Frayed Knot

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Apple-cheeked annonymously-named unknown bitches up the millionaire idol looking. Which reminds me that the next called strike against Jeter that he agrees with will be his first.

Perez - 4.7 Wagner - 1.0 Chavez - 2.5 LoDuca - 1.0 Smith - 0.2 Delgado - 0.3 Reyes - 0.3

<<<<------------- The Steve Henderson game was already mentioned in the other thread I was w/Dickshot at "The Bobby Jones Game"

From what I took from Willie's comments about Green & Eyre is that Shawn mentioned "not seeing this guy well" at some point prior to the 9th inning, not at that moment itself. IOW, Willie had that in the back of his mind when the situation came up but it wasn't like Green was looking for a way out there.

Prelim lineups (acc to WFAN): Damon - CF Jeter - SS ARod - 3B Posada - C Matsui - LF (or maybe #s 4 & 5 were switched) Cano - 2B Cabrera - LF Phelps - 1B Pettitte - P IOW, no Giambi, no Abreu Reyes - SS Easley - 2B Beltran - CF Delgado - 1B Wright - 3B LoDuca - C Chavez - LF Gomez - RF Perez - P Even though Willie lied earlier (AGAIN?, I'm outraged!!!) when he said he was going with Gomez & Green, not Endy * Hey, I'm Stevie Wonder!

Kewl, a $20mil/yr platoon player who needs to sit against LHPs !!

