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They lost again but He got his hit....it's all that counts.

Ashie62 wrote: Alderson just scuttled this on the pre-game. He would though wouldn't he?

Rey was still around when Alomar was there?, was it that long ago?...Robbie was the recipient of the flip? all great plays, I loved him from the moment I saw him , I had just become a Mets fan...I've told that before..

DL today various twatters are saying" Mets wanna play it safe"

A fascinating study of discrimination in baseball, it's a long read and I will paste the conclusion with the linik https://webspace.utexas.edu/hamermes/www/Baseball4Authors.pdf VI. Conclusions The analyses of individual pitches and game outcomes suggest that baseball umpires express racial/ethnic preferences in their decisions about players� performances. Pitches are slightly more likely to be called strikes when the umpire shares the race/ethnicity of the starting pitcher, an effect that is observable only when umpires� behavior is not well monitored. The evidence also suggests that this bias has substantial effects on pitchers� measured performance and games� outcomes. The link between the small and large effects arises, at least in part, because pitchers alter their behavior in potentially discriminatory situations in ways that ordinarily would disadvantage themselves (such as throwing pitches directly over the plate). As in many other fields, racial/ethnic preferences work in all directions� most people give preference to members of their own group. In MLB, as in so many other fields of endeavor, power belongs disproportionately to members of the majority�white�group. The type of discrimination that we have demonstrated is disturbing because of its implications for the sports labor market. In particular, minority pitchers are at a significant disadvantage relative to their white peers, even in the absence of explicit wage discrimination by teams. Although some evidence suggests such explicit discrimination exists, i.e., there is a wage gap among baseball players of different races, the fact that almost 90 percent of the umpires are white implies that the measured productivity of minority pitchers may be downward biased. Implicitly, estimates of wage discrimination in baseball that hold measured productivity (at least of pitchers) constant will understate its true size. More generally, our results suggest caution in interpreting any estimates of wage discrimination stemming from equations relating earnings to race/ethnicity, even with a large set of variables designed to control for differences in productivity. To the extent that supervisors� evaluations are among the control variables included in estimates of wage discrimination, or even if they only indirectly alter workers� objective performances, their inclusion or their mere existence contaminates attempts to infer discrimination from adjusted racial/ethnic differences in wages. If racial/ethnic preferences in evaluator-worker matches are important, standard econometric estimates will generally understate the magnitude of racial/ethnic discrimination in labor markets. While the specific evidence of racial/ethnic match preferences is disturbing, our analysis of the expression of discrimination should be encouraging: When their decisions matter more, and when evaluators are themselves more likely to be evaluated by others, our results suggest that these preferences no longer manifest themselves. Indeed, these findings imply that the particular impacts of racial/ethnic match preferences in baseball may now have been vitiated, since beginning in 2009 all ballparks are equipped with QuesTec or similar technologies. 27 Clearly, raising the price of discrimination in the labor market generally is more difficult; but our results may suggest analogous measures that might have the desired effects

I'll vote when I get home as I can't see the vids at work......

This Hey, Jeter has been an easy target this season, but just because I've openly wondered how much he has left in the tank, or suggested he needs to be moved down in the lineup at some point, doesn't mean I don't appreciate the way he has played the game all these years. It doesn't mean I'm not rooting for him to reach this milestone as painlessly as possible. He desperately wants the chase for 3,000 hits to end before the All-Star break, and it would be hard for anybody to watch if he were to be embarrassed by a long, drawn-out countdown that stretches all the way past the All-Star break to Toronto next week. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2011/07/07/2011-07-07_in_changeup_joe_manages_to_get_it_right.html#ixzz1RQhq8tyb I bet he was on his knees writing that.

Harper is embarrassing http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2011/07/07/2011-07-07_in_changeup_joe_manages_to_get_it_right.html

But Jeter is getting his hits and apparently that's all that counts.

Jeter would never accept going on the DL for such a thing.......Reyes is not a winner.

Stayed up for a few myself ,just watched the condensed MLB game on the app, hell of a night for.Bay.

Nice to wake up to such a win.....

I can't even read past the headline, it's enough to make me retch.

Yep , nothing that Pettitte will say he hasn't already said but now he'll be doing it with his "best friend" sitting a few feet away.

Missed that too, that's terrible.

