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Calling the New York Mets a "marquee franchise," new players' union head Tony Clark is paying attention to the team's payroll.

Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said he expects the team's payroll to be between $85 million and $88 million this season, which would be a slight decrease from its $90.9 million final figure last year.

Despite the additions of free agents Curtis Granderson, Bartolo Colon and Chris Young, the Mets have a payroll resembling that of a mid-market franchise. The Los Angeles Dodgers' payroll is over $225 million and the New York Yankees will top $200 million.

"Any time there are concerns or issues with any club related to certain habits or trends, we pay attention to it," Clark said after speaking with Mets players Tuesday during his tour of the 30 spring training camps. "New York is no different than any other club, from the standpoint of appreciating what's paid in payroll and how clubs may be functioning in general, related to improving the group they have on the field."

More Mets: Curtis Granderson hit two home runs and Zack Wheeler pitched three scoreless innings in a 6-2 victory over Houston. Granderson hit a two-run shot in the first and added a solo drive in the second. Wheeler struck out three and gave up two hits. He threw 40 pitches in his spring debut. Travis d'Arnaud got two hits for the Mets and Chris Young doubled and scored.

Yankees: Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez has rejoined the team as a minor-league spring training pitching instructor. He will be at the team's minor-league complex for the next few weeks.

Tigers: Ian Kinsler says an ESPN The Magazine story about him was "written for drama" and he says some critical comments attributed to him about the Rangers were taken out of context. In the ESPN story, Kinsler was quoted as saying he hopes his former team goes 0-162 this year. He also was quoted as calling Rangers general manager Jon Daniels a "sleazeball." Also, Andy Dirks is expected to miss three months due to a back problem that requires surgery.

Orioles: Two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana has agreed to a minor-league contract as he tries to come back from the second major operation on his left shoulder.

Red Sox: Right-hander Clay Buchholz made his Grapefruit League debut for Boston, going one inning, giving up a run on three hits and a walk with one strikeout in the team's 8-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.

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EDMOND Oklahoma ranks second nationally in the number of adults with a mental illness, according to the findings of a new study.

The study, conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, defined a serious mental illness as any mental, behavioral or emotional disorder that causes substantial functional impairment such as significantly interfering with or limiting one or more major life activities. Examples might include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or clinical depression.

SAMHSA defines any mental illness as the presence of any mental, behavioral or emotional disorder in the past year that meets specific diagnostic criteria.

The study ranked Oklahoma second in the number of persons in both categories.

From both a public and private perspective, finding help for a mental health issue is rapidly turning into a crisis situation, said Oklahoma Mental Health Commissioner Terry White, a product of Edmond Public Schools.

White said more than 600,000 Oklahomans are directly impacted by mental illness. White said these individuals are parents, loved ones, friends, neighbors, co-workers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, clergy just about anyone from any profession or socioeconomic level.

Officials are feeling the impact of this increasing need for services in the public system as well as the private system, White said. With scarce resources more people are going without services at the exact time that more people need them, White said.

If not treated early, a mental illness may progress, resulting in negative consequences such as divorce, family fragmentation, child neglect or abuse, unemployment or reduced work productivity, more students dropping out of school, homelessness, crime and incarceration, accidental or premature death and homicide or suicide, White said.

Its creating a perfect storm with no letup in sight, White said.

People become more seriously ill when they are unable to access services early in the disease process, White said. The good news is mental illness can be treated and success rates are very high, White said.

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A move to rescind fees for residential roofing, siding and window replacement in La Crosse cleared its first vote Tuesday.

The citys Judiciary and Administration Committee came out 7-2 in favor of dropping the permit requirement, now $32 for any or all of the three home improvement projects if done within a certain period.

Mayor Tim Kabat has pushed for the repeal, saying it would free up city inspectors to focus on priorities such as code enforcement. He also said voters told him during his mayoral campaign a year ago they saw the fees as a disincentive to upgrading their properties.

The council approved an extensive list of new fees during the 2012 budget process as a way to better control fly-by-night contractors, avoid faulty work in the city and generate funds after significant cuts in state revenue.

Several at the meeting noted Tuesday the fees are not unique to La Crosse but are done in some form in cities such as Eau Claire, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Racine and neighboring Onalaska.

Were playing catch-up, council member Francis Formanek said.

He and committee chairman Bob Seaquist were in the minority in opposing the measure, which moves on to the Committee of the Whole. If approved by the full council next week, it would be retroactive to Jan. 1.

The committee also granted another 13 properties a waiver to be registered as rentals during the citys moratorium against single-family home conversions, but did turn down four applications either because the owners were not present or did not demonstrate a hardship if it could not be rented out.

More than 100 homes have been granted waivers during the moratorium, originally to be six months ending in January before it was extended another 90 days, to April 21.

The city is looking at ways to better control the spread of rental properties into La Crosses residential neighborhoods. About half of the citys residential property already is rental, and a staff study for the committee indicated the city could have another 1,400 homes not on the registry.

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