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Options?, here's an option for Ike, start hitting or hit the road jack....

Blocked at work.... what is it?????

Another.....or Duda I guess....

Didn't Wang have back to back 19 or 20 win seasons?

I'd roll the dice.

WOW, watching the highlights of this game, Wells is awful out there in RF......messed up three catchable balls , and obviously looked useless in doing so.

Christ, I didn't realize that Rivera wrote that song.......I am now announcing my retirement from Hard Rock Cafe's....fuck off asreholes.

Normally I would feel bad about a kid crying but this kid makes me smile....

Frayed Knot wrote: The other thing about the bobble-head fuck-up is that apparently the folks in the prime seats had their bobbles delivered to their seats while the unwashed masses had to queue up elsewhere after the game or got to eat cake or something. That just says it all right there how the regular fan gets treated.

Ceetar wrote: It's amazing how classless the Yankees are sometimes. This bobble nonsense is amusing, and not getting nearly the mockery that it deserves. Yeah, saw some of that on various social media, seemed like a real fuck up. Near riots over a bobblehead doll?, grow the fuck up wankers.

Bob Melvin in retrospect...... I remember Acta being hot property....

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This back page isn't aging well. Jose and Johan on the right, who are the first two supposed to be?

HahnSolo wrote: Andy Pettitte retiring...again. and the media fawning all over him, forgetting conveniently that he is an admitted cheat.

On course for a record When the Mets moved into Citi Field five years ago, they were also, as it turned out, settling into fourth place in the National League East and making themselves comfortable. If their season ended Friday, they would finish in that very undistinguished spot for the fifth straight season. It would be a franchise record, dubious as it might seem, for never in their uphill history have they ended up staying in the same place for so long. Even in the 1960s, when the Mets made a name for themselves as one of the worst teams in baseball history, they finished 10th, and last, only in their first four years of existence. In the fifth year, 1966, they finished next to last, in ninth. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/sports/baseball/for-mets-another-year-at-the-same-address.html?ref=sports

