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These are not gushy and flavorless.....I have no idea what a chorizo is.

I'm with Willets...in other Brewer news..... ] All-Star left fielder Carlos Lee rejected a four-year, $48 million contract offer from the Brewers on Thursday, dramatically increasing the chances that he will be traded before Monday's non-waiver deadline, major-league sources tell FOXSports.com.

Either way Patchy he's power arm...no?

In the english premeir league Arsenal just moved out of the great Highbury Stadium with all it's history into a new one called Emirates Stadium, yeah it's great that they have a new stadium but Highbury was old, very old, the new one is great but........change is fine but at what cost...Shea is old and horrible but it has it's charm...very little but i would hate to see a place like the phillies have....I don't know really, Shea is a dump but it has served the Mets well.

Maine......brilliant

]Bob thinks that Bonds will fade away this Winter like Sammy Sosa because he has too much pride to take a pay cut. I just can't see that happening...

Yeah I could see Omar doing nothing, of course my above post was just me acting the bollox but Omar has a history of dealing this time of year....if the Mets can somehow get Willis then fine, if not so be it.

Maine - 5 Valentin - 2 Heilman - 1 Sanchez - 1 Wagner - 1

] Selig: Next All-Star Game To Determine U.S. Foreign Policy July 20, 2006 | Onion Sports MILWAUKEE�After four years in which the outcome of the All-Star Game determined home-field advantage in the World Series, Commissioner Bud Selig has announced that Major League Baseball will attempt to increase fan interest by allowing the game's outcome to determine the direction of the United States foreign policy. "We have been working closely with the players' union and the State Department to align opposing theories of American involvement overseas with our two leagues," Selig said in a press conference Tuesday. "Since 'This Time It Counts' didn't resonate with the fans, we're hoping that 'All-Star Game 2007: The Fate Of The Free World Hangs In The Balance' will build more excitement." Although the exact details of the plan have yet to be determined, Selig said that a National League victory would almost certainly result in completely open borders, renewed relations with Cuba, and the withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq. ] Brett Myers Atones For Punching Wife With Solid Seven-Inning Outing July 20, 2006 | Onion Sports SAN FRANCISCO�Three weeks after hitting his wife on a Boston street, Phillies pitcher Brett Myers made up for the costly miscue by coming back strong and tossing seven quality innings en route to a 6-2 victory over the Giants Sunday. "When you let your emotions get the best of you and make a silly error like Brett did when he repeatedly struck his wife in the face, the only way to atone for it is to get right back on the baseball field, put that past performance behind you, and pitch deep into an important game while maintaining consistent velocity and pinpoint control," manager Charlie Manuel said. "This outing is exactly what Bretty needed to get the fans to stop thinking about him as someone who physically abuses his spouse." Philadelphia fans and media, who had earlier called for a public apology from Myers, have dropped this demand in light of Myers' impressive total of seven strikeouts. More From the Sports Wire

Nice work, I can imagine the talk Monday morning if the Mets get swept or even lose two games here......bold prediction, if the Mets lose the first two games Omar gets desperate and ships Lastings plus Heilman to the A's for Zito.......

From the Mets notes in the Daily News... ] ... David Cone, escorted by Jeff Wilpon, visited the Mets' clubhouse yesterday morning. Cone has an open invitation to join SNY, but family is taking precedence at the moment. ...

