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I would like to think they'd have stuck with Parnell if that hadn't been such a good pinch-hitting spot* *though they could have double-switched when Parnell came in. Kudos to Terry though on getting Santana out of there... I generally want to stick with a starter pitching well, but with his surgery and the no-hitter pitch count it was time to yank him. Plus the bullpen always needs some work the day after Dickey! Oh and that's something I had not given Terry credit for but just thought of: in re-arranging the rotation after Santana's no-hitter to put Dickey a day or two before him, Terry has ensured a rested bullpen for the guy most likely to need (in terms of needing rest, not needing to bailed out early due to ineffectiveness)

Ceetar wrote: bmfc1 wrote: My favorite part of the poll is that you can vote for all of the choices. someone didn't though..*gasp* Not to fear, the poll is set to allow you to change your mind and Phuck ALL of Philly.

Freddy Galvis, Phucking Philly and Utley-replacement, has been suspended for 50 games for steroids!

Instead of a closer for the 9th inning, how bout a 1-inning starter for the 1st... Either Rauch or Byrdak depending on the handedness of their first 3 batters and then WHAM 2nd inning in comes the unanounced starter... Is it Santana on normal rest? Is it Dickey on 3 days? Is it Gee on an extra day? You won't know until the game starts!

That chart shows you how underrated Paul Konerko is compared to an overrated clown with much worse stast like, say, Mark Texiera.

If you don't use either of the two remaining offdays before the all-star break to flip the rotation, you end up with RA Dickey on normal rest for the All-Star game, all ready to 1-hit the American League's best players (plus Jeter) in the first All-Star Complete Game in ages!

It would be great if we never had to discuss a possible Ike-demotion again, but he's not out of the woods yet and needs to keep up his play of the last 2 weeks

From Adam Rubin: Since earned runs were first kept as a statistic in 1912 in the NL and 1913 in the AL, only four other pitchers have compiled 11-plus wins, a sub-2.50 ERA and more than one strikeout per inning through their first 14 starts of a season: Francisco Liriano (Minnesota, 2006), Randy Johnson (Arizona, 2000), Pedro Martinez (Boston, 1999) and Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles, 1966), Elias reported.

Corey Oswalt got about 400K out of the Mets where his "slot" was only about 150K, was this guy a higher round talent who slipped on signability issues?

Ugh, Wright lines out and I think the absolute last thing a Mets fan wants to see right now is Dickey sliding back into third leading with his right hand there...oy. Oh, and grand slam ike davis!

Oh no! Dickey gives up the hit but gets the next guy, he is cruising again tonight!

Dickey walks the AL pitcher... Yikes. Howie joking about the Mets still not having a perfect game. Another K! Dickey's 5th in 3 innings!

Not what we needed Thole! Fucking doubleplay

Its DICKEY TIME!!!

Clemens should have been put on trial for his assault on Mike Piazza with a broken baseball bat, witnessed by 50,000 people and captured on tape.

That's right Terry, see who is warming up before you fill out a lineup card!

Ah yes! Why doesn�t boy-aged Erik kill Shaw when he freaks out after his mother is shot? He obviously has the ability because he killed everyone else in the room. Given what we see of Shaw's powers, Erik may NOT have the ability at that point in time... BUT Erik wouldn't have known that so your point stands. Big plot hole. Why was Havoc in jail when we first meet him? Why isn�t there any reference to him being related to Scott? I suppose these could be cleared up in sequels. I guess you just need to see what the sequel says, but at least in the comics Alex/Scott were orphaned and seperated at a young age. How does Hank know how to fly a plane? I'm unclear if that's in the comic, but Beast was a not-infrequent pilot of the Blackbird in the 1990's X-men cartoon (far superior to wolverine and the x-men btw for anyone who likes cartoons) Why can�t Magneto find the submarine near the end of the film? Can�t he detect metal? Instead Banshee has to be converted into human sonar. This seems inconsistent with his knowledge that the swiss banker had metal fillings that he could manipulate. I thought Hank designed the X Men suits to be bulletproof�how does Xavier get shot? Aren't plot holes fun? I hadn't even thought of that one. The best I can offer is that this particular bullet didn't come straight from the gun but was deflected by Magneto, perhaps at a higher velocity than originally fired and too fast for 1960's equivalent of kevlar to stop it What happened to Xavier�s parents? Again, I suppose the sequels may clear that up. In the comics, his father is a deceased nuclear scientist his mother marries Juggernaut's father but she soon dies (natural causes I think?) If the CIA knows about Xavier�s powers, and they want to find him, why wouldn�t they just go to where he lives (where they academy is)? Xavier wipes agent MacTaggert�s memory, but that shouldn�t stop them from knowing about where he is. I'm guessing if anyone ever came looking he'd give them the equivalent of "these aren't the droids you're looking for" The Hugh Jackman cameo was the best part of the movie, IMO. A very funny moment.

