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Pedro - 3Anderson - 3Floyd - 2Wright - 2

Pedro - 4Reyes - 3Beltran - 2Hernandez - 1

Zambrano 5 Reyes 2 Castro 1 Beltran 1 Floyd 1horrible loss

Koo 2 Cameron 2 Reyes 1 Floyd 2 Beltran 1 Offerman 1 Ring 1horrible game

Scott Rolen pulls out to rest his shoulder, replaced by Ensberg.

Yeah "bad dude" suites Stearns, I'm certain Stearns is working in the Mets system somewhere.

No idea,baseballreference.com has three Stearns listed, none at least played for the MFY's..http://www.baseball-reference.com/player_search.cgi?search=stearnsI did a search for a MFY site like this but I didn't find any that had the info UMDB and MBTN provides, did you here wrong by chance?

It looks fasinating, I'll give it a better look tomorrow, thanks for the link.

Sounds like a question for a virtaul Bobby Valentine, he'd know the answer, Edgy where do you play such a game, I've never heard of anything like it, any link?

BTW, great job on the report and pictures,.

Lastings Milledge promoted to Binghamton.Brian Bannister promoted to AAAHumber and Gabi Hernandez promoted up a peg as well.

I could be wrong but when Jose gets on base good things happen for the Mets, so it seems to me anyway, seeing him hit fly balls is a killer, why the hell can't the hitting coach get him to be a slap hitter?

Of course if it were you or I we'd be in court, the kicker here is that he might pitch in the All-Star game, so it goes, the life of a baseball player.

You'll find it all here, from every league..http://www.logoserver.com/Baseball.html

Some guy named Elliott Kalb from FOXSports.com says these are the worst All-Stars ever.http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/3741458?GT1=6667Here are ten players that definitely weren't stars, but still played in the Mid-Summer Classic. 1. 2005, Brian Fuentes, Colorado This choice kills me. Fuentes has won one game this year, and saved ten others for Colorado. Is this what Arch Ward had in mind when he proposed the idea of an All-Star game? Bring back Earl Weaver who, as American League manager in 1972, named all starters to the All-Star team. Give any manager in baseball a choice between Mark Mulder and Brian Fuentes. I'd rather see Tom Glavine or Greg Maddux. With your life on the line, you would rather depend on Maddux, right? 2. 1968, Duane Josephson, Chicago White SoxThe late Duane Josephson was a bad catcher on a bad team. Did the American League need a catcher? Well, they had two other backstops on the squad � Detroit's Bill Freehan and the Indians' Joe Azcue. Did the White Sox have another rep? Yes, they had pitcher Tommy John on the squad. Josephson, in the only season he would exceed 306 at-bats, batted .247 with six home runs in 1968. His 18 walks gave him an on-base average of .284. 3. 1974, Dave Chalk, California AngelsChalk was a 23-year old infielder, who batted .252 with a .316 slugging average in his All-Star season. He played on a 68-win last place team, which had ace Nolan Ryan already representing the AL. Was the American League that desperate for infielders? Bert Campaneris played the entire game at shortstop while Chalk had an at-bat and got into the game at third base after Brooks Robinson had been pinch-hit for. Look, George Brett, in his first full season, was hitting only around .200 in 200 at-bats by the All Star game. But the Rangers' Toby Harrah was in the middle of a 21-home run season. 4. 1944, Thurman Tucker, Chicago White SoxI know what you're thinking. With a name like that, he has to be good. Tucker had a lifetime average of .255. This leadoff man stole 13 bases (he was caught 12 times) in his All-Star season. He led off for the American League and played the entire game. He went hitless in four at-bats. Of course, this was during World War II. Joe DiMaggio lost the year to military service. Dom DiMaggio lost the year. Ted Williams lost the year. 5. 1984, Alfredo Griffin, Toronto Blue JaysCal Ripken Jr. started the game for the American League at shortstop. The Tigers' Alan Trammell was named to the team, but was injured. Alfredo Griffin actually got into the game at shortstop. Alfredo batted a robust .241 that season. He walked four times in 140 games and had 14 extra-base hits. His on-base average was .248. His slugging average was .298. He was an All-Star shortstop while the Brewers' Robin Yount (50 extra-base hits, .441 slugging average) stayed home. Yount only made three All-Star game appearances in his 20 year career. How could people recognize Griffin and ignore Yount? 6. 2003, Mike Williams, Pittsburgh PiratesHere's one more example of a reliever who compiles saves (even bad teams win games, and someone has to pitch the last inning) and is considered an All Star. It's a dumb rule to have to have a representative from every team. Tell me which Pittsburgh fan is going to not watch the game because there isn't a Pirate involved. As it was, seven NL pitchers appeared in the game. Williams was not one of them. 7. 1976, Steve Swisher, Chicago CubsThis catcher had some amazing numbers. He was a lifetime .216 batter, playing in only 509 games. His career season came in 1976 when he batted .236 with five homers and 42 RBI. For this, he earned a trip to the All-Star game. The Cubs had no other representatives that season. Not that Swisher appeared in the game. Johnny Bench started, and Bob Boone was the backup. But Swisher's roster spot could have been filled by more productive hitters like Ted Simmons or Manny Sanguillen. 8. 1987, Jay Howell, Oakland A'sThis is a case where Howell genuinely had some seasons worthy of All-Star status. He deservedly made two other All-Star games. But in 1987 he was suffering through a season where he finished with a 5.89 ERA and lost his closer's job to first-year reliever Dennis Eckersley. Howell was the losing pitcher of the 1987 All-Star game, a 2-0 extra-inning contest in which Howell was the only pitcher on either side to give up a run. 9. 1996, Roger Pavlik, Texas RangersHere's a case where a 10-1 record is deceiving; that's what Pavlik had when he was selected for the 1996 game. He was 36-38 the rest of his major league career. He went 5-7 the remainder of the 1996 season and didn't last three innings in his lone postseason start. Even the 10-1 start was muddied by his very high earned run average. 10. 1946, Ray Lamanno, Cincinnati RedsYou've heard of Ray Romano. This is Ray Lamanno. If those two ever boxed, it would be billed Romano versus Lamanno Mano a Mano. There are tons of bad-hitting catchers who've made the All-Star team (Biff Pocoroba, Sandy Alomar, Jr., Bruce Edwards, etc) but I liked the name Lamanno. If you're interested, he grounded out as a pinch-hitter. He showed promise, hitting 12 home runs as a 22-year old in 1942. He then lost three years to World War II. He made the All-Star team in 1946, despite an average of just .243 and played only two more seasons.

