Frayed Knot

I'd settle for a single at this point.

Now the only problem is that Delgado has some attrocius numbers against Rhodes.

I keep starting to type stuff and I keep getting interrupted by HRs

I was just starting to type out that all Schoeneweis needs to do is get us through this ONE RH batter!!!!

Each team playing two more innings for their season.

A double and 3 walks in that inning for the Brews. CC still doing all their heavy lifting.

And how often do you see the guy who makes a great catch lead off the next inning? (studies show about 1/9th)

N! D!

One of the funniest things on FAN this week was Evan Roberts replaying a tape from earlier this year of partner Joe Badabingo going off about how sick he was of Beltran and how he wanted Beltran off the team immediately, yadda, yadda. Fuckin' moron.

OK, the top of the lineup is stacked for exactly this reason. Go get 'em boys.

Shoulda been better but coulda been worse. Look at the bight side, we've scored exactly 3 runs in 23 innings so far and we're still in it. We all would have signed up for THAT prior to Friday night's game.

Santana - 5.9 Reyes - 0.8 Delgado - 0.7 Wright - 0.7 RMartinez - 1.2 Beltran - 0.7

*** Game being televised on TBS for youse outta-towners *** Raining a bit here at the moment Lost in our giddiness over Johan and our worry over Ollie is fact that we've scored a total of three runs over the first two games of this series. We gots to get our hitting shoes on.

holychicken wrote: Has Wright batted out of the 3 hole at all this year? I don't think he has. Not since yesterday. ]Has Delgado batted above 4 all year? See above ]Evans in the 5 hole? Check out his numbers vs Olsen

Asked about the economy a couple days ago Governor Patterson said he was more worried about the Mets bullpen. Oh, and a win today guarantees at least 1 more game at Shea and possibly as many as 9

One of the folks here sent me two messages yesterday asking (OK, the second was closer to begging) that I start today's IGT on account of being the IGT starter for Saturday's sucessful day. But, as Maxwell Smart used to say, "you've got to get up pretty early in the morning" around here if you want to be first. Well, that's OK, I never was the superstitious type. Although this may remind some a bit of the scene in 'Jeremiah Johnson' when Redford's title character is asked to lead a rescue party across Souix land to free a stranded band of settlers. "We can't go through here" Jeremiah told them, "this is a sacred burial ground, the Souix guard it with powerful spirits." "You've been up here in the mountains too long Johnson", one of the party protested, "you can't possibly believe that" "Doesn't matter" he answered, "they do". Anyway, it's Scott Olsen vs Ollie Perez and we all know what's at stake. Olsen has started 4 times against us this season and is 0-3 with one 'ND' * 5/28 (against Perez) - ND, 4 runs on 6 hits over 5 innings * 7/29 (also vs OP) - L, 2 runs on 6 hits over 5.2 IP * 8/9 - L, 5 runs on 9 hits over 5 IP * 8/31 - L, 6 runs on 7 hits over 6.1 IP Mets vs Olsen this season: Reyes - 5 for 13 including 2 2B + 1 HR Beltran - 5 for 10 inc 2 2B + 1 HR Wright - 4 for 11 inc 3 2B + 1 HR Evans - 6 for 10 inc 1 2B + 1 HR Delgado - 1 for 8, 1 HR Easley - 2 for 9 Ollie's pitched 5 times against the Fish this season and is 3-0. * 4/3 - a win for 5 innings of shutout ball * 5/28 - ND for 5 runs over 6 innings * 7/29 - W for 1 run over 6 innings * 8/8 - W after 7 innings of 2-hit shutout ball * 8/29 - ND, 3 runs (2 earned) on 3 hits & 5 BBs in 6 IP Marlins vs Perez: Ramirez - 4 for 11 + 4 BB Uggla - 1 for 13 Cantu - 1 for 13, 1 HR Ross - 5 for 13, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR Helms - 1 for 10, 1 2B Winningham - 3 for 8, 1 2B, 1 HR Hermida - 0 for 9 So Gabba, Gabba, Shea! Oh yeah, and go Cubs

Well this project is now dead as there's nothing complicated to the season anymore. With the Philly game now irrelevent there are 4 choices left: * Mets win, Brews lose = Mets as Wild Card * Mets lose, Brews win = Brews as Wild Card * Mets win, Brews win = Play-In Game * Mets lose, Brews lose = Play-In Game Sticking with the 'All outcomes equally likely' theory there's a 25% chance of either team winning outright and a 50/50 shot at a Play-In game. If you want to temper those odds by thinking that Sabathia going tilts things towards the Beermakers then go ahead, but we've got a nearly 3-1 shot at playing past Sunday. Bottom line, if we win tomorrow it's not our last game. That's a helluva lot better situation than when we all woke up this morning.

Lidge has had a great year, but I swear he's had more than his share of luck during this "perfect" (blown save-less) season. Guy seems to forever put on runners and then almost but not quite give up the lead. The Cubs kept scaring me with their OF play. Twice! Prince Fielder sent sky-high but shallow OF flies that had hang times so long that everyone except the catcher had time to get under ... and no one did! The second one I thought was going to kill any chance we had left.

KC wrote: They hate Mets fans. If they can't give us Yanks the won't let us watch the Cubs beat up on the Brew Crew, and make us listen to Tim McCarver to freakin' boot. I hate network baseball. Don't get all paranoid on me in your old age pal. They're probably going to bounce back and forth like CBS does with NCAA hoops based on which game looks more interesting at that moment. If the Yanx do start, however, I'm sure they're contractually obligated to show it here. Phils jump up 2-0 without hitting a ball hard all inning. dink, bloop, walk, sac, walk, etc Lilly no-hitting Brews thru 4. I wonder if his Lilly's relief will be Eddie or Grandpa?

And a bases-loaded single and it's 4-0 Cubs and Sheets day is done.

="KC"]FK: although those in NYC are getting Yanx/Sawx<<< Thankfully my twenty something mile north buffer zone got me out of that. I'm getting Cubs/Brewers. Anything else, especially an unimportant Yankee game, mighta sent me over yet another ESPN/FOX edge. The buffer zone ain't got nuthin to do with it. The rain in Boston does. We all have Cubs-Brewers now.

The different starting times for today's games gives us a rare chance at doing a mid-day update for the playoff possibilities chart. With only FIVE total games remaining - 2 today plus 3 tomorrow - we're down to [u:66e34af5d4]18 possible outcomes[/u:66e34af5d4]. Of those: * 8 result in us out of any playoff scenario (46.88%) * 1 throws us into a Play-in game for the division (3.13%) * 1 throws us into a Double Play-in system where we play Phils then the loser plays the Brews (6.25%) * 5 of which mean we host a Play-in game with Milwaukee for the WC (31.25%) * 2 where we win the Wild Card free and clear (9.38%) * and 1 where we win the East free and clear (3.13%) So that's: OUT = 46.88% - Down from 67% this morning IN = 12.51% - Up from 6.3% Single Play-In = 34.38% - Up from 23% Double Play-In = 6.25% - Up from 3.1% IOW: * as of now, we are [u:66e34af5d4]slightly more likely than not[/u:66e34af5d4] to be playing past Sunday * there's approx 1 chance in 8 that we'll have clinched a spot w/o a Play-in by the end of Sunday Plus, throw in the early Cub lead and all the above odds improve ever so slightly.

Dang! That bloop being called foul changes the entire inning. Went from 1st & 3rd/nobody out to bases empty/2 out.

STUNNING!!

We need a Bugs Bunny bat-a-round this inning.