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Photo: Ernst Schoen-Rene Image 1of/44CaptionCloseImage 1 of 44Two-year-old Laszlo Diamond was delighted to find his favorite trash collector left him something special.CLICK THROUGH THIS SLIDESHOW TO READ ABOUT THE DIRTIEST JOBS IN THE BAY AREA. Two-year-old Laszlo Diamond was delighted to find his favorite trash collector left him something special.CLICK THROUGH THIS SLIDESHOW TO READ ABOUT THE DIRTIEST JOBS IN THE BAY AREA. Photo: Ernst Schoen-Rene Image 2 of 44 Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle Image 3 of 44Bridge ironworker (1 of 2)Golden Gate Bridge ironworkers’ duties include creating scaffolding for painters over the bridge, building access to work areas under the bridge, removing rust and corrosion from rivets and large gusset plates, sandblasting, and street-level work such as repairing parts of the toll plaza that get dam... (SFGate)
Met upon the team’s return home, has to know in his veteran heart that he’s a goner. A crowded scout area here Sunday featured eyes and ears from the Diamondbacks, Red Sox, Indians, Dodgers, Mariners and Yankees; the Dodgers and Red Sox make plenty of sense as a landing spot for Reed, and the Sawx, Cleveland and Seattle all could use Cabrera to upgrade their infields.(The Yankees could still wind up with Duda, or his Sunday counterpart Yonder Alonso of the A’s, if the price drops low enough. Duda — or anyone besides Reed or Cabrera, really — could wind up as an August trade.)None of these trades will bring back the sort of talent to energize a fan base, as Gleyber Torres and Clint Frazier did for the Yankees universe a year ago. This will not be a satisfying week for Mets fans in that vein.The satisfaction, the Mets hope, that will keep this team above its 1992 and 2002 ancestors on the “all-time disappointing Mets teams” lists, will be Rosario and, to a lesser degree, Smith. Rosario, who missed a sixth straight game for Las Vegas on Sunday yet intends to return to action shortly, will bring athleticism, excitement and optimism if all goes well. He’ll allow Mets fans to dream of a 2018 with him leading off for a lineup featuring Yoenis Cespedes, Michael Conforto and Smith — and perhaps Wilmer Flores and T.J. Rivera, with Jose Reyes playing a blend of Ben Zobrist and Yoda.That vision awaits the Mets. For now, “Certainly the next week’s going to be hard,” Collins said. “I will do the best I can to try to keep their mind on the game and [not] worry who the trading talks are about.”The Mets dropped to 2-7 in Sunday afternoon home games, yet this marked the only one of those seven losses in which they kept the game remotely close. Rafael Montero pitched respectably, offering another signal that he might actually have value moving forward.Now, the whole organization moves forward. Even as it’s almost certainly too late to achieve the top goal of 2017, it’s not too late to make something of this season. You didn’t want to see such an ambitious club enter Phase 2. But it’ll be here when the Mets return home.Share this:... (New York Post)
Up and down the curbs around the metro, heaps of discarded furniture, knick knacks and trinkets.Scavengers like Bubba are searching for a diamond in the rough."I'm just out here like everyone else. I mean everyone's here at the store," says Bubba.On 15th Street, neighbors are throwing out everything, including the bathroom sink.Stranger yet an entire boat beached on the boulevard."I'll be happy to see it go. It's junk," says Mary Gjevre Witt, owner of the boat.It's not something the city can help the Witt family dispose of so it's up for grabs to anyone who can move it.The worn-out vessel is tempting for Bubba, but even he has his limits."All in all, it does need a little cleaning up, but I don't have a trailer," Bubba says.He may not be able to haul away a boat, but that's not stopping him from growing his collection of secondhand treasures.We did hear word that someone claimed the boat Monday evening.If you're parting with anything still in decent shape this week several non-profits like the YWCA and Habitat for Humanity's ReStore encourage you to donate those items. (WDAY)