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First two NLDS game voting end midnight EST Friday

Glavine 3 Reyes 2 Franco 1 Lo Duca 1 Chavez 1 Chavez .5 Heilman .5 Feliciano .5 Wagner .5

Mets take a 2-0 lead heading to Los Angeles this weekend!

Edgy DC wrote: I'm getting a little sick of Reyes' being described as an "exciting" player. He's a really freaking good player, his ninth-inning yeeps not withstanding. It's patronizing. Really, Steve Freakin' Lyons is one lucky dude. Reyes is a WS championship away from Jeter territory!

Just got back, left in the seventh due to a 63 year old pop and nippy breeze in the mezz and I have an early rise Friday morning. -Great parking tip, park on the other side of College Point Blvd. Nice walk underneath the LIRR into Shea -Didn't seem as electric untill the 6th. Seemed more like the crowd was "waiting to erupt" more so than anything

KC wrote: I don't understand your last sentence, especially the people don't want to watch part. Watch what? Lowest rated WS EVER was the 2000 one. Ergo no one in the country wants the Mets and Yanks to be in the World Series.

You know, for all the knock MLB gets for its raitings when the New York teams are in any postseason series, it belies how much the NY teams are in demand on the memorabillia and merchandise market Great example. I'm searching ebay for Minnesota and San Diego DS programs and have yet to find any, despite two games allready played in Twinkie Town and one game in San Diego. Before the games even STARTED I found about 5 different items of either the Yankee or Met program (Yankee Magazine can be gotten through the mail, although I've been waiting a few years now for my October issue (collector of NYC baseball items) ) Demand is there, I guess people just don't want to watch, either that or the demand is mostly from Yankee and Met fans throughout the country (and the world)

cooby wrote: Steve, I thought you had a class Two classes but: "I have tickets for this game, I'm going and will make up all the work, I'll email you on Friday."

WP isn't the biggest Glavine fan in the world. While we are beyond the "inbedded Brave" point, his age has really shown itself, especially in the second half of 2006.

Sec 27 in the Wind Tunnel known as the Shea Mezz section

Dude I'm going Thursday night, geez, I was decked out in my Fairfield Stags Hoop cap waiting to root for the Tigers to eat up Moose Meat

Delgado 3 Lo Duca 3 Maine 2 Wright 1 Wagner 1

I know the Schaefer voting is closed, but hey, WFAN still has their Billboarded POTG things going so what the hey! Game 1 NLDS Box Score

Willets Point wrote: Does this mean that the Mets/Dodgers get bumped from the hallowed prime time slot reserved for all Yankees postseason games? No, Yanks at 1ish. Get-a-way day style baseball!

I know! They were using the old "Who had the better career" argument that gives you Russell/Chamberlain, Montana/Marino, ect Difference is, those are Icon vs Icon debates Jeter is an Icon in NY, but outside he's just a damn good ballplayer

KC wrote: It barely freakin' rained, the Mets played a whole playoff game in the same conditions in 2000. I want a complete investigation into the motives for the tarp not being taken off at least once tonight. Tell me about it! And don't tell me its because of the Wednesday "kids got school/adults got work" excuse because regular season thats an all nighter This was all ESPN and company getting worried about a second storm coming and they didn't want to stay untill 1-2 in the morning

FOX may break their record from 2000 with the most shots of NEEEWWW YAWKERS in a postseason In the DS series ALONE

As of this moment (no news of El Duque being off) no

Picture an image of a thigh slapping Tug McGraw: YA GOTTA BELIEVE! YA GOTTA BELIEVE! YA GOTTA BELIEVE! YA GOTTA BELIEVE! YA GOTTA BELIEVE! YA GOTTA BELIEVE! YA GOTTA BELIEVE! YA GOTTA BELIEVE! YA GOTTA BELIEVE! YA GOTTA BELIEVE!

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Steve's off his medication again. What, you don't like the inspirational quotes?

] D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one. Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Otter: Germans? Boon: Forget it, he's rolling. Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... [thinks hard] Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! [runs out, alone; then returns] Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer... Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part. Bluto: We're just the guys to do it. D-Day: Let's do it. Bluto: LET'S DO IT!

]Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Jake: Hit it.

]Gunn: Any word on Wes? Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today. Angel: Among other things. Gunn: You take the 30,000 on the left. Illyria: You're fading. You'll last 10 minutes at best. Gunn: Then let's make it memorable. Spike: In terms of a plan? Angel: We fight. Spike: Bit more specific. Angel: Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon. Let's get to work...

metsmarathon wrote: a runner on second has a greater chance of scoring than a runner on first. a runner on second needn't be driven in on a home run, but can score on other types of batted balls, or can more easliy move to third where he can score without the benefit of a batted ball. a team only needs to lead by one run to win a game. successfully stealing bases increases your chances of leading by that one run or more. unsuccessfully throwing out basestealers likewise decreases your chances of leading by that one run or more. Can I just say Piazza being a bad thrower is actually overrated

metsmarathon wrote: see: dave roberts, 2004 Theres a difference between a runner and a catcher being able to gun them down. Jose Reyes may be picked off by a Pudge Rodriguez, but its going to be the Beltran HR that still puts the Mets in the lead