Since my last update on Cameron things have improved for him...go Mike.... Cam now has 15 home runs and 44 RBI, .351 OBP,.484 SLG AND .251AVG.... From padres.com ] LOS ANGELES -- The Mike Cameron Show continued on Tuesday night in all its blazing glory. The Padres' center fielder did everything but pitch, and he probably could have done that judging by the strike he threw to Mike Piazza. Cameron cracked a two-run homer and threw out a runner at home in a critical moment, carrying the Padres to a 7-3 victory over the Dodgers in front of 51,334 at Dodger Stadium. Adrian Gonzalez, extending his hitting streak to 16 games, drove in three runs with a pair of doubles to join Cameron in the assault. With its third win in a row, San Diego leads the National League West by 1 1/2 games over second-place Arizona, with San Francisco falling to third, two games off the pace. Los Angeles is 6 1/2 games out of first, its worst position all season, after losing for the seventh straight time and 12th in 13 games. Since June 1, when he was finally recovered from a strained oblique that cost him the season's first three weeks, Cameron leads the Major Leagues with 31 extra-base hits -- one more than Seattle's Adrian Beltre, and two more than Toronto's Vernon Wells and Washington's Alfonso Soriano. It's doubtful, in teammates' minds, that there has been a better player in the game over the past two months than the man who came from the New York Mets over the winter for Xavier Nady. "Cam is hitting that point in his career where everything is coming together," said teammate Eric Young, "and he really knows the type of player he is and what he's capable of doing. "Take away that first month when he came back and was just getting in the flow, and we'd be talking Player of the Week awards and MVP consideration. "That oblique takes a while to heal. You could see in Spring Training that Cammy was going to have a strong year. He's going to be one of the guys to carry us in the second half." The Padres were reeling with losses in the first three games of the series in San Francisco when Cameron tripled leading off Sunday's 12th inning -- after Terrmel Sledge's homer had forced extra innings -- and scored on Young's sacrifice fly for the game-winner. Heading south, Cameron powered a 441-foot monster blast worth three runs in Monday night's win at Dodger Stadium, and he launched his third homer in four days and 15th of the season against southpaw Mark Hendrickson (4-12) to stake Chan Ho Park to a 2-0 lead in Tuesday night's third inning after Young had been hit by a pitch. "I've been squaring it up a whole lot lately," Cameron said, grinning. "If it wasn't for [Giants center fielder Steve] Finley, I'd have some more [extra-base hits]." The contribution Cameron felt best about Tuesday night was his one-hop strike to Piazza to cut down Toby Hall trying to score the potential tying run in the sixth from second base on J.D. Drew's line-drive single. As he does so effortlessly, Cameron got quickly to the ball and launched it in a place where Piazza could make a clean tag. "Any time you can make a play to stop the other team's offensive momentum," Cameron said, "that kind of sets them back a little bit. It allowed us to come back and get some more runs." Park (7-6) went six innings, giving up three runs on 10 hits, to secure the win against his original team. Alan Embree, Cla Meredith and Jon Adkins were perfect in the seventh, eighth and ninth, giving Scott Linebrink and Trevor Hoffman the night off. Meredith has retired the last 16 hitters he's faced. "Honestly, I didn't realize they had that many hits," Park said. "I made good pitches, and they got some broken-bat hits and ground balls in holes. But I kept throwing good pitches, down in the strike zone, and got ground balls. That was good. It helps a lot to get ground balls like that." It also helps to get a throw like the one uncorked by Cameron, Park added. "That was big-time," Park said. "Cameron was the MVP the last couple of games." After Cameron's two-run blast against Hendrickson, Kenny Lofton halved the deficit in the fourth with his first homer of the season. The Dodgers drew even in the fifth on Rafael Furcal's RBI double. Doubles by Piazza -- scoring his 1,000th career run -- and Gonzalez put the Padres back in front in the sixth, and Park dumped a two-out hit into right field to score Gonzalez for a 4-2 lead. That was big when the Dodgers added a run in the sixth on three singles before Cameron shot down Hall. Gonzalez's second double -- after Rob Bowen singled and Khalil Greene was hit by a pitch -- made it 6-3 in the ninth against Danys Baez, and Josh Barfield delivered another run with a scoring fly ball. The NL Player of the Week, Gonzalez continued to sizzle, batting .429 during his 16-game streak to reach .302 on the season. His partner on the right side of the infield, Barfield, also is afire, leading the Major Leagues in hits in July with 35 to hike his average to .299. Another plus was provided by third baseman Mark Bellhorn, who started a double play behind Park and stroked three hits. "Chan Ho did a great job, the bullpen did a great job, and Cameron saved us with the throw and had a great all-around game," manager Bruce Bochy said. "A lot of good things happened tonight." Lyle Spencer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. print Great to see Cameron doing well.

This thread will last for years.....

I agree with Yancy, and how many games have you watched that you didn't know yourself that the pitcher had a no hitter going?

Lance Bass of N Sync has come out as gay..I am shocked......

Keith hates extra inning games......probably waiting to go to Elaine's.

Willie will bunt because he's conservative.....

] I know Dusty has a history of blowing out arms, especially Prior's and Wood's, but taking your guy out in midst of a NO HITTER? Seems unfair to blame Baker for those two pitchers problems, Woods certainly had problems long before Baker came to Chicago......

On that Brewers board that we go to when Mets and Brewers hook up they don't allow pbp...........

I'm surprised then that Linda Cohen has not been fired because she's supportive of the Mets.....silly yankee fans.

] ESPN's Reynolds is a wrap BY NEIL BEST Newsday Staff Writer July 25, 2006, 9:09 PM EDT Harold Reynolds, one of ESPN's most visible analysts and a long-time panelist on "Baseball Tonight," has left the network in the wake of one or more incidents of sexual harassment. An ESPN spokeswoman yesterday confirmed Reynolds' departure but repeatedly declined to provide a reason for it. Three people who work at ESPN and were familiar with the case said the cause was a pattern of sexual harassment, apparently culminating in a recent incident involving one of the network's young production assistants. Reynolds, a major leaguer for 12 seasons before joining ESPN in 1996, did not appear on "Baseball Tonight" Monday after having worked the Sunday show, during which he and fellow analyst Steve Phillips suggested the Yankees trade Alex Rodriguez. Sexual harassment charges are nothing new at ESPN, which operates out of a sprawling "campus" in relatively isolated Bristol, Conn., and employs many production assistants in their early 20s. The network has an extensive program of education and sensitivity regarding gender issues and an elaborate system for pursuing claims of sexual harassment. Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, a former ESPN host, told The New York Observer in 2004 he had testified in "three or four major cases at ESPN." Among the prominent ESPN personalities accused of improper behavior in the past is Mike Tirico, who will debut as the play-by-play man for "Monday Night Football" in the coming season. He was suspended by ESPN in 1992 for what were reported at the time to be allegations of sexual harassment. Another host, Jason Jackson, was fired in 2002, reportedly for harassment. In addition to "Baseball Tonight" Reynolds, 45, who is married and has an infant daughter, worked as a game analyst for the Little League World Series and College World Series. Reynolds was very popular personally among ESPN staffers, many of whom were shocked by his dismissal.

Damn.....Mets lose..

Great AB by LoDuca...so far.

Come on you Mets...great bloody game again tonight.