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seawolf17 wrote: Why would you bring a kid right out of the minor leagues into a FUCKING SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT Jerry. I can't fathom this fucking shit.....Jerry you fucking twat...

Is it me or does YES still look ad sound better than SNY in HD?(apart form the booth guys that is)

Question I'm going Sunday.....my sister-in-law gave me the ticket a few months ago. It was one of those E-tickets. I lost the damn thing, she says she will just reprint it. Can you do that? I'm thinking not.

Does the forecast call for a soft rain tonight?

I've resolved to just enjoy the game I am watching and not think about September .I enjoy the game that's on , enjoy individual at bats . I get great pleasure watching Francisco Rodriguez pitch , obviously if he's in then we are winning, but also I enjoy how ho goes about it......

="bmfc1":654wtqs4]"Lenno" is the Dave Lennon of Newsday.[/quote:654wtqs4] I was taking the piss , not at you though, at the writers now having to tweet . It just seems funny to me. holychicken Jun 12 2009 01:05 PM I am rapidly losing morale this season. This last series was a real downer and this injury nonsense is killing me inside. I keep telling myself that we were in a WORSE position later than this point last year so I am hoping we can turn it around again. Hawkeye57 Jun 12 2009 01:07 PM I sincerely hope so. metirish Jun 12 2009 01:12 PM I've resolved to just enjoy the game I am watching and not think about September .I enjoy the game that's on , enjoy individual at bats . I get great pleasure watching Francisco Rodriguez pitch , obviously if he's in then we are winning, but also I enjoy how ho goes about it...... bmfc1 Jun 12 2009 01:16 PM Re: It's Switzer Time! ="G-Fafif":17o6uv78]="bmfc1":17o6uv78]Tweets: SI_JonHeyman: #mets saying maine injury isnt serious. they better hope theyre right about that (note: very insightful, very helpful Jon. That's why you're being paid by a half-dozen media outlets. Jackass.)[/quote:17o6uv78] Did Heyman ever Tweet as to how he liked his shake?[/quote:17o6uv78] Heyman Tweets: # off to citi field (aka taxpayer field) in a few. greatest hope: that the lines arent too long at shake shack8:19 AM May 31st from web # shake shack line just exploded behind me. timing's everything11:01 AM May 31st from web fight over baseball in stands had to be mediated by one of new york's finest. relax, grab a shake (6.50 but worth it)12:41 PM May 31st from web @rswilner lol. not a terrible line at all12:43 PM May 31st from web in reply to rswilner @lenno212 yum yum12:44 PM May 31st from web in reply to lenno212 @esd714 2 singles, fries, black and white shake12:44 PM May 31st from web in reply to esd714 Swan Swan H Jun 12 2009 01:54 PM Looks like a candidate to be decked out in the oft-(OK, once)-avoided #48. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 01:59 PM ="Swan Swan H":1g14k69p]Looks like a candidate to be decked out in the oft-(OK, once)-avoided #48.[/quote:1g14k69p] Let's not Rusch to judgement before we're good and Schour. Swan Swan H Jun 12 2009 02:02 PM Heil, man. I ad-myers your enthusiasm. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 02:09 PM I would gladly star in an informercial for JCL's book. "'MBTN' made me roughly 37 percent smarter, roster-numerically speaking. Thanks, Jon!" Swan Swan H Jun 12 2009 02:21 PM Hmmm.... Perhaps you could get John Kricfalusi of Ren and Stimpy fame to do an animated ad. MBTN could be the 'Log' of the literary world. Fman99 Jun 12 2009 02:21 PM Re: It's Switzer Time! ="bmfc1":1ckxr2zl]="G-Fafif":1ckxr2zl]="bmfc1":1ckxr2zl]Tweets: SI_JonHeyman: #mets saying maine injury isnt serious. they better hope theyre right about that (note: very insightful, very helpful Jon. That's why you're being paid by a half-dozen media outlets. Jackass.)[/quote:1ckxr2zl] Did Heyman ever Tweet as to how he liked his shake?[/quote:1ckxr2zl] Heyman Tweets: # off to citi field (aka taxpayer field) in a few. greatest hope: that the lines arent too long at shake shack8:19 AM May 31st from web # shake shack line just exploded behind me. timing's everything11:01 AM May 31st from web fight over baseball in stands had to be mediated by one of new york's finest. relax, grab a shake (6.50 but worth it)12:41 PM May 31st from web @rswilner lol. not a terrible line at all12:43 PM May 31st from web in reply to rswilner @lenno212 yum yum12:44 PM May 31st from web in reply to lenno212 @esd714 2 singles, fries, black and white shake12:44 PM May 31st from web in reply to esd714[/quote:1ckxr2zl] Still with the fucking taxpayer field jokes. Die already. I am brewing up my own personal shake for him. themetfairy Jun 12 2009 02:34 PM ="Swan Swan H"]Hmmm.... Perhaps you could get John Kricfalusi of Ren and Stimpy fame to do an animated ad. MBTN could be the 'Log' of the literary world. Ren and Stimpy Swan Swan H Jun 12 2009 02:43 PM Hey kid, you want a book? Uh huh! How about 'War and Peace?' NO! How about 'The Story of O?' NOOO! Okay, you pick a book. I want METS BY THE NUMBERS! John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 12 2009 02:55 PM wow. Hey you all should go my big giant book event next week! feeling dumb for not knowing Switzee's # yet... Swan Swan H Jun 12 2009 02:57 PM If you read from 'The Story of O' I'll definitely show up. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 03:00 PM ="Swan Swan H":146s12pb]If you read from 'The Story of O' I'll definitely show up.[/quote:146s12pb] If you do this in, say, a Dykstra or Stengel voice, I'll buy another copy. MFS62 Jun 12 2009 03:36 PM Switzer's coming to the Mets? Next thing you know, the entire team will go on academic probation. Later smg58 Jun 12 2009 04:17 PM Switzer's another one of those guys (like Chip Ambres, for example) who really has nothing left to prove at AAA but can't seem to stick at the big league level. Hopefully he'll make good now. G-Fafif Jun 12 2009 04:23 PM ="Swan Swan H"]Hey kid, you want a book? Uh huh! How about 'War and Peace?' NO! How about 'The Story of O?' NOOO! Okay, you pick a book. I want METS BY THE NUMBERS! What... Rolls down stairs? Alone or in pairs? Enumerates Throneberry's tog?

