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I love the fist pump by A. Reyes en route to the locker room.

YES!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08172008/sports/mets/mets_sign_al_reyes_125313.htm His Wikipedia article references his being tasered (bro): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Reyes I liked this comment on Mets Blog: Reyes Checklist: Jose���..[X] Argenis��[X] Al�����..[X] Dennys��[...] Anthony��[...] Jo-Jo���..[...]

More on Tirico: http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/2008/08/espns_mike_tirico_took_his.html

Excellent job by the Forum regrouping in the 8th. This was clearly the key to the Mets rally.

Get the closer ready! Oh.

The Mets are as focused on hitting as this Forum is focused on the game.

Brian McCann: singer/songwriter

METS!

Jerry said that Sandy made the moves ("I was watching just like y'all").

Tell me that he's PHing J for A.

KC wrote: Tying run to the plate, everybody just snap with the three move stuff. LET'S GO METS!

I thought you meant for Ayala. Next? Take your pick.

Gwreck wrote: ="metsguyinmichigan"]Five runs in three innings for the bully. Terrible. Was the new guy even there yet. Omar needs to make about three more moves. Who gets cut / sent to the minors? Kunz.

"Are any of our relievers actually capable of pitching a full inning?" You ain't kidding. When I saw the B-Mets last night and one reliever pitched the entire 7th and 8th AND held a one run lead, it was stunning.

Delgado needs to get a hit right here.

The kid for AA doubles but the veterans in the heart of the order do nothing to get him home--of course it comes back to bite them.

holychicken wrote: Why is the batter given the benefit of the doubt on a sacrifice fly, but not given it on a groundout that drives in a run? I agree with you on that--the batter that hits a GB that brings in a run is 0 for 1 but a batter that hits a flyball that brings in a run is 0 for 0. E.g., on Thursday night, the Mets had 2nd and 3rd, nobody out. Delgado, batting 4th, hit a GB that scored a run and advanced the runner to third who scored on a Beltran flyball. Delgado directly lead to 2 runs but was 0 for 1 while Beltran was 0 for 0.

Mike Tirico. On "Mike & Mike" today, he said that he will be taking his children to Shea this weekend for the last time and remembering all that happened there. He said "it may be a dump, but it's our dump."

JCL: right--but then why was he pulled from the game in the 3rd? Just wondering: the numbers of the SPs were 8 and 3. If that occurred in the majors, would that be a record low?

The Binghamton Mets defeated the Bowie Baysox tonight 2-1. Luis Castillo started at 2B and batted 2nd. He grounded back to the pitcher in his first AB and walked in his second. He was then removed from the game and went into the clubhouse. Between innings, I asked one of the players if Castillo was hurt (a natural assumption) and was told that he was called up. I don't know if that means NO for tomorrow (Binghamton has the day off) or the Mets. Only one ball went to him--a flair to his right which he missed after barely jumping. Dillon Gee was the star. In his 2nd start at AA, he went 6 innings, 1 ER, 3 H, 2 BB, 7 K, 3 GO-11 FO. His fastball reached 91, his slider low 80s, and he has a curve. We were impressed. He outpitched Bradley Bergensen who went into the game 15-3. He left after 6 (I guess that he was on a pitch count) and here's where something strange happened: the next 3 innings were pitched by only 2 relievers and they didn't allow any runs. Really! Elvys Quezada pitched 2 (1 hit) and looked strong. Tim Lavigne got the save even though he walked the lead-off hitter. The B-Mets runs were from HRs by Mike Carp and Caleb Stewart.

="Elster88"]="Zvon"]Schneider! I like this one. Me too. I see the ball's expressions as stunned because of who hit it.

Schneider has doubled his HR count for the season since Wednesday.

My younger son and I will be at Prince George's Stadium tonight, 6:05, to see the B-Mets play the Bowie Baysox (Orioles). Dillion Gee will start for Binghamton. I'm looking forward to seeing Carp and F-Mart. Who else should I keep an eye on? Luis Castillo played in last night's game. Adam Rubin said that Church might be there tonight.

Adam Rubin says that D-Wright gets the day off: J. Reyes, ss A. Reyes, 2b Easley, 3b Delgado, 1b Beltran, cf Murphy, lf Tatis, rf Schneider, c Santana, lhp