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  1. Frayed Knot
    Final* AAA tune-up for Wheeler = 5-2/3; 1 R; 1 H (HR); 2 BB; 7 K in a game the 51s eventually lost 11-0 (even our proxy bullpens suck) A no-hit, 1-run, 1-inning AAA debut for Rocket Leathersich (a HBP that subsequently scored), but not so good a day if your name is Gonzalez Germen: 1.1 IPs w/7 earned runs, or if it's Robert Carson: 1 inning 2 earned runs. * 'Final' meaning at least for now, and hopefully for good.
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    duan wrote: that's a very metsesque box score. Notice the particular "two guys doing ok, but separated by 5/4 lineup spots so that it doesn't have any impact " That seems to have been our speciality. The Yanx main problem--not just yesterday but over the last six weeks or so--is that their 'April surprises', the veteran fill-ins for the injured troops, have come back down to earth after their hot starts. I guess that whole thing about the uniform making you play better has a limited shelf life. Vernon Wells BA: April - .300; May - .221; June - .095 Travis Hafner BA: April - .318; May - .179; June - .114 And even the guys who have come back haven't helped much; Teixeira is giving them less than what Overbay did, and Granderson only seems to be playing sparingly since his re-return.
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    Cubs won today but they were nice enough to extend it to 14 innings and required six relievers covering eight innings to do so.
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    Yanx just lost in the 18th inning. Their relievers had been holding Oakland down for most of the time I was watching (the extras) as the MFYs were getting the better of the chances - but then the A's got a runner on w/1 out in the 18th so they Girardi opted to bring in Rivera. Two batters and two hits later it was over. Nate Freiman is your local hero in the east bay tonight. Middle of the Yanx lineup: Hafner, Youkilis, Teixeira, et al were like 0 for 28 or something.
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    Looking at some of the stats for that season (1968) one that pops out at me is that the Giants used just 12 pitchers during the whole year -- some teams carry more than that at one time now -- and most teams used only one or two more than that (Mets = 14) with no team employing more than 19
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    metirish wrote: Thanks FK, 59 was probably a months worth back then(maybe 2 months). In 1968 (one of the years Zvon discussed) there were 471 CGs in the NL and that was with fewer teams and therefore fewer total games played as compared to now, although you do have to remember that year was the most pitching dominated season since the dead-ball era (pre-1920).
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    NL 2012 = 59
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    Marlon Byrd = Scott Hairston
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    Well, we couldn't touch Rosenthal so it's OK with me if Matheny wants to switch to Mujica.
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    Start by checking out 1976
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    ficticious subject = DMPJFL
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    Ceetar wrote: On Molina's double last night, Valdespin (the second baseman) for some reason ran all the way over to the third base line to stand like 6 feet from David Wright (Duda relayed in to Quintanilla who then flipped to Valdespin since he was right there). Why? What could he possibly have been thinking he was going to do? I only noted this because when Duda fielded it I looked towards second to see if they had a chance to get him and saw Murphy running to cover. It's almost like a wheel play on a double. On a double to LF, the SS & 2B usually act as double cut-off men (either to 3B or, if a runner was on 1st before the hit, to home) while the 1B trails the batter/runner towards 2nd on account of there ain't no reason to cover 1st anymore. Now I can't picture that play specifically in my head, but it sounds like Valdespin was in the correct general area even if maybe not in the ideal spot.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Went out for the evening. Didn't even follow it on handheld devices during the film. So that's what broke your streak of mis-placed posts! If there's any consolation it's that, just like a hitting streak, your streak isn't broken in games you never appeared in.
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    smg58 wrote: Arguably the turning point in the Mets' fortunes. From an 'everything seemed to go wrong after that' kind of way you may be right. They were 4 games over .500 coming into that night and haven't finished a season above the mdi-point since. I don't think, however, that there were decisions made and/or philosophies changed on account of not winning that game that in turn caused the fallow period since. Although assigning turning points retroactively is never as simple as some like to make it, there was the case that SI made all those years back about how the Scioscia NLCS HR changed the direction of the Mets into (IIRC) a more panic-driven - 'we've got to win NOW before the window closes' - mode, a mindset that led to the following year's mid-year trade of Dykstra and McDowell, etc. Buster Olney tried a similar argument in a book (less successfully IMO) following the Yanx 2001 WS loss.
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    If the good Lord's willin' and the crick don't rise.
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    Male stripper has a successful gig, money and women but dreams of bigger things. But has his present lifestyle already scuttled his future plans? And does his advancing age, the disrespect from his mentor, and the carelessness of his protege spell doom even if he stays? Channing Tatum & Matthew McCaunaghey lead the parade of taut abs and shaking butts.
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    Last NYM [u:2zy8oi2x]home win[/u:2zy8oi2x] that was a) greater than 2 runs and not a last AB win = April 19th, Mets 7 - Nationals 1 ... of course we're not there yet
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    Marlon happy that the Cards got Miller out of there. And not to sound greedy or anything, but I wouldn't mind seeing one of these HRs with like an actual runner on base every now and then.
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    I did NOT think Dabid got that one. Happily, I wuz wrong.
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    Mets get out of the 6th with only one run via the HR as, with 2/down and a RiSP, G gives J the big FU
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    I never knew until tonight that those tats on Yadier's neck are of musical notes. Wonder if they're just random or if it's from a specific song?
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    Man, I just recently saw the films of this game. The fight wasn't that violent, but two of the three HBPs that set it off were right at guys' coconuts!! We're going to see some suspensions out of this and because several of them could be starting pitchers (Kennedy especially) some could be fairly lengthy.
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    Zvon wrote: dinosaur jesus wrote: I've never seen that before. And Murphy isn't even fast. Surprised the shit outta me but I like it. I was actually thinking he might go the entire time. Great call by Tuef. Now the question is; will these be our only runs of the night?
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    You figure both teams would spend at least some ST time down there as well. Even from the west coast that's hardly a zip-in/zip-out kind of place while trying to squeeze two athletic events in between. Mike Mussina called in to say that he disapproves*. * and why is there only one O in disapproves?
  25. Frayed Knot
    Sickels on NYM draft 1-11) Dominic Smith, 1B, Serra HS, Gardena, CA 2-48) Andrew Church, RHP, Basic HS, Henderson, NV 3-76) Ivan Wilson, OF, Ruston HS, LA 3-84) Casey Meisner, RHP, Cypress Woods HS, Cypress, TX 4-116) L.J. Mazzilli, 2B, Connecticut 5-146) Jared King, OF, Kansas State Others of interest: 7) Matt Oberste, 1B, Oklahoma; 8) Ricky Knapp, RHP, Florida Gulf Coast; 9) Patric Biondi, OF, Michigan; 10) Luis Guillorme, SS, Florida HS; 15) Colton Plaia, C, Loyola Marymount COMMENT: A mixed class, with upside early then shifting gears to more polished college guys. Smith has the bat for first base and could win gold gloves too. Church and Meisner are athletic, projectable types who will need patient development; Wilson is a strong athlete who will need similar perseverance. Bloodlined Mazzilli, switch-hitting King, power hitter Oberste, strike-throwing Knapp, and speedy Biondi are all solid college choices in their rounds who provide depth to the system; all have a chance to exceed expectations. There is risk at the top but balance as well.
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