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Runs Scored - Met Career Jose Reyes - 735 ** David Wright - 735 ** Darryl Strawberry - 662 Howard Johnson - 627 Edgardo Alfonzo - 614 Mookie Wilson - 592 Cleon Jones - 563 Carlos Beltran - 551 Ed Kranepool - 536 Mike Piazza - 532

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Terry reveals in the post-game that Rauch is dealing with tenderness, and he'll have it looked at. Where is it? Tenderness Where is it? He may be weary. Old relievers they do get weary.

I don't think I like the fact that all our players are being taken as prisoners of war.

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seawolf17 wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Nice move by Matheny to bring in his top reliever in the 8th inning with the tying run on third w 2 outs and Wright and possibly Duda due up. Somewhere, Tony LaRussa is spinning in his grave. Better there than in his car.

Edgy DC wrote: There was no verbal gymnastics. When there's a no-hitter going on and the announcer paid to tell you what's going on avoids saying that there's a no-hitter going on then, yeah, that's verbal gymnastics.

The fact that he's doing all that verbal gymnastics simply to avoid the 'N-H' word is silly. And the whole stupid thing about this so-called 'Jinx' is that it's supposed to apply to mentioning it to the pitcher himself for fear of reminding him or heaping on extra pressure. That it somehow morphed into announcers not being allowed to say it to listeners or you not saying it to your buddy on the next barstool is a bit mind-bending.

And now we know whose turn it is today to suck out of the pen. Actually, that turn seems to belong to whoever is being used that particular day.

HahnSolo wrote: Just back from a meeting. First base open, Quintinilla on deck, and Matheny let a lefty pitch to Hairston? Yup! Rottino was going to PH for Quintanilla had it come to that. Plus, Matheny had no RHPs warming in the pen.

I've said it before and I'll say it now: That boy was put upon this earth to hit the snot out of left-handers

Top 1: K on 3 pitches, K on 4 pitches, 2nd pitch Fly Out

Lefty Specialist wrote: I voted for Giant Foam Presidential Heads. But not the usual suspects; Dickey would make a good Chester Arthur. Bay, always crippled, could be FDR. Lucas Duda could be William H. Taft. Josh Satin, who could be optioned back to Buffalo while the train is moving, could be William Henry Harrison. Keith Hernandez, Civil War buff that he is, could be Ulysses S. Grant, taking nips of bourbon on the sly. And who doesn't see Josh Thole as Martin Van Buren? McKinley was shot in Buffalo, so whoever is next to get the ax from the big club gets to be him. Face it, coming back to the clubhouse and seeing a giant William McKinley head in front of your locker is so much more subtle than simply saying, "umm, the skipper would like to see you".

Ominous looking skies.

DRAFT DAY Round 1 + supplemental picks starting at 7PM tonight [MLBN + various on-line spots] For us this means picks # 12 (probably a little after 8PM) & 35 (closer to 11 PM) Rounds 2-40 (that�s right, down to 40 rounds now from the previous 50) spread out over Tuesday & Wednesday. The general consensus this year is that the crop is weak on college hitters and overall lacks the sure-fire can�t miss guy that was so obvious in others (Harper, Strasburg, etc.) The result being that, even at this late hour, even the picks at the very top are still up in the air. What does seem sure is that these are the guys that will NOT be available come pick #12 HS hitters: Byron Buxton (OF from Georgia); Albert Almora (OF - Fla); Carlos Correa (SS - PR) HS Pitchers: Max Fried (LH - Calif); College pitchers: Mark Appel (Stanford), Kevin Gaussman (LSU), Kyle Zimmer (U-San Fran); College hitter: Mike Zunino (Catcher - U-Florida) The Wild Cards - it�s possible either or both of these guys could supplant a few of the above in the top 8, or are still around at #12, or are even still sitting there in the mid-20s: Lucas Giolito (HS - Calif) A RHP considered the most talented coming into the year until he ran into a minor problem doctors like to call a sprained ulnar collateral ligament, a condition that sidelined him for his entire senior season. Someone is going to take a chance on him, it�s just a question of when. Marcus Stroman (RHP - Duke) The two things you hear/read about this guy are �electric stuff� quickly followed by �Five foot - Nine�. As a reliever he�d be the guy most likely to make an early impact in the majors - quite possibly this year - but some are convinced he has the stuff to overcome the height prejudice and make it as a starter. Who gets scared off by the height and who gets gutsy? Most scenarios have the Mets being linked to one of several HS OFers, namely David Dahl - 6� 2� 185 lefty-swinger from Alabama (scholarship to Auburn) Courtney Hawkins - 6� 2 � - 210 R/R from Texas (U-Texas) Hawkins has more power but also more swing-and-miss and probably gets moved to one of the corner spots. Dahl is faster, projects as the more high-average hitter and rates as a legit CF Gavin Cecchini - a HS SS/maybe future 2B from Louisiana - was linked with the Mets early on but seems to be fading down the list a bit lately. The one college pitcher I�ve seen them linked to is Texas A&M Jr Michael Wacha, a 6� 6� Righty described more as a big, durable ML starter than one with elite potential.

Hey Parnell, y'know what's NOT a good idea? - Leadoff walks, that's what!

Gwreck wrote: yep, wanted to go cos of the great coffee system they have up there. Actually, my recollection was that it was because of his young daughter's serious medical condition. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991208&slug=3000117 http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Olerud-made-right-decision-moving-family-back-to-1082284.php By the time the daughter was born he was already in Seattle. Mainly his stated reason for the decision was just about being near the family.

1-out RBI hits ... what a concept!!

NEW-HOUSE, NEW-HOUSE, NEW-HOUSE btw, that was his first HR since April 20

What reliever is it you want to see? .... FREEMAN

metirish wrote: STFU Francona " boy if the Mets get Bay back and he produces like we know he can, wow, boy, talking about a leader in the middle of the order, one of the great guys in the game yyybbb" Well, that's what Bay was when Francona managed him. Unfortunately that kind of play doesn't seem to appear for all managers named Terry.

Well, we're going to see the pen next inning for the first time since last Wednesday ... and last Wednesday the pen melted down big time.

Torres/Thole keeping the triple shut-out streak going.

Braves beat Nats, Marlins beat Phils ... all of which tightens up the division a bit and puts Miami & Washington into a virtual 1st-place tie with us sitting just an itty-bitty 1/2 game back. Yanx beat the Tiggers as Verlander loses his third straight start. Seeing just bits and pieces of their games this weekend, Detroit looks horrible; lots of errors and not very good pitching. - Sat night they let the Yanx tie the game with a run in both the 8th and again in the 9th with I believe one hit total. Tiger pitchers instead tossed in 3 or 4 walks on top of 3 HBPs, plus a missed pop-up, un-turned DPs, etc. Only Miggy Cabrera's absurd slugging (HR - 2B - HR on three swings that each looked as easy as a golfer's wedge shot) saved that game for them. - Today I saw them turn a Cano fly ball which, while pretty deep, also had a lot of air under it, into an untouched double. Then slow retrieval turned it into a triple, at which point the relay to 3rd, which was both unnecessary and bad, skipped into the dugout making the whole mess effectively into a 2R HR.

Edgy DC wrote: My buddy Joe says he has two listings. First says it's on ESPN2. The other says it's blacked out. That's bullshit, right? It IS on ESPN2 because they have basketball on their main channel (or 'The Mother Ship' as ex-ESPN-er Dan Patrick now calls it) - but there should be no blackout anywhere seeing as how it's the national game.

The Tiggers tried about 15 different ways to blow that game. And Valverde flat out sucks.