NYY (18 - 21; 9.5 GB) visit NYM (24 - 16; 1.5 GA) for 3 games As you may have heard, the Yanx are a team reeling at the moment, currently having fallen to their worst ¼ pole record of any time in the Torre era. They still lead MLB in runs scored, but can no longer count on having the better of the pitching match-up 75% of the time like they could in their late-90s hey-day. Now, they just sit like some damsel in distress waiting for Sir Roger of Clemensia to rescue them. A Tuesday rain-out threw a further wrench into their pitching plans and will force them into their 11th different starter this year on Sunday in just their 42nd game, including 6 of them who were making their ML debut. Friday: 7:10 - SNY & YES - Pettitte vs Perez Pettitte: (8 starts; 2-2; 2.68; 1.41; 29 K, 21 BBs) has pitched better than his W/L record, but rarely deep into games Met batters vs Pettitte (not necc as Mets): PlayerABsHitsHRBAOBASLGKsDelgado58215.362.456.67215Easley54160.296.345.4077Green3380.242.265.2738Franco1781.471.526.7063Reyes1530.231.231.2313Wright1051.500.545.9000 Saturday: 3:55 - FOX (Regional Network Telecast) - Darrell Rasner vs Glavine Rasner, (5 starts; 1-2; 3.28; 1.42; 11 K, 8 BBs) one of the slew of pitchers brought up to cover April injuries, has never pitched against the Mets NYY batters vs Glavine: PlayerABsHitsHRBAOBASLGKsAbreu67151.224.297.3136Jeter2592.360.407.6002Giambi1040.400.500.4003 Sunday: 8:05 - ESPN National Telecast - Tyler Clippard vs Maine Clippard, 22 y/o and making his ML debut, has moved up and down the NYY prospect lists over the last few years. Not a hard-thrower, but has an assortment of breaking pitches and usually good control. DH/1B - Jason Giambi: .273/.389/.438 - 5 HRs, 18 RBI OK, so he was never signed to be a speedster. But you've got to see him (try to) run recently to really appreciate just how fuckin' slow he's become. He's like Molina slow. In fact, he's like Benjy carrying Jose while pulling Yadier in a sled slow. And now he's battling bone spurs in his heel just as he has to play the field all weekend. 2B - Robinson Cano: .235/.276/.324 - 1 HR, 16 RBI I think maybe we can put the Cooperstown plaque on hold for now following his near batting title last year. No gold glove, but an improved fielder. SS - Derek Jeter: .368/.444/.477 - 2 HR, 21 RBI yadda, yadda, yadda 3B - Alex Rodriguez: .318/.400/.675 - 15 HRs 39 RBIs Great overall numbers obviously, but check out these splits: 1st 75 ABs: .400 BA, .453 OBA, 1.053 SLG, 14 HR, 34 RBI, 7 2Bs next 75 Abs: .236 BA; .347 OBA; .297 SLG, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 2 2Bs Still leads MLB in HRs & RBIs C - Jorge Posada: .371/.428/.581 - 4 HR, 22 RBI Defying the aging catcher syndrome by having some of his best seasons - both offensively and defensively - in his mid-30s. With the late afternoon start on Saturday I'm sure he'll start all three games. LF - Hideki Matsui: .275/.385/.440 - 2 HR, 18 RBI Slow start due to injury. Looks worse in the field with each passing season CF - Johnny Damon: .256/.358/.359 - 2 HR, 18 RBI Had a good 1st year in the Bronx, but struggling now with a variety of injuries (back, calf) and has been stting and/or DHing lately. Also was the only guy they could get and still manage to downgrade their CF throwing arm from Bernie Williams RF - Bobby Abreu: .236/.306/.304 - 2 HR, 21 RBI Worst slump of his career right now. Has a .400+ career OBA but isn't even drawing walks at this point and check out that (non)Slugging Average!. Bunts even more than the other #3 hitter in NYC. The Pen: Mariano Rivera: 13.2 IP, 16 H, 13 K, 4 BB, 6.54 ERA: Two 9th inning HRs are the most glaring early-season problem. And, while the wails over his demise are certainly overblown and based on relatively small samples of random closer blues, he's certainly not on a roll that inspires "game over" confidence. Kyle Farnsworth: 16 IP, 16 H, 9 K, 8 BB, 4.41 ERA: Should have better results with his stuff Scott Proctor (1.18 WhiP) - Luis Vizcaino (1.57 WHiP) - Brian Brunney (1.14 WHiP): Proctor served his 4-game bean-ball suspension during the week so as to be ready just for little 'ol us. They are collectively Torre's main [over]work[ed]-horses in the pen (21 appearances each) and are being relied on a lot as the starters frequently fail to clear the 5th inning. Mike Myers: Side-arming LOOGY who's not having very good success against LHBs. Kind of like having a pesticide that doesn't kill bugs. Ron Villone has just been called up to replace Sean Henn as the extra LHP Bench: Melky Cabrera: .226/.286/.322 - 2 HR, 13 RBI The darling of '06 fans and the poster child for the fantasy of a home-grown talent revival, he has 2 HRs in his last 250+ ABs dating back to last August Doug Mienkiewicz: .231/.297/.396 - 3 HR, 12 RBI Playing mostly full-time only because they feel Giambi in the field is like Michael Jackson: they wear one glove for no apparent reason. Hitting better lately, but will probably be relegated to late-inning defense this series. Miguel Cairo (IF/OF) 2 for 16; Will Nieves © 1 for 27; and Josh Phelps (1B/OF/DH) 11 for 43, 1 2B, 2 HR easily comprise the worst NYY bench in memory. Injuries: Mets: Valentin (knee), Alou (knee), O.Hernandez (shoulder), Sanchez (shoulder) Yanx: Hughes (hammy), Karstens (busted up leg), Pavano (everything, both real and imagined) Weather Outlook: Friday: Not Good, Rainy, windy, upper 40s. Decent chance of delay and/or postponment Saturday: A little better. Scattered showers mid-upper 50s. Could affect the timing though will probably get the game in. Sunday: Showers early but drying as the day goes on. By evening game time rain is gone and around 60. * A Friday rain-out will probably be made-up as a Sunday day/night DH Yanx lead all-time reg season subway series 32 - 22

Vargas - 0.6 Burgos - 1.4 Chavez - 1.5 Gotay - 1.8 Wright - 1.5 Delgado - 1.5 Newhan - 1.7 Gomez - 1.0

sharpie wrote: 'Specially if the Sox take care of the Bravos. Not off to a good start though. - BoSox place Josh Beckett on the DL due to a piece of skin coming off his hand during his last start. He'll miss his turn vs the Braves this weekend and at least one more. - Meanwhile, Smoltz painfully dislocated a finger on his pitching hand during his last start. He's fine and ready to go.

