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I'm guessing the Phillies.....or maybe Boston....Youkilis is done for the season.

Adam Dunn http://sports.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=2700677&acid=2&afid=0

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think it would be an admission that Pelfrey isn't getting it done, and that they want to send their best pitchers out there in an attempt to stay in the race. Letting Pelfrey continue to get hammered is more of a towel throw, I think. Agree, I fear that the Mets would think that it shows the fans that the jig is up and that's why I have little faith they would do that, send him down at least.

Bonds hit 272 from the age of 35 through 42....wow

Would it be seen as an admission that the season is lost if you started skipping Pelfrey if if you sent him down?

IIRC Piazza seemed rather embarrassed by the whole thing and the mess was mostly Howe's . I really don't feel like Beltran has the history behind him to make a fuss about moving , too many injuries. I bet this comes up in September if the Mets are buried and drags through the spring.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: But like others have already noted, Stengel was also a very powerful guy. But he wasn't all powerful when he got the yankee job , he had a below par managerial record before that, at least that's how it was portrayed in Baseball.

Edgy DC wrote: Ashie62 wrote: The top jockeys are the ones with the best horses. I don't believe this. And I know that the best horse in the world would lose embarassingly if I rode him or her in the Kentucky Derby. red pants and all?

As it happens I caught some of Ken Burns Baseball on Long Island's Channel 21 last night and a good deal of it was about Stengel and his platoon system, and how star names mattered little to him.

Fred WIlpon answering a question about Omar returning after the season. 51 m ago By Kimberley A. Martin STORRS, Conn. -- Mets owner Fred Wilpon was at the University of Connecticut today for a press conference involving SNY. The press conference was to announce a programming partnership with the school similar to the one it has with Rutgers. Wilpon wasn't very talkative about the Mets, who are sitting at .500 with a weekend series coming against the Phillies in Philadelphia. But he did make a few brief comments. Wilpon said today wasn't the day to talk about the Mets, instead preferring to focus on the SNY announcement. He said Omar Minaya is really the guy to talk to regarding the Mets. When asked if Minaya would be the GM after this season, he said "will the sun rise tomorrow?" When asked what kind of job he thought Mets COO Jeff Wilpon -- Fred's son -- was doing, he said "excellent." http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/on-the-mets-beat-1.812057/fred-wilpon-gives-omar-minaya-vote-of-confidence-1.2179857

Who starts in their place though? , I suppose if you are going down the swanie it's best to try and field your perceived strongest team that way as a manager people can't be saying that you went down with them on the bench. Not saying I like it but....

Oh right , it's all about team and not me......no matter how hard he tries he still comes across as a phony. A-Rod does it! New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez joins 600 home run club in 5-1 win over Jays BY Mark Feinsand DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Originally Published:Wednesday, August 4th 2010, 1:27 PM Updated: Wednesday, August 4th 2010, 3:20 PM When Alex Rodriguez hit his 500th home run, he felt the euphoria of a personal milestone that virtually guaranteed his entry into the Hall of Fame. Exactly three years later to the day, with his reputation sullied by the stain of steroids and his admittance to Cooperstown no longer a guarantee, A-Rod was jubilant as he reached the 600-home run plateau. But his elation, he said, was nothing compared to what he felt last November when he and his teammates celebrated the World Series title on the same field. "For me, the perspective of hitting 600 home runs, it feels really good," Rodriguez said. "But when you win a World Series - which is what I worked my whole life for - no personal achievement can compare to celebrating on the mound and being the last team standing." A-Rod ended a 13-day pursuit with his first-inning swing against Toronto's Shaun Marcum, drilling a 2-0 pitch over the center-field wall into the netting that protects Monument Park. A security guard retrieved the ball and returned it to A-Rod, who rewarded him with an autographed bat. After he crossed the plate, Rodriguez hugged Derek Jeter, who scored in front of him, then met his teammates in front of the dugout to receive their congratulations. "Everyone was so excited," Nick Swisher said. "We've been waiting on this for a while now and to finally get it done especially here at home, and the way that it happened - I mean, a home run to center field in this ballpark, man, you gotta be a big man to get up and hit it out of there. It was a great day." The Yankee Stadium crowd of 47,659 gave him a lengthy standing ovation before he came back out for a curtain call. "I felt bad for them," Rodriguez said. "I had them waiting a long, long time." As thrilled as Rodriguez was, he said he was happier the homer helped the Yankees end a three-game slide, as the Bombers salvaged the final game of their series against the Blue Jays with a 5-1 victory. "Many years from today, I'll be able to reflect a lot better," Rodriguez said. "Today, the focus was that we needed a win. It was good to do it in a winning fashion." Rodriguez, who turned 35 on July 27, is the youngest player to reach 600 homers. Babe Ruth - the only other player to hit No. 600 in a Yankees uniform - had held that distinction at 36 years, 196 days. Rodriguez has hit 255 of his homers with the Yankees, hitting 189 with the Mariners and 156 with the Rangers. No. 600 snapped a 46-at-bat homer drought for A-Rod, who also entered the game in an 0-for-17 funk. "There's no question I was pressing, because I wanted to get it out of the way to get back to playing good, small team baseball," he said. "It really felt good and it was a relief to put it past me and start focusing on good baseball." A-Rod becomes the seventh member of the 600 club, joining Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Ruth, Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr. and Sammy Sosa. A-Rod, Bonds and Sosa have all been embroiled in the steroids scandal in some fashion, and while some will surely look at Rodriguez's latest milestone with a critical eye, he insists he continues to look forward rather than to his sordid past. "I said at that press conference that there are certain things I would love to go back and change," Rodriguez said, referring to the Tampa session in February of 2009 in which he discussed his use of performance-enhancing drugs. "...I knew with the green in front of me, that I would have an opportunity to rewrite some of the chapters in my life and in my career, to try and do things right." Rodriguez is now 10 home runs away from moving past Sosa for sole possession of sixth place on the all-time list. He will collect a $6 million bonus when he ties Mays and pocket an additional $6 million each time he ties Aaron, Ruth and Bonds, then a final $6 million if and when he becomes the all-time home run king. "That's something that we can revisit in two or three years and we'll see where we're at," Rodriguez said. "The journey is what's fun and playing for a team like that, with my teammates, I'm just in a good place." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2010/08/04/2010-08-04_arod_finally_joins_exclusive_600_home_run_club.html?page=1#ixzz0vkPeSPUR

Of course Fman's hug would be a knee to the balls followed by an elbow to the back of the head....that's free too.

As Van the Man said " There'll be days like this"

Some of Greg's best work is when the Mets are at their worst...

Cohen " Mets trying to win a rubber game for the first time in 2010" , says it all right there.

I've got nothing.

Pelfrey is a disgrace.

I don't get what the Mets just did there , pitch around Chipper only to pitch to McCann?

Umm, Lennon Manuel reiterates will not move Beltran out of CF this season, but "possibly" could look to do it at start of next year. #mets

Just watched it on the MLB app , Kay gave it the usual "see ya" but noting too over the top. Al Leiter sounded like a slobbering fool talking about it...." oh gosh , I , I can't imagine how he feels , a great moment for him and his yankee team mates"....it looked like his team mates hugged him cos well that's the thing to do, Jeter was all over him though.

Biggest game of Pelfrey's career , no pressure then.