Well that game sucked big elephants you know what, Duan I just saw you on here, as bad as I feel it must be worse to have stayed up in Ireland after 3AM to watch this,were you in from a club or did you watch the game?

Victor Victoria he is, without the wins though, Zam has been amazing for the "Amazings" SO's are down but the control is where it's at for him right now, tonight he was super, keep it up Vic.

I recently traded Chris Carpenter for Beltran and Brad Wilkerson....

Liked it a lot, never thought they could revive Batman.

Found this from Uni watch while looking for classic Pirate pics.http://slate.msn.com/id/2103097]Uni WatchThe return of colored baseball pants.By Paul LukasPosted Tuesday, June 29, 2004, at 12:35 PM PT And you thought Chief Wahoo was offensive ... If you're finding yourself befuddled by Major League Baseball's carnival of solid-colored alternate jerseys, you're not the only one. Things have gotten so convoluted that two Mets players recently took the field wearing the wrong uniforms. With jerseys reaching a saturation point, how long before we see a revival of colored pants? That's what Uni Watch wondered after the Cleveland Indians brought back their garish solid-red uniforms�originally worn in the mid-1970s�for a recent throwback promotion.The Indians' red design may look odd today, but colored pants have had a larger presence in baseball history than you might think. Broadcasters and old-schoolers talk about the game's tradition of wearing white at home and gray on the road, but the tradition isn't quite that simple. Dark-colored jerseys with matching dark pants were fairly common in the game's early days, especially for the visiting team (probably because dark colors don't show as much dirt�a boon for teams that had trouble finding adequate laundry facilities while traveling). Every season from 1900 through 1917 featured at least one solid-colored team, and sometimes as many as five. Most franchises tried the solid style at least once during this period, including the Indians (known then as the Naps), Cubs, White Sox, Senators, Reds, Tigers, Braves, Giants, and Highlanders (later renamed the Yankees�the pinstripes didn't debut until 1912).Although the white/gray format became entrenched in the 1920s, colored pants still made occasional appearances over the next few decades, most notably with the crimson-trousered uniforms worn by Cincinnati in 1936 and the reflective blue satins that the Dodgers experimented with for night games in 1944. But colored pants didn't come back in earnest until the early 1960s, when Charles O. Finley bought the Kansas City Athletics. Finley promptly dressed his new team in solid gold with green trim, an implicit nod to the increasing power of color television.Finley's instinct to shake up baseball's color palette was a good one (incredibly, only one major league team prior to the '63 A's had ever worn green). But once he opened the floodgates, a wave of tacky designs followed, a fad furthered by the advent of polyester uniforms and the fashion insanity of the 1970s. Eyebrow-raisers from this period include the all-orange 1971 Orioles, the brown-on-yellow 1978 Padres, and the all-maroon 1979 Phillies�a design so widely ridiculed by fans and the media that it was retired after one game. Finley, not to be outdone, added an all-green outfit for the A's. But the concept was taken to an unwatchable extreme by the Pirates, who introduced an assortment of yellow and black uni elements in 1977 and spent the next eight years mixing and matching them in various bumblebee combinations, to generally horrifying effect. And don't forget, this was also the era when many teams changed their road unis from gray to powder blue, creating yet another solid-color trope.All these trends had played themselves out by the end of the 1980s. The fact that colored pants look so bizarre now is a measure of how they've largely been purged from the game's collective memory, as if they were just a bad dream. Uni Watch prefers to think of them as a useful reality check�a reminder that tradition is a relative concept. So the next time you catch yourself carping about the latest solid-colored alternate jersey, keep in mind that things could get�and, indeed, have already been�a lot worse.Got a question or suggestion for Uni Watch? Send it here.Paul Lukas writes about food, travel, and consumer culture for a variety of publications.

