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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    The idea is that a player can get a maximum of 6 points, but 10 points are awarded. When a pitcher throws a complete game shutout, he's done everything expected of him (hence the 6), and those other 4 points are for the guys who hit the ball and catch the ball.
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    Schaefer voting for the second game of the season will close on Monday morning. Schaefer POTG 4/3/13 - Mets 8, Padres 4
  3. Benjamin Grimm
    Box score Buck 1.5 Edgin 0.5 Gee 3.5 Lyon 0.5 Rice 0.5 Turner 2
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    Nice catch by Ike on a foul pop near the seats. That's it for Familia.
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    Turner looks more like a young Hagar the Horrible than any Met player I've ever seen.
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    Unfortunately, it was a one-out walk.
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    Three more chances to score. Coming up: Buck, Tejada, Valdespin. Back in the late 80's, when I was a regular at Shea, the Mets almost always seemed to score in the bottom of the 7th when they were trailing.
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    Edgy MD wrote: Why should that insignia need an outline? It doesn't need it, but I think it looks okay. Ugh... Padres get the first run.
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    There's no orange-brimmed version of the batting helmet.
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    Yikes! I completely forgot that it was a day game! I'm working from home and could have had the TV on this whole time. Oh well. Looks like I missed 2 and a half scoreless innings. And I kinda like the orange-brimmed caps. It's better than any of the alternative caps they've been wearing.
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    Who? I feel like I'm missing something.
  12. Benjamin Grimm
    A lot of animal-related names in the new batch: Byrd, Cowgill, Buck, Lyon, Hawkins, and Rice. Okay, maybe "rice" isn't actually an animal.
  13. Benjamin Grimm
    The Second Spitter awarded 10.25 points, and his votes were prorated as follows: Niese 3.66 Cowgill 1.46 Tejada 1.22 Byrd 1.46 Buck 0.98 Wright 0.98 Rice 0.24 Frayed Knot awarded 10.05 points, and his votes were prorated as follows: Niese 3.23 Tejada 1.09 Cowgill 2.09 Murphy 0.9 Buck 1.09 Byrd 1.29 Wright 0.3
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    Harvey 5 Duda 1.5 Davis 1.5 Buck 1.5 Wright 0.5
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    Rusty Staub has been getting a lot of hits over the past few weeks, and checking the server logs I see that a lot of it is a result of people entering the Google search phrase "is rusty staub gay"? I know that this is an old "meme" (if I'm using the word correctly) but has something happened recently to call attention to this?
  16. Benjamin Grimm
    Why do we think that? I haven't gotten any kind of a vibe one way or the other. (I haven't seen any commercials or trailers.) All I know is that Harrison Ford is playing Branch Rickey, which seems like strange casting. (I would have gone with Stephen Root.)
  17. Benjamin Grimm
    As I said earlier, I don't mind the tribute to Jackie, I just think the rotunda is too much. The Mets are the second best team to host that tribute, right behind the Brooklyn Cyclones. Honoring Jackie Robinson in LA, because that's the current home of the Dodgers, makes as much sense as honoring Connie Mack in Oakland or Walter Johnson in Minneapolis.
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    Really? I don't remember that. At what point in time was that?
  19. Benjamin Grimm
    His use of "make believe" and "theme park" underscores my own point about Disney architecture. I would have loved it if they had built the new park in Manhattan, or even closer to Manhattan. If they could have found a spot in Long Island City, that would have been nice. But I don't think they ever considered other locations. The Shea location isn't bad; it was especially convenient when I lived on Long Island. You have the LIE and the Grand Central and the LIRR and the 7, but a place in or near Manhattan would have been more convenient to more people. I especially feel that way now that I approach the ballpark from the other side of the city. Oh well. I'm almost 50 years old. I suspect this will probably be the last "home of the Mets" during my lifetime, so if they do a better job the next time around I don't expect that I'll be alive to see it.
  20. Benjamin Grimm
    Edgy MD wrote: I love Jackie Robinson and support tributes to him, but if you really cared thoughtfully about his legacy, would you really build a statue of a number? That's such an afterthought. I forgot to mention that. That big blue number 42 is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. I was reminded of that on Monday when I saw people waiting to have their photo taken with the 42. I also think that the new movie about Jackie deserves a much better title. Calling the movie "42" is as lame as that "statue".
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    I was in Promenade Reserved section 512, almost directly behind home plate. It's a pretty nice place from which to watch the game, and it's very convenient to the food court that's atop the rotunda. And they're among the cheapest seats in the park, too.
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    Citi Field is a nice enough place to watch a ballgame, but architecturally, it is, as Johnny said, a missed opportunity. It's Disney architecture, which I hate. I haven't seen much of the new parks in Miami and Minneapolis, but to their credit, they didn't decide to go with the umpteenth "retro" stadium. It was a nice idea when Baltimore did it, but it's been way overdone by now. Don't build an early 20th Century stadium in the 21st Century. Making the stadium look like Ebbets Field was silly. Honoring Jackie Robinson is a nice and worthwhile idea, but it would have been better done with a statue or a plaque than a whole rotunda. (And really, it should have been at the Brooklyn Cyclones' park rather than at the Mets home in Queens.)
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    Fifteen voters so far for the Opening Day game! It would be great if we can maintain this level of participation deep into the season! Voting for Monday afternoon's opener will close on Thursday morning. If you haven't voted yet and intend to, please try to do so today. Schaefer POTG 4/1/2013 Mets 11 Padres 2
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    Frayed Knot wrote: Don't threads get archived based on the last month of activity on them? No, they're archived by the month that they started.
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    I wonder if Chris Christie is going to get shit from right-wing Republicans for chatting with Mike Lupica.
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