Frayed Knot

Someone missed a sign there somewhere. Jerry clearly wasn't pleased.

Another, "You gotta be kidding me" moment.

KC wrote: LET'S score a fuckin' run!!!!

OK, top of the order. Let's make this a quick one.

Ward's a classic feast or famine hitter.

Going to the 8th in Brewtown. Still knotted at 1

In this case, it was a dinky ground ball that just found a hole.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: OK, who comes in for the ninth? Ayala went two last night. Mix & match for now. Baseball Prospectus article today showing how the Mets pen had BY FAR the largest platoon differential when pitchers threw to their opposites: (LHPs to RHBs and vice versa). Feliciano gives up a seeing-eye single and here comes the signal for Smith. No more LHPs left anymore.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: I'm following along on the net. What was the deal with the slide? Throw beat him by 15 ft - but the catcher was on his knees so Church twisted around him then dove back towards the plate just sneaking the hand in before a lunging tag.

SLIDE OF THE YEAR!!!!

Into the 7th in Milwaukee, still tied at 1 Gallardo went 4 innings. Then Villanueva for 2, now Gagne in the 7th.

3 hits in the inning, no runs so far.

Still tied at 1 in the 6th in Milwaukee Astros, technically not out of the WC race, winning their game Boston winning, putting off clinching day for Tampa ChiSox leading the Twins

The Brewers can't be happy about that Cubs lineup -- especially if they don't get a similar one this weekend.

I'd be surprised if it's not raining within the hour.

Even if we don't play tonight at least somebody will. Tampa lost already and so need Boston to lose tonight to clinch the East Arizona is losing at the moment to StL and so the Dodgers may clinch the NLWest before they even take the field And, most important to us, Milwaukee is under the dome against Pittsburgh. Yovanni Gallardo was the Brewers' hot-shot rookie pitcher but he goes tonight for the first time since May. LHP Zack Duke opposes the RH-heavy Milwaukee lineup.

Facing Harden tonight, who's great while he's in there but throws as many pitches as Ollie getting through 5 and rarely last much longer. Plus Lou has no incentive to push him any longer. I half-expected an Endy for Church switch.

The lone remaining race in the AL was whittled to a 1/2 game lead as the Twins win their second straight from the White Sox. One more head-to-head for those teams tonight. Then the Twins finish it out against the Royals while Chicago gets Cleveland (and Cliff Lee to close it out) plus they have a rain makeup with Detroit to be played if necessary.

metirish wrote: So if you see a handsome chap walking down the street wearing a shirt like that you'll know who it is. Yeah, it'll be the guy who stole the shirt from you.

Delgado - 4.5 Rincon - 0.2 Panell - 0.5 Murphy - 1.0 Beltran - 0.8 RMartinez - 0.8 * Remember that points given to Ramon Martinez need to be marked as RMartinez

="AG/DC"]Simpleton view: mo rain = mo Santana. Santana's pitching once through the end of the regular season (I was hoping to not use him at all) and mo rain only means his start could get pushed later which means less Santana in round 1

I don't even know who won the home-field flip in a Phils/Brewers scenario, I was just throwing it out there. Bud could lobby to move the whole mess to a neutral site dome - but can't you just hear the conversation between him and Fred as he tries to take the final Shea sell-out and all the accompanying hoopla away from Queens? And, again, the screaming coming from East Texas if he doesn't.

]David Wright's inability to hit a fly ball last night in the ninth inning has pretty much cost the Mets 17.5 playoff points It cost us a lot more than that considering that a win would have gained us a number of pct points over where we started the day. Add those to the 17 we lost and it's probably closer to double that.

- where we were either tied or losing at the end of 17 of the 20 half-innings played - got out-hit nearly 2-1 (15-8) - plus threw in 7 walks ... and still feel like we gave the game away.

the weather not the team. Well the team too, but that's a story for a different thread. - Tonight's game sounds like it'll be a certain washout and no days off for us or the Cubs to make it up - Friday & Saturday looking only marginally better, plus anything that affects NYC is likely to cover Philadelphia as well. At least on Saturday you have an entire day's window to get the game (or games) in. At least Milwaukee gets their games in. - Any Met-Marlin or Phils-Nats rainouts that can't be done on Saturday will be made up as Sunday DHs (assuming it doesn't rain then too). Great, we didn't have enough pitching problems. - Any **IF Necessary* Met-Chicago matchup will need to be a Monday makeup; betcha the Cubbies will love that ... OTOH, they'll have ZERO incentive to burn any pitchers two days before the start of playoffs. Ditto any Phils-Nats game although Washington won't care as much. - Then any tie-breakers that result from all that mess (and more than one is possible!) would have to go on Tuesday. Brews @ Mets Tuesday noon then Mets/Brews @ Phils Tuesday night??? - And then there's the possibility of more than one game rained out. Plus throw in the scenario where a late run by Houston gets them into the mix and THEY still have one rainout game to make up and it's with the Cubs!! And you know the folks down in Houston are going to be complaining about why these east coast games aren't being moved to neutral site locations after theirs was transported to Wrigley-north based on the notion that the playoff sked can't be delayed. They were already convinced that they were screwed over because they were Houston and not one of the favored notheast teams.