batmagadanleadoff

"KNOCK KNOCK" "WHO'S THERE?" "ORANGE" "ORANGE WHO?" "ORANGE YOU GLAD JASON BAY IS BACK TO STRIKE OUT OR NUDGE SEVEN HOPPERS TO THE OTHER TEAM'S THIRD BASEMAN?"

Predict tomorrow's sports headline: OH NO HAN!

At least Bay's batting 8th if he hasta play. Randolph woulda put him in the cleanup slot.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: Sometimes I get the feeling that Ron Santo was the last guy the Mets threw at. Welcome back, man. So what did Swisher do that I missed? Ran around the dugout acting like Nick Swisher. What an asshole.

metirish wrote: Cohen reduced to retelling his favorite subway series moment , the Mlicki game, and he never fails to mention how all the yankee fans had left and there were 20,000 Mets fans left cheering on the team, didn't mention that he was waving at the MFY fans as they left. Great. Maybe they'll cut from this fiasco to show us the Matt Franco game. I never saw that game 28 and a half times.

Swan Swan H wrote: Sometimes I get the feeling that Ron Santo was the last guy the Mets threw at. Welcome back, man. So what did Swisher do that I missed?

I'll betcha that those collectors who've been plunking down a c-note for a season ticket stock ticket of that game (Bobby O on the ticket face) are gonna be pissed about this. The sellers, too, I suppose.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: "Your shortstops are so fragile." "And so suckee." "You get what you pay for."

"Your shortstops are so fragile." "And so suckee."

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Kong76 wrote: Spiraling back down to earth, the Mets are. Kinda. But also, they're kinda losing close road games to the team in first place, which has the best pitching in the damn league by a LOT. They may have the best pitching ... okay, they do ... but the Mets were lucky to miss Gio and Strasburg this series. Woulda been nice to have Johan make his scheduled start tonight because you'd rather have him pitch against the division leaders than against anyone else. Let's wait and see if there's any more fallout from the no-hitter.

Vic Sage wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: And more and more, I'm thinking that if he goes down, he may never come back. I hate to say it, but there's a real possibility that he's washed up. But why? Was the injury was that profound, or valley fever is that significant? Or was he was just a flash in the pan to begin with? I don't buy any of that. I don't claim to know what's wrong with Ike, but I've been floating at least the idea that Ike might be permanently diminished. If you'll recall, there was some credible talk last year that his foot injury was a career threatener.

Predict tomorrow's sports headline: JOHAN'S UNHIT AGAINST STREAK NOW AT SIX DAYS NATS EDGE METS IN FIRST PLACE SHOWDOWN

Hairston's got five HR's in his last seven games. I'm perfectly fine with a Hairston/Newy platoon, and was even finer with Baxter in that mix. But Bay's gonna put the Eddie Mush on this whole thing.

Besides the fact that these prospects, even the best ones, are so lacking in major league skills, who the hell follows college baseball? Do you guys follow it? Because not only do I not, but I don't even know anyone that follows college baseball.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think there's a goofy kind of excitement in knowing that of all the crazy new names you hear for the very first time today there will be a couple whose names you could know for the rest of your life. And how cool would it be to have an ace named Teddy Stankiewicz? Between him and Plawecki, Poles are the new market inefficiency. Almost makes you wish the Mets would re-sign Mientkiewicz. How 'bout an all-Mets Polish team?

Ceetar wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I just gotta say that with the exception of Darryl Strawberry and maybe, maybe, one other Mets draft pick, I couldn't give a flying fuck about these amateur baseball drafts. Practically no interest at all. Don't know these guys. Don't pretend to know any of 'em. Crapshoot crapshoot crapshoot. Wake me when the Mets have the #1 overall and there's a can't miss prospect to be drafted. Like Billy Beane? Nope. Billy didn't move my needle. And he wasn't a #1 overall either.

I just gotta say that with the exception of Darryl Strawberry and maybe, maybe, one other Mets draft pick, I couldn't give a flying fuck about these amateur baseball drafts. Practically no interest at all. Don't know these guys. Don't pretend to know any of 'em. Crapshoot crapshoot crapshoot. Wake me when the Mets have the #1 overall and there's a can't miss prospect to be drafted.

It's still Johan's world as the headlines keep on comin': Kim Kardashian sez Johan's a hottie, not a nottie.

Holy crap! An old-fashioned newspaper war. It's on. New Yorkers are so cute. They pretend to be blas� and sophisticated, but when you get right down to it, they're just as parochial as those of us out here in "fly-over country." Consider the bristling objections in the Sunday edition of The New York Daily News � the voice of New York's regular guys � to the tiny little asterisk that the Post-Dispatch inserted behind "No-Hitter" in a headline on Saturday's sports page. The New York Mets' Johan Santana pitched a no-hitter* against the Cardinals Friday night at the Mets' stadium, which is named after a too-big-to-fail bank. The fact that it was the first no-hitter in Mets' history, and the fact that it occurred in New York, automatically gave it far more cosmic significance than the 205 no-hitters in modern big-league history not thrown by pitchers for other New York teams. There was a bad call in the sixth inning, when the Cardinals' ex-Met Carlos Beltran's liner over the third base bag was called foul by umpire Adrian Johnson. Hey, it's baseball. These things happen. You have to acknowledge them. You don't have to get over them. The Daily News had the effrontery to sneer that "the Post-Dispatch couldn't locate the asterisk key while Mark McGwire was swatting 220 steroid-aided home runs" and setting "bogus records" for the Cardinals. But you didn't see us whining about steroids when the New York Yankees' Roger Clemens won his 300th game against the Cardinals in 2003. We're used to these things. The late Bob Forsch pitched a no-hitter* for the Cardinals in 1978 that got its asterisk thanks to a controversial official scorer's call by the Post-Dispatch's Neal Russo. Five years later Mr. Forsch pitched a clean no-hitter, thus giving this one Cardinals' pitcher twice as many no-hitters as all the Mets in history. And then there was the Kansas City Royals 1985 World Series championship*, also the product of a bad call by an umpire. You get over these things. Eventually. Sort of. But the asterisks stay. Copyright 2012 stltoday.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editorial-yo-new-york-get-over-it-asterisks-are-part/article_47dfa37a-804f-5fef-bf3c-0c09208e32c2.html#ixzz1wtaHPWVe

I dunno, but just ponder Ike's slash numbers for a few moments: .164/.227/.281

Johan to be placed on a hard 90 pitch count for next few starts. http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/47431/olney-how-mets-will-handle-santana

NL first basemen, min. 125 PA's* *Posting in this thread does not necessarily constitute my vote for Ike's demotion

Edgy DC wrote: There certainly wasn't lack of clarity. I dunno. Me and you can decipher the wordplay buy my seven year old rabid Mets fan cousin might not figure it out.

Nice move by Matheny to bring in his top reliever in the 8th inning with the tying run on third w 2 outs and Wright and possibly Duda due up.

Predict tomorrow's headline: THE SANTANA NO-HITTER: DAY FOUR