Gotta love those uni's

Super job Cooby, I hope Ralph Kiner is doing a game this weekend,thanks for the name info, I would never had known that.

Mushnick is not impressed with Sterling but is witk Kaat anf Hernandez.]July 8, 2005 -- IF PROS such as John Ster ling and YES Yankees studio host Bob Lorenz truly grasped and respected the "Pinstripe Pride" they always are pushing, they'd cease committing crimes against its nature and its history. Both broadcasters, for example, address Jason Giambi as "The Giam-bino," as if Giambi's a current-day Babe Ruth, "The Bambino." Clever stuff. But exactly who is supposed to be entertained by such strained silliness? Fourth graders at P.S. 45? The baseball fans among them would be insulted. Such forced wordplay makes for the cheapest kind of sell and attachment. Forget stats; Ruth, for all his failings, never was ordered in front of a grand jury to testify about his alleged procurement and use of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs. Ruth did not bring baseball into disrepute � quite the contrary. To make such a Ruth-Giambi connection is an insult to all, like suggesting Jenny Craig is a latter-day Mahatma Gandhi. On the other end, when Jim Kaat talks baseball, you listen. When Keith Hernandez talks baseball, you listen. It's that simple. No gimmicks, no signature calls, no starved-for-attention artificial additives and "A-Bomb from A-Rod!" word aerobics (imagine staying up all night to come up with that one). What Kaat and Hernandez provide beats the heck out of all the other let-me-entertain-you stuff practiced in the mirror and rehearsed back at the hotel. After all, it's still a baseball game. Speaking of the gimmick-minded, Chris Berman, Monday, is host of ESPN's coverage of the All-Star Game Home Run Derby. Perfect. * Among the most underplayed stories in sports is the aluminum bat vs. wooden bat controversy. Many who have studied the issue consider aluminum bats to be a cost-effective (they don't break) but clear and present danger. The added velocity at which a ball leaves an aluminum bat � a Little League mound is 46 feet from the plate � is believed to have contributed to the serious head injuries and even deaths of amateur players, Little League through college. Wood-bat-only leagues are on the grow. This Monday, 7-9 p.m. from the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Little Falls, N.J., this bat issue will be the focus of a special WFAN edition of Rick Wolff's "Sports Edge," usually heard Sunday mornings. Among those scheduled to appear are ex-Yankee Steve Balboni, whose son was seriously injured by a batted ball from an aluminum bat; Joe Gilligan, CEO of a New Jersey-based company that manufactures aluminum bats; and Steve Kallas, an attorney and youth-league coach who has studied the issue extensively. * Sports fans regularly suffer the loss of significant sights to crowd shots, but it ain't just sports. Ch. 4's coverage of the July 4 fireworks was loaded with shots of people gawking at what viewers tuned in to see. Yep, rather than show the fireworks, Ch. 4 repeatedly presented live pictures of people watching them. And those people seen watching the fireworks on Ch. 4 seemed very impressed by what Ch. 4 viewers couldn't see. Brilliant! * Hank Stram, who died this week at 82 and for 16 years teamed with Jack Buck to call CBS Radio/Westwood One's "Monday Night Football," was a character, an oblivious scatterbrain. He was, after all, the only one not to notice that he wore a horrible toupee. Then he'd accurately predict the next play � "They're gonna run right!" � then the next. And his greatest broadcasting weaknesses became endearing and enduring. Stram wasn't much for names; he was more of a numbers guy. The linebacker who "just did a nice job getting up there to seal that hole," he would identify as "No. 53." Then he'd praise No. 53 again, only this time with a more personal, coach-to-player approach: "Good work out there, No. 53." In time, if Stram put a name to a number, he'd have ruined everything. * Joy To The World, I've Got Pocket Kings: With CBS Sports' Wednesday announcement that it will televise a poker tournament, CBS, by our count, will become the 13th network to air poker. CBS's poker special will air, we kid you not, Christmas Day.

Very sad, she sure sounded like a great person.

On July 8, 1962, 41-year-old Stan Musial becomes the oldest man to hit three home runs in a game when he victimizes the New York Mets. The longtime star, who had homered in his last at-bat the previous game, helps the St. Louis Cardinals to a 15-1 win.