CPF_metirish - tweets I think the internet has jumped the shark......this is not a comment but a tweet..... Is lenno212 Jay Leno? CPF-metirish Switzer now driving on the Cross Bronx

If you didn't mention it I might have mistaken this for a " bullet of cool" thread. A nice time waster here.... Classic Subway series Pix[/url:3q8w1qyy] There is a shot of the mammoth Vaughn home run at YSII . The caption mentions that it hit a hot dog vendor in the upper deck. I knew it was far but had forgotten or didn't know it hit the vendor.

" you can never have enough pitching" From page 1 of the imaginary book on baseball , revised edition , last updated by some GM somewhere..

I still have faith in Oliver Perez , yes I do.

I agree with fman , Sheffield went from being a nice supplementary bat to the bat and it's caught up with the team. I guess Fernando Martinez is learning while he's here but jeez Moyer made him look terrible last night , poor kid.

="John Cougar Lunchbucket":2d1pgd9t]By the Mets' recent standards this move was lightning quick. Perhaps now the mediots won't walk around pretending its a good thing that Oliver Perez is out.[/quote:2d1pgd9t] Good point , any news on Ollie? LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 07:19 AM Fernando Nieve's career HR/9 numbers: 1.69 Yankee Stadium's HR/9 numbers: a metric shit-ton No news yet on "Yank/Phil/Brave Killer" Ollie, apart from the fact that he cannot yet throw from mounded dirt. I'm a sad panda. Nymr83 Jun 12 2009 07:43 AM ="metirish":367jekyr]="John Cougar Lunchbucket":367jekyr]By the Mets' recent standards this move was lightning quick. Perhaps now the mediots won't walk around pretending its a good thing that Oliver Perez is out.[/quote:367jekyr] Good point , any news on Ollie?[/quote:367jekyr] Some news on "ollie": 1. he isn't very good. 2. he's way overpaid. 3. don't you wish the Mets had ponied up for Lowe? i'd call it 20/20 hindsight but who was actually happy to have Mr. Walk back on the staff? LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 07:50 AM ="Nymr83":2nbhpnzk] Some news on "ollie": 1. he isn't very good. 2. he's way overpaid. 3. don't you wish the Mets had ponied up for Lowe? i'd call it 20/20 hindsight but who was actually happy to have Mr. Walk back on the staff?[/quote:2nbhpnzk] 1. No, he's not. 2. Yes, he is. 3. Kinda. But yeah, he's ours, and at this sad-panda moment he'd be another option alongside Messrs. Figs, Niese, and Nieve. metirish Jun 12 2009 07:51 AM I still have faith in Oliver Perez , yes I do. Nymr83 Jun 12 2009 07:54 AM hey, you rarely want your guys to get hurt (the exception would be where the injury forces an idiot manager to replace the injured player with a better player who should have started in the first place), but perez has been a disaster and theres no reason to believe he'd be helping right now. Lets ask Boston if they'd take a C prospect for Penny if we agree to pay the whole salary, remind them that he'd face the Yankees and maybe help them out. Edgy DC Jun 12 2009 08:30 AM There's every reason to believe a healthy Oliver Perez would be an asset right now, and no, there's no reason to wish injury. John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 12 2009 08:32 AM ="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":1zbscc1y]="Nymr83":1zbscc1y] Some news on "ollie": 1. he isn't very good. 2. he's way overpaid. 3. don't you wish the Mets had ponied up for Lowe? i'd call it 20/20 hindsight but who was actually happy to have Mr. Walk back on the staff?[/quote:1zbscc1y] 1. No, he's not. 2. Yes, he is. 3. Kinda.[/quote:1zbscc1y] 1. Real insightful. He's a league average ERA guy with strikeout stuff (and for what it's worth a terrific record vs. the Yankees), still relatively young. Are we pretending that's not useful? 2. How is this even relevant but to fuel ignoramuses with agendas? 