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One more switch from Uribe to Nieuwenhuis. I'm the only voter who didn't include Reed on the roster. 20 innings or so and two undeservedly earned runs is pretty good. But his career is only so-so. I took Gilmartin and Goeddel in the pen along with the usual suspects.

Yankees. I want to see the Mets beat the Yankees this year and then I want to never hear the name Timo Perez again. If it's the Astros, I'll have to keep reminding myself it's the World Series and not the League Championship Series.

I'm Duda. Which doesn't say much for the accuracy of the quiz, because Duda wouldn't post to a message board.

Frayed Knot wrote: And I think we may have seen worse ones in May. Indeed. Better Plawecki in the cleanup spot than Mayberry. And, sure, give the regulars a day off before pushing for home field advantage. And if DeGrom gets pulled after 75 pitches, I won't complain much at all.

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And we get a little help from our friends, as your Camden Yards (OE - Nats Park!) final is 4-1 O's.

O's doing their part tonight, as Ubaldo Jimenez (!) drives in a run to make it 1-0 good guys (broadly defined).

El Segundo Escupidor wrote: If this team doesn�t make the playoffs everybody�s point to how they lost ascendency in the Marlins series. When a team plunks your best hitter in the middle of a pennant race, you go out and plunk 3 hitters the next day-- just like Maddon�s team did. You don�t go out and do a Shawn Estes and call it even. There�s no chivalry in professional sports, much less in baseball. And the Thunder from Down Under returns! I dunno. I don't think it's ever a good thing to throw a rock 100 miles an hour at someone. I didn't see the Cespedes HBP, but if it it's deliberate, fine. Charge the mound. Start a bench clearing brawl if needed. It's fairer than throwing at some other guy who had nothing to do with it. And shutting the other guys out while hitting a home run is damned good revenge. But, never mind that. Welcome back.

A home run for Cespedes. And, this just in...Francisco Franco is still dead!

I worry about what Megdal is going to do now that he's out of material.

Cardinals lose two in Cincinnati. The Mets are now closer to the Cardinals than to the Nats. Also...first .500 record since 2008 is now a done deal.

End-of-Game Update Career Doubles by a Met 1. David Wright 375 Daniel Murphy Projected to the End of Season: 227.89 2. Ed Kranepool 225 3. Jos� Reyes 222 4. Daniel Murphy 219 5. Howard Johnson 214 6. Edgardo Alfonzo 212 7. Carlos Beltran 208 8. Mike Piazza 193 9. Darryl Strawberry 187 10. Cleon Jones 182 =#FF8000]Daniel Murphy at Start of Season: 190 ...and Gary Cohen just congratulated Murph on his 223rd double, passing Reyes.

2nd-Beltran 2007

Gwreck wrote: There are three possibilities I see here: 1. The Mets never properly documented the discussions with Harvey and the medical staff about innings limits and/or never had these discussions. Unlikely, but the Mets haven't earned the benefit of my doubt on much. Barring this, 2. If Harvey has now decided that he will not pitch after 180 innings, he is an insubordinate employee. The Mets will suspend his ass, dock his pay, and do who knows what. The union will file a grievance, which the Mets should win (barring the circumstances of #1 above or #3 below), and the Mets will need to trade him this offseason. Harvey becomes Mets fan enemy no. 1. 3. Harvey is in some fashion hurt. This is why this story is so puzzling. 1 would require way too much stupidity on the part of Mets management. As far as 2, Harvey has frequently shown himself to be a self-centered douchebag, but he's never shown himself to be a fool when it comes to managing his image. He'd have to know the kind of shitstorm that would result from him telling a writer that he wasn't planning to pitch more than 180 innings this season. Even if he really wants to sit out the playoffs, he's smart enough to keep his mouth shut and let Boras take the blame. For 3, it would be easier just to say "Harvey's hurt" and be done with it. So I dunno. I'm guessing 4 - the media took a Harvey quote out of context and ran with it, Harvey will be there for the postseason, and there's nothing to see here.

That list is really light in the backup catcher department. I think Henry Blanco is still out there somewhere.

Frankie Goes To Rodriguez Oops...already guessed. It's a long kwiz...

1st and 3rd, one out!

Victorino?

About time Sandy signed a big name player.

Really. Looks like we've got all the hitting we need - maybe we can trade Flores for some starting pitching.

Frayed Knot wrote: After that, even though just in his 4th ML season, he can NOT be offered arbitration by his current team nor can the team make a qualifying offer to him (plus the mid-season trade took care of that anyway) so this is a 60 game trial run. Can sign him to a FA contract this winter of course but so can everyone else. But http://www.blessyouboys.com/2015/7/31/9077995/yoenis-cespedes-trade-mets-tigers says The team that releases Cespedes is not eligible to sign him until May 15, 2016, according to FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal. Given Cespedes' desire to test the free agent market, this makes it unlikely that the Mets will be able to re-sign him after the season. So, am I reading this correctly? If Cespedes hits 30 home runs over the remainder of the season and both Wilpons hit the lottery, we still can't offer him $500 million during the off-season to make him a Met until the zombie apocalypse, because he can't re-sign with us until about the 35th game of 2016? Meaning that it's nearly a foregone conclusion that Cespedes will not be a Met next year?

Centerfield wrote: I wonder if any team in baseball has ever made the playoffs with a bottom 3 offense. Not bottom third, bottom 3. Why, the Mets did, of course. .653 OPS in 1973 was only better than San Diego. OE...missed Dino Jesus' virtually identical post. I need a better smartphone.

Rickey Henderson

_ [bigpurple:26sgxp5k]U-RBI!!!!![/bigpurple:26sgxp5k] Wonder if Turner will show up and hit him in the face with a cream pie.