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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Zvon wrote: Hmm. That was an interesting ending. ?? (at work) Last out on an appeal play when Chambers failed to touch second on his way back to first on the second out, a fly ball to right.

These ninth innings have been quite appealing.

Somebody toss Wainwright a fork, a knife and a napkin because Ike says he can EAT IT!

FINAL MET SEASONAL DEBUT (Met Career) 2012: Fred Lewis, 9/4 (tentative) 2011: Val Pascucci, 9/8 2010: Dillon Gee, 9/7 (MLB Debut) 2009: Tobi Stoner, 9/10 (MLB) 2008: Bobby Parnell, 9/8 (MLB) 2007: Carlos Mu�iz, 9/25 (MLB) 2006: Phil Humber, 9/25 (MLB) 2005: Anderson Hernandez, 9/18 (MLB) 2004: Joe Hietpas, 10/3 (MLB) 2003: Mike Glavine, 9/14 (MLB) 2002: Pat Strange, 9/13 (MLB) 2001: Mark Corey, 10/2 (MLB) 2000: Jorge Velandia, 9/6 1999: Glendon Rusch, 9/17 1998: Todd Haney, 9/8 1997: Carlos Mendoza, 9/3 (MLB) 1996: Charlie Greene, 9/15 (MLB) 1995: Robert Person, 9/18 (MLB) 1994: Juan Castillo, 7/26 (MLB; strike year) 1993: Kenny Greer, 9/29 (MLB) 1992: Joe Vitko, 9/18 (MLB) 1991: Jeff Gardner, 9/10 (MLB) 1990: Chris Jelic, 9/30 (MLB) 1989: Blaine Beatty, 9/16 (MLB) 1988: David West, 9/24 (MLB) 1987: John Candelaria, 9/18 1986: John Mitchell, 9/8 (MLB) 1985: Randy Myers, 10/6 (MLB) 1984: John Christensen, 9/13 (MLB) 1983: Mike Fitzgerald, 9/13 (MLB) 1982: Ronn Reynolds, 9/29 (MLB) 1981: Charlie Puleo, 9/16 (MLB) 1980: Scott Holman, 9/20 (MLB) 1979: Ray Burris, 8/24 1978: Butch Benton, 9/14 (MLB) 1977: Doc Medich, 9/29 1976: Lee Mazzilli, 9/7 (MLB) 1975: Roy Staiger, 9/12 (MLB) 1974: Randy Sterling, 9/16 (MLB) 1973: Bob Apodaca, 9/18 (MLB) 1972: Joe Nolan, 9/21 (MLB) 1971: Don Rose, 9/15 (MLB) 1970: Dean Chance, 9/20 1969: Jessie Hudson, 9/19 (MLB) 1968: Duffy Dyer, 9/21 (MLB) 1967: Les Rohr, 9/19 (MLB) 1966: Nolan Ryan, 9/11 (MLB) 1965: Greg Goossen, 9/3 (MLB) 1964: Tom Parsons, 9/15 1963: Cleon Jones, 9/14 (MLB) 1962: Ed Kranepool, 9/22 (MLB)

Fred Lewis 4-for-10 lifetime vs. Wainwright. Clever of Terry to keep him out of the lineup.

Cam's No. 2 among all Met organizationalistas in batting average. T.J. Rivera, St. Lucie, .320 Cam Maron, Savannah, .300292 Wilmer Flores, Binghamton, .300203 Eric Campbell, Binghamton, .297 Fred Lewis, Buffalo, .294

Fred Lewis (pronounced Fred Lewis) snuck in to become No. 940 in the ninth last night.

The expansion of the playoffs in 1995 gave the Wild Carding, second-place MFYs an unprecedented in, while the expansion of the playoffs in 1969 presented the Mets with a hurdle no team with the best record in its league ever had to clear. The 1969 Mets swept the first League Championship Series en route to winning arguably the most iconic world championship in baseball history. The 1995 MFYs built a two games to none lead en route to having their hearts smashed by the instantly beloved 1995 Seattle Mariners. So now, maybe, the 2012 MFYs, who deserve to fall through about twelve holes in perpetual motion to a place lower than hell -- not just for being the 2012 MFYs but the franchise for which they carry the tradition-laden flag -- will descend from first to second and then second to third yet, for the first time a team can do this, make the playoffs anyway. Their hearts getting smashed in a one-game playoff would be swell, but a completely MFY-free postseason would be way better. Just the fact that I'm thinking about this with a month to go is dangerous. Clear the mechanism...

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 9/4/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,401 COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 17 2012 GAMES REMAINING: 26 In reaching the unmagical 1,400-hit milestone, David extended his second-place lead over Jose Reyes to 100 (now 101). FYI, if Jose was having the same season for the Mets that he's had for the Marlins, the current Met hit record would be 1,452. But that doesn't take into account all the variables, like lineup, ballpark, game situations, the pressure of theoretically signing for a big contract in New York and, most tangibly, the lengths Ed Kranepool would have gone to take Jose out. In David's past 26 games, when it seems he's done next to nothing, he's actually collected 26 hits (batting .271), so at that one game/one hit pace, figure him for Monday night, 9/24, home to Pittsburgh. OTOH, he had a 26-game stretch in April and May when he garnered 40 hits, a pace that if he picked up again all of a sudden would get him to his necessary 17th hit about a week earlier. Or we could just wait and see what happens.

