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Bay is back! Reyes-SS Tejada-2B Beltran-RF Murphy-3B Pagan-CF Bay-LF Duda-1B Thole-C Gee-RHP

Mark Simon catches up with his favorite Met ever, Neil Allen.

In the 2011 remake of the 1985 classic Just One of the GUYS!, Kevin "Guys!" Burkhardt goes undercover as a useful part of a regional sports network's broadcast team until everybody finds out that it's all just a charade and his saturation presence couldn't be any more useless. Well, it could be, but that's for the sequel, Just One of the GUYS! I was talking to Dan Warthen before the game and he told me something really interesting about the way Tim Byrdak has changed his bullpen routine, as Brian McCann doubles into the gap off R.A. Dickey...Tim now stretches, then throws and then stretches again...McCann is caught off second...Dan says Tim really gets a little extra boost that helps him against righthanded batting...McCann rounds third and is racing for the plate...and we're seeing the results of that change of routine in outings like Tim had Tuesday when he got the Mets out of that jam in the seventh with two on and one out...McCann is out at the plate...GUYS?

Reyes 4.0 Niese 3.0 Byrdak 1.0 Rodriguez 1.0 Beltran 0.5 Harris 0.5

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through 6/14/2011 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. JOSE REYES 1,216 3. Cleon Jones 1,188 4. DAVID WRIGHT 1,182

Judging by the sounds I made when Reyes knocked in Tejada after Jurrjens down down Reyes, I'm pretty sure I was having a Metgasm.

Gary slams the Home Depot Tool Race, Atlanta's answer to the sausages and the pierogis. "Heinous," he says. There's a joke about Braves fans in "tool race," but I'll leave it to Fman to execute it.

Don't trade Reyes.

Gary just compared Tejada to Fonzie. /swoon Ron then compared him to a quarterback reading the field, because Ron has a hard time grappling with the Mets' existence from the time he left in 1991 until he returned.

Yeah, we're fucked.

Comes off 6/28, they're in 7/1, 7/2, 73...oh yeah, we're fucked.

I'm torn between hoping the Mets win and hoping the Braves lose. What? I can have both? Outstanding!

Ashie62 wrote: We all wanted to be on the all star team in little league, didn't we? Not Martino. He liked the chance to spend time with his family and sit in the inflatable pool.

Mets' Happiest Recap winning streak reaches 63. 061: 1965 -- Jim Maloney strikes out 18, gives up no hits for ten and loses to Johnny Lewis 062: 2005 -- Marlon Anderson huffs, puffs, blows bubbles and PHITPHRs against K-Rod 063: 1984 -- You Gotta Believe II, as Rusty and Ron recharge the spirit of '73 Also... 061: 1988 -- Cone keeps going 10 062: 1963 -- Snider goes for 400 063: 1985 -- Mets go for -- and get -- 4 from the Cubs

Edgy DC wrote: Trying to get maximum PR value out of a signing may be too much of an over-reach. ("Rawjah Clemens is in Jawge's box!") Too bad Rawjah isn't in Jawge's box right now.

Bobby Jones. First pitch of the game. Fuck, I hate Jeter.

From "Mets Insider" Andy Martino: PITTSBURGH - Jose Reyes passed Philadelphia's Jimmy Rollins in All-Star voting, but still trails Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. The Midsummer, ahem, "Classic" is meaningless and dull, but for Reyes, the quest for election clearly is not. "Really, I'm in second now?" he said, when informed of the latest voting. "How far behind?" About 600,000 votes, he was told. (Tulowizki has 1,828,509, Reyes 1,241,553 and Rollins 999,537.) "Oh man," he said, shaking his head. "So this really matters to you?" "Yeah, yeah it matters," he said, eyes widening and head nodding. Meanwhile, Sandy Alderson, whose job requires a certain reserve when discussing the free-agent-to-be, acknowledged the pleasure of watching Reyes at peak form this year. "It's almost a privilege, it has been great to watch," the GM said, without offering further specifics about, say, how much Reyes was worth or if he might remain a Met. 1) The All-Star Game, by definition, is not meaningless. It determines home field advantage in the sport's championship round. 2) Sometimes it is dull. Sometimes it is exciting. That would describe any given baseball game, including the one that features most of the best players in the sport gathered together for the only time all year. But no matter what, it does feature most of the best players gathered together for the only time all year. Last year, with the National League breaking a long-term losing streak in the late innings, it was more exciting than dull. The year before that, it was a one-run affair that saw the decisive run score in the top of the eighth and the potential answer runs stranded on second and third in the bottom of the eighth. The year before that, when it was played in the city where the "Insider" works, runs were exchanged in the eighth inning and the game wasn't settled until the fifteenth inning. The year before that, there was a furious comeback cut short in the bottom of the ninth inning with the bases loaded, resulting in a one-run decision. The year before that, the winning runs were scored in come-from-behind fashion in the top of the ninth on a two-RBI triple. They were all, even for an exhibition game in which stars are taken out early (but are replaced by other stars), pretty exciting if you like baseball. 3) Someone who covers the team daily is surprised that a player acknowledged by all to be among the most vibrant and passionate in the sport takes his potential selection by the public at large seriously. Sounds like someone could really use the All-Star break to take some much-needed time off, and it isn't Jose Reyes.

Marty Noble wrote: then the Mets are not the fourth-place contenders they appeared to be when Ollie Perez lockered among them. Marvelous phrasing. The Mets could play for another 25 years and not have a player with such skills on their roster. Struck me as exaggeration until I realized they've played 25 years and not had a player with such skills on their roster.

Pelfrey 4.0 Tejada 1.5 Reyes 1.0

TransMonk wrote: While running this evening, "I Want A New Drug" came on my Slacker radio. I'm not a Huey Lewis guy, so it was weird...I consider it a sign. Of what, I don't know. Could very well be a sign. Or the pharmaceutical industry just keeps getting more insidious.

TransMonk wrote: .500 or bust! Maybe .500 or two games below .500? Don't want be in for "bust" just yet.

I see this guy: In America, you run for Beltran. I think of this guy: In Russia, Beltran run for you.

Huey Lewis leaves good Met vibes behind at PNC. Ain't no livin' in a perfect world, but three of four would be nice.

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through 6/12/2011 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. JOSE REYES 1,213 3. Cleon Jones 1,188 4. DAVID WRIGHT 1,182

Capuano 4.0 Reyes 1.5 Turner 1.0 Beltran 1.0 Harris 0.5 Hairston 0.5 Pagan 0.5 Bay 0.5 Murphy 0.5