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Bordick and Hernandez were the other two. 2001 RF starts Lawton 46 Perez 44 Shinjo 28 McEwing 21 Bragg 9 Escobar 6 Johnson 4 Hamilton 3 Harris 1

Sparklehorse ...is Shinjo? He had 28 starts. Perez was the runner up with 44 starts. Johnson had 4. Hamiton had 3. Agbayani and Payton are wrong. Castillo is correct but he's not the only one.

G-Fafif wrote: Matt Lawton That was not the name I expected to see for 2001. He has 2 more starts but 2 fewer total games played than his runner up. Two good trivia questions there: 1. How many Mets led their team in games played at a position in a particular season, having been acquired at the trading deadline or later? 2. Who else started in RF in 2001? There were 9 total, with 46, 44, 28, 21, 9, 6, 4, 3, and 1 games started each.

I was thinking the Squeeze for Hernandez's plate appearance.

How about a squeeze play?

Nice to see some people from the CPF at the game tonight. Also nice to see that the plate umpire had dinner reservations tonight.

Umm...sorry to bring this up...but Lilly and Ryan Theroit were traded to the Dodgers at the trade deadline. This series should give us a nice preview of our future manager, Cubs bench coach Alan Trammell.

I still don't understand why people think Wally Backman is qualified to manage the New York Mets. Was it the DUI arrest and subsequent guilty plea? The violation of his probation following his DUI conviction? The domestic violence arrest where he broke down the door to his house, threatened to kill his wife, and assaulted a bystander with a baseball bat? (and subsequent guilty plea to a lesser charge)? This is the same Mets team that wants Francisco Rodriguez gone. How could we possibly justify having this person as manager?

The "rebuttal" is no more illuminating than Rubin's piece. In summary, the "5 reasons the Mets may make the playoffs next year are" 1. They could outperform expectations. If projected as a .500 win team, it's possible they could outperform expectations by 6 or 8 wins and sneak into the playoffs. (See Cardinals, 2006 and their 83 wins). 2. Improvements from Bay, Reyes, Beltran and Davis are possible. 3. 2B and RF aren't contributing and could be replaced with better offense. Replacing Francouer with a combination of Bay/Pagan ABs should be an improvement. He also throws out the Murphy to 2B idea. 4. There are no offensive free agents worth dumping piles of cash on (other than Jayson Werth). This will supposedly control "reckless spending." 5. Jerry will probably be gone.

Ceetar wrote: Barajas was a black hole after a while, but hardly worse than Schneider/Santos last year. Actually, Barajas was worse than Santos. Not by a ton, but he wasn't an upgrade.

Someone here (LWFS?) referred to Rod's at-bats as being like "scratch-off lottery tickets" which was a fantastic description.

Wow. The Keith announcing train going off the track already. Attention Keith: things that nobody wants to hear about: 1. Your first-class travel schedule 2. How late your chartered flight will arrive to your prearranged airport transportation 3. How much money you can spend at the Houston Galleria. It's the top of the SECOND INNING for chrissakes. Shut up and call the game please. Thanks.

seawolf17 wrote: There are some really neat ideas they have over there. I though the "KROD When in Doubt, Knock 'Em Out" shirt to be particularly classless. They're also liable to get sued for using Keith's image if they're not careful.

Yawn. Same old tired stuff. And inaccurate too. The "Mets are cheapskates" thing can only go so far. Feel free to complain about *how* they spend their money but money *is* being spent.

If we lose, I will blame the people leaving the IGT before this one's wrapped up.

Make it happen Ike.

Just got home. When I left 2 hours ago, the Mets were winning! Gameday has Parnell's final pitch of the 11th at 103.

A poor choice of title by Neyer's editor, as the Neagle case he discusses isn't necessarily precedent for this matter. A player-inflicted season-ending injury while committing criminal action hasn't happened before.

Not mentioned is that just in the past couple days, the Astros won their arbitration hearing when they voided Shawn Chacon's contract after he assaulted general manager Ed Wade.

KABOOM!

Ceetar wrote: I maintain that I want him back, because I think the Mets can spend the money they need to get better without needing to find ways to void guys, would probably 'waste' money on a lesser reliever to close next year, and it's just not a winning strategy to let talented players walk away when it's definitely not a given that you'll get similiar quality from other guys, never mind opening up the possibility that he goes to Philadelphia. Wow. Where to begin? 1. The Mets are not "finding ways to void guys;" Rodriguez brought this on himself. 2. They would "probably" waste money? I need your crystal ball to "probably" tell me the lottery numbers tomorrow, please. 2a. Some might suggest that Frankie himself is overpaid. 2b. Assume his contract is successfully voided. On what free agent reliever would the Mets spend *more* money that what they would've spent on Frankie? 3. I'm pretty sure voiding his contract isn't "letting talented players walk away." It's called booting his ass out the door for conduct that is totally unacceptable. 3a. Who's to say paying $12M to a guy who pitches 65-70 innings a year is a "winning strategy?" 4. He goes to Philadelphia? Good for them. Would fit right in on the team that refused to cut Brett Myers.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I don't know about that. What's the burden of proof in an arbitration? Most arbitrations have the same rules re: burden as the civil courts, which is "by preponderance of the evidence."

Misch 1.5 Parnell .5 Dessens .5 Rodriguez .5 Carter .5

Pelfrey 2 Takahashi 1 Feliciano .67 Parnell .33 Reyes 1 Castillo .5 Wright .5