1.   After finishing his postgame meal, Garciaparra made a call on his cellphone as he quickly dressed, then left the clubhouse, the phone to his ear.

2.   Cone dumped a couple of laundry hampers, smashed a bottle and used a chair to wreck the postgame meal laid out on a table.

3.   Dusty Baker finally could enjoy a postgame meal.

4.   It was so bad that team chaplain Leo Armbrust broke the code of silence with a profanity when sophomore tackle Freeman Brown complained about the postgame meal.

5.   Lasorda was found eating his postgame meal with half of a plastic fork, and with the other half pushed aside on his desk top.

6.   Several of the players, for example, picked at their postgame meals and grumbled over the eyesight of third-base umpire and crew chief Terry Tata.

7.   The infielder ate his postgame meal slowly, out of necessity using only his left hand.

8.   The postgame meal sat virtually untouched in the middle of the room.

9.   Tommy John used to get games completed in that time, with more to spare for a postgame meal, shower and walk to the bus.

10.   When the Mets left Veterans Stadium on Saturday, they did so to the beat of salsa music and with their stomachs full of crabs from their postgame meal.