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Was it swinging?, I thought it was a terrible called inside strike that Jake looked at, anyway Delgado is a horrible first baseman, looked like he didn't care on two plays tonight, I mean at least try and make a play .

Nice job by Jake, Mets make the hits count tonight, Jake is on the club house report sounding all juiced, good for him

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Classic Seaver here in this pic....

Oh I don't know about that spaceman, am I wrong in thinking that pitchers today don't drop and drive with the legs like Seaver did, I mean they don't scrape the knees like he did.

Glavine - 6 Reyes - 1 Diaz - 1 Beltran - 1 Floyd - 1

That's a weird bit of info form TBS/Turner South, I'm trying to think of a pitcher in the game today that has the motion of Seaver, does any starting pitcher throw like he did?

I voted for Ortiz, the idea that a DH should not win the AL MVP is just stupid, it's part of that stupid league so it should not count against him..

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Welcome Anderson, he's wearing # 1, saw him in the dugout today going over signs with Manny Acta,maybe we'll see him play this weekend.

Willie was on the pre-game on the FAN today and when he was asked why he had Zambrano up throwing late in the game yesterday he responded by saying that he likes Victors swing and miss stuff outta the pen ,he mentioned that Heilman has the same stuff , he indicated that both could be closers.

Bill Madden writes similar articles it seems every year regarding Michael, those two go way back and are great friends, smells fishy to me.

Great find and a great read, like JD said 1999 was extraordinary, and even more so because of recent years..great stuff.

So little is known about Pedro's private life, which is fine IMO, he guards it carefully,his future wife is a looker.

]On September 16, 1972, three unusual occurrences highlight the Chicago Cubs� 18-5 demolition of the New York Mets. Chicago�s Glenn Beckert sets a major league record by leaving 12 runners on base; Elrod Hendricks draws five walks against Met pitching; and Cubs pitcher Burt Hooton hits a grand slam. http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/history/index.htm

This is exasperating, I mean is wasn't that long ago we were only half a game out in the WC, now it's a freefall....

Any leftie hitters for the Nats coming up?

I can't access mets.com, espn gameday is stuck at 4 to 1 Nats, what's the score?

Listen to an Irish sports radio station in Dublin talking about Bonds,I think they are talking to a journo from the Chronicle. http://www.newstalk106.ie/ He was talking to a guy from KMB sports radion in san fran

]On September 15, 1969, Steve Carlton of the St. Louis Cardinals sets a major league record by fanning 19 batters but loses a 4-3 decision to the New York Mets. �Lefty� surrenders a pair of two-run homers to Ron Swoboda...

Bonds in a romp, he could end up with over 800

So is it worth downloading for 49 cent, it's not the money just so you know, don't want to be wasting my time..

Piazza best position player ever for the Mets?From Jon Heyman]Give Piazza suitable send-off September 14, 2005Mike Piazza shook the fuzziness out of his concussed head long enough to paint the clearest picture yet regarding his future. Assuming someone will have him next season, Piazza plans to play."Yeah, of course," Piazza told a group of reporters. "Everyone kind of assumes I'm not going to be here. I've never said either way. I'm just going to finish as strong as I can, and see what the options are." We are assuming both things are true. He is gone from here, and he will have other options.Two National League executives agreed yesterday that Piazza should draw interest, but in the other league. "I assume he'd be attractive as a DH, as long as he's physically capable," one exec said. "He's not going to make the same kind of money ... but then, I assume he doesn't need the money."With the Mets, the catcher has earned plenty of loot, nearly $100 million. Now, they owe him just one more thing before he goes. The Mets should honor Piazza with a day of his own. It's a ghost town at Shea now, so they would actually be doing themselves a favor.Anyway, he deserves his day.Piazza, who is hitting .263 with 15 homers and 56 RBIs, was the Mets' greatest position player ever. He always played hard, often played hurt and never acted like the superstar he was. His talent is outsized, his ego contained. Hall of Famers are supposed to be high maintenance. Piazza never was.He was supposed to be out six to eight weeks with his broken hand. He returned in three, then homered in his first at-bat back.Originally, he was stolen from the Dodgers via the Marlins. But it's ensured he'll enter Cooperstown as a Met, the first position player to do so.He almost always did the right thing. Some fight aficionados (plus noted hothead Mike Hampton) salivated to see him duke it out with Roger Clemens at the 2000 World Series. But that wouldn't have been Mike, and it wouldn't have been right.About the worst thing we can say about Piazza is he could be moody. He had a right. He carried the team at times (once all the way to the World Series) and was nicked up a lot more than he let on.A Mets person said they will do something "appropriate" to honor Piazza's accomplishments in his seven seasons. Appropriate means barely noticeable. The thinking is if they do too much, they will be implying he's gone for good. As if we didn't know that already.Piazza won't complain either way. "I don't know," he said when asked whether he'd like to have a day in his honor. "I feel like I've been appreciated enough here. I truly feel the fans have been great. Plus, it's not in my nature ..."Piazza never called attention to himself, and he still won't. The attention was unavoidable.Almost from the moment Piazza arrived, on May 23, 1998, for Preston Wilson, Ed Yarnall and Geoff Goetz, the Mets were a different team. In short order, they were winners.Piazza will be remembered as the greatest hitting catcher ever, but also as one player who could hack it being the one big gun, no small thing. He was the best player on all of Bobby Valentine's teams.Some say there was no one defining moment. There were many. He drove Clemens crazy. He hit two home runs in the 2000 League Championship Series vs. St. Louis, and two more against the Yankees in the Subway Series. Fittingly, he and Derek Jeter were the two players to homer at both Shea Stadium and Yankee Stadium.He played for the second team in town, but was never the second fiddle on his own team, back when the Mets were good enough for October.Yet he never acted like he deserved special treatment. He still doesn't. When Willie Randolph told him he would only be sharing the catching duties with Ramon Castro, Piazza nodded. "Whatever Willie feels is best for the team," Piazza said.He seemed out of place from the start with the "new" Mets, the one notable holdover from Steve Phillips' regime. So there's no reason to suspect his stay will be lengthened even more. A Mets executive fairly well confirmed that, saying that "unless we get the DH" it wouldn't make sense to bring Piazza back."I don't expect anything," Piazza said. "No underlying tones or negative energy. It's all positive."That's the way Piazza's Mets tenure should be remembered, almost all positive.

