Benjamin Grimm

I'm amazed at how many of these teams I've never even heard of. Nashville Predators? Minnesota Wild???

As long as managers are ruled by pitch counts, it only makes sense to make the other pitcher throw as many pitches as possible. Letting a guy get out of an inning with only eight pitches thrown pretty much gets him an extra inning, and helps keep the opposing bullpen from getting chewed up.

Voting for Wednesday's loss to the Reds will close some time over the weekend, perhaps as early as Saturday morning. If you have votes to cast, please try to do so today. Schaefer POTG 5/16/12 - Reds 6, Mets 3 SCHAEFER METS PLAYER OF THE WEEK Week ending April 14: Jon Niese, 6.63 points. Week ending April 21: Mike Pelfrey, 7.85 points. Week ending April 28: Lucas Duda, 8.00 points. Week ending May 5: Johan Santana, 5.71 points. Week ending May 12: David Wright, 8.95 points.

I'm going to assume that JCL's vote for "Nurse" was actually intended for "Niese".

Associated Press wrote: NEW YORK � A new deal between the Bloomberg administration and a group of developers including the owners of the Mets calls for the remediation and redevelopment of a 20-acre area of the blighted Willets Point neighborhood next to Citi Field, adding retail and ultimately new housing in a time frame that extends past an initial proposed 10-year plan, a person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press. The person requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the matter ahead of an announcement. Under the agreement, the developers, Related Companies and Sterling Equities, would clean up the area and construct retail stores, including a mall in the Queens neighborhood. Then, no later than 2025, they would start construction on a mixed-use component that would include housing and measure anywhere from 1.3 million square feet up to 4.5 million square feet. The founders of Sterling Equities are Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, the owners of the Mets. The redevelopment of the area, currently populated by auto-repair shops and junkyards and lacking infrastructure as basic as sewers, has long been a goal of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's. In 2007, he announced a 10-year initiative that would bring homes and commercial space to the area. The new agreement extends past that period, but the person speaking to the AP said that by the original end point of 2017, much would have been done including the vital first step of cleaning the area up and construction of some of the retail spaces. The person said that in conversations with potential developers, it was made clear to the city that the way to make the area somewhere that people wanted to live was by building the retail and other commercial space initially, that "first you have to make it into a destination that people get used to visiting. Then over time you can convince people to come and live there." The person speaking the AP said remediation could start in the area in early 2014.

So, what did we learn about the weather today?

Box score Cedeno 2 Dickey 1 Duda 1.5 Parnell 1 Rauch 1 Turner 1.5 Wright 2

Francisco in an NSS.

So Ronny can hit! Give that man some Schaefer!

Man, David is all that and a bag of chips.

My name is Rob Johnson I work in Wisconsin I work in a lumbermill there The people I meet when I walk down the street They say, "What's your name" and I say... My name is Rob Johnson I work in Wisconsin...

Baxter called out on strikes. And pissed off about it.

Walk loads 'em up. Pitching coach to the mound.

I'm not too optimistic that a battle of the bullpens will go in our favor.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Hairy to bat 4 Nickeas. Johnson's thumb is okay?

Cedeno out swinging. Two down.

Ronny, be a hero!

Turner sac flies home Wright with the tying run!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I can't believe I'm saying this, but I wish our manager was more like Dusty Baker. I wish he was more like Dusty Springfield. Stubbs in center can't make the catch. Bases loaded.

The bunt worked! Frazier at third couldn't find the handle! Everyone safe! Bases loaded!

The guy who wears number 29 for the Mets looks a lot like Ike Davis.