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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Mets face Royals without Parnell, Edgin in bullpen. Feliciano brought up from Triple-A The Washington Post scoops NY media. Nobody scoops Prince. I work my sources assidously...or checked Twitter earlier.

Pedro Feliciano...not on Mets roster last time Mets and Royals played. He returned from minors in late July 20014, a week after David's debut.

...and he's back.

metirish wrote: Wow, I think I remember they wore those uniforms.... And Kansas wore the Monarchs? I believe so.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I remember both series against the Royals, I think. The one at Shea was July 4th, as I recall getting the score while on a rooftop watching fireworks. They lost IIRC. (edit, wrong about that, well not about them losing a game. I guess it was just a regular rooftop party)... The series in KC was on the weekend I got married. They did quite poorly in that series too, resulting in a rare clubhouse spread overturning by Art Howe. The @ KCR series was salvaged when T#m Gl@v!ne pitched the Mets to their only win of that trip (the day after Howe showed human emotion), and even then they weren't the Mets. They wore New York Cubans road uniforms.

Note lineup alterations: Young, Jr. � LF Lagares � CF Wright � 3B Byrd � RF Murphy � 2B Buck � C Davis � 1B Quintanilla � SS Gee � RHP

Benjamin Grimm wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Any Met ever hit a grand slam and steal a base in the same game? 1986-10-05 Darryl Strawberry 1987-08-01 Howard Johnson 1993-08-05 Jeromy Burnitz 2003-06-15 Jos� Reyes Straw's and Reyes's game are Happiest Recaps, though not necessarily for the GS-SB combo (well, maybe a little for Jose). Grote in that power/speed club, albeit in a strange uniform. Amazin'!

I hate that the Mets have to get in the way of a good chasedown of the MFYs. Attended the first game from KC's only trip to Shea eleven years ago. Mets won on Mo Vaughn's infield single (plus error) in the ninth.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Jerry enjoyed one out-of-nowhere offensive explosion a little before the strike. Did you notice that Grote even stole a base in that game? Yes, but unlike the 7 RBIs, I didn't remember it. One-fifteenth of his career total and his first in five years! Amazingly, he was caught stealing 23 times...and that doesn't include the cattle allegations.

Jerry enjoyed one out-of-nowhere offensive explosion a little before the strike. Enjoyed indictment a couple of years later significantly less, one imagines.

Two very Mets-heavy episodes of The Newsroom, though maybe not exactly airing on HBO.

Red Sox release Pawtucket reliever Brandon Lyon.

Harvey 2.0 Atchison 1.0 Germen 1.0 Lagares 0.5 Turner 0.5

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Mejia 3.0 Byrd 1.5 Young 1.5 Davis 1.0 Torres 1.0 Rice 1.0

Your unfriendly Fish: Christian Yelich, lf Placido Polanco, 3b Giancarlo Stanton, rf Logan Morrison, 1b Ed Lucas, ss Donovan Solano, 2b Jake Marisnick, cf Rob Brantly, c Henderson Alvarez, rhp

The Guys! bushes-to-NFL story, presented by Peter King's new site. For eight months, Burkhardt sold new and used Chevys for the dealership. He also continued to send his tapes to New York City radio stations and finally caught a break when the 50,000-watt powerhouse WCBS-AM gave him some part-time shifts on their sports updates. That put him on the radar of all-sports WFAN, which quickly bumped him from freelance work to a full-time gig as the station�s Jets reporter. Three years after working at the dealership, Burkhardt landed a job in 2006 as the Mets field reporter on SportsNet New York (SNY). His baseball work in turn caught the eye of John Entz, then an executive for the MLB Network and now the executive producer of Fox Sports. Entz hired Burkhardt for his current NFL role in May. (Maybe the best part of Burkhardt�s journey to the top was when his old dealership boss, Mike Trebino, called him two years ago to ask him to be the television spokesperson for his Pine Belt Nissan dealership.)

Bud Norris: From the Astros to the Orioles.

