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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ashie62 wrote: Ojeda just jumped R.A. Dickey about talking about the winter in season. Yeah I've heard enough from Dickey to last me until next winter myself. As far as I'm concerned he's lost the privilege of blowing away fanboys and the fourth estate with erudite remarks and 50-cent words, at least until he gives us the kind of starting pitching performance his teammates might look to emulate. Talk stupid 'til you pitch better? /dickeyfanboy

Paulino about to begin rehab stint with PSL.

Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center On the campus of Montclair State University 8 Quarry Road Little Falls, NJ 07424 973/655-2378 Museum currently closed for renovations. Perhaps painting over history, per the uniform tops sold at Citi Field.

Reyes SS Pagan CF Wright 3B Beltran RF Davis 1B Harris LF Emaus 2B Thole C Carrasco P

After the last five games, who couldn't use The Happiest Recap's latest installment? 010: 1962 -- The schneid is departed 011: 2010 -- The game won't end 012: 2006 -- The dynamic has changed Enjoy, for crissake.

Nickeas 1.5 Reyes 1.0 Hairston 0.5 Isringhausen 0.5 Igarashi 0.5

Modest spoiler alert (modest in that MLB Network sent out a press release and Gwreck and I are the only ones who seem to be following this breathlessly): Mets will appear in the No. 5 Greatest Game of the Last Fifty Years this Sunday at 7:00 PM. Joe Torre not guesting, but I fully expect Costas and Verducci to dwell on the MFYs and apologize to viewers for their absence from the 1986 postseason. STRAWBERRY, OROSCO AND KNEPPER DISCUSS 1986 NLCS GAME SIX ON MLB�S 20 GREATEST GAMES ON SUNDAY, APRIL 17 Game Ranked Fifth in Series Countdown of the Best Games of the Last 50 Seasons Secaucus, NJ, April 14, 2011 - MLB Network�s MLB�s 20 Greatest Games continues on Sunday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m. ET when Darryl Strawberry, Jesse Orosco and Bob Knepper join series hosts Bob Costas and Tom Verducci to discuss Game Six of the 1986 NLCS between the New York Mets and Houston Astros, which is ranked as the fifth best game of the series. In a game that lasted 16 innings and nearly five hours, Strawberry, Orosco and Knepper discuss the pressure on the Mets to win the series, how both teams rallied late to tie the score, the possibility of facing the Astros� Mike Scott in Game Seven, and the legacy of the 1986 Postseason 25 years later. A clip of the episode detailing a confrontation on the mound between the Mets� Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter and Orosco in the 16th inning can be viewed here. New episodes of MLB�s 20 Greatest Games, which counts down the best games of the last 50 seasons, will continue to air weekly through May 22. A list of the rankings to-date is available here. Highlights from the episode include: DARRYL STRAWBERRY ON FACING MIKE SCOTT IN GAME SEVEN: �I knew if we had to go to Game Seven, there was no way we were going to beat Scott. He had already got in our heads so bad, we were so frustrated with that fact that we were going to have to face him again and that challenge. We just knew we weren�t capable of beating Scott.� JESSE OROSCO ON FINISHING THE GAME IN THE 16TH INNING: �I was tired. I was just trying to make those pitches. In that time of the moment, you just have to reach back and get everything you have inside you and go for it.� BOB KNEPPER ON IF MIKE SCOTT WAS SCUFFING THE BASEBALL IN THE SERIES: �Everybody said everybody knew it. � I think you�d have to ask Mike to get the low-down, but I would say yeah he was.� KNEPPER ON LOSING THE SERIES: �The immediate aftermath was just a complete emotional bottom of the barrel-type of feeling. � The entire series was just an emotional roller coaster. To have it end, you realize just how quick the ending comes. Even though it�s a six hour game or 16 innings or whatever it was, the ending is so sudden. � It was definitely a carpet being pulled up underneath you. � For me, it took me a long time [to get over the loss]. For too many times after that, I let that game define me because it was such a disappointment not to have finished that game out.� STRAWBERRY ON WINNING THE SERIES: �That was the greatest time of my career to be able to be in a series like that because that�s what every kid dreams about, getting to the World Series. Getting to the World Series is not an easy to path. � People always ask me, �What were the great moments [of your career]?� The great moments were playing in that series against the Astros because it was a nail-biter for us, it challenged us because we were the big bad [team] from the East. We were the Mets, we were the team that dominated, we were supposed to just run through it, but it wasn�t like that. It was baseball at its finest.�

JOSE!

Swear to Gil I just instinctively thought "all right!" as I saw Ty Wigginton make a nice play at third. It's only been seven years since he was traded.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Aided by the Mets going down like kittens before Matt Belisle. 'Cept kittens are cute.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Hey Dickey, how about you STFU and get your WhiP back in the single digits. R.A. Dickey to reporters "No comment, fellas. I think I'll just STFU and get my WHiP back in the single digits. JCL was pretty adamant about that."

Reyes 2.5 Beltran 1.0 Hairston 1.0 Igarashi 0.5

R.A. Dickey on tough loss for the team, April 14, 2011 "We've gotta trust the process." Wright's final fly ball didn't contain what looked like "one of his more significant charges". "It can be good, instead of bad." (Which sounded deeper than it reads.)

If you can't sweep, then salvage. [youtube:2wd2a0h7]UiKcd7yPLdU[/youtube:2wd2a0h7]

Reyes-6 Pagan-8 Wright-5 Beltran-9 Davis-3 Hairston-7 Emaus-4 Nickeas-2 Capuano-1

OTOH, Terry can claim Mets could very well be 10-2.

Long fly to right, not long enough. Damn.

Fudge on a stick.

Foul. 3-2.

Low and away. 3-1.

At the knees. 2-1.

2-0, almost wild pitch.

1-0.

BB -- loaded for DW.

With this short a bench, surprised we have a pinch runner.