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Nieuwenhuis 2.0 Bay 1.5 Niese 1.5 Thole 1.5 Byrdak 0.5 Rauch 0.5 Baxter 0.5

If you want to start punching virtual holes for Andres Torres, go get 'em.

Pagan CF Cabrera RF Sandoval 3B Posey1B Pill LF Sanchez C Burriss 2B Crawford SS Zito P

I'm Reading Aloud, like Dickey.

Ruben Tejada � SS Daniel Murphy � 2B David Wright � 3B Ike Davis � 1B Jason Bay � LF Scott Hairston � RF Kirk Nieuwenhuis � CF Mike Nickeas � C Jonathon Niese � LHP

And here I thought Drayton McLane resorted to erratic hiring and firing policies.

It's next week! JCL on the bill! Wolfie as well! And Ceetar! Me too! If you're in the greater Metropolitan area Thursday to Saturday, come on over! Program here! Registration info here! Exclamation point!

Pudge hangs 'em up at age 40.

Good thing Roe v. Wade has never been overturned because SNY performed an abortion on the 1985 highlight film.

Torres hasn't exactly been Wally Pipped. More like Wally Pi'd. Wasn't in the lineup long enough for the whole Pipp.

Wright 2.5 Nieuwenhuis 2.0 Davis 1.5 Murphy 1.0 Batista 0.5

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 4/18/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Jose Reyes 1,300 3. DAVID WRIGHT 1,265

Bloggers born in 1962 salute Jamie Moyer.

Teufel should only send runners who bat against lefties. Backman should send runners who bat against righties.

Devils analyst and all-time great Ken Daneyko mentioned his Met fandom on WFAN today, which made me happy since he was born April 17, 1964, same day as Shea. Proving I wasn't crazy four years ago.

Watching these last couple of games reinforces my sense that the biggest change in baseball in the last twenty or years regards defensive positioning. Next time you watch a pre-1990 game, notice how many balls get through infields versus today when video, scouting and whatever computer magic has allowed teams to play hitters, not positions. Wright's ball up the middle that was a rather routine groundout to Uggla is typical of what used to get through versus what gets gobbled up.

TransMonk wrote: Gwreck wrote: Edgy DC wrote: "Gay dame." That's the other one. Agreed. It's time to ban that phrase too. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!![/bigpurple] From less linguistically loaded times, she appears to have been a fairly gay dame. Who wouldn't be happy with all that strange foreign money?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I should mention that the "first-ballot percentage leadership" is about as stupid a distinction as can be claimed, and I wouldn't care a whit less about Seaver, or any more for any other guy, who'd achieve it. The second it no longer belongs to Seaver, it becomes irrelevant.

The full list, from that blog: 1. Tom Seaver 2. John Olerud 3. Roger Craig 4. Felix Millan 5. David Wright 6. Dave Kingman 7. Jerry Koosman 8. Gary Carter 9. Lee Mazzilli 10. Al Jackson 11. George Theodore 12. Rick Reed 13. Kevin McReynolds 14. Gil Hodges 15. Rusty Staub 16. Jesse Orosco 17. Bob Murphy 18. Bobby Jones 19. Robin Ventura 20. Lance Johnson 21. Ron Darling 22. Yogi Berra 23. John Franco 24. Willie Mays 25. Mookie Wilson 26. Nolan Ryan 27. Benny Agbayani 28. Bobby Ojeda 29. Cleon Jones 30. Craig Swan 31. Mike Piazza 32. Al Weis 33. Mike Hampton 34. Keith Hernandez 35. Frank Thomas 36. Jon Matlack 37. Casey Stengel 38. Donn Clendeno 39. Roger McDowell 40. Ed Kranepool 41. Ralph Kiner 42. Wally Backman 43. Ed Charles 44. Tom Glavine 45. Ron Swoboda 46. Billy Wagner 47. Rey Ordonez 48. Sid Fernandez 49. Jerry Grote 50. Joel Youngblood 51. Dwight Gooden 52. Bobby Valentine 53. Frank Viola 54. Al Leiter 55. Howard Johnson 56. Tommie Agee 57. Johan Santana 58. Ron Hunt 59. David Cone 60. Pedro Martinez 61. Lindsey Nelson 62. Jay Hook 63. Tim Teufel 64. Bill Shea 65. Ray Knight 66. Todd Zeile 67. Bud Harrelson 68. John Stearns 69. Jim Hickman 70. Edgardo Alfonzo 71. Art Shamsky 72. Lenny Dykstra 73. Tug McGraw 74. Todd Hundley 75. Darryl Strawberry 76. Wayne Garrett 77. Steve Trachsel 78. Davey Johnson 79. John Milner 80. Marv Throneberry 81. Turk Wendell

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: The overhyped one will one day break the hearts of every Mets fan. How many votes do you suppose Jeter's gonna get his first year of HOF eligibility? He'll garner a greater percentage of the vote than Tom Terrific did, even though Jeter's not worthy of carrying Tom's jockstrap. I've somehow used part of my life to fret over the same possibility but decided it's probably not going to happen as by then there'll be enough contrarian stat types voting who will find enough lacking in his candidacy. It was hard enough getting 98.84% to agree on something so motherlovingly obvious as Tom more than twenty years ago. Bigger pool of voters whenever TOHO is on the ballot, so we're likely safe (unless he benefits from "at last -- someone unsullied by steroid or scandal, let's get self-righteous!"). On the plus side, at least he won't be playing anymore. Can you imagine the witch hunt that'll develop over that National Crisis when Bob Klapisch uses every ounce of his clout to flush out those who dared to omit TOHO from the ballot? Y'know what? Now that you mention Soft Rain Scribe, the 98.84% might be more in danger from the closer than the shortstop.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The overhyped one will one day break the hearts of every Mets fan. How many votes do you suppose Jeter's gonna get his first year of HOF eligibility? He'll garner a greater percentage of the vote than Tom Terrific did, even though Jeter's not worthy of carrying Tom's jockstrap. Bigger pool of voters whenever TOHO is on the ballot, so we're likely safe (unless he benefits from "at last -- someone unsullied by steroid or scandal, let's get self-righteous!").

Benjamin Grimm wrote: At least gay dames don't need condoms. Are they still running that PSA on SNY?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The overhyped one will one day break the hearts of every Mets fan. How many votes do you suppose Jeter's gonna get his first year of HOF eligibility? He'll garner a greater percentage of the vote than Tom Terrific did, even though Jeter's not worthy of carrying Tom's jockstrap. I've somehow used part of my life to fret over the same possibility but decided it's probably not going to happen as by then there'll be enough contrarian stat types voting who will find enough lacking in his candidacy. It was hard enough getting 98.84% to agree on something so motherlovingly obvious as Tom more than twenty years ago. Bigger pool of voters whenever TOHO is on the ballot, so we're likely safe (unless he benefits from "at last -- someone unsullied by steroid or scandal, let's get self-righteous!"). On the plus side, at least he won't be playing anymore.

Area blogger endorses both tributes as the classy thing to do.

Kirk leads off in his eighth MLB start. Jose didn't lead off til his twelfth. Mookie led off in his very first game.