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Other team in their boring order of batting: Infante 2B Heyward RF Jones 3B McCann C Hinske 1B Gonzalez SS Ankiel CF Cabrera LF Lowe P

The pre-G portion of the IGT is exponentially more engaging than the G the IGT is technically designed to track.

Fourth place and down Losing ground and suckin' We're gonna do what they say Can't be done We've got a long way to go And a short time to get there Eight games out Just watch ol' R.A. gun Keep your foot hard on the pedal Mets never mind them brakes Let it all hang out 'Cause we got a run to make The boys are slumping in Atlanta And they didn't help Santana Yet we'll bring it back No matter what it takes Fourth place and down Losing ground and suckin' We're gonna do what they say Can't be done We've got a long way to go And a short time to get there Eight games out Just watch ol' R.A. gun Ol' Larry's got his bat He's preparing to prevail He ain't gonna rest Until we fail So we got to dodge 'im We got to duck 'im We got to keep our Dickey chuckin' Just put that knuckler down And give 'em hell Fourth place and down Losing ground and suckin' We're gonna do what they say Can't be done We've got a long way to go And a short time to get there Eight games out Just watch ol' R.A. gun

Hagin isn't great and I'd prefer he not be renewed when the time comes. Slap a dot-com on that and it makes for a pretty catchy URL I would think.

Gwreck wrote: Edgy DC wrote: I think if the Mets were seven in front, nobody would be bothered by Wayne Hagin. I wasn't a fan of Tom McCarthy in 2006, and as I recall, plenty of other people here weren't either. Amen, brother.

Beltran 1.5 Santana 1.0

Santana: First innings aren't my bag, baby.

Centerfield wrote: Stats I'd like to See: Longest Win Streaks of 2010: 1. New York Mets: 24* *Denotes Active Streak ITA.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: The percentage of times really bad things happen when they're wearing the black jersey. Like yesterday, for example. I know Trachsel was wearing black when they clinched in 2006, but I can't think of too many other good things happening. The grand slam single, maybe? On the other hand, I think they were wearing black when Kenny Rogers became Kenny Bleeping Rogers, when Niese was hurt last year..... Robin Ventura wore black when Todd Pratt tackled hime between first and second on October 17, 1999. Pratt also wore black. All the Mets wore black as the NLDS and NLCS were clinched in 2000. Let us not willfully skew our memories because we don't like a uniform color.

I hate the the first-place Braves, whom we, tied for third with the Marlins, trail by 6-1/2 games even as they come off a 3-6 road trip. I can tell ya that. No surprise there, except maybe that they're sagging. I used to like them. Now that's surprising, even to me. I liked them in the early '80s, first in a vague "good to see a bad team getting it together" sense when they went 81-80 in 1980, then because it was nice to be able to listen to their games over WFLA 970 AM while I was at college in Tampa in 1981 and then, finally, when Joe Torre took over in 1982 and it gave me a piece of virtual Metsishness to hold onto from afar. I was really into them as a Second Team during their brief run of contention in '82 (successful) and '83 (less so). Loved Dale Murphy. Liked Phil Niekro. Rooted for Torre. Then Ted Turner fired Torre in 1984, and I didn't give a spit. Fast-forward to 1991, and it's bad team getting good time all over again and my fancy was recaptured. The Braves are challenging in the N.L. West and it's a breath of fresh air. All that fine young pitching taking the Dodgers to the limit -- and then surpassing them in one of the best pennant races of all time. On September 14, WFAN pre-empted the beginning of a meaningless Mets game (meaningless in the standings -- per John Mayer, no such thing as a meaningless Mets game, of course) to stay with a Dodgers @ Braves game when CBS cut out of it to go to local news. The little used Jerry Willard drew a walk from Roger McDowell in the bottom of the eleventh and the Braves would go on to win 3-2. "We" led by a half-game. The division lead changed hands seven times from late August until the Braves clinched on the second-to-last day of the season. My fiancee and I met with the Reform rabbi who was going to marry us on that Saturday. It was agreed by all concerned that we should make this a short meeting because nobody wanted to miss the Braves. Mazel tov! Rooted hard for the Braves that postseason and the next one. Was heartbroken when they lost to the Twins. Was disappointed when they fell to the Jays. Was thrilled when they flew by the Giants in 1993, an epic comeback that challenged the '91 race for drama. Then they came into the N.L. East and the Braves thing began to wear off. I was very happy when they won the 1995 World Series and I surely dug out my old blue circa 1983 vertical Superstripe cap to support them in the 1996 World Series...but that was it. They couldn't beat the MFYs, they became the Enemy. And I've despised them ever since. Martin Prado just went on the DL. Jason Heyward got a big hit late yesterday in his quest to steal Ike Davis's Rookie of the Year but they didn't cash in against the Reds; Omar Infante made the last out with Wonderboy on second...good. Sports Illustrated just did a story on how beloved Bobby Cox is by his players. Nice anecdotes, but I can't stand the guy. It starts with an anecdote from where he's been can't standed the most. [L]et me tell you about the time Bobby Cox demolished a toilet with one bare hand. It happened at Shea Stadium. Braves shortstop Darrel Chaney slid into home, and the plate umpire called him out, and Chaney raised enough Cain to get himself ejected. Cox was so furious on his player's behalf that he went to the bathroom by the dugout and visited justice upon the toilet. Chaney saw the shattered tank, the gushing water, and he loved the skipper for what he had done. Chaney decided he would do anything for Bobby Cox, even ride the bench without complaint, which he did for most of the 1979 season. He played so seldom in the dusk of his career that he basically forgot how, and by mid-September his average had fallen to .111. Cox called him into the office. They're not renewing your contract, he said. They're gonna release you. But I'll play you as much as I can these last two weeks, so other clubs can see you. Chaney was a career .217 hitter. He went out those last two weeks and hit .333 for Bobby Cox. And then he retired. Jeff Francoeur is still an ex-Brave, current Met. Manny Acosta and Henry Blanco, too. Alejandro Pena, I think, is no longer an ex-Met, current Brave, but Billy Wagner is. Wagner has stopped being invincible. Francoeur is still Francoeur. Adam LaRoche is an ex-Brave, which was bad news yesterday, great news tonight. Santana vs. Hudson tonight in a battle of titans, though Santana was more like the Titanic his last start. Or Oliver Perez. Dickey vs. Lowe tonight in a battle of pitchers better than Oliver Perez. Pelfrey vs. Medlen Wednesday in a battle of pitchers also better than Oliver Perez, though Pelf shouldn't be too full of himself. Manuel's been Medlen with the rotation and is skipping Takahashi in Philly. But wait, that's not KTE material. Say, you know who kicks ass at series previews (besides LWFS)? Adam Rubin. Read his for detailed KTE-ishness. A Brave view from Carroll Rogers of the Journal-Constitution here. Oh, and finally: WE HAVE TO WIN TONIGHT.

