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[list:odgrfeyg][*:odgrfeyg]I think Terry's going to be as quick to pivot as we all demand. Laggy WILL be in center tonight. Conforto WILL be the DH. Uribe will be the guy double switched in if the Royals go to a lefty. For what it's worth, I think going to Laggy in Game Two was the plan all along. National League managers like to switch up who they use at DH in the World Series, anyhow. And Terry ended up going to Laggy relatively early anyhow in Game One to protect Conforto from the lefty. But I suspect it was as much or almost as much to protect Cespedes from his erratic defense. [/*:m:odgrfeyg] [*:odgrfeyg]I'm very nervous the Cespedes shoulder impingement was a relevant part of the play, that it's still bothering him, that his golfing is a contributing factor, and that he may be playing the Mets out of a World Championship just as surely as he may be playing himself out of a monster contract. I realize he's the sort of big dog that you just let off the leash and take the good with the bad, but some of his wild hacks have looked as ugly as that play out in left center.[/*:m:odgrfeyg][/list:u:odgrfeyg]

I don't know who Robles and Gilmartin have to sleep with to get the ball, but if Terry's going to his starters out of the pen, try and get long outings out of them. Not necessary to go to Reed (or maybe even Clippard) when Niese is dealing. Try and get him to bridge the lead as far as he can. He gives up a baserunner or so in the seventh and has a righty coming up, then go to Reed. Very pinteresting that two of the Mets run-scoring plays came on shots down the line that the corner infielders got a glove on but failed to come up with, instead, knocking the ball into foul territory and crawling after it. If the Royals are sharper with their gloves, maybe Granderson's homer is all the scoring the Mets get. On the other hand, there were plenty of hard-hit balls the Royals did get to. Grandy's effort on the game-winning sacrifice fly really shows you how locked in he is on winning this. I have half a mind to name him co-captain.

Redundancy served the Mets well this year, even if they were left with a surplus down the stretch and a bitter Dillon Gee in the end. I think they'll hold Niese and assume that by the time Wheeler is ready, some calamity will have opened up a space for him. If the calamity comes earlier, Verrett and Gilmartin and maybe Montero stand ready.

I don't know this Ben Reiter guy from Adam, but how strange and exciting that Tom Verducci didn't get that assignment.

"Damn good az game." � Chuck D on Twitter

Game Ones are apparently for other people. Get 'em tomorrow.

I've grown a Mets beard during the duration of this game. Don't let me down now, Mets beard.

Glub.

Mets addicted to dangerous living.

Rockin' Doc wrote: What the hell is Rose on the panel for? To give the betting line? Murdoch Media would put John Wayne Gacy on the air if they could.

I've had to switch to the radio broadcast. Is that lady with the tan coat and beehive blonde hairdo still behind the dugout? Back in regulation, she stood out the whole nine innings in the sea of blue.

I'm not sure, but I believe "Orlando" translates literally as "Edgy."

I'm feeling sick tomorrow morning, I'm afraid.

I hate myself for every dollar I've ever given to Chris Young. Considering how little I spend on the Mets, I can't imagine any more than one or two of my dollars went to Chris Young, but still. I hate myself.

Sporting News National League Manager of the Year: Terry Collins.

Frayed Knot wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Did Joe Buck just say that baseball is at its best when you have a man on the mound with a ball in his hand and a man at the plate with a bat in his hand? Well sure. Cuz when there's a guy on the mound with a chicken and a man at the plate with a herring it really loses something. For the win.

Remaining pitchers behind Colon: Gilmartin and Robles. Then Matz or Syndergaard, I guess.

Buddhatolo.

Now it's two out, but 90 feet from death.

Seems crazy to use both your spare starters with short-term relievers still to burn.

Cespedes hasn't seemed to his bespedes.

Well, my prediction of Mets in two in serious danger.

It'd be hard to hit Conforto for Cuddyer, unless they adopt the re-entry rule.

Bartolo next?

That splitter just didn't split.