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metsguyinmichigan wrote: Yikes. The last thing we need is our outfielders to go all Don Hahn-George Theodore. You mean a potential collision or Green's and Alou's combined RBI total?

That slow-motion replay of Delgado being thrown out at home doesn't really indicate how slow Delgado is. Oh wait...that wasn't in slow motion.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Knowing about the urine thing, did the other players give him high-fives after the sac fly? If doing that hardens his hands, perhaps he should consider trying it all over his body.

Play at the plate...yeah, Alou's still 15 behind Green.

Alou missed almost 2-1/2 months and is within 15 RBI of Green.

We're witnessing history here tonight, folks. Moises Alou is approaching his 300th minute without an apparent injury.

Reyes doubles. Castillo bunts. Wright singles. And thus the JLD Connection was born.

Jeff Suppan: Baserunner notwithstanding, still an unnecessary force for evil on the planet.

Drop in on SNY of Maddux interview in which Greg refers to Tom as "Glavine". Seems a little cold.

Castillo: Second base totally his thing twice already tonight.

Johnny Dickshot wrote: That segment, like some rounds of the Desert-Island Mix-Tap Project, was skewed by the availability of video That is the most accurate statement regarding this topic I could imagine. Or know.

Mets.com lists LC as No. 1. Screw you, Anderson Hernandez.

My gut tells me 300 is the new 400 when it comes to wins, and how many 400-game winners you bump into lately? Nevertheless, three pitchers, assuming Glavine doesn't disintegrate, have done it despite pitching in an era when the norms were stacked against them. Even by the beginnings of Clemens', Maddux's and Glavine's careers, there was a reliance on middle relief and a de-emphasis on complete games never mind the granite institution of the five-man rotation. They're all great pitchers (grumble, grumble where one of those greats in particular is concerned), but they're not three one-of-a-kinds. If Clemens could do it, if Maddux could do it, if Glavine could do it, somebody is bound to do it. It will be a Herculean feat of luck, longevity and not a little skill, but it will likely be done. I have no idea by whom. I doubt we have have met this pitcher yet.

I, too, was overriding my FAN ban for trade news and found myself utterly amused that caller after caller tried to break down to Russo the whole "BIB" concept like Bart used a puppet show to explain to Homer why a match lit in a room filled with gas would cause an explosion. Every time you think he's about to get it, he falls down a hole with "why not take some big NFL trade from that summer and use that for your movie?" Oh, he's such a dope.

Respectfully passing along this note from a friend: Have the police interrogated Rick Rhoden?? Bad day all around: Bill Robinson, Tom Snyder, Bill Walsh, Ingmar Bergman and one of the fathers of the Pepsi Generation Alan Pottasch all passing away.

iramets wrote: [...]G-Fafif's original post in this thread[...] Which, for the record, had nothing to do with wins as a barometer of effectiveness, just that I thought a Mets beat writer had created a context for Glavine's signing that didn't exist when it occurred.

Recap/box: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270729121 Maine 3 Castro 3 Wright 3 Reyes 0.5 Easley 0.5

Delgado 3 Wright 2.5 Gotay 2 Mota 1 Milledge 0.5 Pelfrey 0.5

OHernandez 4.5 Gotay 1.5 Reyes 1 Milledge 1 Heilman 1 Wagner 1

Adkins 1 Alou 1 Easley 1 Delgado 1 Green 0.5 Sosa 0.5

Box: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=270727121

And is leading us through our darkest hours, according to John Harper: ]Three hundred wins don't necessarily need any context to be appreciated, especially considering that after Glavine and perhaps Randy Johnson reach the milestone, it could be more than a decade before another pitcher even gets close. Yet in Glavine's case, it's impossible not to notice the circumstances and timing that make this particularly appealing. Indeed, in a rather sickening week to be a sports fan, a week when Barry Bonds' tainted chase of the home run record plays like a Disney movie compared to the dogfighting and game-fixing scandals plaguing football and basketball, Glavine setting the stage for 300 is something of a godsend for anyone who cares about sports. He's one of the good guys in baseball, always has been, and if ever there was a time to celebrate that often inconsequential detail, as it applies to wins and losses, it is now. Indeed. Michael Vick will be volunteering for the ASPCA as a result of Tom Glavine's career. Lots of "what a guy!" quotes from Wagner and Wright. What do fellow lefty pitchers Oliver Perez and Pedro Feliciano think of him? Harper somehow forgot to ask them.

SteveJRogers wrote: The only reason Glavine came here was because he would be surrounded by veteran pitchers... To say nothing of dead presidents.

I despise Roberto Alomar's Met tenure as much as anybody, but I was doing handstands the morning the news came down. I'd say picking up Alomar's option after his intensely indifferent 2002 was the horrible decision, not the original trade. That was worth a shot.