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Yeah , apparently we got a new catcher.

Nats are headed in the right direction though? I'm looking forward to seeing Strasburg, some great young talent int he NL East.

Mets Pagan Castillo Reyes Bay Wright Davis Francoeur Braaja Maine

Fman99 wrote: Seriously, why should I give a flying fuck what A-Rod thinks of Dallas Braden's perfect game? Go to hell, Worldwide Leader. "Fman doesn't like you Alex , must work harder , love you too"

I'm not enamored with Cohen's silly "Perpetual Pedro" and "Nightly Nieve" nicknames , and yeah come July both will be shot.

Interesting, not for any big reason just that I think it is. If the Senate confirms Ms. Kagan, who is Jewish, the Supreme Court for the first time will have no Protestant members. In that case, the court would be composed of six justices who are Catholic and three who are Jewish. It also would mean that every member of the court had studied law at Harvard or Yale.

Bill Simmons had an article recently on the crowd that populates Laker games during the playoffs and how his feeling about LA crowds and sports has changed in the years he has lived there. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100505&sportCat=nba

Rodriguez when asked to comment while in the locker room before tonights game " Good for him , even better that he beat the Rays".

Valadius wrote: Get off his fucking mound, A-Rod. Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game. well, isn't hat something.....congrats

Some great pitching by Wilson. D Wright wasn't hitting it anyway.

Not surprised Piazza would say that, everything about his seems sincere and he has in the past expressed how grateful he was to have played for the Mets.

Mets catcher Rod Barajas and his wife Stacie with their six kids: Andrew, 14; Bryce, 9; Aunalilia, 8; Rod, Jr., 5; Jace, 4; Aubrielle, 2. The Barajas family vacationing in Sedona, AZ in November 2009. Super Mom? Stacie Barajas, wife of Mets catcher Stacie Barajas scoured the house for a momentary hiding spot; a quiet refuge from the ear-piercing, indecipherable sounds of children, away from the commotion that fills her days. Cell phone in hand, she closed the door behind her and exhaled softly. "You know, I don't know how I find time to do it," she said with a laugh. Quiet time is a luxury a mother of six cannot afford - especially when her husband is a baseball player. "They've got two lifestyles," Mets catcher Rod Barajas said. "When they're with their baseball husbands, and then they have a single mother lifestyle, basically." While he's handling the Mets' pitching staff, his wife is keeping their brood - Andrew, 14; Bryce, 9; Aunalilia, 8; Rod, Jr., 5; Jace, 4; and Aubrielle, 2 - in line back home in Del Mar, Calif. Rod can't help but wonder how his wife manages to get through the day; how she's able to play caretaker, schoolteacher and housekeeper without harboring any resentment. Especially on this day. "Mother's Day doesn't always fall on the second Sunday of May," Barajas said. "For us, it's whenever I get to see her. That's the day when we get to spoil her a little bit and make her feel special. "There's times, being a mother, where you can be overwhelmed and you feel like people don't appreciate what you do. And whenever I do get to see her, I try to let her know we care for her and couldn't do it without her." After 11 years of marriage, Barajas knows the way to his wife's heart isn't through extravagant gifts. It's with heartfelt words, scribbled in crayon or marker. Words like: 'My mom is good at making me feel special.' "Those things melt your heart," Stacie gushes. That's why Rod can't help but feel guilty. Guilty for the time he's away, and for the downtime he's able to find within a 162-game schedule. "You do feel a little bad that you're able to go out to dinner with the guys, go to a basketball game or something, and there's no chance for her to do that. She's just so unselfish, she puts everybody in front of her. She knows what she was put on this earth to do and that was to be a mother. And she's probably the best one ever." The couple met through a mutual friend almost 13 years ago, when Rod was playing for the Single-A High Desert Mavericks in Southern California. And it didn't take long for sparks to ignite. "You know when you hear your friends saying, 'I met this guy and it was love at first sight'? I was always like, 'Yeah right, c'mon.' But a month or two months later, I told my dad, 'This is the one.' " Said Rod, with a smile: "She caught my eye, I caught her eye and the rest, as they say, is history." Eleven years - and six kids later - the Barajas' bond is stronger than ever. But coping with the separation, especially on Mother's Day, still is challenging. "I don't think it's just baseball wives," Stacie said. "It's any wife or mother whose husband has a job that takes him away for a day or months at a time. I'm not going to lie, I miss him. At times I break down, but you have to be strong for the kids. If they're crying because they miss their dad, then I can't break down." Instead, Stacie and the kids relish the times they do get to see him - like on television. The kids went "nuts," jumping up and down after Rod hit a pair of home runs, including a walk-off blast in the 6-4 win over San Francisco Friday. "When it's baseball season she tries to take all of the pressure off of me; just lets me concentrate on my job and she handles everything," said Rod, who leads all catchers with nine home runs after signing a $1-million (plus incentives) contract in February. "She just finds a way to keep everything running by herself when I'm gone and she is just an absolutely amazing woman. And I tell her - probably not often enough - there's no way I can do what she does. And not too many people in this world can."

It's just funny that Molina was bitching yesterday about not being a Met and Barajas and Blanco finish both games...

Wait , Affeldt is a lefty that can get right handed hitters out too?

Mets Manager Jerry Manuel with Duane Johnson, left, and Lance Orton, who helped thwart a bomb plot in Times Square. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/sports/baseball/08citifield.html Azaria is a good one.

Swan Swan H wrote: Every time I see Dallas Braden open his mouth he takes one giant step closer to being on the wrong side of this pissing contest with Alex Rodriguez. Rodriguez was wrong, he know what he was doing was wrong, and he has a rap sheet on this kind of thing that's longer than Dirk Diggler, but Braden has found a way to get people to pay attention to him that his career hadn't been able to do, and he's going to milk this bullshit until it gives blood. What's that you say, Irish? Handbags at ten paces? Yep , ten paces....Braden has achieved the seemingly impossible and made Rodriguez the lesser asshole in this.

What was it Fran Healy used to say, a lot of these unwritten rules were written by a guy and another fella named Johnny Walker.

Now that was a play by Ike....... Cohen was delirious .....Louie made a great play ranging to his right too...

Saw this on the sports update....loved it....classic Lastings....didn't remind me of Timo though.