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Benjamin Grimm wrote: I don't think those are actually her children. Well, they ain't Jeremy's.

Edgy DC wrote: Thanks for that, Carole. Puts to lie the notion that all babies are cute, jeez.

The Seaver caricature looks more like Roger Clemens than The Franchise.

Yeah, Freddie Sez died a couple of years ago.

soupcan wrote: themetfairy wrote: Cow Bell Man is a nice guy, and he bleeds blue and orange. Even if you don't love him, there's no reason for hostility. I'm sure he is a perfectly swell guy (albeit grammatically challenged), and I don't harbor any ill will towards the person, I just think the whole act is stupid. He's a bad knock-off of that dude from Yankee Stadium who bangs a spoon on a frying pan. And that guy's bad to begin with, so.... Isn't that guy dead at the present time?

And here he is, with Cow Bell Man. Talk about a power summit!

Pin Man once gave my kids pins during a rain delay...can he crack the top 5?

I wouldn't be so quick to judge...Carlos Beltran didn't exactly set the world on fire in the first year of his contract.

Modell's and other sporting goods stores sell them as well.

Holy shit, he got off. And didn't the conventional wisdom always used to be that they government wouldn't bring you to trial if they didn't have enough to convict?

Larry Bowa at shortstop?

@RaysJoeMaddon RA Dickey is good and he is really hot right now. Did you notice he was tipping his pitches? If true, wasn't helping your team much, was it Joe?

Who in bloody hell is Elliot Johnson?

- games where a road pitcher had a no-hitter but also gave up run(s) while his team was getting shut-out so he never pitched the bottom of the 9th Andy Hawkins, anybody? No hits but 4 runs thanks to a crappy MFY defense (3 errors in the 8th). http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1990/B07010CHA1990.htm Also, in looking at the Wright replay, that's a hit. If they called that an error Keith and Gary would have been all over the official scorer. I doubt that the Rays lone hit will be reversed. But just to play Devil's Advocate: how can you be so sure that it was a hit without seeing video of the batter running down the basepath? Are you basing your opinion on what you believe was the level of difficulty in fielding that grounder cleanly, or that the batter is not as slow as, say, Ike Davis? Just askin'. Upton being the baserunner versus, say, Jose Molina, does make a difference in my opinion, yes. I'll also assume--and you are right, I have no idea how quickly Upton was getting down the line--that DAvid is going for the barehand because he thinks if he gloves it he has no chance to get him. A slower runner, Wright probably gloves it and can make the play. From years of watching baseball, plays like that seem to be ruled hits way more often than errors.

^^ I was trying for a joke there.

Frayed Knot wrote: - games where a road pitcher had a no-hitter but also gave up run(s) while his team was getting shut-out so he never pitched the bottom of the 9th Andy Hawkins, anybody? No hits but 4 runs thanks to a crappy MFY defense (3 errors in the 8th). http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1990/B07010CHA1990.htm Also, in looking at the Wright replay, that's a hit. If they called that an error Keith and Gary would have been all over the official scorer.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I hope RA squeezes them for every last penny they have. Well, I'd like if he got more than the league minimum.

LaRussa gets to manage the All-Star game?

Ceetar wrote: I know it's a pretty small sample, but my impressions of the 2006 playoffs were that a lot of this stuff WAS toned down. I remember thinking it during the second game of the NLDS how there wasn't nearly as much silly mid-inning stuff. Obviously they still did all the PA "Let's Go Mets!" stuff but it was definitely a different atmosphere/experience than the regular season. I believe that MLB takes over all the in-game promotion, etc. for the postseason. What that exactly means, I don't know.

Deb Iwanow- Athletic Trainer � Begins her second season as the Athletic Trainer with St. Lucie (A) of the Florida State League and her sixth in the Mets organization... Served in the same role with Brooklyn (A) of the New York- Penn League in 2009 and 2010 and from 2006- 2008 with Kingsport (R) of the Appalachian League. � Was the assistant athletic trainer at Binghamton University for the women's soccer and baseball teams in 2005 and 2006. � From 2004-2005, she was the assistant athletic trainer at St. Bonaventure University for men's soccer, men's and women's swimming and baseball. I think that's Benny DiStefano to her right.

Little Solo and I will be using some rain checks from last August on Friday night. How could I not? The Reds! Japanese night! REO Speedwagon! It's Fan-tastic! Then my daughter and I will catch the Orioles on Tuesday night, also using rain checks from last year.

Looks like Meathead Stivic in the 1976 card.

Nice spreads, BML. Not the best Ray Knight photo either.

I didn't realize this, from the NY Times. They're no fluke: Stony Brook has been one of college baseball�s best all-around teams this season. It was the only Division I team to rank in the top 10 in the nation in batting average, earned run average and fielding percentage.

I don't know who the writer was on ESPN.com, but before the Miami regional, he said that Stony Brook was by far the best 4 seed in the tournament. Good luck to the Wolves, sounds like if they bring their bats, they can play with anybody. St. John's (who surprised and won the North Carolina regional as a 3-seed) is the other local in the super-regionals.