PORT ST. LUCIE - The manager of the Mets Class A Brooklyn Cyclones resigned Friday, a day after he was arrested in Florida.
Leon Lee, the father of Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee, was accused by four women of exposing himself to them in a hotel over the span of two days.
Lee posted $2,000 bond and was released Thursday from St. Lucie County Jail after sheriff's deputies arrested him on two counts of exposure of his sexual organs.
According to the police report, the women told deputies Lee had opened his hotel door at a Holiday Inn in Port St. Lucie while he was naked, exposing himself to them.
The four women claimed at least five instances when Lee exposed himself Monday and Tuesday.
"I completely deny all of these charges," Lee said.
The police report said Lee told officers he had opened his door several times because people were knocking on his door, and said he was wearing clothes or a towel in every instance.
Lee, 51, turned himself in Thursday after a warrant was issued.
Feds seize drug tests from lab
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal authorities probing an alleged steroid distribution ring have seized the results and samples of drug tests on selected players from a drug-testing lab, a spokesman for the lab said.
IRS agents served a search warrant to obtain "documentation and specimens" from a Quest Diagnostics lab in Las Vegas, Quest spokesman Gary Samuels said.
Samuels would not say whether IRS agents took the drug-test results or specimen of Barry Bonds, but said the agents took materials consistent with a federal subpoena that had sought test results and specimens from the Giants slugger and fewer than a dozen other players. Among them were Yankees Gary Sheffield and Jason Giambi.
The raid occurred Thursday, shortly after the players association filed a motion seeking to squash that subpoena.
IRS spokesman Mark Lessler and U.S. Attorney's spokeswoman Ji-Yon Yi both said they could not comment.
SUSPENSIONS: Detroit pitcher Nate Cornejo was suspended for five games and Philadelphia pitcher Ryan Madson for three for their actions during spring training games.
Arizona manager Bob Brenly, Phillies manager Larry Bowa and Tigers manager Alan Trammell were suspended for one game each.
All five also were fined, and the punishments all stem from intentionally throwing at batters.
All three managers are to serve their penalties Saturday.
BLUE JAYS: They claimed right-handed pitcher Mike Nakamura off waivers from Minnesota and optioned him to Triple-A Syracuse.
BRAVES: Shortstop Rafael Furcal left Friday night's game against the Cubs in the sixth after he strained his back during an awkward swing.
Furcal was batting left-handed when he did a pirouette, then walked gingerly toward the Atlanta dugout. He is day to day.
D.C. EXPOS?: Washington is calling baseball's bluff over the relocation of the Expos.
City officials have prepared a new plan they say offers MLB exactly what it has requested - 100 percent public financing for a new ballpark if the Expos are moved to the nation's capital.
"It is by far the best proposal that the city could have come up with," Fred Malek, head of a potential ownership group who has worked closely with the city, said. "It's aggressive. It's got the support of the mayor as well as key members of the city council."
Baseball has been trying to resolve the future of the Expos since the struggling franchise was purchased by the other 29 teams before the 2002 season. League officials failed to meet deadlines in 2002 and 2003 to find a new home for the team and have set this year's All-Star break as their latest target.
