bengal Brat. Bratwurst topped with pineapple, pico de gallo and chipotle mayo at Lakeland Flying Tigers’s Stadium (training home of Detroit Tigers) The Boomstick. A 2-foot-long hot dog with chili, nacho cheese and grilled onions at The Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park Catalina Dog. Dog wrapped in a tortilla with black beans, roasted corn, and guacamole at Houston Astros’ Minute Maid Park Cuban Pretzel Hot Dog. A pretzel hoagie roll with ham, pulled pork, Swiss cheese, Dijon and pickles at Pittsburg Pirates’ PNC Park D-Bat Dog. An 18-inch corn dog stuffed with cheddar cheese, jalapenos and bacon at Arizona Diamondbacks’ Chase Field Funnel Dog. A traditional dog coated in funnel cake at Northwest Arkansas Naturals’ Arvest Ballpark Krispy Kreme Doughnut Hot Dog. With bacon and raspberry jelly at The Wilmington Blue Rocks’ Frawley Stadium Pastrami Dog. A Nathan’s hot dog topped with pastrami at New York Mets’ Citi Field Poutine Dog. Topped with the Canadian favorite at Detroit Tigers’ Comerica Park South Philly Dog. With broccoli rabe, provalone and red peppers at Philadelphia Phillies’ Citizens Bank Park The Thomentaor. A 10-inch dog topped with sauerkraut, onions and pierogi at Cleveland Indians’ Progressive Field Stadium Snacks 2.0 At the Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park, tater tot nachos called Hollad Hot Tot’chos are available, while at Baltimore Orioles’ Camden Yard, nachos made with kettle chips, lump crab meat, and Old Bay seasoning are on the menu. At the Giants’ AT&T Park in San Francisco, there's garlic fries sprinkled with parsley. At the Box Frites stand in New York Mets’ Citi Field, a partnership with Chef Danny Meyer and Union Square Hospitality Group, Belgian-style fries are served with gourmet dipping sauces and topped with crazy, must-try toppings like mac-n-cheese, and at Wrigley Field, they’re flavored with an Italian-style seasoning. At Los Angeles Dodgers’ Dodger Stadium, they’re loaded up with Mexican-style carne asada and cheese sauce, and at Seattle Mariners’ Safeco Field, tater tots feature garlic, locally-sourced cheese, pickled peppers, and a drizzle of Ballard Bee honey. Directory: documents documents -> Concept stage documents -> Concept stage documents -> The great global switch-off documents -> Nonprofit grant application documents -> The Truth about the Rwandan Genocide documents -> Annual InStructional unit plan documents -> Chaos equipment included Download 270.29 Kb. Share with your friends:
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