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METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 6/7/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,319 COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus 99 We're into double-digits.

Way to get a jump start on the next curse.

In The Books: My Journey to Another Win By R.A. Dickey Afterword by Frank Francisco "Even I'd read this!" -- John Cougar Lunchbucket

seawolf17 wrote: Dick move, Mets. "Dad! Dad! I know how we can get an extra two million bucks out of our idiot fans!" They can put on sale what they want, and nobody has to buy it, but geez, yeah.

Guy from the New Yorker opts to go home early from history because his kid was a little chilly. All around us, tired children have retreated onto laps. Hoods are tightly drawn, and hot chocolate has been located. Some of us stand, while others penguin-huddle for warmth. To go or to stay? The boy is tired. It seems cruel to keep him here, even with a chance of history in the offing. I was there the night when� Guy from the Times, there with his family, pretty blase about it, too, all things considered. With my wife and two children, we were four of the 27,069 officially in attendance, and four of the many more who may eventually claim to have been there. We have the ticket stubs and Facebook posts to prove it. What we do not have is any credentials as Mets fans, long-suffering or otherwise. Sorry. We crashed your moment. Regular fans, watching and listening elsewhere, pretty certain these guys suck.

Go back in time and buy a ticket for the June 1 game from the Mets.

BN exemplifing Mets' open mind. It was so out of character that with that one bold pick, the Mets transformed a reputation more than a half-decade in the making. No longer would the Mets be risk-averse in the Draft, avoiding the types of high school talents that have a greater risk of never cracking the big leagues. No longer would the Mets lean on college pitching, even if that meant sacrificing upside for apparent safety.

Cam from Hicksville heating up: .255/.352/.336, on a nine-game hitting streak (.433 BA).

Billboard would occasionally run into situations where a song that did very well on the weekly charts got screwed in the annual charts because it showed up too late in the calendar year. Not exactly Johan's problem last week, but reminiscent of "I Think I Love You" and 1970.

Damn that Metro-ridin' knuckleballer's got it goin' on.

Hefner 2.5 Davis 1.0 Batista 1.0 Nieuwenhuis 1.0 Quintanilla 0.5

First place was oh so close. As for the Wild Cards the morning of June 7... SFG -- --- MIA -- (1/2 GB SF) ATL -- (1/2 GB SF) -- NYM 1/2 GB MIA/ATL

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 6/6/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,317 COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus One Hundred One

Hairston 3.0 Young 2.5 Batista 1.5 Wright 1.0 Torres 1.0 Thole 0.5 Valdespin 0.5

METS FANS RESURRECTED! Many who claimed they could die happy now living in misery since National loss

Tied for second WC with SF. Could have been so much more. And could still be again.

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 6/5/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,316 COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus One Hundred Two David now has the most runs, but on this team, nowhere near the most errors.

Pedro Borbon, 65, cancer. Fought with Buzz Capra in the undercard to Rose-Harrelson in 1973 and then took a bite out of a Mets cap he'd mistakenly placed on his head. He will be missed anyway.

Now I'm even more ready to rumble for Sole Possession of First Place (don't get in the way, Marlins).

The euphoria continues at Huffington Post (by yours truly). My standard reaction of appreciative applause and vicarious grins for all those no-hitters tossed by admirable strangers in vaguely familiar uniforms was subject to blackout when it came to what I was experiencing via the television from Citi Field. This was an occasion for hyperventilating, for hugging, for literal tears of joy. The lack of a no-hitter among Mets pitchers had grown into a communal thread of angst within the Mets fan culture in recent seasons. We'd always known we hadn't had one. Of late, as soon as a Jimmy Rollins or a Brian McCann delivered a clean single in the first or second inning, we'd taken to reminding each other en masse that we weren't getting one for yet another night (thanks, Twitter). The curiosity had grown into an obsession. When would we get our no-hitter? June 1, 2012 revealed itself as the answer. I haven't settled down from the realization yet, and neither has any Mets fan I know. We weren't familiar with how these worked from the inside, so we're still getting used to it. We love getting used to it. We could get used to getting used to this for an eternity, to tell you the truth. So if you came out into the cable sports television town square last Friday night and noticed a commotion and wonder why you're still hearing a palpable buzz emanating from our neck of the woods, please understand that it's all too new and all too beautiful for us to put a lid on so soon.

Gee 3.5 Hairston 3.0 Duda 2.0 Thole 1.0 Nieuwenhuis 0.5 Torres 0.5

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 6/4/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. DAVID WRIGHT 1,314 COUNTDOWN: Krane Minus One Hundred Four

Mets held a GB/GA share of first place in the N.L. East entering Monday's action. And they might hold one again, even a full share, before this thing is over. But at the moment, they're the second Wild Card...not bad if not optimal for what could have been.

Nieuwehuis 4.0 Niese 3.5 Torres 2.5

metirish wrote: "@billmaher: Heading out to Citi Field for the Mets game...this is one baseball game I'm going to remember." Does he think the Mets rerun their Friday night episodes incessantly the way HBO rerun his?