Niese handles the Cards easy and the Mets have no problem with Adam Wainwright. Five days later, Niese can't do a thing (after three innings) with the D'Backs and Daniel Hudson cruises. Weird game, this baseball. They should really put a warning label on it.

I hate the trading deadline. Not trades, just the stupid, artificial deadline. I wish the Mets had improved their club (don't ask me how -- I hate pretending to be a GM...I'll leave that to Omar Minaya) but I always wish the Mets would improve their club. I'm glad they didn't give away the farm or a farm product, but maybe if they had, it would've worked out. Call me when a move is made, not when somebody writes about a rumor. Also, let me know when Adam LaRoche is done detonating Citi Field.

Pagan 0.5

Reyes SS Feliciano LF Pagan CF Wright 3B Davis 1B Francoeur RF Thole C Cora 2B Niese P Win one for the Hall of Fame Four!

Ashie62 wrote: RealityChuck wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Mets trade any possible impulse to send Davis, Niese, Tejada, Parnell packing for patience and realization there are no short-term gains to be made. Best trade of the day.Second that. There was no one out there worth mortgaging the future for (and that includes a rental of Lee). They should have shopped Frankir, P Feliciano and Castillo We don't know that they didn't, or that the shoppees didn't retort by saying, nah, no thanks, but we'll take some of those younger, inexpensive, more mobile fellows off your hands. To get anything for Francoeur or Castillo, I imagine Omar Minaya would have to get Omar Minaya on the other end of the line.

Cam-a-lam-a-ding-dong: 2-for-2 on Friday, raising his batting average to .300 and his on-base percentage to .440. On the other hand, no extra-base hits since July 5...not that he plays all that often. Are they trying to tell him something?

Takahashi 2.0 Pagan 2.0 Wright 2.0 JFreliciano 1.5 Beltran 1.0 Rodriguez 0.5 Acosta 0.5 Reyes 0.5

Mets trade any possible impulse to send Davis, Niese, Tejada, Parnell packing for patience and realization there are no short-term gains to be made. Best trade of the day.

Strike 'em out, throw 'em out, pooch unscrewed.

This may be the sort of thing with which they honor Pete Flynn or even the late Jane Jarvis down the road.

Marty Noble on the recipient of the first Mets Hall of Fame Achievement Award, Bob Mandt. Great move instituting this sort of recognition. Throughout his tenure with the club, 1961-2004, he was a man behind the scenes, a man with an office in the bowels of Shea and a knowledge of everything from the floor of the basement corridors to the flight patterns of LaGuardia's jets. Shea didn't breathe, sneeze, open or close without Mandt knowing about it. He knew all its nooks and crannies, leaks and secrets, and everyone's extensions [...] Bob knew the umps and the cops; the opposing players, coaches and managers; Mrs. Payson and the Mr. Mets; the secretaries and the grounds crew; the guys from Harry M. Stevens; Casey, Gil and Yogi; the doctors and the trainers; the plumbers and the electricians; the writers, the bullpen catchers and the mayors; Stearns, Staub, Staiger and all the rest. He had an original poster from The Beatles at Shea and bobble-head dolls from everything, even the Titans. Pins, trinkets and caps, and stories about most of them. And he had picture of himself with Mick Jagger. His office was the unofficial Mets Hall of Fame. If you had business at Shea, you had business with Bob. If you had a problem, he had a solution. If you had an anecdote, he had two dozen. If he had a cold, Shea had the sniffles. Robert A. Mandt is going to be the inaugural recipient of the Mets Hall of Fame Achievement Award. It could be appropriately named after him. Listing his achievements, duties, responsibilities, good deeds and friends would require that cyberspace build an addition. He began his time in the club's employ before Roger Craig threw the franchise's first pitch, before Casey said "Amazin'" for the first time and well before Marv missed first and second. He sold tickets in the basement of the Hotel Martinique in Manhattan and at Grand Central Terminal in 1961.

Wright 4.5 Reyes 1.0 Pagan 1.0 Acosta 1.0