3. Just as irrelevant. Edgy DC Jun 12 2009 08:33 AM I thik it's ignorami. (Gotta keep the pedant flag flying.) Edgy DC Jun 12 2009 08:40 AM And I stand by my position on Lowe. Right now, he's dirty water under a rusty bridge. Feh. John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 12 2009 08:49 AM Is it agendi too? LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 09:05 AM ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]="Nymr83"] Some news on "ollie": 1. he isn't very good. 2. he's way overpaid. 3. don't you wish the Mets had ponied up for Lowe? i'd call it 20/20 hindsight but who was actually happy to have Mr. Walk back on the staff? 1. No, he's not. 2. Yes, he is. 3. Kinda. 1. Real insightful. He's a league average ERA guy with strikeout stuff (and for what it's worth a terrific record vs. the Yankees), still relatively young. Are we pretending that's not useful? 2. How is this even relevant but to fuel ignoramuses with agendas? 3. Just as irrelevant. Behind the 1. A little more 'conceding-the-point' than true-belief here... but yeah, I'm kind of there, now. FIP and BABIP stuffs during the more-good-Ollie-than-bad-Ollie years have kinda been pointing the way toward an Ollie relapse for a while now. Behind the 2. It's not relevant at all in-season, unless we're talking trade. (Another more-concession-than-agreement, truth-be-told.) Behind the 3. Very, very true. But if we'd drafted Reggie... WHOLE new ballgame. And, actually, agenda is plural (agendum). Fman99 Jun 12 2009 09:08 AM ="Nymr83":35sdfmcj]hey, you rarely want your guys to get hurt (the exception would be where the injury forces an idiot manager to replace the injured player with a better player who should have started in the first place), but perez has been a disaster and theres no reason to believe he'd be helping right now. Lets ask Boston if they'd take a C prospect for Penny if we agree to pay the whole salary, remind them that he'd face the Yankees and maybe help them out.[/quote:35sdfmcj] Penny griping today that he doesn't want to be sent to the pen, which is looking more likely as Smoltzie gets ready to return to major league baseball. No chance the Sox deal him though -- he's too steady as an insurance policy in the event that someone gets hurt (Dice-K again, or Smoltz showing his age, etc.). Edgy DC Jun 12 2009 09:14 AM ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Is it agendi too? Agenda actually is a plural latin word (s. agendum), but we use it as a singular, so agendas is fine. Agendae works, but isn't particularly any more correct. Nymr83 Jun 12 2009 09:19 AM ]No chance the Sox deal him though -- he's too steady as an insurance policy in the event that someone gets hurt Beckett Matsuzaka Lester Wakefield Smoltz Bucholtz Masterson they don't need Penny. Bucholtz is tearing up AAA and has already pitched in the majors last year, i'm sure they be happy if someone wants Penny's salary because they'd STILL have the deepest starting pitching in the majors. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 09:35 AM ="Nymr83"]]No chance the Sox deal him though -- he's too steady as an insurance policy in the event that someone gets hurt Beckett Matsuzaka Lester Wakefield Smoltz Bucholtz Masterson they don't need Penny. Bucholtz is tearing up AAA and has already pitched in the majors last year, i'm sure they be happy if someone wants Penny's salary because they'd STILL have the deepest starting pitching in the majors. Well, yeah. But they'd still rather have an unhappy camper in the pen-- provided he's not throwing things and revealing secret handshakes to the media-- than give away a trade asset. There's practically no chance-- given their recent trade history-- that the Beanies make a strict dump trade. metirish Jun 12 2009 09:43 AM " you can never have enough pitching" From page 1 of the imaginary book on baseball , revised edition , last updated by some GM somewhere..