What a joy awaits us this week, Andy "Mother Theresa" Pettitte will be taking the stand at some point to declare that yes Clemens did in fact tell him he took HGH... NYT paints a picture of the loyal lap dog and how difficult it will be for him in court...... An Old Best Friend May Bring Down Clemens Douchebag leaving court Tuesday Roger Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, will stand trial in federal court in Washington this week on charges of perjury, making false statements and obstructing Congress for testifying at a House hearing in 2008 that he never used performance-enhancing drugs. His potential public undoing is the latest fallout from baseball�s continuing challenges with doping; one possible outcome is a prison sentence for Clemens, a player who otherwise would be on his way to the Hall of Fame. But one thing sets Clemens�s trial apart from the other drug cases involving baseball stars that drew national attention: his former close friend and loyal teammate Andy Pettitte, a man Clemens considered his little brother, could be the witness who brings him down. Pettitte, whose wholesome boy-next-door demeanor endeared him to Yankees fans as he pitched in seven World Series for the team, admitted in 2008 that he used human growth hormone in 2002 and 2004 to treat injuries. He is expected to give powerful testimony that could help the prosecution establish that Clemens also used the drug. Among the former players on the prosecution�s witness list, he is the only one expected to testify that Clemens acknowledged using performance-enhancing substances. The trial begins Wednesday with jury selection. �I can�t imagine what he�s going through, knowing he will have to sit there and testify with his best friend right there at the defense table,� said the former Yankees slugger Jason Giambi, who testified about his own steroid use when he was a government witness in April at the federal perjury trial of the home run king Barry Bonds, who was convicted of obstruction of justice. �I was close with Barry, but my testimony was all about me and my own use,� said Giambi, who played with Clemens and Pettitte for two years with the Yankees. �So I really feel for Andy. Knowing how he is, it�s going to be very, very hard for him.� Neither Pettitte nor Clemens, who was in court Tuesday for a hearing about his trial, responded to interview requests made through their lawyers. Pettitte, who grew up in Deer Park, Tex., became a Christian when he was 11, later meeting Laura Dunn through a Baptist church where her father was the pastor. He married Dunn, his high school sweetheart, when he was 21 and she was 18. Though he never spoke much in the clubhouse about his religious convictions, Pettitte became known among the Yankees for his strait-laced life. Some of his former teammates, including catcher Jorge Posada, said Pettitte�s best quality was that he could be trusted. Pettitte, 39, was also known as more of a follower than a leader, a perfect fit as a friend for Clemens, who relished the role of alpha dog. The two pitchers were teammates for nine seasons, with the Yankees and the Houston Astros. Pettitte was an eager student of Clemens, his childhood idol, when the two began working out together as Yankees under the supervision of Clemens�s trainer, Brian McNamee. As pitchers, they were polar opposites, particularly in how they dealt with defeat. The brash Clemens would never admit to having any weaknesses, and the self-critical Pettitte often berated himself. Despite those differences, they soon grew so tight that they were seemingly attached by Velcro. �It was strange if you didn�t see them together in the clubhouse,� said John Flaherty, the former Yankees catcher who is now a YES Network commentator. �You�d see them running, lifting or throwing a football before games, then they�d play golf on off days. It was always Andy following Roger around.� Flaherty said Pettitte was �as loyal a teammate as you would want to have,� which is why Pettitte�s potential testimony against the 48-year-old Clemens will be difficult for Yankees past and present. Asked how he would feel about the situation, Flaherty shifted his weight from side to side and averted his eyes. �It�s disappointing because they got along so well,� he said. �Andy is going to be uncomfortable. I�m going to be uncomfortable. We�re all going to be uncomfortable.� Yankees Manager Joe Girardi said that even hearing tidbits of news about Pettitte�s testimony would be painful. �Andy was always prepared to handle the pressure, but in court, he is not in his comfort zone,� Girardi said. �It�s out of his realm, and it�s out of our realm, too. None of us want to see that.� In lieu of testifying in front of Congress, Pettitte submitted a sworn affidavit describing what he claimed Clemens had said to him about his drug use. So what Pettitte will say on the witness stand may not come as a surprise. Rather, it will be the fact that he is saying it in a courtroom, sitting several feet from Clemens, that will probably produce a dramatic, if not agonizing, scene. �In 1999 or 2000, I had a conversation with Roger Clemens in which Roger told me he had taken human growth hormone,� Pettitte said in the affidavit, a potentially pivotal declaration if spoken before a jury. �Everybody knows that Andy�s a goody-two-shoes that will have a big impact on the jury,� said Alan M. Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and celebrity lawyer. �He has no motives to lie, no conceivable reason to testify against his best friend. So, if I�m a defense attorney, I would try to get him off the stand as soon as possible to minimize his impact.� Pettitte added in the sworn statement that he told his wife about the conversation. Then, during baseball�s first wave of Congressional hearings in 2005, he said, he brought up the subject with Clemens again. �I asked him what he would say if asked by reporters if he ever took performance-enhancing drugs,� the affidavit said. �When he asked me what I meant, I reminded him that he had told me he had used H.G.H.� Clemens insisted he had told Pettitte that his wife, Debbie, not Clemens himself, had used the drug. Pettitte backed down but later told his wife, Laura, about it, the statement said. In his Congressional testimony, Clemens said Pettitte �misheard� and �misremembers� what Clemens had said about growth hormone. Laura Pettitte is also on the prosecution�s witness list, but Clemens�s lawyers have asked the judge to bar her testimony because, they said, it is hearsay. Some legal experts say that motion is simply the defense�s effort to protect Clemens from possibly devastating testimony. Peter Keane, a professor at Golden Gate University School of Law, said Pettitte would be seen by the jury �as a very reluctant witness who just can�t lie under oath, even for a close friend, and that will be the biggest problem for the defense.� �So I think Clemens is in big trouble,� he added. �He probably wants to kick himself for picking the kid who was the Eagle Scout on the block to shoot off his mouth to.� It would be great if Clemens got convicted the same day Jeter gets his big hit.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'd think third-base line. You have the screen of the runner coming home-- any play at the plate will have to go through/around the runner himself-- and if they get him, the catcher has to turn, then throw against the direction of the turn. I would have tried a squeeze with Gee, too. Just to hear Sterling say SqueeGee would have been worth it.

You want Fielder for Reyes?

Edgy DC wrote: Are you thinking that running could re-injure the back? not really thinking that but it's a thought , to me it just seems fundamental that running is a first step in recovery, and with the nature of his injury running hard would seem a requirement.

Edgy DC wrote: Running isn't that big a deal. You're a young athlete and you can get your legs in shape in a week or so. You can even DH while still getting back into gameshape. My greater concern is the torque of swinging a bat and it's effect on the back. um OK. um OK sounds like a dick..... you really think that him not running is not that big of a deal? I'm thinking that he's not doing any of the other stuff until he does that.

But he's not even running yet right?

The news on Wright is hardly encouraging if you were hoping he'd be back in July.

Damn what a curve-ball from K-Rod, not sure if it was the camera angle but you could see it buckling loney all the way.

170 two out hits to lead NL as Gwreck says...wow

Was there a time this season when the Mets never got two out hits?, I ask because all they seem to do lately is get two out hits..