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There's a reason Billy Joel is not allowed in the IGTs, and this is it. Seriously, that's totally unacceptable. 3 errors? Are you fucking serious?

First pitch expected at 8:00.

="Mendoza Line"]What are they doing with the now outdated (and always lame) "hot dogs, green grass, all at Shea" line now that Shea is a parking lot? Are they going to be politically incorrect and bring back "bring the kiddies, bring the wife," (please, please) or is there some new set of lyrics? I Googled "meet the mets" and checked mets.com and didn't find anything. The "Hot dogs, green grass, all at Shea" line is from the 1984 re-write of the song that is most commonly used on WFAN for the Mets Extra intro and outro. Interestingly, WFAN has edited the portion of the song they use to no longer contain the Shea reference. Anyway, the lyrics of the original 1962 version are still used at Shea Citi Field: Meet the Mets, Meet the Mets Step right up and greet the Mets Bring your kiddies, bring your wife Guaranteed to have the time of your life Because the Mets are really sockin' the ball Knockin' those home runs over the wall East side, west side, ev'rybody's comin' down To meet the M-E-T-S Mets of New York town. Oh, the butcher and the baker and the people in the streets Where do they go? To meet the Mets! Oh, they're hollerin' and they're cheerin' and they're jumpin' in their seats Where did they go? To meet the Mets! All the fans are true to the orange and blue So hurry up and come on down 'Cause we've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town. Give 'em a yell! Give 'em a hand! And let 'em know you're rootin' in the stands! Come on and meet the Mets, Meet the Mets, Step right up and greet the Mets Bring your kiddies, bring your wife Guaranteed to have the time of your life Because the Mets are really sockin' the ball Knockin' those home runs over the wall East side, west side, ev'rybody's comin' down To meet the M-E-T-S Mets of New York town, of New York town!

Cap'n Intangibles SS Johnny Damon LF Mark Teixeira 1B Slappy 3B Robinson Cano 2B Melky Cabrera RF Brett Gardner, CF Francisco Cervelli C CC Sabathia P

There's nothing wrong with "Twist and Shout." Mama Said Knock You Out is the best-known song by LL Cool J.

I don't think people can actually sing the Curley Shuffle, they just liked the idea of it being played. Most of the choices on that list are absolutely terrible.

Apparently, today is you-know who's birthday. The day we celebrate being overrated and having no range. (Stole the joke from here: http://twitter.com/toeingtherubber/status/2348438797)

Vote now at Mets.com (scroll to bottom of front page) What is your choice for the 8th inning Sing-A-Long at Citi Field? Curly Shuffle Hooked On A Feeling I Like It Like That Mama Said Knock You Out Meet the Mets This Land Is Your Land Twist and Shout

I wanted to email this to a friend but had to slightly edit it from a "XXX" to just an "R" rating (!!). Still quite funny though.

Which do you think it is?

Not for nothing but Florida won again, that's 5 straight, and they're only half a game behind us.

Yabbbut, isn't Ibanez hurt too? Any reason to think that if the Mets signed him instead of Perez that Ibanez wouldn't be hurt now? Nope.

Was it an unintentional walk?

Putting Albert on is just stupid. If we were on the road, with a runner on second and two outs? Maybe. Because an Albert homer loses the game. But with two outs and nobody on at home? You pitch. Worst thing he does is hit a game tying solo homer, but then there's still two outs and nobody on, and we get another chance to bat. You don't walk him.

You don't put the tying run on base. Francisco gets paid big-boy money to get Albert out here.

My impressions of Burkhardt is that he's been quite good at doing the play-by-play in Spring Training and that I expect SNY to lose him sooner or later for a better job.

Sold my tickets to this one several weeks ago. Shoulda kept 'em and called in sick.

Brendan Ryan SS Skip Schumaker LF Albert Pujols 1B Ryan Ludwick RF Yadier Molina C Rick Ankiel CF Khalil Greene 3B Chris Carpenter P Joe Thurston 2B

Cora SS Castillo 2B Wright 3B Church RF Tatis LF Martinez CF Evans 1B Santos C Santana P

seawolf17 wrote: It's okay; they mostly cut the non-blonde one off the left side of the screen so you couldn't see her. Too bad they didn't identify the others. I believe they were (not sure which order): Jordan Schneider Tina Church Angela Pelfrey Kelsey Putz Christina Green Jaime Redding

Cora SS Castillo 2B Wright 3B Church RF Tatis LF Martinez CF Evans 1B Schneider C Nieve P Also Switzer DFAed and Argenis Reyes called up. No DL for Gary Sheffield...yet.

Distint Scores 747 distinct scores 3-2 most common, occuring 97 times 17-13 is closest score to never happen Never a 13-4 game Lopsided score is 24-3 Lopsided shutout 17-0 Most frequent lopsided score 19-4

Yep. The Slingbox was a great idea. I believe the way the Slingbox changes channels is that it has a small infared-emitting device which you just stick in front of the cable box and can be used to change channels/etc. I guess it would also work to control a DVR if you taped the game and then wanted to watch it later.

Buster Olney of ESPN takes up this issue: Jerry Manuel's preference for constantly playing match-up with his relievers on a regular basis already seems to be taking a toll on the Mets' bullpen. There are some teams that don't have a single reliever on pace to make 70 appearances, and the Mets have four (and would have had five if Putz hadn't broken down). It's difficult to consider these numbers without concluding that the Mets' relief corps is being mismanaged. Key: Current | Pace | Career High Francisco Rodriguez Games: 34 | 81 | 76 Innings: 34.2 | 81 | 86 Work on consecutive days: 9 Sean Green Games: 33 | 79 | 72 Innings: 32 | 76 | 79 Work on consecutive days: 10 Pedro Feliciano Games: 40 | 95 | 86 Innings: 30 | 71 | 64 Work on consecutive days: 18 Bobby Parnell Games: 36 | 86 | NA Innings 27 | 64 | NA Work on consecutive days: 12

I guess the Johan meltdown in the Bronx also goes in the bottom 10.