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Decided yesterday to go tonight -- last game of the homestand, chance for the sweep -- oops. The three critical moments -- in increasing order of importance -- in the game: 3. Reyes striking out looking in the 7th with 2nd and 3rd. Last/best chance to get back in the game. 2. Reys flying out in the 2nd with bases loaded. We shoulda touched up Clippard for about 4 runs that inning. 1. Maine walks Mientkiewicz on FOUR PITCHES with one out in the top of the 4th. Sorry, but you have to throw Mientkiewicz a fucking strike in that situation. He makes an out, you've got the pitcher due up next and you can get out of the inning. No excuse there. 7-3 homestand is good, considering that we'd basically been .500 at home previously. Misc. The Yankees did not "retake" New York with a win tonight. That's just silly. Assuming (and that's a very big assumption) that the Yankees rebound this year and make the playoffs, tonight will not be the turning point. That's somewhere far beyond silly.

How much (total quantity) of Randolph's speech have you actually heard or read? 15 sentences? 20? 25?

I count one non-Kazmir example there, and it's a stretch (Bay). Isringhausen wasn't a prospect by the time 1999 had rolled around. Payton wasn't a prospect when he was traded. Neither was Wheeler.

Nymr83 wrote: my problem comes when a prospect is traded for a mediocrity. Accepting a fairly wide definition of "prospect," can you name 3 examples of this happening in the last 10 years? I'll spot you Kazmir-Zambrano.

Wright 4 Chavez 2.5 Glavine 1 Beltran 1 Delgado 1 Heilman .5

Criticizing Randolph's speech based on selected quotes read in a newspaper account is at best disingenuous. -- P.S. Adding a question mark in brackets to a cherrypicked quote is dubious. Was Wilpon guilty of poor word choice? Probably. Do you have a sincere belief that all he wants to do is have players avoid positive tests, rather than simply not use Perf. enhancing drugs? Do you have anything other than an implication to bring that up? From an AP article, 5/18/07, (Link "Not to stop the positive tests but to educate the kids so they know what they're doing to their bodies and they know that besides being illegal and against the rules, that it's not good for them," Wilpon said. "They don't need to do it."

PUT IT IN THE BOOKS. Thank god.

He should be, but Wagner wasn't even close when throwing to LoDuca. I still say all Billy's fault. Cano Ks. 2 outs.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

C'mon Bobby, GIDP. You know you can do it.

Frayed Knot wrote: I don't think the FOX-ies caught it. They did. ESPN is usually the network that declines to let the viewers know about defensive changes. There was at least one (if not two) times this year where Chavez has been brought in for defense and I had no idea until I saw him make a catch. IIRC, that happened against the Cardinals -- first game of the year -- and later someone called WFAN to yell about Willie not putting in Chavez -- when in fact he had, exactly when the caller said he should have.

Double switch to bring in Schoenweis in the middle of the 7th.

Thanks Robinson.

Bad call on that ball hit off Delgado's foot.

Sat: Glavine vs. MFYs Sun: Maine vs. MFYs The off day on Monday looks like it gives us the opportunity to skip the Vargas spot in the rotation. Tue: Sosa at ATL Wed: Perez at ATL Thu: Glavine at ATL Fri: Maine at FLA Sat: El Duque (tenative return) at FLA

soupcan wrote: That's the one bad thing about my seats. Its such a transient crowd, never the same people around you from game to game and always lots of Yankee fans at these games in those seats. I'm not complaining though, the view doesn't suck. I had a co-worker stop by to say hello on Tuesday night and although she's heard me talk about how I love my ticket plan and the seats I have, I don't think she really got it until she came by to say "hi" and would up with the revelation "wow, it's like that scene from Fever Pitch, how do you know all these people?" And it's true. Everybody renewed from last year, so we've got the twenty-something twin sisters who sit next to us who always keep score, the family behind us who have twin redheaded boys, about 14-15 who never stop talking about the game (one of whom reminds me of me when I was that age), the guy on the other side with his curmudgeon father (I love talking to him), the two guys in the row in front who are always there, etc. The point: of course, we had a bunch of Yankee fans around us last night, which changed the atmosphere some. Funniest moment was the idiot who threw the ketchup and managed only to hit another Yankees fan.

Misc. updates -- Juan Padilla was moved to the 60-day disabled list as of 5/5 (source: official Mets press notes). Park accepted his assignment to AAA.

Joe Smith definetly has a song used each time he comes out. I just can't figure out what it is. If you can help...please do! The only bigger mystery is the default "you-don't-have-a-song-so-we-use-this" song they use. It's been used for Gomez and Gotay both. I'd love to know what it is. It sounds suspiciously like 80s hair metal/arena rock. I don't know what it'll be but there's definetly a prize if you can help me figure out what it is. Damion Easley was rocking "Too Legit to Quit" by Hammer before one of his at-bats Friday night. Time will tell if this is a permanent thing or not.

Which one is the the Steve Finley game? Note that Steve also played a fairly significant role in both the Todd Pratt game and the Marlon Anderson game. I was thinking that the Agbayani game was the 13th inning homer off Aaron Fultz in 2000 NLDS Game 3.

Re the first game vs. the Yankees, I'm scratching my head at the lack of points for LoDuca (2-3, 2 Doubles). Left off some ballots, undervalued on others. Was there something so great about Reyes' 1-4 that warrants him getting points instead of LoDuca?

Perez 5 Chavez 2.5 Wagner 1 LoDuca 1 Smith .25 Delgado .25

I would call the Knight-Davis game The Brawl Game. The Benny Agbayani game. The Dave Mlicki game.

Crowd was..eh. 75% Mets fans. Aside from the Matsui HR, they didn't have much to cheer about. I was supposed to have my Oliver Perez t-shirt for tonight but the mlb.com shop fucked up and sent me a blank t-shirt. Really wanted to have had it tonight, especially with another great outing. Much love for the Endy. Expected to see the curtain call but it didn't happen. Aside from Easley's homer in the bottom of the 10th to tie, I don't think we've had a curtain call all season.

]If I had to pick a guarantee or two I'd say that McCarver will go down on Torre at least once during Saturday's broad- cast and Morgan will make a couple of unnecessary gratuitous remarks about Derek Jeter and/or Roger Clemens that will piss us off. Fixed it for you.

Mets Classics broadcast this Monday: 1969 World Series Game 2.