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Ceetar wrote: Lincecum is tied with Christy mathewson for most double digit strikeout games as a Giant. Presumably has a chance to take sole possession wednesday. You can't think of one without thinking of the other.

Through trades and compensation draft picks, that's how, according to the Platoon Advantage. Was keenly aware of the trade trees within this, but never connected them all the way back to Matlack. (Found via ESPN's SweetSpot.) Article links to something else that claims the Wednesday Night Massacre was just fine -- the kind of skewed/shallow conclusion one could derive by staring at WAR too long. (It would also help if the author didn't refer to GM "Paul" McDonald and pitcher Pat "Zachary".)

Incredibly powerful edition of The Happiest Recap: 025: 1991 -- Darryl returns as a Dodger 026: 1989 -- HoJo takes it to Dibble 027: 2004 -- Mike surpasses Pudge The honorably mentioned: 025: 1999 -- Matt Franco hustles home 026: 2000 -- Insurance run policy cashed at Coors Field 027: 1962 -- Gil Hodges + Polo Grounds = ITPHR

Gwreck wrote: G-Fafif wrote: I'll always remember where I was when Brian Schneider sucked. At Citi Field, about 40 different times during 2009? It's one to forty of those moments that, as an American, I'll never forget.

Thorough research in a pinch. The New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society will be attending its first Mets-Giants game as a unit, modern-day allegiances divided. But we'll all be Americans Tuesday night.

I'll always remember where I was when Brian Schneider sucked.

Edgy DC wrote: So, I got the radio version of this, and I would have tuned out and went to bed if it weren't for (1) a vicious case of heartburn, and (2) wanting to see the president's statement, but was this more a) a nailbiting thriller, a la 10/15/1986, or a slogging war of attrition, a la 4/11/2010? Neither. Take away the opponent, the Sunday night stage and the external influences (which, granted, would be "other than that, Mrs. Lincoln..." reasoning) it was a close game that had to end some time. It never became absurd. Maybe another inning or two would have sent it there. We only got down to one pitcher as pinch-hitter, Hamels. And the stakes (let alone the cheese stakes) weren't high enough to make this OMG. Good, solid, 14-inning win. Paulino and the Navy Seals, not necessarily in that order, bumped it into classic terrain.

Maybe the chants should have been for E-K-G!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I peeled a Daily News page from 2009 with a giant picture of Livan Hernandez in a Mets uniform and I really had to think hard just to remember he was in fact ever a member of this team. I did confirm it, eventually, but it was one of those facts that went by the wayside of my brain in a such a maanner that when we faced Livan a few days ago I didn't once think we were opposing a former Met. That's f'ed up. You and I watched Livan throw his final Met pitch from the top of Promenade. So much for all those anchors who insist "nobody will ever forget where they were when" historic events take place.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'd consider giving bullpen catcher Dave "I'm Biking To Florida" Racianello some Schaefer... but I'm pretty damn sure he's out of room, still. Bullpen catcher Dave Racaniello set the official visitors' clubhouse record at Citizens Bank Park with 14 cheese steaks consumed. The previous record had belonged to former major leaguer Dmitri Young. It's a series record, not a single game. But it's still...impressive.

Paulino 3.5 Young 2.5 Beato 1.5 Wright 1.0 Buchholz 0.5 Beltran 0.5 Rodriguez 0.5

Who ya gonna call? STREAKBUSTERS! Jose Reyes - SS Justin Turner - 2B David Wright - 3B Carlos Beltran - RF Jason Bay - LF Ike Davis - 1B Ronny Paulino - C Scott Hairston - CF Chris Young - RHP

The Most Interesting Man in the World is at it again. In the Mets� bat rack at Citi Field, almost every bat includes a sticker with the player�s number on the knob. Not Dickey�s. His bats have no stickers. He writes his number, 43, in black ink in the middle, with a name curled around it. One bat is called Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver and the other is Hrunting. Dickey, an avid reader, said that Orcrist came from �The Hobbit�; it is the blade Bilbo Baggins uses in the Misty Mountains. Hrunting � the H is silent, Dickey said � came from the epic poem �Beowulf�; it is the sword Beowulf uses to slay Grendel�s mother. �Just having fun,� said Dickey, whose mystical weapons must be working. His career average entering the weekend was .246, sixth best among active pitchers with at least 60 at-bats. I rarely say this, but wow...just wow.

MLBN reran Angels-Red Sox from '86 and is again showing Marlins-Cubs from '03, two eps I hadn't seen much of on first run. In the interest of burning off my disgust from Mets-Phillies '11, I inadvertently sank into a whole new level of despair for the Angels, whom I nominally favored over the Red Sox but wasn't all that caught up in at the time. If there are postseason series I have few memories of, it's postseason series that were going on at the same time as any Met postseason series, so even though I remember that ALCS Game 5 fairly well (I was hanging a living room curtain or something at my mother's behest and recall climbing off the ladder several times to see what Al Michaels was exulting about), this was the first time I really and truly concentrated on how that game went down. And it was horrible. I felt awful for the Angels, and that's without a deep allegiance to them or having any idea how the course of history might have changed had they met the Mets one round later. I felt bad for Bobby Grich, the special guest loser. I felt bad for Gene Mauch, for whom I've never had more than the most perfunctory sympathy given his track record (and that I didn't much like him when he managed Montreal). It was weird. Maybe it was just the leftover annoyance from how the Mets lost today, but it really pissed me off 25 years after the fact. Just now tried to get into a little of the Cubs-Marlins game, a contest I did watch closely when it happened and a game whose outcome I ultimately approved, common human decency notwithstanding. Then I had to turn it off. I couldn't bear to watch the Cubs' Alex Gonzalez describe his pain...and I've always hated the Cubs. I look forward to Game Six being examined in great detail, and I will revel in Bill Buckner's agony, probably, but man, to a certain degree you have to be a stone sadist to withstand the discussion segments with the panelist whose team lost in agonizing fashion.

Niese 3.5 Murphy 1.0 Beltran 0.5

Let us laugh at Dane SardinHA!

the phillies lineup (no exclamation) Shane Victorino, cf Placido Polanco, 3b Jimmy Rollins, ss Ryan Howard, 1b Ben Francisco, rf John Mayberry, lf Wilson Valdez, 2b Dane Sardinha, c Roy Halladay, rhp

Thirteen Met debuts in April, most in a season's first month since fourteen in 2005 and 2002.

The Mets Lineup! Jose Reyes � SS Daniel Murphy � 2B David Wright � 3B Carlos Beltran � RF Jason Bay � LF Ike Davis � 1B Josh Thole � C Jason Pridie � CF Jonathon Niese � LHP

Davis 1.0 Murphy 0.5 Byrdak 0.5 Pridie 0.5

Willie might have added, "Seeing as how neither the Mets nor the Nationals are succeeding on the field no matter how closely knit or loosely affiliated the players are, perhaps one of these clubs should attempt to strike a casual-friendliness medium."

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Tobias Funke and Joe Biden were talking, and they both think Willie should choose his words more carefully. Willie, we'd like you to see a specialist regarding these feelings of loneliness.

metirish wrote: In England they call it gardening leave , either way it's one step out the door. At Shea, that was the same as being exiled to the bullpen.

You guys are reaching.

bmfc1 wrote: ajcbraves David O'Brien #Braves put McDowell on administrative leave pending outcome of investigation into alleged anti-gay slurs. Dave Wallace interim pitch coach When McDowell comes back, will Wallace take over as outfield coach?