Tonight's lineup: Mejia plus eight storylines only a smattering cares about. Notice Byrd is still in it. Young 7, Murphy 4, Wright 5, Byrd 9, Davis 3, Buck 2, Lagares 8, Quintanilla 6, Mejia 1

That he didn't see Mejia coming is reasonable as far as it goes. Martino is now a columnist, not the beat writer; one assumes his own attention is divided. And it was surprising to see Jenrry rematerialize so effectively on the mound last Friday...but it wasn't earth-shattering shocking, exactly. Teams that haven't seen callups (especially those who hadn't gotten a lot of minor league reps) are often baffled when they suddenly appear. The Mets certainly have been. The framing that "nobody cares about the Mets except for this/that" and "here are the two or three pre-approved reasons anybody would watch" is just tone-deaf, especially when you consider Martino (by the looks of him) hasn't been at his job for so long that he can't remember what it was like to be a fan and watch because you are a fan and care because you are a fan. Smattering aside, who does he think reads columns by baseball writers? Not people who have confined themselves to a thimbleful of narratives.

At which she will discover baseball has no time limit: we don't know when it's gonna end -- might have extra innings. Though if she's been paying attention to the parent club at all, Mrs. V1 probably already knows that.

MIAMI -- These two games aren�t stacked on top of one another on the same day, as when Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler swept the Braves in their �Super Tuesday� doubleheader in Atlanta last month. Plus, the Mets are competing for attention this week with the trade deadline, and the imminent war between Alex Rodriguez and Major League Baseball. As a Mets fan, do you honestly encounter your day with the thought process, "Where shall I devote my attention? This A-Rod story is pretty big. Can't watch my team play."? Maybe no one is watching Mets-Marlins, save for Jerry Seinfeld, Snooki, Paul Auster and a smattering of bloggers, but Tuesday and Wednesday in Little Havana present another peek at the light for the organization. Like a clowder of cats? This one is almost more compelling than that June doubleheader, because it involves not only Wheeler on Tuesday but Jenrry Mejia -- Jenrry Mejia! Remember him? -- on Wednesday. Seriously, it�s crazy that he�s back, and apparently nastier than during his hype days. Is it almost more compelling or almost as compelling? Is it equally compelling? Is one ahead by percentage points but the other leads in the loss column? It is a contest, though. I can no longer enjoy what happened in Atlanta in mid-June because I have to get behind these two games. And a pitcher who pitched for the Mets last September and went on the DL in spring and is 23...it was a little jarring to see him reappear without much notice last week, but given his contractual status, not that crazy. Perhaps an enterprising reporter would've kept tabs on his progress. Wheeler�s sometimes awkward, occasionally spectacular learning process is a compelling storyline this season, and it continued against the Marlins on Tuesday. This game showcased a bit of both, with Wheeler arriving in the seventh inning with a no-hitter, then allowing the Marlins to stomp on him for two fast runs. For a good chunk of what became a 4-2 Mets win, it was must-see. Once the game was tied at two and only the outcome remained in the balance, it was only optional-see. And did we mention compelling? He and Harvey were supposed to be two of the only reasons to watch the Mets this year -- and if we were asked last week to list the next 25, we wouldn�t have thought to include Mejia. Then, last Friday in Washington, one night of darting fastballs and diving sliders changed everything, and Terry Collins had another potential phenom. They're the Mets. That's the primary reason Mets fans watch. You have to understand, the Mejia story was over. Once the organization�s top pitching prospect, he had become a nearly washed-up 22-year-old with nothing in his toolbox -- a low-90s fastball with no movement, and secondary pitches that weren�t fooling anyone. Then, in a side-session last September, the pitching coach made a career-reviving suggestion. Of course it was over. He was 23 and under contract to a major league team and on its 40-man roster. Any kind of side session last September when he was 22 must have taken place after it was over for this to make any sense. And so on. Do pros like Martino remember why fans -- not the chattering classes -- watch their team? It's because they watch their team, for crissake. As a pro, does he recognize that the players are players, not storylines? Back to my smattering...

How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Citi Field? By striking them out a lot. Rubin reports: After a torrid start, 2011 first-round pick Brandon Nimmo’s average has dipped to .261 with Savannah. Nimmo has struck out 99 times in 283 at-bats.

The answers.

Jenrry "My" Mejia attempts to prove worthy of the sextuplet rotation...which sounds pretty racy, actually. [youtube:2s5i62kh]HtXzESPbkEQ[/youtube:2s5i62kh] He will be opposed by Henderson Alvarez. Henderson Alvarez is very contrary that way.