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Find out here, scroll down to "history & culture"....warning...there is a picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_piercing

I imagine it wouldn't sit well with a cup while playing baseball.

Yeah I thought Steve was going to do every postseason KTE,IGT and EKG...

]What did they do after that, talk about the Neilson ratings for last weekend's football games? I always found that especially enthralling. hahaha..I fucking hate it when they do that,Russo will ask Francesa to guess the ratings in the NY market and national...of course Mr.know-it-all acts all high and mighty when given the ratings....what an ass.

Let us all be happy that we don't have to endure " who let the dogs out" this postseason.

Carpenter's road ERA this season is 4.70....Go Mets

Carpenter V The Mets . Career vs. Mets: 1-2, 4.24 ERA, 3 starts Career postseason: 4-0, 2.10 ERA, 5 starts Remember when Pujols last faced Maine.....7RBI ...

This guy reads like he's Lupica...that's something I have noticed ,a bunch of these writers for local papers seem a lot like him.]Mets bring fun to NY baseball 1 of 1 New York Mets outfielder Endy Chavez makes a diving catch for an out on a ball hit by St. Louis Cardinals batter Ronnie Belliard during the fifth inning of Game 1 of baseball's National League Championship Series, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006, at Shea Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)APOctober 13, 2006 New York � They have the town to themselves, finally, which means New York becomes a little less arrogant, a lot more loveable to the rest of the baseball world.There they were all over Shea Stadium last night, the bubbly, bouncy Mets commanding center stage, knocking the bloated Bronx Bombers from the spotlight � and, more importantly, taking Game 1 of the NLCS from the Cardinals, 2-0.With the Mets the only game in town and around the league last night, the rest of the country could see what we have all these months in New York:A team that gains fans seemingly by the play, that celebrates each teammate as much as it does any win.A team that is just flat-out fun.So the folks used to tuning into another edition of the Yankees soap opera in October saw something quite different from their neighbors over in Queens.Instead of seeing one more shot of Alex Rodriguez's frown, they saw David Wright laugh."I love it, I love it," Wright said, his eyes growing wide, when he finally let his game-face guard down for a moment after the cameras left. "This is what you dream of. You can't be scared of this. Can't shy away from it."No, the Mets embrace all of this now and with them you see fun replace work, teamwork erase tension.The Mets finally take over for the Yankees now, take over all of New York for the first time since 1986.But this is so unlike that year, when a cocky band of players prompted their fans to love them, but everyone else to hate them. Eventually, that team would sink into the abyss of turmoil off the field, unmet expectations on it and an overall sense of dread and disappointment that left fans disillusioned.This is so unlike that year, these Mets so confident in the brightness of their present � of this puppy dog-cuddly team � they could finally ignore the darkness of their past.Darryl Strawberry was free to savor a big spot with the Mets after years of unspoken separation, sending the crowd off to the right start by throwing out the first pitch.So the celebration began, a 20-year wait to take the town back taking a few extra days, thanks first to the Joe Torre chaos, then the sobering news of Cory Lidle's death.These Mets are the perfect team for this time as they have promised all season, a marketing gimmick becoming more true than even the person who dreamt it up could imagine.So now they took their spot in the middle of everything and the folks who have learned to hate New York for its boldness might have started weakening along with all those teeny-boppers' hearts at the sight of Wright."This team is fun, man!" one out-of-town writer said, a rare touch of enthusiasm in a field known more for robotic observation.They all could see that last night.They saw it in Willie Randolph nodding his head to the cheers at his introduction, savoring a moment in the stadium of the team he rooted for as he grew up.They saw Cliff Floyd grimace his way around first, then limp his way out of the game � later lamenting his choice to stay on the roster, wondering if he had hurt his team.They saw Floyd's replacement in left, Endy Chavez, come racing in to make a diving catch � his uninhibited joy almost as exciting to watch as the play itself. They saw Carlos Beltran � who would only win the game with a home run � come running over to shake his teammate's hand."He's been doing it all year," Wright said. "Endy, (Chris) Woodward, the guys on the bench, they want to be a part of this. It elevates their game."These Mets were making more and more people want to be a part of it now, taking over the town from the Yankees, showing how fun and light a game can be when it's not played with a series of soap opera subplots.And across a baseball nation, the folks who had tired of the same old storylines from the Yankees, were surely glad to meet these Mets.Dave Buscema's column appears regularly. Contact him at buscema@hotmail.com.http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061013/SPORTS/610130334

No idea Yancy but how cool would it be to meet Bobby while you are there...300 yen = about $2:80

Bobby Valentine Lotte Burger

Glavine - 6 Beltran - 2 Mota - 1 Wagner - 1

Albert not impressed with Glavine... ] Pujols left hitless and unimpressed with Glavine BY BOB HERZOG Newsday Staff Writer October 13, 2006 With an expression of scorn and words of disdain, Albert Pujols was defiant in defeat last night. The Cardinals' slugger, who went 0-for-3 with a walk, flipped his chair into the leg of a reporter gathered at his locker, turned his back, dressed slowly and then faced the media with obvious reluctance. Asked about the effectiveness of Mets starter Tom Glavine, Pujols, who lined out twice, said, "He wasn't good. I thought we hit the ball hard but we didn't get any breaks." Pujols struck out on a changeup against Glavine in the first, walked in the fourth, lined out hard to short in the seventh and lined out to first off Billy Wagner leading off the ninth. Asked what happened in the fourth inning when, after his walk, he misread Juan Encarnacion's fly ball to center and was doubled off first on Carlos Beltran's one-hop throw to Carlos Delgado, Pujols snapped, "Double play." Asked what he was thinking about on that play, he said, "I didn't think anything." Asked if he was frustrated, Pujols answered with an incredulous look. "Why get frustrated?" he said. "I can't make a mistake? I'm perfect?" Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said of Pujols' baserunning blunder, "Let me tell you, Albert is an outstanding baserunner and I'm not exaggerating. An outstanding baserunner. Part of it is aggressiveness and, almost always, he mixes in good sense. That was the exception. When he first read it, he read blooper, but the ball hung up in the wind and basically, [it was] a mistake; a rare one for him." Glavine avoided mistakes against Pujols and said afterwards of his game plan, "I executed the first part real well, which is facing him with nobody on base. He's a great hitter -- to say he's a great hitter is an understatement. He's the best hitter in baseball right now and he's the guy you don't want to beat you."

Not surprising that the article in the Times claims that the FOX gun was generally 3mph faster than the scoreboard gun during the Tigers and A's series.

]There's something to that "fans love velocity" thing. Didn't Philly fans get all worked up every time Wagner hit 100 on the gun when he first signed there? I even think he made some comment about it. They booed him when he didn't reach 100 on the gun....more on this in the Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/sports/baseball/13sandomir.html?ref=sports

Tim Tuefel still freaks me out a bit.....

i never understood why postseason stats are not counted in baseball...in soccer even goals scored in exhibition games are counted on record,hence Robbie keane is Ireland's all-time goal scorer,altough you could count on one hand how many important goals he has scored in real games...

Damn I fucking love watching the post-game press conference....Glavine is one cool dude.

Anything in the fact that Glavine has stepped up now that Pedro and El Duque are gone....I mean he has been clutch..

Game over...

] Did JV get permission from Jeter to make that play? Yes ,Jetes through his agent said it was ok...

Great reaction catch by Delgado...Pujols is fucking out..

Christ Almighty I hate that BUck TV Ad....it's just as annoying as Joe himself.

Money is Mota

Hey there was Pete Flynn in the Cards dugout...looking good too.

Zvon does great work...amazin