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[Ceetar]

MFS62 wrote: I'm guessing the Post will have "Jeter Needed the Rest, So He Made It Rain". Later

I was assuming some knock on the Twins playing baseball outside.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

TAKA-SQUASHI
Amazin's Blank Phils Behind Hisanori, Jose

[nymr83]

SAYANORA CHARLIE!
Mets take series from Phils behind Takahashi's 6 shutout innings

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

HISA-NO-RUNS!
Taka shuts down Phils, Reyes continues
heating up as Mets continue to not fail for now

[nymr83]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: ...as Mets continue to not fail for now

No, thats the title for someone's column!

[metirish]

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I'd say the Post wins that round.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Really, I like the Snooze today.

[metirish]

That picture of Reyes is great, his eyes look crazy.

[Willets Point]

I'm amazed that the Mets trumped the Yankees winning two games given the Yankeephilia of the NY sports media.

[MFS62]

Uh, not for nuthin', but I remember when the World War II war movies used "Zips" as a derogatory term for Japanese (So was "Nips"). I realize he meant two games in which he gave up no runs, but somebody should eat a lot of sushi for that headline.

Later

[soupcan]

Short for 'Zipperhead' right?

[MFS62]

soupcan wrote: Short for 'Zipperhead' right?

Actually, I believe it was because the principal Japanese fighter plane the Allies faced was code named the "Zero".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A6M_Zero
and Zip is another way to say zero. Later, it became a word used for all Japanese.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Willets Point wrote: I'm amazed that the Mets trumped the Yankees winning two games given the Yankeephilia of the NY sports media.

It led the late local sports news, too.

Win or lose, it does seem like the Mets are the more compelling baseball drama right now.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, the Mets won the crosstown series and are now playing, beating, and shutting out the first-place two-time-pennant-defending division rivals. The Yanks lost the crosstown series and are playing the Twins --- interesting to New York Sports editors only when (a) local teams are taking their best players away from them, and ( when David Wells is pitching a perfect game against them.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The Mets are also doing their Dew at home.

But I'd argue that while the Yanks (as always) are winning the fluff-piece/dollarstore-hagiography war, the Mets have been drawing more tabloidy/back-page attention in general. The onfield ups and downs have been pretty extreme this year, making for damn good hacky copy; the off-field leitmotif of Minaya/Manuel's Last Stand (along with the Citifield-is-empty story some amateur sociologists favor) trumps anything drama-wise that the Yankees have to offer, unless Cashman suddenly and publicly decides he's Kim Ng in a white man's body.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The MFYs will find themselves on the back page again if Minnesota could ever beat them and continue their struggles (the MFYs scored 4 runs over 2 away games and won both, WTF Twins) and/or when more Pettitte/A-Rod doping juice is revealed and you know it will be.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The MFYs will find themselves on the back page again if Minnesota could ever beat them and continue their struggles (the MFYs scored 4 runs over 2 away games and won both, WTF Twins) and/or when more Pettitte/A-Rod doping juice is revealed and you know it will be.

What about the Jeter/Rivera doping juice?

Speaking of doping juice, (and I'm not dignifying it with a post/link) Murray Chase is hurt that the media didn't lambast Piazza when he was in Citi Field this past weekend about his "so evident if it was a murder charge he'd be convicted" steroid use.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Well, I don't go for the goosechase myself but if Piazza wasn't juiced then juice didn't exist.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Note to self: don't select Murray Chass for my homicide jury.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The MFYs will find themselves on the back page again if Minnesota could ever beat them and continue their struggles (the MFYs scored 4 runs over 2 away games and won both, WTF Twins) and/or when more Pettitte/A-Rod doping juice is revealed and you know it will be. What about the Jeter/Rivera doping juice? Speaking of doping juice, (and I'm not dignifying it with a post/link) Murray Chase is hurt that the media didn't lambast Piazza when he was in Citi Field this past weekend about his "so evident if it was a murder charge he'd be convicted" steroid use.

"WHY DID THE PRESS LET THAT GREASY JACKANAPE SNEAK INTO TOWN WITHOUT ASKING HIM QUESTIONS THAT I SO CLEARLY RAISED WITH THE CLEARLY-OUTLINED RUMORS ON MY NON-BLOG? YOU'LL HAVE TO ASK THOSE REPORTERS YOURSELVES, IF YOU CAN PIN 'EM DOWN... BECAUSE IT'S HARD TO PIN DOWN EELS. AND THEY'RE AN EELY, NEW-AGE BUNCH! WHO BLOGS! YOU CAN'T TRUST A BLOGGER, AND YOU CAN'T PIN DOWN AN EEL!"

THAT'S NOT THE WAY WE USED TO DO IT! IN MY DAY, WE DIDN'T LET PUBLIC FIGURES GO WITH A FREE PASS WHEN WE FOUND OUT SOMETHING INCRIMINATIN' ABOUT 'EM! NO, WE'D BLACKMAIL 'EM! HELL, F. D. R. WAS INTO OVER HALF OF THE DC POLITICAL BEAT REPORTERS FOR A GRAND APIECE OVER POLIO... AND THE TIME HE KILLED A HINDOO PROSTITUTE IN THE BLUE ROOM! IT WAS THE JOURNALISTICALLY RIGHT THING TO DO, AND WE LIKED IT!

CREDIT MY WILD ASSUMPTIONS IN YOUR WORK! STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO NUMBERS, AND PAY ATTENTION TO ME! READ MY NON-BLOG!"

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Phillies 0 for New York

[G-Fafif]

Bad, nebulous back page possibility:

PHIL 'ER NOPE!

Less bad but not great:

GOOSED!

Dark horse:

CANYON OF ZEROES

[batmagadanleadoff]

GROUND ZERO!
Mets, behind three DP's, blank Phils for 3d straight game!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Man, I came up with one just before I went to bed and now I can't remember it.

Canyon of Zeroes is pretty awesome though.

[Willets Point]

Mets slacking off. Scored 8 runs on Tuesday, but only 8 runs combined in last two games.

[metirish]

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

stuck with the lousy 'racing final' edition featuring Javy Vasquez and his latest failure to become a tru mfy

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: stuck with the lousy 'racing final' edition featuring Javy Vasquez and his latest failure to become a tru mfy

Does it also say "BLANK YOU"....'cos it could....

[soupcan]

'BLANKS FOR COMING' is pretty good.