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Mine too. Or Romero is taking a long time between pitches.

If we lose, I dub this the BiFL game.

Fast enough to warrant a sacrifice bunt from the guy who hit the 3 run jack last night?

Vince Coleman Firecracker wrote: Cancel has the worst Gamecast photo I've ever seen. Yup. His neck like spills outside the boundaries.

No way that is Mike Schmidt.

When I type "Yankee" it autocorrects to "Asshole".

BATMAN RETURNS also had Michelle Pfeiffer in the leather catsuit. Hard to top that.

Me too.

Tatis?

#$%!

The Mets made Stella cry.

Does it say "Fuck you" on the back of that chick's shirt?

Complete guess: 15 HR's from each side of the plate?

Unless they can get Bobby from Japan, I'd want Manuel heading the troops next year. Backman, Carter, blech.

If we get to the point where the outcome of Tuesday's game is relevant to us, it will already have been a pretty good season.

This current winning streak, though one short of tying for the record, ties a record for the longest winning streak in terms of calendar days (thanks to the All-Star Break). It has stretched over 13 days, just like the Mets streak of 11 straight from May 28, 1969 to June 10, 1969. I forget how that team finished, but I think they had a pretty good year. If they win tonight, we will have gone a full two weeks without experiencing a Met loss.

Last night was the first night in a long time where those "woulda been a routine fly-ball at Shea" home runs worked in our favor. The exception, of course, being Delgado's which left the state.

I feel like it's been a year since our last game. How much longer until first pitch? Santana (8-7, 2.84 ERA) versus CIN: Cueto (7-9, 4.67 ERA). Schedule says Philly is off tonight, meaning a win puts us in a first place tie. It occurs to me that I know nothing about my enemy.

What a jerk. I hope that skin crawling thing is chronic.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I guess you're just a lot deeper than I am. Are you calling me fat?!?!?

Do you mean that you're confused? Or have I literally misplaced you somewhere?

Scored some last minute tickets and went with a buddy of mine. It was my first time there in many years, and a couple of things struck me about the ballpark. First of all, it really is a beautiful park...a great place to watch a ballgame. There is nothing really lacking about it at all...which just illustrates how absurd it is that they are getting a new park. Other than the "you can't give one team a new ballpark without giving the other team one too" principle, it makes no sense that they are building a replica of the place a 3 wood away. Second, it has absolutely no feel of an old-time ballpark. It's not like Wrigley, where you walk in, see the creaky old structure and wonder if it's going to collapse, see the old fashioned signs, etc. This is a modern stadium, complete with all the amenities you would expect from a place built during the 70's. So if you have these amenities, I don't see how you get away with trying to pass it off as some historic site. There is no way Ruth and Gehrig played here. Mystique and aura have been replaced by Bank of America and Adidas.

Mex17 wrote: Pelfrey and Kazmir are, in a way, two separate entities in that one is a righty and the other a lefty. They're also separate entities in that one is one person, and the other is another person.

Frayed Knot wrote: I had forgotten about Joe Neikro's death also. And, in fairness to Benigno (even though I believe he truly is a dope), WFAN has been doing their shows from this Fan-Fest thing since about Friday for the purpose of getting baseball-related guests to drop by and chat -- so it probably wasn't a case where they knew in advance he was coming on and did any kind of prep work. I can certainly see that happening. If Phil Neikro walked into my office, I might have asked about his brother too, and I had no idea he had died. Of course, this is not meant to imply that Beningo is not an idiot. On that point, the evidence is beyond overwhelming already.

The Boston Celtics won the NBA championship in 1986. The New York Mets wore blue caps without an orange dot in 1986 and won the World Series. Logic dictates that, since the Celtics are once again champions, if the Mets drop the orange dot, they will win the World Series this year.