STAVE IT OFF

[Guest Edgy DC]

Biggio homers in the top of the eighth. The Astros, now with a magic number of four, thanks to the Mets, go up 3-1.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Scrapiron going to Lidge to start the eighth. Edmonds flies to center.
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And Pujols files to center. Walker grounds to first.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Tavarez struggles through the home eighth and St. Louis has three more outs to tie this up against Lidge.

[metirish]

The Braves are the NL East champs again...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sanders opens with a walk Grak;su;alaixnk is up.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Damn. Pinch-runner Schumaker picked off.

Don't they know what this means to me?

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Grudzy grounds to third. Two out. John Rodriguez (who?) pinch hitting.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Heilman opened.

He whiffs. Nice season, Mets.

[metirish]

Astros win, so it's official, the Mets are done but not with the winning...go Mets

[Guest Edgy DC]

Team down by two in the ninth and the pinch runner gets picked when he's not even the tying run.

I'm hoping LaRussa sends him down to Springfield.

[metirish]

WOW, LaRussa won't like that, the pinch runner had to be a rookie,any idea who it was?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

It seems that each of the past few springs, people write off the Braves saying that their run atop the NL East is coming to an end. Then, when the dust clears, year after year, there atop the standings sit the Braves as division champions. Season after season, they seem capable of reinventing themselves and coming up with a good team.

In many ways, I admire the Atlanta organization's resiliency and consistancy. I hope the future of the Mets organization holds such promise.

[MFS62]

LaRussa has had bad luck in pinch running situations since the Jerry Dubzynski incident when Tony was managing the White Sox. Killed their playoff hopes that year. My friend Shoeless Don the White Sox fan still hates him for that move.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

]WOW, LaRussa won't like that, the pinch runner had to be a rookie,any idea who it was?

Skip Schumaker.

[metsmarathon]

for some reason, i don't hate the braves as much this year... i can't figure out why...

[HahnSolo]

Re: the Braves' dominance. I just turned 38. The last year that they were not in the postseason [discounting '94] was the same year I graduated college.
Or, put another way, Joe Walton was still coaching the Jets the last time the Braves were not playing postseason games.

[Guest KC]

14 divisional titles, one ring ... that kinda hell I wouldn't be able to endure.

[Guest cooby]

Lets do it! Lets root for the Braves to go all the way!

[Guest KC]

I could only root for the Braves against the MFY's.

But think about it, that's fourteen extended seasons. Thirteen of them ended
in failure. When you watch post-season games the stress gets bumped up a
notch. I would have quit them 7-8 years ago just for sanity sake.

[Guest cooby]

Oh, I could root for them against some (not all) teams other than the Yankees, but admittedly it would be a challenge. And very very strange feeling.

And don't tell my dad!

[Willets Point]

I'll only root for them if they move back to Boston.