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Thanks guys, I'll probably go with Burkhardt since I read The Post anyway Puma's links may be duplicative

Who else can I follow on twitter, I'm done following Adam Rubin if he's going to be re-tweeting Snooki all day (seriously)

Nobody is worse than Angel "I got a flight to catch" Hernandez. I don't like the intentional walk here. Either isn't THAT good and loading the bases is suspect, you can too easily end up behind in the count with no place to put him

Gwynn was out. This umpire at first base is having a really bad day. Thanks for the freebie Ellis!

Mets dancing out of trouble... Would REALLY like to end it here with the now-depleted bullpen

I guess I'm mixing you up with someone else on the board. I still remain confused as to where the top and bottom of this poll are.

Frayed Knot wrote: I think we just got the make-up call at 1st Yes, he should have been out. TERRIBLE bunt though right back at the mound

Frayed Knot wrote: It's almost like Parnell decides ahead of time what he's going to throw on that particular day. Last week there was that outing where he threw nothing but curve-balls. Today everything is on the outside half. It is certainly not outside the realm of possibility that, while warming up in the pen, he sees his curve feels particularly good/bad that day and uses it accordingly.

I'm ok with the idea of a Bond reboot after 25 movies, there's nothing wrong with telling a new origin story 50 years later, Rebooting batman and spiderman after 3 movies seems excessive and lame though. They could have told a "Lizard" story without a reboot and they can keep telling more Batman stories without showing us how his parents died again and re-introducing Alfred, Gordon, etc.

Edgy DC wrote: This is on my I-don't-understand-the-terms-of-the-poll list. Given that he is both on the Far-Left and a Mets Fan I really have no idea if Steinbrenner or Cheney is supposed to be "5". I'd love to see standardization of polls in this forum (all zero through 5 with halves or 1-10 or whateever) and if you're going to be 'cute' with words include the numbers next tro them

Edgy DC wrote: I'll take it! Mets robbed, Ike was safe! I don't like the Valdespin bunt, inviting them to walk our best hitter with 1B open, thankfully they turned down that invitation.

bmfc1 wrote: He caught the final out of the Friday game against the MFYs. That's more than I can say for other infielders. Luis Castillo is envious!

Haven't the Mets been the ones scoring runs that way all year though? And hey, the Mets bullpen isn't just horrible, its CURSED! How else can you explain Dickey coming out of the pen and getting taken deep by Juan friggin Uribe? CURSED!!!

Wright and Davis hit back-to-back Yankee Stadium Homers* and the Mets are back in it, 3-2! *sac flies in a real field

metirish wrote: Damn, was this even on the radar?,a lot of players involved. Toronto has a minor league in in Las Vegas?, seems a bit out of the way. very out of the way, and there are rumors swirling that the Toronto is going to be pushing hard for Buffalo when the Mets deal runs out with them after this season. Theres always going to be someone left holding the bag with a AAA city far away from the big club like Toronto currently has with Las Vegas or the Mets had when stuck in New Orleans.

The response looks pretty overwhelming even after Ike's putrid start to the season. I have to agree. I'm kinda shocked that Baseball-Reference has Ike with a negative dWAR, I'd think he's a contributor on defense, maybe its just sample size?

Mets � Willets Point wrote: I've only seen one Batman movie - it was the one with George Clooney and Ahh-nold - and really it put me off Batman movies for life. I can't even keep up with all the different versions of Batman out there now. dont let that horrible movie turn you off to batman! batman begins and the dark knight were both excellent films, and ik cant wait to see this one too!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I guess if there's a Williams-Williams equivalent with this club it could be Duda-Davis. Let's just say Sandy decides he can only have 1 high-whiff lefty slugger and he'll be a first base. Who will have the better numbers in the coming years? That's a kinda tough decision. If you decide that Duda's bat will never be good enough to justify his sub-par defensive presense in the outfield then you may get stuck with just that decision. And i don't know who i'd pick.

Frayed Knot wrote: I've always thought that part of the reason baseball fans always seemed to get more pissed off at high salaries and/or work actions of their players than those of other sports is that baseball fans tended to view the gap between themselves and the guys they were watching on TV as much smaller than did the fans of pro football or basketball. It's most likely the size thing. It's easy to say that just because you're not 6'10" or not 319 lbs that there's no way you could be in the NBA or NFL, but seeing a David Eckstein have a decent career or some other normal sized player and the mental leap to thinking that the only reason you're on your couch watching him rather than the other way around is because he was the winner of some sort of lottery that you forgot to enter. I've always felt the opposite. I can hit the same shot using the same ball with the same size basket that a pro NBAer hits (what seperates us is that he can create that shot against an NBA defender), I can't hit an 85 mph fastball over the fence, no matter how many shots you give me. i also dont get that "he hit the lotto" feeling at all about baseball players. Eckstein made it through multiple levels of minor leagues where players are paid to weed bad players out. there is no minor-league screening process in NBA/NFL and guys definitely make those teams who arent ready to play but they are there based on POTENTIAL alone because the team has no minors to stash them away (and weed the bad ones out.) There have been #1 overall picks that never played in the majors!! but even jamarcus russell had his chance for the Raiders.

how many pitchers does it take to hold a 6 run lead???

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I know they're kindasorta saying it with their bats, but I wouldn't mind if, say, Wright hits another home run and circles the bases with both middle-fingers raised. Y'know, get a little heel heat going. No thank you.

Edgy DC wrote: Personally, I'd rather play baseball against pros of any level. The raw speed of a real basketball player would strip most of us of the ball as soon as we put down our first dribble. The raw power of even the worst football players... well, I don't want to be the ball carrier. I don't disagree that the injury risk, already greater in football, is even more magnified for an amateur. But I was talking purely about competitiveness. I think you are overrrating "real" basketball players relative to baseball players. I've played against Division 1 college players. Yes they destroyed me, but I scored a point or two and grabbed one or two rebounds (that didnt bounce their way.) Against a basketball player my own size I will sometimes get off a shot. its going to be an ugly hook shot to avoid him stuffing it back in my face, but its still a shot. It remains my contention that most people couldnt even make contact against professional pitching.

even at the low levels the pitchers all throw 85 MPH. It might be straight as an arrow, it might be without control, and they likely have no feel for a breaking ball or changeup, but the velocity alone makes them completely untouchable for 99% of the non-baseball-playing populaton. just my opinion- you'd have a better chance taking athletic guys off the street and competing against a minor league basketball or football league team than you would in baseball.

7 walks in 39 plate appearences is nice! Predictions on how long before they cut the cord here? I'll say 115 plate appearences with 80 K's.

For some reason I thought he was commited to a 4 year school if he didn't sign. Oh well, good luck in school kid.