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DAILY NEWSNYDailyNews.com Sunday, March 14,2010 71 1 Jorge de la Rosa Rockies: Elite strikeout rate (9.49 IP), but bad luck (low 70 strand rate) kept ERA, WHIP elevated. Coors Field isn't the pitcher's nightmare it used to be. 2Seth Smith Rockies: a .888 ops and 15 homers in just 335 at-bats last year. Talent's there, just needs opportunity; trading fensively-challenged Brad Hawpe would create that opportunity. 3 Ricky Nolasco Marlins: Noiasco's '09 ERA was nearly 2 runs higher than support-neutral stats would have predicted, due to horrible luck (.336 BABIP61 strand rate).

4 Desmond Jennings Rays: He'll start the season in the minors, but if the Rays deal Carl Crawford or if Matt Joyce struggles that would push Jennings into the big club's everyday lineup. 5 Colby Lewis Rangers: Japanese League stats can be iffy, but superhuman 10.3:1 strikeout-to-walk rate last year prompted Texas to bring Lewis back to the U.S. Fantasy sleepers to consider from bloombergsports.com. TOP BY MICHAEL O'KEEFFE MARK LELINWALLA The mind of the 'Body' leged plots behind the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F.

Kennedy, Malcolm and Martin Luther King, allegations of government dope dealing during Iran-Contra, Watergate, Wall Street scams, stolen elections and the Jonestown Massacre. Jesse Ventura can make it to the Netherlands for Thanksgiving, he'll add one more job to an already impressive resume that includes gigs as a Navy SEAL, Rolling Stones bodyguard, professional wrestler, mayor, governor, author and television host. Marijuana judge. office in Minnesota. He spends winters on Mexico's Baja peninsula, where he has no phone, TV or computer.

The only way to reach him, he says, is through his wife's e-mail account. "You get a different perspective looking in as opposed to looking out. The first thing that is apparent is that we are now living in East Berlin," said Ventura referring to what he sees as an erosion people's civil liberties. "Coming back to the United States is like going back to East Berlin." Ventura may not be up for East Berlin, but he's definitely up for Amsterdam. UMPS GET IT RIGHT Ventura believes there is ample evidence that suggests the Bush administration knew about the 911 attacks in advance but did nothing to prevent them and in fact may have assisted the worst case of "Can I be one of the judges in Hoi land for the marijuana thing?" Ventura cracked last week after meeting High Times editor Steve Hager, the founder of the Cannabis Cup, the pot fest held every year mm in Amsterdam.

Ventura told Hager during their Major League Baseball umpires are used to yelling, "You're out!" Not this time. This time, everyone's invited in. An autographed MLB jersey signed by President Obama, a pre-concert meet-and-greet with the Black Eyed Peas and tickets to the 2010 All-Star Game are HBjBJBJBJKli terrorism on American soil in history. "We need a new investigation, an investigation with subpoena power," Ventura said. "We need people who are not in the government to do the investigation.

We need a true investigation." Ventura, an independent who was elected Minnesota governor in 1998, has little use for Democrats or Republicans. He says politicians are more interested in furthering their own ideologies and parties than serving their constituents. He had particularly strong words for the Tea Party, which he calls an Astroturf movement working on behalf of big business interests and the GOP to smear President Obama. "The Tea Party is a bit of a fraud," Ventura said. "They say they are here to defend the Constitution, but where were they when the Bush administration was getting rid of habeas corpus? I find it ironic that they were founded after Barack Obama was elected.

This is not a grassroots movement." Ventura, tanned and wearing jeans, sneakers, a gray T-shirt and a dark blazer, looked a bit like a beach bum at the event. In fact, he has become a beach bum in the years since he left the governor's meeting at the venerable Russian Tea Room on W. 57th St. that he is no longer smokes pot, but he was a midnight toker during the 1960s. "I smoked pot," Ventura said.

"I grew up in the '60s. If you grew up in the '60s and say you didn't smoke pot, you are either a liar or you didn't really grow up in the '60s." Ventura was in town to promote his new book, "American Conspiracies," which was released by Skyhorse Publishing last week, and he came to the Russian Tea Room to speak to the Hudson Union Society, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that invites politicians, authors, scientists, actors and other notables to speak about their work and opinions. The event was only open to Hudson Union Society members and a handful of journalists, including Hager, a tall, thin man with long gray hair who eagerly agreed to Ventura's request. The book, which is an extension of the show Ventura hosts on truTV, "Conspiracy Theory," examines the chapters in American history that don't get included in textbooks, including the al just some of the more than 100 items available in the Umps Care Charities online auction. There's also signed baseball memorabilia from greats such as Frank Robinson, Joe Morgan, Rod Carew, Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan.

The auction started Friday and runs through March 22. For more information, or to bid on items, go to www.UmpsCare.com. Winning bidders will be notified after March 22. The winner and still champion with two Daily News Golden Gloves championships and a national Golden Gloves title, came to a close? "I have no regrets, I accomplished a lot in boxing," Bradley says. "I see other guys that came up with me and they're not in great shape I have my brain.

The only thing I don't have is millions and millions of dollars, but if you have that, you could BY MATT GAGNE DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER WHEN HIS VISION BLURRED, Lonnie Bradley never lost his focus. Thirteen years ago, the last world champion to come out of Harlem suffered a detached retina while sparring before still have problems and everything else." for his WBO middleweight title defense at the Garden, leaving him unable to fight and forcing him to give up the crown. What was thought to be a minor injury turned out He hopes to impart this wisdom beyond the ears of his 15-year-old daughter, Bria, and his sons, 12-year-old Jordan and 7-year-old Justin. Which is why Bradley is now training fighters at the Mendez Boxing Club in Manhattan. Among his charges: Shir-rod Victoria, who advanced to last week's Golden Gloves semifinals in the 152-pound open class.

to be career-changing: Bradley still owned an unblemished record in 1997, having just completed his sixth title defense over a nearly two-year span. But the freak injury kept him out of the ring until August 1999, and he would fight onlyfour more times. His lastbout, and his only defeat, came via TKO in November 2003. "He's humble, he's mild-mannered, so I enjoy it," Bradley says. "Boxing is something that I'm always going to be involved in.

I've always enjoyed doing it, and I'm back on the scene It's come full-circle. I started in the Golden Gloves, I built my career in the Golden Gloves, and now I'm back helping the kids. I'm always in the gym, tweaking a kid and making sure he has his brains after boxing." As for his legacy, Bradley knows where he stands whenever he walks around the neighborhood. "They call me 'champ' every day, wherever I go," he says. "It makes me feel good, I appreciate it.

But it's not necessarily in the boxing ring. It's also being champ at life, and that's how I view it." For most boxers it would have been a crushing blow, but not for Bradley, who at 41 looks back on his career knowing he had the right perspective all along. "If the boxing didn't pan out, I didn't want to be one of those fighters who was still hanging on and hanging around. Life comes first," says Bradley, a father of three who still lives in Harlem, and works as a union carpenter and mechanic. "It's a good living, you make good money.

What's really important is my kids, being able to take care of them and having a normal family life. They're healthy and they do well in school." But is he bothered by the way his career, which began.