I always liked Wilson - although his last two seasons don't do much for his resume. Would I prefer him to Franco? Ummm, Yeah.

]Me, I don't want to risk going to bed with David Wright undeployed, especially if the tying run was ou there. Yeah, it's [Edgy's] last point that got me thinking Wright, particularly since, at the time, it was still just the tying run at the plate leading the brain to want an extra-base hit. Or, as it turned out, three straight singles.

I was thinking about it as if Reyes weren't an option.

Nothing Lou would say right now could be put on the air anyway. "What do I think of his performance ...?"

Having not seen the game, and catching only the 9th inning on the radio (IOW, I was the good luck charm today), I admit I didn't have a feel for the entire game, but; - Newhan running in the 9th down 4 ?? Trying to stay out of a GiDP I guess but Wow that was risky. - would you have PHed Wright for Gotay? ... I would have. Howie and whatisname on the radio were confused about it also. I guess Willie was thinking about Green vs a LHP and maybe about the defense if it went into the 10th. I would have sent up any bat I could find and worry about the alignment if and when it came to that. Also, I'm guessing he would have done Wright-for-Gotay if two were out at that point instead of just one; speedier batter, less chance of GiDP, etc., and stil wright in reserve. The infamous Willie "gut" move came out smelling like a fuckin' genius today.

Sosa - 4.8 Easley - 2.0 Wright - 1.3 Gomez - 1.0 Smith - 0.3 Wagner - 0.3 LoDuca - 0.3

HOLY SCHNEIKE HE CLUBBED THE SHIT OUTTA THAT ONE!!!

The last list I saw showing the number of catch-ees by organization (including both major & minor leaguers) had the Mets near the top but not quite at it, IIRC.

Sosa quiets TheRiot ... and then Cliffy to end the Cubbie 3rd

MLB RBI #1 for Carlos #3 We lead the league in Carli

Kid Carsey wrote: I think the 6AM rewind show on SNY is more in my future. The game may not be over by then.

Rain delay theatre ... this one might be a while. Already rained out in Boston. Still no official word on Thursday's starter. Sounds like it's probably Vargas although the status of tonight's game might affect things. Also still no decision on whether to DL Alou

]I thought Satellite Radio was above all that.... Sat radio is free from FCC control, but that doesn't mean they don't have a self-censorship button for public relations purposes. And, as was mentioned, they do need gov't approval for their pending merger.

Even with 'Daily News Live' - which is a joint production between the paper and SNY (a semi-seperate entity from the Mets) - there's not the same level of mutual cross-promotion that the DN & the NYY have had for many years now. The Mets actually had one of those with Newsday back in the Torborg era but that got washed away fairly quickly in a pool of bleach. In a perfect world, deals like this shouldn't exist since the paper is paid to cover the team not get into bed with it. It's always fun when a story contradicts what the manager claims he said (or something along those lines) which either tempts the manager to call the paper he's paid to promote a bunch of liars, or the paper to retract a story they're supposedly paid to uncover because it's about a guy who promotes their product on a daily basis.

Green - 2.0

Nymr83 wrote: its been my experience that the yankees get the backpage 80-90% of the time no matter what I ordinarily dismiss talk like this as fans talking about how the media is skewed against their team sounds too childish to my ears. But in the case of the Daily News there is some truth to it. First of all the Yanx have a mutual promotion deal with the paper, including having a DN writer in the radio booth for an inning each game. Plus you have Torre getting paid to plug the paper. And then there's a stable of long-time NYY writers: Madden, Pepe, Bondy, who are much more likely to write about the Bronx team than the one in Queens. I don't pick up that vibe with any of the other local papers.