Gwreck

The last 3 Tampa/Boston games start tonight. The season series is tied at 7-7. In the event that the teams wind up tied, the winner of the season series will be the East Division Champ (and will play MIN/CWS), and the loser will be the Wild Card (and play LAA).

Carlos Zambrano throwing a no-hitter (through 8) at Miller Park for the Cubs v. Astros. Given that the White Sox are the ESPN game, is this game even being televised *anywhere*?

Perez 3 Wright 3 Delgado 1 Smith .5

Picked up a great single (front row, upper box, between third and home) this morning. The rest of the upper box is just "ok," but the front row experience is a premium seat, especially in the opinion of someone who can't afford the field level. Priced the same as the Mezz Reserved, the Upper Boxes seem to generally pale in comparison, except of course for that front row. (Sadly, the Mets seem to have caught on to the fact that the front row experience -- even in the upper levels -- is a great thing, as they are pricing rows 1-2 of basically *every* section next year higher). Turns out that picking up the ticket in advance was a good thing, because I saw this when I got to shea: ...which, if nothing else, is a "hey scalpers, raise your prices" sort of announcement. Stadium was of course far from full even if it was announced as a sell-out. I had two empty seats to either side of me. Anyway, today was "Deaf Awareness Day" at Shea, which several schools for the deaf having large groups of their students in attendance. About an inning and a half into the game, three of them, each about 9 years old, snuck down to the two empty seats to my left, with the third sitting on the stairs. I of course moved over to the box next to me so they could sit in the seats and not get kicked out. Two of the three of them were deaf, so their friend was very busy providing translation services. They were very taken by the game and had tons of questions to ask -- which I was happy to answer, especially once they revealed that it was their first time at Shea, and wanted to ask me about the first time that *I* had been to see the Mets. They turned out to be equally transfixed by the binoculars I had with me, passing them between the three of them for most of the game. It was a scorcher today, and what I really wanted to do was to buy them sodas, or ice cream, or something -- especially after they had asked the family behind us a couple of times what the prices were for those concession items. Unfortunately, in today's society, an unaccompanied man buying soda/ice cream for a couple of little kids who are not his own -- or even slipping them the money to do so -- just seemed like asking for trouble. I thought I saw KC in the front of Loge Reserved behind third base but unfortunately didn't get a chance to get down there and say hi. Sadly, this was only the third or fourth worst unmitigated bullpen disaster that I had been to this year.

Milwaukee is a strange choice. I thought they were considering St. Louis, who is on the road this weekend and next week too.

Going this afternoon, will be the one with a finger in the air searching for a ticket outside the stadium actually, the Mets had some decent single tickets available.

On the pregame show on Saturday, Jerry said that Castro wasn't quite ready to catch but they could use him as a pinch hitter.

Most games on a single day since 1974.

Yes, that's right. Ramon Castro was activated off the DL, bringing the total active roster to 36 players. We could conceivably even hit 37 if Maine comes back before the end of the year. Your breakdown: 5 Starters (includes Niese) 13 Relievers 4 Catchers 7 Infielders 7 Infielders

Bump with the confirmation that the NL division series are the same this year.

The rainout screws everything up. Here are the new projections: vs. ATL Sat Sep 13, Game 1 - Santana v. Mike Hampton Sat Sep 13, Game 2 - Jon Niese v. Jo-Jo Reyes Sun Sep 14 - Perez v. Jorge Campillo at WAS Mon Sep 15 - Martinez v. John Lannan Tue Sep 16 - Pelfrey v. Odalis Perez Wed Sep 17 - TBA v. Shairon Martis Thu Sep 18 - Santana v. Tim Redding

Centerfield wrote: No for real, where is Claudio Vargas? Injured, I think.

I'd bet on Figueroa getting that extra start instead of Knight. Niese getting a start is already a given.

Head-to-head would determine the division champion if both teams are going to make the playoffs.

If the Mets tie for the division, they play at Philadelphia.

I read that forecast as saying that tonight's game might -- at worst -- have a short delay, or some drizzle, but nothing to prevent the game from happening. Too early to tell on Sunday but I think they get all 3 in.

May as well just do it out for the rest of the year. There are no remaining off days for the Mets, so it's likely that Jon Niese (or somebody else) will get 3 starts in the 5th starter slot. Note that teams out of the race (Washington and Atlanta particularly) are subject to change of course. vs. ATL Fri Sep 12 - Santana v. Mike Hampton Sat Sep 13 - Martnez v. Jo-Jo Reyes Sun Sep 14 - Perez v. Jorge Campillo at WAS Mon Sep 15 - Pelfrey v. John Lannan Tue Sep 16 - Niese/TBA v. Odalis Perez Wed Sep 17 - Santana v. Shairon Martis Thu Sep 18 - Martinez v. Tim Redding at ATL Fri Sep 19 - Perez v. Jo-Jo Reyes Sat Sep 20 - Pelfrey v. Jorge Campillo Sun Sep 21 - Niese/TBA v. James Parr/TBA vs CHC Mon Sep 22 - Santana v. Rich Harden Tue Sep 23 - Martinez v. Jason Marquis Wed Sep 24 - Perez v. Carlos Zambrano Thu Sep 25 - Pelfrey v. Ryan Dempster vs. FLA Fri Sep 26 - Niese/TBA v. Chris Volstad Sat Sep 27 - Santana v. Ricky Nolasco Sun Sep 28 - Martinez v. Scott Olsen

Prince just homered off Moyer to bring it back to 4-3.

soupcan wrote: 2 - He would've had better seats. Waitasecond...don't you sit in like box 35C or something? That's not exactly shitty.

1. It's in the baseball forum, not the non-baseball forum. 2. Around the Mets, "the collapse" is a pretty well-understood term for September 2007. 3. I've never heard anyone refer to any of events of 9/11/01 as "the collapse" with any regularity.

Wright 3.25 Beltran 1.5 Tatis 1.5 Easley 1 Schneider 1 Smith 1 Ayala 1

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I say they do it on September 21. Last home game of the season for the MFYs, National TV audience, etc.

Cincinnati, with their loss to the Brewers this afternoon.

Reyes gave a nice cap tip to the fans when the announcement was made on the scoreboard. Ugly, ugly win. The Stars and Stripes cap is stupid and should be banned even faster than the black hats.