] Livan "The Porch Light" Hernandez Great stuff, good job seawolf, it will be interesting to see how the crowd reacts tonight, Kaz had better not get booed just for being in the line up.

]Shaun Powell SPORTS COLUMNIST Guys, is this really worth it?Three celebrated baseball players, after much thought, made the career-altering decision to chuck it all and come to New York.Three celebrated baseball players, after weighing their options, figured this was the best one for them. Three celebrated baseball players, thumbing their noses at conventional wisdom, dumped their winning ballclubs to cash in and play for the Mets.Are you like me? Do you strongly suspect that Carlos Beltran, Pedro Martinez and Tom Glavine - in private moments while sitting in the dugout or the clubhouse - have asked themselves: "Was I nuts or something?" Of course, they'd never admit that. Never in 200 million years, which is roughly what they're being paid in dollars for their misery. They are three prideful players, and in the case of Pedro and Glavine, two likely Hall of Famers. Besides, who knows? Maybe in some strange, obscure way, for reasons known only to them, they truly believe this decision has worked out.But I don't see it.I see a Frankensteinian experiment that has gone horribly wrong for the three of them. Not in terms of bank account. That part was deeply enriched by taking the money of a desperate team. But the competitor and the winner within Pedro and Glavine and Beltran are suffering right now along with the Mets. That part cannot be denied or disputed.The Mets are still bleeding from a devastating road trip that all but erased their postseason chances. After flirting and teasing and pretending to be serious players in the National League wild-card chase, they stumbled badly in Miami, Atlanta and St. Louis. As initially advertised, the Mets remain a work in progress. They now must save face with a respectable home stretch at Shea Stadium, where the fans are just waiting to vent, if given a reason to do so. All season long, despite solid pitching, the Mets haven't found the winning formula to break the malaise of mediocrity that grips them by the throat.Meanwhile: Glavine's former team, the Braves, is about to wrap up a division title for the 92nd straight season.Beltran's former team, the Astros, is arm-wrestling the Marlins for the wild-card lead.Pedro's former team, the Red Sox, is playoff-bound and could win the World Series again.You suppose Glavine, Beltran and Pedro have noticed? Glavine signed with the Mets on Dec. 5, 2002 in search of a little love. And a lot of money. Notice how they go together in sports. The Braves were tomahawking their payroll and weren't willing to offer Glavine much in terms of long-term security. But they could offer a chance to extend a special relationship dating to 1984 with an organization that constantly invents ways to win. Glavine wasn't exactly broke at the time, but he decided cash was better than another division championship. Welcome to the Mets.In the process, Glavine took another risk. His chances of joining the 300-win club would depend heavily on how much run support the Mets supplied. This was dicey. Well, here's an update: Glavine has given the Mets mixed results, and when he has pitched well - such as since the All-Star break - the Mets haven't always helped. He's 30-40 as a Met and has 272 victories. How much closer to 300 would he be had he stayed with the Braves?Beltran sacrificed plenty by leaving Houston: Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte, the comfort of a small media market, forgiving fans. At Shea, he's often singled out as the reason the Mets are in last place. All the questions about whether Beltran was made for New York will surface again if he doesn't finish strong. And another thing: He stood to make $100 million had he stayed with the Astros. Once you factor in the absence of a state tax in Texas, was the money that big a difference?Pedro made more than $80 million on his last Sox contract, but he still fussed about a fourth year on a new deal, which clinched it for the Mets. Free of the insufferable shadow of Curt Schilling, Pedro is clearly the man on his new team. But why should that ego-stroking perk still matter to a player at this stage of his career? And isn't it supposed to be about winning? Pedro (14-7, 2.93 ERA) traded Manny Ramirez and Big Papi Ortiz for a Mets lineup that has denied him at least four wins. Imagine, then, how many victories Pedro might have with the Red Sox lineup. And how smug he'd feel with Schilling missing much of the year. And how scary the Red Sox would be whenever he pitched."I think he's happy with his decision," Ortiz said. "I hope he is." Why would anyone think otherwise?