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Delgado whiffs again, maybe a few nights off might help.

Damn that Reyes is good, he plates two for a four zip lead...

Keith thinks Harang is tipping some of his pitches.......

Lets go Mets, Lo Duca on with a single and a ground double from Beltran sends Paul to 3rd.

The Gaimbino might be the worst of the lot, plus it probably spawned the Giambalco.

The people that like the deal will say that the Reds pen was brutal and that they were not going to the playoffs unless it got revamped,I don;t think people will be talking about this deal beyond this season but the Kazmir deal will be talked about forever probably.

That's good stuff Vic.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing while reading the article, I mean having a 94 year old swinging the bat sounds like a health hazard, was it in the Burns baseball series that O'Neill sang "take me out to the ballgame", whatever it was it was wonderful.

Good article,I think Kaat is great and the only one I can listen from that booth.

] July 19, 2006, 8:09 AM EDT KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil never got a free pass in life. The grandson of a man brought to this continent a slave, O'Neil moved to Kansas City to avoid racial persecution in the Deep South. He played baseball during an era of segregation, and earlier this year was denied entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by a special 12-member panel. It figures that on Tuesday night, when the 94-year-old O'Neil stepped into the batter's box during a minor league All-Star game, nobody could quibble over an intentional walk. Except maybe O'Neil and a few thousand fans. "I just might take a swing at one," he said before Tuesday night's Northern League All-Star game. Leading off for the West in the top of the first inning, O'Neil argued with the umpire after the first pitch from Kansas City T-Bones pitcher Jonathan Krysa sailed high and was called a ball. After another high pitch that narrowly missed his head, O'Neil took a called strike before being walked, as planned. O'Neil ambled to first base, then took a lead off the bag as if he were going to stay in the game before being pulled for a pinch runner. After the top of the inning, T-Bones owner John Ehlert announced that a trade had been brokered to bring O'Neil to the T-Bones, allowing him to also lead off the bottom of the inning. In his second at-bat, O'Neil took three balls -- all of them high and greeted with a chorus of boos from the crowd -- before swinging at a pitch and almost spinning off his feet. Possibly lost in the novelty of the inning, the umpire gave him two more balls before sending him down to first base with his second walk of the night. The T-Bones signed O'Neil to a one-day contract, making him the oldest man ever to play professional baseball. He surpassed 83-year-old Jim Eriotes, who struck out in a minor league game in South Dakota earlier this month, by more than a decade. "This is special, very special," O'Neil said after his second at-bat. "I've been in baseball 70 years. This is how I made my living. And here I am at 94 with a bat in my hand." Clad in a red-and-white Kansas City Monarchs jersey, O'Neil said he thought the last time he had swung a bat in a game was in 1955. Asked if he remembered who he was facing in that last at-bat, he replied: "I don't remember yesterday and you ask me who the pitcher was in 1955?" Nobody disputes that O'Neil's involvement in the game bordered on a gimmick. But O'Neil's supporters hope it also provides more ammunition in their quest to get him into Cooperstown. In May, 17 people from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues eras were voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. On a day that was to be his crowning achievement, O'Neil quietly sat at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., and accepted that his name wasn't called. "It was a roller coaster for everybody except him," said Bob Kendrick, the museum's director of marketing. "Certainly he was disappointed. But he taught us how to handle disappointment. In the scope of things that have happened in his life, not getting into the Hall pales in comparison." Since the ballot was cast, the T-Bones have become the unofficial champions of Buck O'Neil. The club has been passing petitions through the stands at all home games, asking commissioner Bud Selig or former commissioner Fay Vincent to intervene. T-Bones officials say they've already collected more than 10,000 signatures. "The Negro Leagues were the original independent baseball," Ehlert said. "And Buck O'Neil is the patriarch of independent baseball." Standing in the shade at CommunityAmerica Ballpark, John Park labored Tuesday to gather signatures, already sweating through a white T-shirt that read "Sign the petition. Get Buck in the Hall." "He's a legend in his own time," said Park, 59, from Kansas City, Kan. "I don't know all of the statistics. I'm just saying how I feel." Across the stadium, opposite O'Neil's name emblazoned on the outfield wall, Abbey Evert marveled that the sinewy, old right-hander was stepping to the plate on a day when temperatures in Kansas topped 100 degrees. "It's pretty crazy," said Evert, 17, from Shawnee, Kan. "That's someone who really loves baseball." But O'Neil dismissed concerns about the heat. "This is Kansas City weather," he said. "We used to play doubleheaders in this weather with wool uniforms." A lifetime .288 hitter and two-time Negro League batting champion, O'Neil became Major League Baseball's first black coach with the Chicago Cubs. He went on to discover Hall of Famer Lou Brock and countless others as a scout, and now works tirelessly with Kendrick to keep alive the story of the Negro leagues. His exclusion from the Hall of Fame caught nearly everybody by surprise. Players including Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks and Brock took aim at the selection process, and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Kansas City, said the vote had left "a community in tears." "He should be celebrated in baseball," said Kansas City T-Bones manager "Dirty" Al Gallagher, a former San Francisco Giants third baseman who met O'Neil in the late 1960s. "Why the commissioner hasn't put him in the Hall of Fame, I have no idea." http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/ny-spbuck0719,0,4404693.story?coll=ny-sports-mezz

