Felix Millan is flattered these days whenever some of the kids he is teaching baseball imitate his trademark batting style?- choking way up on the bat handle, the better to spray singles. But Millan, the former Met who was an important part of their 1973 World Series team, knows that today's kids are romanced by home runs, so the imitations don't last long."A kid who doesn't have power can use it to make contact," Millan says. "I knew I didn't have a lot of power. I had to do something. Today, they are all thinking about power."Millan is now 67 Beats For Sale years old, Beats For Sale Online though the flecks of gray in another of his trademarks - his mustache - might be the only indicators of his age. He still looks as trim as a '70s-era second baseman, happy spending his retirement at his homes in Florida Beats Headphones For Cheap and his native Puerto Rico, working on his golf game.He's got fond memories of his career, laughing easily about such things as the day Met teammate Joe Torre hit into four double plays and jokingly blamed Millan, because Millan had four hits in front of him. "He could've hit a home run or something, couldn't he?" Millan jokes.He's still proud of his days as a coach in the Mets' minor-league system, too, working with players such as Edgardo Alfonzo, Rey Ordonez and Butch Huskey. "I'd love to get back into pro baseball, but I don't think so," Millan says. Then he chuckles. "I'm getting old and I want to enjoy life, enjoy my family."So Millan stays in the game by doing youth clinics and making appearances for the Mets - he recently threw out the first pitch at Citi Field. He's an instructor every June in Puerto Rico for the Roberto Clemente Sports City and he's taken several instructional trips for Major League Baseball. In August, he's headed to Italy for a month on an MLB trip to provide instruction for talented youngsters."I love it," Millan says. "From Africa, from the Netherlands, kids from different countries come in. There's a lot of good young ballplayers in the world."Millan was pretty good himself during his career for the Braves and Mets, in which he batted .279, made three All-Star teams and won two Gold Gloves from 1966-77. He later won a batting title in Japan. Millan came to the Mets before the '73 season in one of the great trades in club history? Millan and George Stone from the Braves for Gary Gentry and Danny Frisella.He and Stone were two reasons the Mets made the World Series in '73, though they blew a 3-2 lead to the powerful Oakland Athletics and lost in seven games. All these years later,Beats For Sale 6AkH59TaOpWN7B, the error that the sure-handed Millan made in Game 1 that led to two unearned runs in a 2-1 loss, clearly still grates on him."That World Series was a very good experience. I didn't play good," says Millan, who hit .188. "But we were very close. We went to Oakland up, 3-2, and had a very good chance. But that's how baseball is. They were very good with Reggie (Jackson), (Joe) Rudi, (Sal) Bando. (Bert) Campaneris was a great shortstop and their pitching was very good. That's why they went three years in a row winning the World Series."I tried my best and I know our guys did the best to win. We were very close."THE SCORE HEARS ...BY WAYNE COFFEY, MICHAEL O'KEEFFE & EBENEZER SAMUEL CERRONE NOW A TEEN ANGELRick Cerrone spent 11 years as the Yankees' PR director, and George Steinbrenner's resident flack-master. He has spent the last six months consumed with an altogether different calling - one that will provide teenagers in Yorktown Heights with a state-of-the-art safe harbor/hangout destination."If it weren't for Rick, I don't know where we'd be," said Helena Rodriguez, board president of the Yorktown Teen Center. "He had a thought and Buy Beats For Cheap he went with the thought and made it happen."You want to see an extreme makeover? Check out the 720-square feet showplace in the old school building Beats Studio Headphones Cheap on Commerce St., in the northern Westchester community where Cerrone grew up. The ratty carpet, the drab walls, the beaten-up pool table, the aging wires - all of it has been replaced, refreshed, renovated - a $50,000 undertaking that Cerrone spearheaded as chief fundraiser and relentless networker.Monday night is the ribbon-cutting, the first time the community will see the new furniture, the new computers and flat-screen TV, to say nothing of the fresh paint and photos of days past in Yorktown Heights.Now a PR consultant and motivational speaker, Cerrone got involved in the project after agreeing to speak at a Teen Center fundraiser last October. He gave a talk called "Nice Guys Finish First," but when he saw the droopy state of the center, he told Rodriguez, "What would you think of making this a place that is inviting - a place kids really would want to be?"Cerrone said the makeover never would've gone anywhere without the support of a host of local businesses and workmen, or the generosity of the Jack DeVito Foundation of Yorktown Heights. It also might never have happened without Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, whom