Weeks can go by and I don't think about Stokes.

I watched the Sox comeback and Papelbon's save. It's " inconceivable " to Kay that his beloved's can't win a game form the red Sox I was watching NBC Nightly News tonight with Brian Williams and they actually showed an Alex Rodriguez at-bat in last nights game, they showed it because the Fenway crowd were singing " you took steroids, you took steroids".......it's was wonderful but a little odd I thought for Nightly News.

Zvon wrote: Green getting warm. Not to come into the game I hope , it's a cold night so maybe that's why he's warming up.

="Edgy DC":3gwg4yt8]Wright back to third, Beltran back to cleanup, and Sheffield fifth. [/quote:3gwg4yt8] Of course the opposite is what happened. Elster88 Jun 11 2009 06:55 PM As long as Beltran and Wright are back to back. Such concepts seem to be out of Manuel's grasp. Edgy DC Jun 12 2009 07:24 AM Wright is leading the league in on-base percentaage and opening up his lead, now at 11 points. But he's 12th in the league in runs scored. And it's not like we're getting it back at the other end, because he's 24th in RBI. Yeah, I know he's gone through a bout or two of the whiffsies, but if he's off the charts in OBP, is running (somewhat) successfully, and has only four GiDPs, it's time to move him back where he belongs. We may be watching one of our all-time great Met seasons going to waste here. Fman99 Jun 12 2009 07:32 AM The problem now is there are too many B-list celebrity types in the lineup. I think they should send Fartinez back to AAA, and let Church play every day, for starters. Tatis/Murphy as the everyday 1B is just bad. Howie Rose said on the radio yesterday that the two of them as a blahtoon 1B were hitting all of .161 since Delgado went down. Too many #7/#8 style hitters, not enough #4/5 types. No way to fix that with this roster, with Sheff having come back to Earth and Santos looking less and less like Ramon Castro by the day. They are missing two of the four no-doubt best hitters on the team. As my high school principal used to say, you can't polish a turd. metirish Jun 12 2009 07:39 AM I agree with fman , Sheffield went from being a nice supplementary bat to the bat and it's caught up with the team. I guess Fernando Martinez is learning while he's here but jeez Moyer made him look terrible last night , poor kid. Nymr83 Jun 12 2009 07:41 AM ]As my high school principal used to say, you can't polish a turd. i believe they tested that theory on Mythbusters! Edgy DC Jun 12 2009 08:24 AM I think a 3-4-5-6 of Wright-Beltran-Sheffield-Church-of-the-Poison-Mind is fine. Castillo snd Cora at the top concerns me a little more. Injuries are a reality, and I'm not prepared to pull parts out of one end of the car to trade for parts to fix the other end. That may just be me, but I'm more concerned with the way Jerry is using the parts he has. Nymr83 Jun 12 2009 09:21 AM David Wright, btw, second in the league in STEALS and first in OBP, maybe HE should be batting 1st/2nd. I'd bat him 3rd personally. metsmarathon Jun 12 2009 09:34 AM ="Nymr83"]]As my high school principal used to say, you can't polish a turd. i believe they tested that theory on Mythbusters! indeed. you can polish a turd. iirc, giraffe gave excellent results. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 10:38 AM ="Fman99":klruqa80] As my high school principal used to say, you can't polish a turd.[/quote:klruqa80] Okay, but which buffed turd(s) DHes this weekend? Thoughts? Edgy DC Jun 12 2009 10:52 AM Sheffield. And I'm going to tell him you said that. HahnSolo Jun 12 2009 10:53 AM Sheff at DH, with Reed in left, and Murph at 1st. Hawkeye57 Jun 12 2009 01:04 PM Knew Sheff would DH today. I agree about Fartinez, they ought to send him back down, Church everyday is fine. Instead of calling up a bat for FMart, call up pitching help. With what the Mets have, this would probably be the IDEAL lineup: 1- Castillo 2- Cora 3- Wright 4- Beltran 5- Sheffield 6- Church 7- Murphy/Tatis 8- Schneider/Santos 9- Pitcher/DH I think that Argenis Reyes might be getting the call soon. I just have that feeling, but then again, why would they need him, just a hunch. Broadway might get some work in the Bullpen possibly, or that guy they acquired from the Giants (the name slips my mind). John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 12 2009 01:08 PM ="Hawkeye57":1a4ruol0]I think that Argenis Reyes might be getting the call soon.[/quote:1a4ruol0] Yes, they could use another middle infielder in Kingsport.

