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Should've squeezed. Ronnie agreed.

Squeeze play with Rodriguez. Make it happen.

Need 2 baserunners to get Rodriguez a (his first ever?) plate appearance.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Was Buchholz PHed for? He threw only a couple of pitches. Nope.

Real crappy there by Hairston.

I thought he had #3 there.

Dammit Jose (and Angel), hit the ball on the ground.

Kaboom! Redux

Sure looked to me like the idiot in left field reached over the railing to grab that ball hit by Espinosa and made it a homer.

Kaboom! for Beltran. 2-0 Mets

Nice first inning by Capuano. LaRoche out of the Washington lineup due to a torn rotator cuff.

I didn't create a rule. It's an analysis of the current situation (or the situation as it was in Wednesday's game). Note that I don't disagree with everything you wrote; I was just going for the pragmatic approach to analyzing the situation.

Reyes SS Pagan CF Wright 3B Beltran RF Hairston LF Davis 1B Nickeas C Hu 2B Capuano P Desmond SS Werth RF Zimmerman 3B Morse 1B Ramos C Ankiel CF Espinosa 2B Hairston Jr. LF Gorzelanny P

Dodgers and Padres are in a rain delay. No, really. In San Diego. Tarp on the field: http://plixi.com/p/90710821# Also: Red Sox defeat MFYs for first win of the year.

Carrasco 2 Duda 1.5 Thole 1.5 Reyes 1

Howie was wrong. If Murphy gets a hit there, we have tied the game with 2 men on and nobody out with the top of the lineup coming up. It was the 7th! What exactly was he waiting for? The bottom of the 9th with 2 outs?

Because he retired, no, the Rays don't have to pay him. Keep in mind that he would've been suspended 100 games so they wouldn't have been paying him very much anyway.

I was extraordinarily disappointed in the bunt play in the bottom of the 7th, for several reasons: 1. Bunting is for losers 2. If we are really going to bunt, we should use Pelfrey or Niese and not a bench player 3. After being ahead in the count on Emaus, Gaudin issued a walk and then promptly walked Thole 4. If the pitcher isn't throwing strikes, why give away free outs? 5. We had Murphy available on the bench 6. Gaudin is right-handed 7. There was no lefty ready in the Nationals 'pen 8. Bunting is for losers --- While announced as a sellout there were a lot of empty seats, and not just because people went to the clubs or were walking across the Shea bridge at the same time, although Gameday does have that accurately portrayed, as it is consistently overcrowded there. Boos in the opening day introductions, for those that care, were for Pelfrey and Rodriguez. Beltran even got a smattering of boos mixed in with cheers. Big cheers for the Wrights and Reyeses but also for Chris Young, Angel Pagan and Daniel Murphy. Ralph looked great. Jose might have struck out with those two runners on but he really saved Dickey in the bottom of the 5th with that really nice stop on the ball in the hole and then getting the DP. Bases were loaded then and without that DP we wouldn't have been in the game as we were until the 8th.

Outstanding.

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Reyes 1

Box Score

bmfc1 wrote: on the way home my car got clobbered from behind (I was at an intersection with a "no left turn" sign, a car in front of me stopped to make a left anyway, I stopped, the guy behind me didn't and hit me). That sucks. Hope you are ok.

themetfairy wrote: No beer for you today! I guess Jose gets a point for his two hits...and...ummm....nobody else is going to be drinking tonight.

It's WILSON fucking VALDEZ. How can we not get this scrub out?