John Sterling is just great(bold is mine) Voice of Yanks Is Maddening and Memorable John Sterling�s quarter-century of baritone bombast, mistakes, bizarrely creative home run calls and unalloyed joy at Yankees victories (�Thuuuuuh Yankees win!�) has made him an odd but solid part of the Yankees brand. A singular, divisive, much-debated personality, Sterling seems likely to move with the Yankees� radio rights next season from WCBS-AM to WFAN, which will simulcast the games at 660 AM and 101.9 FM. If Sterling returns, with or without Suzyn Waldman, it will not be because he is a great broadcaster. He is frequently awful and laughable � yet unforgettable in his overblown way. His return would seem to be predicated on lengthy service as a Yankees homer. Longevity is a wonderful asset for a local baseball announcer. It helps build a fan base even if you�re not sublime. Had Bob Gamere lasted as a Yankees voice beyond his nearly forgotten season in 1970, he might have built a following. Sterling�s penchant for miscalling a play, or not describing action with absolute accuracy, is maddening and suggests a problem with his eyesight. On Tuesday in Toronto, he saw something that did not happen, or perhaps he called something he wished had happened. With R. A. Dickey pitching to Alex Rodriguez, Sterling said: �Swung on and drilled to deep-right-center field. That ball is high; it is far; it is gone! Over the wall.� He paused and then added, �Oh, it hit and kicked over.� But it had not gone over the wall. After another pause, he said: �I�m sorry. I�m sorry. I got that call wrong. I got that all wrong. At the wall, Davis made the catch. Honestly, I didn�t think he made it. I thought he gave up on the ball. That�s why I thought it was out.� On the YES Network, Michael Kay said: �Driven out into right-center field. Davis back, and he�ll make the play for the second out.� On the Blue Jays� radio broadcast, Jerry Howarth said: �Rodriguez lines one up the gap and into deep-right-center field. Moving back, Rajai Davis, and he makes a backhanded catch on the track.� There was no visual sign that Davis had given up on the ball. Kay and Howarth saw the routine play clearly. Sterling got it wrong in many ways and delayed correcting himself while exaggerating Davis�s nearness to the wall; he made the catch as he crossed onto the warning track. But at least he apologized. What Yankees management thinks of Sterling is not publicly known. Randy Levine, the team president, would not comment Thursday. Whether Levine and Hal Steinbrenner have combed through Sterling�s radio archive in the past before renewing his contracts is unknown, too. Perhaps management puts Sterling�s faux pas and nutty shtick (�An A-bomb, for A-Rod!�) in the category of Phil Rizzuto�s ignoring plays to send birthday wishes to fans or leaving early to beat the traffic home to New Jersey. Rizzuto was endearing and beloved, almost sweet. Sterling? Not so much. But is he eccentric? Oh my. On Aug. 8, 2012, he starred in another episode of Weird-but-True Yankees Classics. Casey McGehee led off the fourth inning against Detroit starter Anibal Sanchez. �Cuts and misses,� Sterling said. (No, the bat met the ball.) �No, he cuts and hits a fly ball down the left-field line, and the ball is foul.� (It was not a foul ball but a sharply hit ground ball.) �McGehee is headed toward second base as the throw comes in, and he�s staying at second.� (Sterling sounded a bit surprised, but McGehee had hit a ball that bounced fair over third base but landed foul.) �The ball went down the left-field line, and it must have hit it and kicked in the seats for a grounds-rule double.� (The ball did not kick into the stands, and it was not a ground-rule double.) A supportive partner, Waldman said, �We all missed it� � no other Tigers or Yankees announcers did � and added that the ball was �in the air; it flew over the bag.� There was no flying. Honest. The call was skewered the next morning by the WFAN hosts Craig Carton and Boomer Esiason; Carton ended their seven-minute analysis with a plea to the Yankees to sign Sterling and Waldman to a five-year deal. �I can�t live without them,� he said. He described their broadcasts as unique. He said they produced �the most colloquial broadcast ever� and would be missed if they were replaced by perfectly competent announcers who would not be idiosyncratic or memorable. Esiason and Carton had no reason to believe back then that they would ever share a station with the Yankees, and possibly Sterling. But next season, Carton, being Carton, will probably invite Sterling into the station�s studio to analyze Sterling. Imagine that: Carton and Sterling, belly to belly. E-mail: sandor@nytimes.com

Jay Horwitz ?@Jay_HorwitzPR Wilfredo Tovar will become the first Met to wear No.70 tonight in Philly. His family admired former. NYG,MLB Sam Huff,who also wore 70.

So true, tolerated when they are winning. I just hope the MFY's ignore the lack of hustle and give cano the ten year $200 million contract he "deserves" from them.

@RealMichaelKay: "Cano, inexcusably, does not run the whole way. He just stands with his hands on his hips. He thought it was a foul ball." @RealMichaelKay on Cano: "We're talking about a flat team and a guy who's the star of your team runs three steps out of the box and stops." delightful I believe that was from the game two nights ago.`

seawolf17 wrote: Holy crap, that was terrible. Someone steered him very wrongly there. Maybe that is part of the problem here, he likely now has "handlers", you know what Matt, be like fucking Jeter, do stupid car commercials, don't talk to the media in this way, only after games....be vanilla.

Christ, he's some sort of wanker....

So, the Mets day this �Based on this MRI and a subsequent clinical examination, Mets physicians determined that a surgical repair would likely be necessary, unless Matt could complete a throwing program free of elbow related symptoms.� That's part of the statement.... Davidoff is the Post thinks the Mets are pissed.

He pitched a lot of innings after those seasons.....clearly he made the correct decision?

At what point in his career did Halladay deal with a similar issue? http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hallaro01.shtml

It might well be that Andrews told him(advised him) that surgery is the best route....of course the final decision is the patients.

Did you edit the choices?, I only saw one "Has no surgery" before. That's why I voted "something different than above".