Gwreck

The best guy on the Cardinals named Carpenter is now Matt Carpenter. .332/.412/.481 is pretty good for a second baseman -- or for anyone, really. His 19 doubles lead the league. (Starting pitcher Chris hasn't played this year, with the nerve problems in his shoulder that also caused him to miss most of last year). Allen Craig is playing first. .310/.353/.444 is not shabby, either, but he probably needs to be hitting a bit more to make up for what he costs the team with his glove. Pete Kozma is the shortstop. His baseball-reference page tells me he had a big hit in the 9th inning of game 5 of the NLDS against the Nationals last year. He can't really hit (.254/.304/.317) but is a good fielder. David Freese is at third. He isn't having quite as good a year as he did last year (3.8 WAR) but .282/.354/.387 still works when the rest of your team is hitting too. He is the only player in this infield that the Cardinals didn't draft; he was acquired (when he was in A-ball) from the Padres when the Cardinals traded away Jim Edmonds. Old friend Ty Wigginton is on the roster as a backup. He and Beltran are the only ex-Mets. [crossout]Rick Ankiel[/crossout] Andrew Brown is the only ex-Cardinal on the Mets, although I will also admit to checking LaTroy Hawkins' Baseball-reference page to make sure.

When do we send Marcum to right and bring Ankiel in to pitch?

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Gwreck wrote: lower Fairfield county in CT; I'm curious where the cutoff line is for this. South of I-84 and West of Route 58.

Lefty Specialist wrote: [Either of these options would run into the 75 mile rule. Remember the Mets screwed the Yankees a few years ago when they wanted to move their AAA team to Newark for a year while Scranton/Wilkes-Barre was being rebuilt. The Mets said no (for no really good reason), so it's an absolute guarantee that the Steinbrenner Yankees would screw them right back. There is no 75 mile rule. The territories that the Mets/Yankees have joint veto power over (specifically, for the placement of additional major or minor league teams) is the 5 boroughs, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and Rockland; lower Fairfield county in CT; and Bergen, Hudson, Union and Essex counties in NJ.

Mike Mussina?

Jack Morris

Randy Johnson

Frank Tanana

That's what they cost for anyone though. Upper level "grandstand" seats are $33. Bleacher seats are $23.

vtmet wrote: Yanks were pricing the S/W series as if they were playing a minor league team; and the Mets were pricing the tickets like they were playing a championship caliber team.. This is inaccurate; it would be accurately described that the Yankees are treating the Mets like any other opponent. You still aren't going to be sitting in anything good at Yankee Stadium for under $100 either. Also of note is that tonight's game will also be well-short of a sellout. I remain hopeful that this is but one more step on the road to reducing this series to 3 games every year, in alternating stadiums.

There is a price floor for "season ticket holder sections," which is the season-ticket holder price. --- The "dynamic" pricing is mostly a sham anyway, and prices don't ever go "down," no matter what B.S. comes out of the mouths of Mets officials. One need look no farther than this week, where there were somewhere around 8,000 or more unsold seats for both Monday and Tuesday's game. The prices were never "lowered" to reflect that.

If they don't want to sit in $250 seats, they can sit in any of the empty seats in the Promenade level for whatever the Mets were charging there. I don't expect the Yankees to be giving away the seats in front of their moat for $80 either.

BOOKS, MOTHERFUCKERS

SUCK IT RIVERA

Here we go

They're just setting it up for one last chance to stick it to Rivera before he retires.

I think we kind of have to use either Baxter or Valdespin to hit for Davis here, right? Right?

Delta airlines is paging passengers Tejada and Davis for flight 257 to Las Vegas. Please report to gate 10 to ensure on-time departure.

Going to need another home run here David

GO Fuck yourself Gardner

Benjamin Grimm wrote: That's a New York Giants cap. It's not, it's just a poor quality picture.

'Twas David, playing there due to the shift.

Books!

Big K

Time for Duda to put it out of reach.