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I'm enjoying the current "communal KTE." With Adam Rubin's series previews making a KTE of less importance, perhaps this alternative format should become standard.

Saturday, May 14, 4:05 PM ET R.A. Dickey (RHP) 1-4, 4.50 ERA vs. J.A. Happ (LHP) 2-4, 5.75 ERA Elias needs to tell us if this is a record for most combined initials by the two starting pitchers.

They have that stupid hill in center field. I hope that Carlos Beltran gives Jason Pridie a lesson in how to navigate that artificial impediment. From Wikipedia: In contrast to the ease of hitting a home run to the Crawford Boxes, it is quite difficult to hit a ball out in center field, as the dead-center wall is 436 ft (133 m) from home plate. Fielding is a challenge there as well, due to the 90-foot (27 m) wide center field incline known as Tal's Hill, for team president Tal Smith, an element taken from Crosley Field and other historic ballparks (in a bit of gallows humor, the hill is also known as the "Grassy Knoll"), and the flagpole in play, an element taken from Yankee Stadium before its remodeling in the mid-'70s and Tiger Stadium among others. Milwaukee Brewers player Richie Sexson once hit a ball off the flagpole and there is still a mark there. While Crosley Field's infamous left field terrace, which was half as steep (only 15 degrees) as Tal's Hill (30 degrees), was a natural feature of the site on which the park was located, Tal's Hill is purely decorative. Both structures have been held in equal disdain by the respective outfielders who have had to patrol those areas. This hill has caused some of the most replayed catches in recent baseball history, and plenty of controversy as well. Lance Berkman said, "If the ball rolls onto the hill, it's not steep enough to roll back, so you have to go get it. Then there's the chance of running into the flagpole that's on it and getting hurt.� Fans started an online petition to remove the hill and flagpole, though the petition has since been discontinued.

Hooray! Great to take 2 of 3.

Other TH first names I thought of while being nervous in that inning: Beth Hyacinth.

Ceetar--good work. May 22 is a day game. What's the rule about a team playing for consecutive games? Is it 15 is the most w/o approval of the union. Besides the dates you have, each team is off on August 8.

Rubin says that F. Martinez is on the way so, unless he gets hurt getting on or off the plane, he'll join the Mets in Denver if Ike goes on the DL.

Heyman today. What a jackass: SI_JonHeyman Jon Heyman If its true samuels swiped $2.3M in memorabilia from mets clubhouse, imagine damage he coulda done as clubbie for yankees

Rained out. Move the game over one day to the right--Thursday @ 3. No day off for the Mets to frolic in Houston.

soupcan wrote: I don't know about changing channels and not tuning back. We're all kind of a captive audience during games aren't we? No choice but to tough it out. Agreed during a game but it's different if you're listening to Joe & Evan, etc.

Ceetar wrote: 1-877-CARS4KIDS [....] JOEL CLARK." Two ads which make me change the channel. There is also one on XM for some online car dealership that has the same effect. I know that the stations are happy to get the ad revenue but they should know that there are people, as evidenced by this thread--nice going Edgy--that change the channel or lower the volume and sometimes forget to return.

Mike Pelfrey: steaming pile of shit. My son--"you're my father and you're saying that?" Mike Pelfrey: I am displeased with his pitching.

AdamRubinESPN Adam Rubin Josh Thole leaving Twitter: RT @josh_thole: I'm out?

Josh Thole just tweeted this: josh_thole Josh Thole I'm out? He wasn't tweeting earlier so he wasn't saying so long. Out of the closet? Sent to the minors? What does he mean?

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Who is our back-up third-baseman? Hu? Murphy? Turner? I was wondering that about 1B in case Ike got a day off. I think that Hu plays 3B and we know that Murphy can play 1B/3B. Wow!

"Get a good meal, work on your tan, and there's no traffic." "Celebrate the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers"

Sherman says that Wright is hurt: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/hardball/up_wright_beltran_and_granderson_gHBXiwSIhuEDevTs5gg3nJ

If you trade Wright and/or Reyes, each still in the first half of their careers, you would want several prospects in return and you would hope that any one of them becomes as good as Wright and Reyes are right now. If the prospect developed to that level, it would take years which means that you would go without Wright and/or Reyes production for that time and then would finally be back at the current level. In other words... it makes no sense baseball-wise to trade either of them. It might make sense financially but not on the field and certainly not to the fans who would be forced to watch Hu-like players as the prospects developed. I hope that Alderson figures out a way, as stated earlier here, to keep Ike, David & Jose together and build/re-structure around them.

Love the use of "big words" (yesterday: "capricious") but I really don't care while he's pitching so badly. Instead of saying (I'm paraphrasing), sometimes the knuckleball works and sometimes it doesn't, I'd rather he said "I'm pitching abhorrently and will endeavor to live up to the contract that I signed as well as the expectations that the fans have for me and that I have for myself."

After Friday's game, Jose Reyes was asked "How good are you feeling right now?" Jose replied "Feeling good. Just hitting good pitches. You know, don't go out of the sun too much. Just put a good swing on good pitches." "Don't go out of the sun too much"?

G-Fafif wrote: Ashie62 wrote: I do not care for these in game interviews. That sounds suspiciously like the answer to a question you've been asked about in-game interviews during an in-game interview. Guys! I'm here with Ashie62. What do you think about in-game interviews?

Is the home plate umpire double parked or just bored and he wants to leave.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: bmfc1 wrote: Since the President is in town, maybe he'll stop by CF for the last few innings. Have mercy. How many tragic sites can a fella visit in one afternoon? Excellent.

Since the President is in town, maybe he'll stop by CF for the last few innings.

That's on Adam Rubin who tweeted this before the inning began: AdamRubinESPN Adam Rubin We'll jinx Mike Pelfrey and give you a primer on #Mets no no-hitter history: http://es.pn/ixPpIS 6 minutes ago