Tejada 1.5 Torres 1.0 Familia 1.0 Harvey 0.5 Baxter 0.5

Somehow, Mr. Met Puppet Guy made it all worth it.

I haven't started a winning thread in months. And don't call me Shirley. Ruben Tejada � SS Ronny Cedeno � 2B David Wright � 3B Scott Hairston � RF Daniel Murphy � 1B Kelly Shoppach � C Jason Bay � LF Andres Torres � CF Matt Harvey � RHP

True, Keith is a citizen of Jupiter most of the time. Also, he has a place in South Florida.

Somewhere Craig Swan is turning over somebody on his rolfing table. And Dennis Cook is beating the snot out of a men's room paper towel dispenser.

Eddie Bressoud, of course. But anyway, Lewis will be in 15, Familia in 27.

"I'm sorry, I know it's the not the PC thing to say, with the la-de-da, spot of tea, country club baseball we see today, but that's how you come into home, Gary. That's how I learned it from Lou Brock, except without the angry racism."

Colt Stadium in Houston, nor either of its Astronymous successors, will host postseason baseball in 2012.

On his online home, Sports on Earth (sort of a Grantland without the frills), Joe Posnanski pays tribute to longtime Braves blogger Mac Thomason who just passed away. He prefaces the obit portion of his piece with what I think is a good contextual description of the genre. We used to live in a world where, if you were this sort of person (and I was), you could let the static-suffused voices of baseball play-by-play announcers pull you out of your own humdrum childhood and into another life. You could sit in a car in your driveway -- an antenna rising from the hood like a conductor�s baton -- and turn the dial slowly, let Bob Prince take you to Pittsburgh, hear Ernie Harwell tell you the comical names of the people catching foul balls in the stands of Detroit, let Jack Buck pull you into downtown St. Louis, catch Herb Score saying improbably that once more in Cleveland it was a beautiful day for baseball. In another part of the country you could hear Vin Scully, the master, tell you a story, or Dave Niehaus shout that baseballs in Seattle were flying away. You can still do this sort of thing, of course, in fact you can do it more effectively than ever -- you don�t even need an old Chevy Nova. The radio voices from all over the country come across your iDevice, your Sirius radio, your computer, your phone, and those voices aren�t covered in static, and they don�t fade away when the wind changes course. This is better, no question. And, maybe, at the same time, it�s also less of an adventure. And I think the point for us car-parked radio explorers was the adventure. You know what I think is an adventure now? Baseball blogs. Every team�s fans have them, of course, there are hundreds and hundreds of them out there, lurking in between error pages, waiting to be found in the midst of the spam and the politics and the family photos and the naked pictures. The blogs are all passionate, every one of them, because who else but a passionate fan would start a baseball blog? But passion is where the similarities end. Some are hopeful and some are angry, some are vicious and some are playful, some are shrewd and some get every detail wrong. Some are astonishingly well written and some use a lot of exclamation points so that you get the point!!!

Been a while since I ran any bases but who touches first with his left foot? I remember reading, or being told - I forget now, that the best way to run the bases was to hit each with your inside (left) foot. It seems, on the surface anyway, to be counter-intuitive but the claim is that that method best allows you to "cut" the bases (run a tighter circle) and therefore get to the next one quicker. Not that I'm claiming that's what Torres was doing there; he was clearly looking at the RF and decided to go when he saw that tiny mis-step as the fielder tried to change his momentum. Problem was that that long look took his sight off of his feet and he stutter-stepped his way to a missed (or not) bag. Counterintuitive gets the square -- or the bag, in this case. [W]hen you're learning to hit the inside of the bag with your left foot it can seem awkward, but it is correct. As we approach each base, at about 10 feet out we have to make a small arc so that we are approaching the bag at an angle instead of straight on. The reason we round it with our left foot is that we lean to the left while the right foot does the crossover step to start toward the next base. It's all in the physics: when the foot strikes the bag it starts to slow us down, but if we lean to the left we are hitting the base, crossing our right foot over, and driving through the bag with our arms. The centrifugal force will keep the momentum we have and not cause us to break stride. If we hit a base with our right foot, we lose some of the momentum built up running to the bag. It's really key that the runner creates a little bit of an angle when approaching the bag and tries to run hard, not slowing down. It's one of the small intricacies of baserunning that some players never really learn. It's not the worst thing to do incorrectly, but given a choice it's easy to do it right.

Very good angle on the action and VERY good food. Nice goin'!

Been a while since I ran any bases but who touches first with his left foot? Looks like he touched it, but too much shadow of doubt cast, apparently. Not close enough to call Torres out, but...ah, fuck it.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: These ARE the best fans in baseball-- they can judge pitches from the stands! BOfuckingC.

Acosta 2.0 Murphy 1.5 Shoppach 1.0 Torres 0.5 Edgin 0.5

Tigers won, breathing down MFYs' necks. Girardi said "we're in control of our own destination." Hope it's a distant third.

Strasburg's last start at [crossout:zyyv4pp3]Shea[/crossout:zyyv4pp3] Citi 9/12. Crazy.