found this while reading Jon Heyman in SI online. ] Lightning Rod One New York columnist cited a picture on the cover of Tuesday's New York Post of a bare-chested Alex Rodriguez sunbathing in Central Park and asked Yankees GM Brian Cashman why A-Rod seems to make "poor decisions.'' Cashman came back with a strong defense (stronger than the defense A-Rod has shown lately), saying, "There's a mentality toward him that isn't right. Central Park is one of the great landmarks where you go and take your shirt off. So why can't he? Because he makes $252 million?'' Cashman went on to wonder why Mets third baseman David Wright gets positive publicity while lately A-Rod's seems all negative, despite the two having similar years. "He's having the same season as David Wright," Cashman said. "He's not getting the same love because of the money he makes. Bottom line.'' A-Rod (.282, 20 HRs, 68 RBIs) makes $25.2 million compared with Wright (.317, 21, 77), who is making $374,000. For those without a calculator, that's 1/67th of what A-Rod makes. Cashman continued, "This guy doesn't get put in jail. He does good work with charity. He doesn't stay up late carousing. He doesn't inflame anything politically. He's a good citizen. So what's the difference? It's the money.'' A-Rod, who lives a block from the park, joked, "It was a modeling shoot.... No, it's my backyard. I was just lounging with my daughter and my wife.''

Read Kenny Choi's blog and have a laugh. http://www.sny.tv/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060717&content_id=1405398&vkey=1 ]But until Wright wins four rings with the Mets, the 'Lord of the Rings' is still Jeter.

From the Chicago Sun Times.. ] IS THAT A YES? Greg Maddux was asked whether his former Atlanta Braves teammate Tom Glavine had given him a private sales pitch, while Glavine was in Chicago with the Mets, about Maddux approving a trade to New York before the July 31 non-waiver deadline. Maddux got a big grin on his face before trying to dummy up. "Huh?'' he said, dragging out the word for comic effect.

Pelfrey on the shoe lace thing... ] Asked if he was using the time to compose himself, Pelfrey offered a different lesson. "The shoelace kept coming undone," he said. "I talked to [Tom] Glavine and he said between now and my next start he's going to show me how to tie a double knot so I don't have that problem."

Beltran - 5 Pelfrey - 3 Valentin - 1 Nady - 1

So guys how do we access Pelfrey tonight, 98 pitches and six innings.

Yeah great IGT,and a great game....Beltran is sick.

]Yeah, but he also shows a (possibly intentional) misunderstanding of what those 'sabrematricians' (he practically spits when he uses that term) are talking about when they discuss the concept of "clutch". I have heard Keith say more than a few times that he's "old school", and we know that those guys hate sabr.

]Exactly. Until this year the statement would've been "We need a new shortstop." LOL...smart ass.

Keith.... "anytime you have Jose Valentin hitting 8th that's making a statement"... Who would have thought anyone would have been saying that about Jose after his terrible start.

That was a monster shot, MVP ?, or is he a " comeback player of the year" candidate?( SC=100)

Yeah I think he meant into first base, we'll see how long that lasts, sounds like an easy bet to win with reyes.

I will say this I have never seen anyone better than Rivera(like I am the first to say that), but I watched the Yankee game yesterday and his 5 or 6 out save was somthing else to watch,Fransworthless did his best to give away the lead but Rivera was brilliant.

Watching Al in this game is amazing, he was brilliant that night.

It's fun to watch the game again but so bloody annoying that SNY cuts to TV Ad's every 5 minutes, oh and Joe Morgan is doing the game.