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Shea PA plays Mr. Roboto after Delgado's HR? How long has this been going on?

mlb4u.com wrote: ...a limited NO-TRADE clause in 2007 and 2008 that allows him to veto trades to eight teams (BOS, BAL, DET, WAS, MIL, TAM, FLA and PIT) I can't seem to figure out what these 8 teams have in common that would make him choose these 8 as the ones he doesn't want to go to.

Thank goodness D didn't take the day off.

TheOldMole wrote: Anyone know how many 9th inning HRs the Mets have given up this year? Before today, 8 in the ninth and 4 in extras. http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/psplit.cgi?team=NYM&year=2008

That's refreshing.

C'mon, FK...everybody knows that you should never put a closer in a non-save situation.

Can we pinch run for Wright? SC=86

A leadoff double gets the bullpen anyways. Good outing by Pedro...and yes his longest of the season.

I'm alright with it if he gets through this inning. This has been his best start this season and I'm not quite ready to hand it to the bullpen.

Pedro has looked great since the 2 bombs, though. We'll see what he has in innings 5 and 6 which, along with the first, have been his trouble innings. We need some runs, O.

Late start on the IGT here. Mets down 2-1 going to the bottom of 2.

This thread has made me realize I haven't been to enough ball parks. In no particular order: Shea - Only visited as an adult in 2006. I still loved every minute of it. Busch I - Visited many times as a child, mostly for Mets/Cards games. I remember once taking a tour of the stadium where we got to see the clubhouses and go on to the field. My love for this stadium involved getting (seeking) lots of autographs outside, I believe because the team hotel was only like 2 blocks away. Darryl and Doc both denied me on multiple occasions. I followed Greg Jefferies into the players entrance before being asked to leave. I watched Hojo eat his breakfast in the hotel restaurant, patiently waiting with my ball and sharpie ready...by the time he was finished and went to sign my ball, my sharpie had dried out. I saw Lee Mazilli outside in 1990 or 1991, I asked him for an autograph and he told me that he wasn't a baseball player...still not sure what he was doing there, but he didn't give me a sig. Will Clark threatened to "knock me down" after a game. Good times. On the bad side, I remember spending more than one game in the nosebleed seats of center field, which might as well have been Siberia. Wrigley - Saw a lot of games here my senior year in high school and freshman year in college. Also the site of my first ML game at age 8. Always a great place to see a game, however to this day, I've never seen a night game there. Comisky - Went there near the end, got to see Andy Hawkins' no-hitter. Don't remember much else about the stadium. Celly One - Went with my old man to see the Sox and Tigers in 2006. A really nice park...I agree that it's underrated. Citi Field was just a rendering when I went, but I figured this was pretty close to the design of new Shea. Safeco - I went on a whim in 2001 to see the Giants/Mariners in an afternoon interleague battle. This was the first "new" ballpark I had ever been to and I remember loving it. Milwaukee County - Very Shea-esque. Like Busch I, a lot of games here...but these weren't as memorable for me as when I was a kid they were always AL teams that I didn't care too much about. Got all the Brewer autographs here and got to meet Bob Uecker and Jim Palmer during one Brewer/Oriole matchup. Palmer even gave my friend and I some ribbing over the Mets gear we were wearing. Miller Park - Really comfortable, but I hate watching games here. I've been to on average 5 games per year since it opened (mostly Mets). I've isolated what I don't like about it: the lighting. Whether the roof is opened or closed, a night game always looks like they are playing in a really big highschool gym. It's just creepy to me. Day games when the roof is open are really nice (thank goodness the Mets have 2 day games on their upcoming trip to Milwaukee).

Garbage Day, indeed.

We load the bases w/ no outs and our 2-3-4 hitters soil themselves. They load the bases w/ no outs and get a pinch-hit grand slam.

Edgy, are you MLB.TV-ing it tonight, and if so is it crapping out on you at all?

It would be a shame for the offense not to put up some more runs while the bullpen is keeping us in the game. Score some runs, boys!

In-fucking-credible.

Leadoff double stranded. Grrr...

Helluva DP 5-4-3!

I love multiple consecutive 2-out singles!

Is Cecil's wife named Alice? Nice KTE, Wolf.

Rockin' Doc wrote: Reyes singles and Chavez sac bunts him to second. Wright singles Reyes home with the opening run. The Sacrifice bunt actually worked this time, but I still don't like it. The Mets still seem to regard the second hitters main job as simply moving Reyes along if he gets on. Jerry seems to be emulating WWSB fairly often. To be fair, Chavez was bunting to get on base. He had as much a chance to beat that bunt out as he did driving the ball to the outfield for a hit, if not more.

It'd have to be pretty low.

Heyman wrote: The Mets are talking to the Nationals about a deal for reliever Luis Ayala... I just threw up in my mouth a little. A 5 and a half ERA and more hits than IP? Not sure how that helps.

Arthur Rhodes to the Marlins for ex-Met prospect Gaby Hernandez. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3512597