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Mets minority owner Bill Maher on Bob Costas's NBC Sports Network show last night said (with a smile) Ed Kranepool signed his Mets cap on his recent visit to the ballpark, "even though I didn't ask him to."

N.L. East WSH -- NYM 3.5 ATL 4.5 N.L. Wild Card LAD -- (1 GA PIT/NYM) *** PIT -- (.53846) NYM -- (.53750) ATL 1.0 STL 1.5 ARI 3.0 MIA 4.0 MIL 6.0

Gee 2.5 Hairston 1.5 Wright 1.0 Tejada 0.5

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 7/1/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,346 COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 72

Congratulations to the National League for naming R.A. Dickey to its All-Star team. That was quite wise of it.

Wonder how many e-mail accounts Kranepool used to vote for Sandoval 25 times each.

Fourth of July, 6:30 PM...Mets Yearbook: 1964. I hear a ballpark opens.

I was guessing Superbas, but Bridegrooms works, too.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Santana es mas macho. With the TV sound off and the radio on, I watched the Fox Deportes feed for the letter boxing -- and the commercials were mas interesting, too.

Box Santana 5.0 Davis 3.0 Murphy 1.0 Thole 1.0

N.L. East WSH -- NYM 3.5 ATL 4.5 N.L. Wild Card LAD -- (1 GA PIT/NYM} *** PIT -- (.539) NYM -- (.538) ATL 1.0 STL 1.5 ARI 2.0

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 6/29/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,345 COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 73

Dickey 5.0 Murphy 2.5 Tejada 2.5

Andres Torres - CF Ruben Tejada - SS David Wright - 3B Ike Davis - 1B Lucas Duda - RF Daniel Murphy - 2B Kirk Nieuwenhuis - LF Josh Thole - C R.A. Dickey - RHP

Also a comforter!

Thank you, Aaron Harang, wherever you are. I don't mean this flippantly, or obnoxiously. I mean it sincerely. I've never met Aaron Harang, a pitcher for the Padres, but he gives me a lift today and doesn't even know it. Whenever I have a rough outing -- and a I have a brutal one here today -- I have a strange custom: I go on my laptop and surf baseball websites until I find somebody who had an even worse day than me. It's not that I delight in other people's misfortune; it's just that misery does like company, and after my eighth start of the year I am definitely looking for somebody to point to and say, "Hey, this guy's a respectable pitcher and he got lit up too." Harang gave up nine hits and seven runs in four and a third innings against the Rockies. Today he supplies the comfort. I feel less miserable for knowing this. --R.A. Dickey, 5/14/2011, after horrible outing of his own at Minute Maid Park (page 176, Wherever I Wind Up) Dodger clubhouse bulletin board material?

"A Song With Orange and Blue" by Wayne Wilentz, a 50th anniversary tribute. TztQ5x-pkOw

Wright 2.5 Young 2.0 Torres 1.5 Tejada 1.0 Byrdak 1.0 Rauch 1.0 Parnell 1.0

NL East WSH -- ATL 3.5 (.533) NYM 3.5 (.532) NL Wild Card LAD -- (2.5 GA) *** ATL -- (.533) PIT -- (.533) NYM -- (.532) STL 0.5 ARI 2.0

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 6/28/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,344 COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 74

No Met has walked more than David Wright, who strolled by Darryl Strawberry last night. Only Darryl and Mike Piazza have homered more than David, who tied HoJo by belting his 192nd last night. Good night for David Wright.

Hit his first home run in Johan's no-hitter tuneup against the Padres. (Seemed worth offering an actual memory of Vinny Rottino.)

KTE by homage if not precise parody... gvqO9q8yi-A So I say D I say D-O D-O-D D-O-D-G D-O-D-G-E-R-S K-T-E! M-A-T T-K-E T-K-E-M-P That spells Matt Kemp Matt Kemp�s on the DL, that's OK! Capuano Is their ex-Met Pitching well He sure showed us And we�ll send Young With the same name To take him on tonight When you have to choose a Chris Be sure you do it right... At the beginning of the season There was hardly any reason To doubt the Dodgers� might But they�re falling apart From their awesome start Gads, it�s a beautiful sight! First-place First-place L.A. Has slipped into a tie Their ERA stays low Their hitting�s barely nigh Everyone�s achin� And not just Matt Ethier pulled somethin�... They're sans Andre�s bat Dee Gordon steals A.J. Ellis makes few outs Kenley Jansen takes his saves Leaves hardly any doubts Yet they�ve lost Lost their big lead After losing eight of nine If they lose Twelve of thirteen The Mets would think that�s fine R.A. in L.A. Will put 'em away When he pens chapter two He�ll face Aaron Harang Harang'll harumph For prob'ly a month As R.A. victims do Johan is next Against Nathan Eovaldi... Versus Nathan To be frank... I expect a rally Put some mustard on it, Johan! Come Sunday night Gee takes the ball Against the reigning Cy Young Clayton Kershaw You can�t win �em all So goes the old saw But maybe we will! Or maybe we won�t! In Los Angeles... At Los Angeles... Can you believe we scored seventeen runs yesterday? LET�S GO METS!

metirish wrote: This line is gold, the writer surely thought long and hard how to describe this new porpose. And there's been a sense this season of optimism and high new purpose out at Willets Point, of things going right and of bright days ahead. With due respect to our own WP, have you ever heard anybody refer to the Mets playing their games in Willets Point? She asked me where I was starting from. I told her I was planning to bicycle to Bloomingdale's.... "Ah, Bloomie's. What you want to do there is take the Lexington Avenue line downtown to Grand Central. Then follow the signs to the Flushing No. 7 line. The beauty of the Flushing No. 7 line is that it's a straight nine-mile run out to Main Street, Flushing. You can't go wrong once you get on. It's a 30-minute run to Willets Point-Shea Stadium. If you should sleep through your stop, Main Street, Flushing is next, the end of the line, and you can get off and hop the next train back." "And if I get discombobulated in Flushing, I can always ask someone, 'Willets Point....' " Ms. Evans interrupted and said it probably wasn't a good idea to stress Willets Point as a navigational target because in fact Willets Point wasn't anywhere near Shea Stadium. "Oh." "It's in Bayside." --George Plimpton, Sports Illustrated, September 23, 1985

Murphy 2.5 Davis 2.0 Wright 2.0 Hairston 1.5 Niese 1.5 Tejada 0.5