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Good comments RD. Thanks for sharing.

Acosta is probably on a split contract so he now has to make a minor league salary instead of a major league salary. Meanwhile, Perez makes his $12M for the year regardless of where he pitches. Perez's selfishness not only hurts the team as a whole, because he's almost worthless right now (you can have $12M and still be worthless) and takes up a roster spot, he also hurts his teammates. I hope he's a pariah in the clubhouse.

Too bad it's not Ollie.

3:33 but a great win and a good time w/you folks on the board. See you tomorrow night.

I agree w/Gwreck. It's over-managing. With the lead, you should leave the superior defender in the game.

Oh Jose. WTF was that?

From tomorrow's Washington Post (emphasis added): The Nationals were forced to recover for a second time because of a puzzling defensive sequence from center fielder Nyjer Morgan, who also has been lacking at the plate. Morgan is batting .240 (6 for 25) over his last eight games, and he had been held out of the starting lineup twice in the past week. His miscue in the second game of this three-game interleague series simply amplified those recent struggles. ... Morgan leaped near the wall but could not make the catch, the ball bouncing off his glove. Thinking the ball had gone out of the park for a home run, Morgan slammed his glove to the ground in disgust, not realizing the play was still live. That's when Willingham, who had been yelling to Morgan that the ball was on the ground, came to his aid and threw to the infield. But by then it was too late. Scott already had scored, and Jones was in full sprint, crossing the plate without a play for an inside-the-park homer, the second allowed by the Nationals in four days. When Baltimore ended its half of the inning with a 4-2 advantage, Nationals fans booed loudly as Morgan ran off the field and into the dugout. "My emotions got to me there because I knew I should have had the ball," Morgan said. "It's just one of those things where I let my emotions get to me out there, which I normally never do. It's just one of those plays where I thought the ball went over the fence."

In case you don't realize that this is a tense situation, Bill Webb shows you by bringing you pix of people looking tense.

Geez, make them hit the frigging ball. Mets pitchers get ahead in the count and start nibbling. All of a sudden, 0-2 is 2-2 and then 3-2. That's one of the reasons Mets SPs pitch so few innings--they nibble too much. Did Nieve think that Russo was going to hit a slam?

STATS_MLB The #Mets have scored more runs (5) against the #Yankees tonight than they had scored in the previous 5 Subway Series games combined (4)#MLB

While there's a break, did you see today's highlight of another inside the park HR at Nationals Park? Watch Nyjer Morgan. http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=8250511&query=%26game_pk%3D264448

Joe Buck announces as if we're watching to hear him and not watch the game. I think he thinks it's "Joe Buck Live"

Very impressive job by Mejia (and nice pick by Wright). That was memorable. I look forward to Mejia being in the rotation in 2011.

I'm no Don Draper, but is the WFAN audience the right one for that concert? That ad is on 3 or 4 times a game.

Francoeur says "thank you Alex."

That's twice the Mets had a runner at 3d with 1 out and the batter struck out.

Rick Reed loved being a Met: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2010/05/22/2010-05-22_stung_by_trade_ricks_finally_a_good_reed.html

Maybe Jeter would have caught Bay's hit if he wasn't thinking about the girls in the front row that he was talking to while he was on deck.

METS: Reyes-SS Castillo-2B Bay-LF Davis-1B Wright-3B Pagan-CF Barajas-C Francoeur-RF Pelfrey-P MFY: Jeter Gardner Teixeira Rodriguez Cano Swisher Cervelli Winn Hughes

Buster Olney writes today that it won't be easy for the Astros to trade Oswalt: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy Oswalt has asked for a trade, as Mark Gonzales reported on Friday, and rival executives see four major hurdles to any deal involving Oswalt. "A no-trade clause" -- which Oswalt has -- "doesn't become a must-trade clause," said one general manager. � Hurdle No. 1: He makes a lot of money. Oswalt is owed about $29 million between now and the end of the 2011 season. � Hurdle No. 2: Oswalt's health history. He's had back problems and has required injections in order to pitch, so there would be reason for concern about whether he could be physically able to serve out the rest of his contract. � Hurdle No. 3: Oswalt has a full no-trade clause, which means that if the Astros actually got serious offers for the right-hander, Oswalt could kill the talks. Let's just say, for example, that the Washington Nationals got very aggressive and decided they wanted to want to try to win this year, and that they agreed to a deal for the right-hander; Oswalt could step in and end the discussions, and insist that he only be traded to a team closer to his Mississippi home, like the Rangers or Cardinals or Braves. � Hurdle No. 4 (and this is a biggie): At a time when teams are coveting their young prospects like never before, it remains to be seen whether any club would be willing to surrender a package of prospects good enough to convince Astros owner Drayton McLane to swap one of his signature stars. All it takes is one aggressive team at the right time and right place to make a deal, but it remains to be seen if that team will emerge. Generally speaking, most of the executives I spoke with on Friday believe that Houston will be very hard to satisfy in an Oswalt trade. "They're not just going to give the guy away," said one GM. We'll see.