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What a great play by Wright!

Uh-oh. Maine looks pissed. Plus, he's only 2 outs from being eligible for a win.

In a surprise to much of the NY media, Derek Jeter placed his hands on Posada's shoulder but failed to cure the injury.

Willie Collazo replaces Brandon Knight on the roster. He gives the bullpen a fresh arm.

Jerry goes for the what is undoubtedly the first battery consisting of former members of the Somerset Patriots.

Also stated here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/sports/baseball/25shea.html Brandon Knight goes from the Somerset Patriots, a league for FAs, to the bigs within one season.

As Vlad said, MFY fans think that they are royalty--there was a teenage girl at the game today, in my section, with a Joba Chamberlin shirt. I, and I think all of us, would not think of wearing a Mets shirt to YS unless the Mets were playing. I went to a Nationals game earlier this year that didn't involve the Mets and I wore my son's HS team's hat, not a Mets hat. I don't understand the mentality that would lead someone to go to Shea, perhaps sit in really good seats, and say "I'm going to a Mets game so I will wear a Yankees shirt." MFY fans have that attitude, that arrogance, and that, in part, is why they suck and their team does too.

G-Fafif wrote: I'm impressed that the Phillies made it into the sucked category at last. I'm all for chanting down the opponent, especially when their minions invade and lose. Yankees suck whether they're around or not. Chanting it is like acknowledging air is what we breathe. To be specific, since this Forum demands accuracy: the "Yankees Suck!" chant was general, and did not specific what, if anything, the Yankees were sucking or whether they had achieved a level of suckiness. When I wrote that "Phillies Suck" was chanted, it was incomplete, because I didn't want to be vulgar, but for the sake of accuracy, it was clear that the chanters had knowledge, somehow, that the Phillies sucked something.

The honoree today was some kid, identified as a "long time fan." As if they just pulled somebody out of the stands instead of thoughtfully choosing someone. The Mets should have hired Greg as a consultant to make sure that this was done right, instead of doing it half-assed and thoughtlessly.

As G-Fafif was nice enough to mention, I was at Shea today w/my father and two sons. I paid way too much to sit in good seats as it was probably our last time at Shea but we got every pennies worth. As I looked around, I thought about going to Shea with my friends in '69 (as a parent, I can't imagine letting an 11 year old go with his friends and no parents to a game, but times were different); about paying ushers to get into better seats; about my old friend Seth Sevin who fell down the stairs in the Upper Deck and lost some teeth (we were about 13); about being at Shea for Dwight Gooden's one hitter against the Cubs; about being there when Gooden set the rookie K record; about our year with season tickets in '87 and the guy two seats over who brought a different date each time and gave each one a plastic drink tumbler. We stopped by the Diamond Club to see the trophies and Mets HOF'ers, and then a real life star walked by, Ron Darling. Our seats were as comfortable as Shea seats can be but Shea looked beautiful to us. The game was, as you know, fantastic. When Bruntlett was announced as a late replacement for Rollins, I said to my son that he would probably get three hits. Ding! There were a lot of Phillies fans near us on the 3B side but they behaved as well as they can, given their rooting interest. The atmosphere was like a playoff game. I got a T-shirt in the T-shirt launch (it was thrown in our direction). The operative view has to be that our guys are resilient, and, unlike the '07 team, can "take a punch", rather than "if Wagner was healthy, they would have swept." As we left, I looked around at the maze of ramps, listened to the excited fans ("We're number 1!" "Yankees suck!" "Phillies suck!"), I hugged the boys and said "thanks" to Shea, one last time.

Jerry said that he thought about letting Johan start the 9th but Burrell had the double.

With Wagner n/a, would it have been the worst thing to let Santana start the 9th?

Congrats to the Mets, us, and most all, MGIM!

Dear Ford and Your Local Ford Dealers, WE DON'T GIVE A FRIGGIN' FRIG ABOUT DEREK JETER'S EDGE! Love, Mets Fans

MGIM must be going nuts!

Cantu wins it for the Marlins.

Nymr83 wrote: ="bmfc1"]="OlerudOwned"]Brandon Phillips is something bordering ridiculous. I'd hate to be a fan of a team w/the GM that traded him. Oh, wait. i wish people would get off that BS already, omar was managing a team that had been taken over by mlb and was in danger of imminent contraction, he tried to trade guys who would never have played in Montreal anyway to help win then. I'm well aware of that, Nymr83--just trying to be funny. Omar was in a desperate situation at that time.

OlerudOwned wrote: Brandon Phillips is something bordering ridiculous. I'd hate to be a fan of a team w/the GM that traded him. Oh, wait.

BLASTRO!

Geez, Marlon is signed through '09.

I'm not justifying the prices, believe me I'm not: I think the Mets may have made this announcement on the heels of the Giants PSL announcement as the Mets (and MFYs) will not be implementing PSLs so, on that front, they don't look bad in comparison.

I thought that Jerry should have PH Castro for Schneider against the lefty but even if Castro got on, he would have been LOB.

Two runs for Cinn. b/c of crappy D by Beltran. Get your head out of your ass.

Meanwhile, MGIM must be even more upset than we are.

The answer to the trivia question was Mario Soto with 9.