Edgy DC wrote: He's in the race now. Lynn is a pretender, sez I. I think Gonzalez should fade as well, at least to the point where he doesn't get a first place vote from anyone but the National's beat writer. Matt Cain is the real horse here (and how smart do the Giants look forking over that huge extension to him and not to Lincecum?) And there is still time for new guys to emerge, but wouldn't it just be amazing for Dickey to hang in there?

I was avoiding this thread until I saw. The movie, which I finally watched last night. I can't see the bottom part of transmonk's post on my blackberry (is it a chart?) I gave it 3.5 stars bc I liked the movie but there was a whole lot I didn't like: -Marvel seems way too focused lately on Magneto as the holocaust survivor anti-hero, where'd our VILLAIN go? Was he ever a "nazi hunter" in the comic books? I don't remember itm. -forgetting the comic book, Mystique's character was wildly inconsistent even with the other movies. -these weren't the original xmen!! Why would you have Alex Summers and where was his older brother? I don't even know who the girl with the wings or the guy Shaw killed at the CIA headquarters were. -I would have rather seen (albeit a longer movie) a young cyclops/jean/beast/iceman/angel (even though the movies had already established bobby as a much younger charcter than the others), Xavier's rift with Magneto could have come earlier and allowed Magneto to act as a third wheel out for personal revenge on Shaw without caring how the missile crisis turned out while X and the team tried to stop it. -casting for Banshee was terrible -they stole the villain's secret submarine straight from a bond movie -Emma Frost and Beast were nice inclusions, and its nice that they managed to throw Moira Mctaggert in there to show her relationship with Xavier, but was she a CIA agent? I thought she was a scientist. -the historical setting of the cuban missile crisis was excellent and they did it well, this helped the movie's grade a lot more than the charcters (other than Xavier, Magneto, and Beast who I thought were very well cast and played)

Watched it on demand, it was ok. Worth a watch when it comes to free cable at least.

Edgy DC wrote: Exactly. And Gonzalez and Strasburg are trying to elbow in on Dickey's All-Star start and Cy Young award. Heck with that. The future is now. Get on board. The NL CY Young race right now looks like Dickey, Cain, Gonzalez, Lance Lynn, and I know there was someone else I'm forgetting. Strassburg is supposedly getting shut down at 160 innings, which if they follow through on that will take him out of contention.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Where is everyone supposed to park? But more importantly, isn't Willets West on the land that WAS Shea Stadium??? I hope they still have something showing where the bases were. They don't want you to park, they want to basically force anyone who doesn't want to pay out the ass for a garage to use mass transit, ignoring that they are not as centrally and conveniently located as, say, the Knicks/Rangers are. Driving home from the game on a weekenight is an hour door to door for me. It would be two and a half hours to take the 7 train, the 2 train, the staten island ferry, and the staten island railroad. That's not happening with work in the morning. They (bloomberg and the wilpons) don't give two shits where the Shea bases were.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I'm really starting to like Bryce Harper [youtube:1btr1hqj]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baF3qWDwo2Q&sns=fb[/youtube:1btr1hqj]

Hairston really needs to be starting most days at this point. Torres needs to sit the bench so Duda-Hairston-Kirk can play unless Ike starts looking bad enough to get sent down (he's had the mild beginnings of a rebound but he's not there yet at all.)