Cerrone met as a 19-year-old undergrad at Northern Illinois, nearly 40 years ago. Mr. Cub and the kid got talking and Cerrone told Banks his career ambition was to be the PR director of a major-league baseball team, and Banks told Cerrone he had to go for his dream and never stop, even to the point of Cheap Beats Headphones making the kid repeat it out loud: I am going to be the PR director of a major-league team.To Cerrone, the moral of the story goes far beyond new furniture and fresh paint. "What I learned from Ernie Banks is that if you take the time to make someone's day, you just might change their life," Cerrone said.CARDILLO SAYS NO TIME TO WEIGHTNew York parents spend a fortune trying to prepare their kids for life's challenges. Fitness guru Steve Cardillo says they could give their sons a head start simply by buying some dumbbells and a weight bench."Getting started in weight training at a young age sets you up for the rest of your life," says Cardillo, the author of "How a Champion is Made," a fitness and nutrition guide for parents and their kids.Cardillo says weight training not only builds the strength and stamina kids need to successfully compete in sports, but also gives them mental discipline that help them succeed as adults, too.Cardillo writes that weight training gives young men the energy to get through the school day and teaches them to set and work toward goals. Weight lifters, he adds, look and feel better about themselves. Weight training is also a great way to combat obesity and illness, and stave off bullies, he writes."What you achieve when you are young stays with you for the rest of your life," says Cardillo,Cheap Beats Headphones 0MxL62, the owner of Cardillo Weight Belts and American Nutrition Center in Everett, Mass."How a Champion is Made" demonstrates proper exercise techniques, offers nutrition tips and provides an outline for how kids can get the most out of a gym. It also suggests that athletes who hit the weight room early in life will be less tempted to use steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs."Those who neglect to weight train as a youth but take steroids as an adult are making up for lost time and forcing the issue by accelerating the process of building big, lean muscle," Cardillo writes.THESE KIDS GOT THE BEATSixteen city kids are going to be all tangled up in Duffy Square on West 46th St., this Thursday afternoon, but it's not what you think. All 16 are accomplished high school students and wrestlers - 12 boys and four girls - and they will be competing in a card of exhibition matches to help promote Beat the Streets, a youth program that has provided wrestling opportunities for thousands of middle school and high school students in the city.The youth matches will begin at 3 p.m. and be followed by an Olympic-style dual meet between the U.S. and Russia - a competition that will include a number of world and NCAA champions, and Olympic gold medalists. Admission is free.A Beat the Streets Gala will held at the Hard Rock Café at 1501 Broadway on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.One of the competitors will be Rosemary Flores,Cheap Beats Headphones 2BmJ31, of Curtis High on Staten Island, who will be wrestling Natalie Cortez of Brooklyn's High School for Public Service (Wingate campus)."Wrestling is what I love to do and being able to wrestle in Times Square in front of thousands of people will be a great experience," Flores said. "This will be a great opportunity to show more New York City kids what we have learned through Beat The Streets."PARTY LIKE AN NFL PLAYERThe NFL may find a way to keep players from playing, but there's no way it can prevent them from partying.And if you wanted proof, all you needed to do was head to Greenhouse NYC on Varick Street a few hours after the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday. Texans DE Jarvis Green and Titans pass-rusher Jason Babin threw an all-night draft bash, introducing a handful of rookies and young players to the NFL's night life."It was Jarvis' idea," a sheepish Babin told the Score. "He's the old veteran."Lions second-year star Ndamukong Suh, Texans DT Amobi Okoye and Bills rookie Marcell Dareus joined longtime NFLers Darren Sharper, Dwight Freeney and Keith Bulluck as well as R&B singer O'Neal McKnight entertained the crowd."It's a good atmosphere," Green said.HILLIS ... HE'S IN THE GAME!The fans have spoken, and nobody is more ecstatic about that than Browns RB Peyton Hillis is.For the first time in the history of the Madden video game franchise, EA Sports let fans choose the game's cover boy, using six weeks of bracket-style voting to select this year's star. And last week, at the end of it all, Hillis earned the Madden honor (or do we mean jinx?).That means the 25-year-old fullback-turned-Pro Bowl rusher spent his Thursday in Times Square doing a Madden cover shoot and grinning like 250-pound third-grader."You know, it's an unbelievable feeling," Hillis said. "I think it pretty much describes the American dream. It's probably every kid's dream going into the (NFL) draft right now."