I miss Delgado, I just don't like Beltran in the cleanup slot.

cooby wrote: The shortest verse. excellent stuff from you Cooby

Jesus wept , what was that?

Nelfi in the Boston Globe ] A crushing blow from Zapata in English's triumph By Andrew Petrie Globe Correspondent / May 27, 2008 Nelfi Zapata wore a wide smile as he pumped his fist and rounded first base. The junior catcher had just ignited the widely pro-Boston English crowd into a frenzy with a mammoth home run that landed on a street beyond the left-field bleachers. It was only the fourth inning, but the game was over. more stories like this Fueled by back-to-back home runs by Zapata and third baseman Starling Gonzalez, North Division champ English (18-2) went on to crush South Division co-champions West Roxbury in the Boston City championship, 13-0, in Jamaica Plain. It was English's third consecutive city title. "This is a close, great team," English coach Rich Beyer beamed while holding the championship trophy. "To me, it's like they're my kids. They take the game very seriously, they love to practice, and it's great to coach this bunch of players." It was fitting that Zapata, the team's captain, was an integral factor in the victory. The junior knocked in four runs on two hits and called a fantastic game for Jhonneris Mendez. Beyer pointed to Zapata's leadership skills as a major reason for the team's success the past few seasons. "It's great knowing I have him around another year, what he shows on and off the field is just phenomenal," said Beyer, who is in his second year at English. "I hope people got to see what he did today. He's got the talent and baseball skills to play on the next level." Beyer noted a time when Zapata ran after practice with the junior varsity squad in front of the varsity players and how he constantly pushed the coaches to extend practice hours into the night. "We come early in the morning to practice, we try to stay late after games, we work hard," Zapata said. "It's a complete team effort.' "Three [championship] years in a row," he continued. "It's a great day." The Bulldogs used three scoring spurts to put the game away. In the second inning they scored four runs after two were out, with two scoring on a ground-rule double by Kleysi Mendez that bounced into the left-field stands. Mendez came around to score, along with Starling Arias, on Zapata's single that made it 4-0. English scored three runs on the back-to-back blasts by Zapata and Gonzalez in the fourth, then added four more in the sixth after two West Roxbury errors. Mendez was almost unhittable after being staked to the early lead. The junior only gave up two singles in a complete-game shutout, striking out 13 and fanning the side in the seventh to end the game. "We talked with him beforehand and told him to just throw first-pitch strikes, and he came through," Beyer said. "He really set the tone for us." The only threat for West Roxbury came in the fourth. Trailing, 5-0, with one out, James Cosgrove stroked a single and Xavier Caban reached on an error. Mendez was able to buckle down, though, getting Jesse Stanley to fly to left, and Erick Martinez - who starred for the Raiders in their semifinal victory over Latin Academy - to ground into a fielder's choice to second. West Roxbury didn't get another runner into scoring position until the final inning.

Santana 3 FRodriguez 1 Feliciano 1 Wright - 1 Beltran 1 Church 1 Cora 1

What's that on his face?

Gary and the guys talking about the draft last night said Boras is looking for $50 million Strasburg , it didn't sound like Gary was joking to me but $50 million?

While you are not a scout you did attend Mets fantasy camp and that qualifies you in my book to throw your eye at a player and make such astute observations.

WOW , that's well , magnificent ...what # will he wear when he gets to the big club?....7 is obvious I suppose.