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Duda whiffs without seeing a strike.

A little rally here in the eighth against the usually impermeable Tony Watson.

'Nudda double play. Is that Alderson sitting behind home plate?

d'Arnaud and d'Avis are still buds.

Well, that shift suck'd.

Does Matsuzaka have some pigment inconsistency or is he pinetarring his neck also?

Now they just displayed Kiner's Pirate records --- led the league in homers seven times in eight years --- and then announced that he was "elected to the Mets Hall of Fame in 1975." No, he was elected to THE Hall of Fame.

Abreu should just start off with a full count.

Lucas ties it up with a drive down the opposite line. WIN IT FOR BLACKIE!!

Polanco scores it with a groundout. He's fast.

Pirates broadcast featuring Tim McCarver's memories of Ralph Kiner. Walk, bunt, and a wild pitch, and Buccoz are threatening to score without a hit.

Curtis Granderson, rf Daniel Murphy, 2b David Wright, 3b Lucas Duda, 1b Bobby Abreu, lf Juan Lagares, cf Ruben Tejada, ss Travis d'Arnaud, c Daisuke Matsuzaka, rhp See how much sweeter the curvature is on this lineup if you bat Tejada seventh?

Daisuke Matsuzaka opposes former Phillie philler Vance Worley. Mets enter the four-game set sitting three games behind the Steel Towners in the league-wide standings. Mets took two of three at Shea 2 in late May. This is Pittsburgh, folks, and that means promotions every NIGHT. Tonight, it's Zambelli Fireworks. (If it ain't Grucci, then it cuts no ice with me, but Pittsburgh can't have everything.)

Divorced single mom and masseuse Elaine Bennis finds mid-life romance with Tony Soprano, in his penultimate role, but simultaneously indulges a new friendship with his ex-wifie, who talks his ass DOWN. Neither party is aware of Elaine's relationship with the other, and that sort of Three's Company plotline is guaranteed to provide the mix of anxiety and hilarity that will thrill dozens. The film is clearly aimed at females, although the females it presents generally range from awful to merely indecently shallow, and they share shit with each other that they just shouldn't share. But I guess they do. Tony's character (Albert), is a decent egg, but the only other male (played by Ben Falcone) is a horror show, and Toni Collette (playing his character's wife) takes his huge piles of crap with mere occasional eyerolls. Aren't the "friend" couples supposed to be charming and colorful in romantic comedies? Catherine Keener makes the ex-wife unbearable, too. Hey, nice to see longtime TV actors inhabit new characters in a film, but... mostly I wanted to get a divorce from society.

All in a day's work here at the Grass Is Greener Project.

Maybe. But just fine for him is still not $14 million good.

I'm certainly not worried about Atlanta's shortstop's lack of production. Just trying to respond to the question laid out there. I'd be happy to try and find guys Tejada is statistically out-fielding or out WAR/27-ing. I'm not sure what the preferred move would be. It was a hard call, and kudos to Chris Young for finding his stick while there was an axe swinging at him. Maybe he can play some shortstop.

Teams with Most Frequently Appearing Shortstops Getting Out-OPS'd by Ruben Tejada ... ...and... ...

Taking four of the next seven gets them to the Independence Day Pole at 8-5. Can Lagares help make this happen?

A split with a very tough team and they lose a hair in the division and wild card standings. At least they squeak ahead of Philadelphia. Pack seems to be hovering about three wins ahead of them right now. That would be a nice place to get to. The neext team immediately ahead of them is Ike Davis' Buccos, who they now go and visit. TeamWLPCTGBNGBWashington4136.532��Atlanta4037.5191.01.0Miami3939.5002.54.0YOUR New York Mets 3642.4625.513.0Philadelphia3542.4556.015.0 TeamWLPCTGBNGBLos Angeles4436.550-0.5-0.5St. Louis4336.544��Atlanta4037.5192.02.0Cincinnati3938.5063.04.0Miami3939.5003.55.5Pittsburgh3939.5003.55.5YOUR New York Mets 3642.4626.520.5Philadelphia3542.4557.023.5Colorado3543.4497.527.0San Diego3445.4309.039.0Chicago3244.4219.543.5Arizona3348.40711.058.5

EY probably somewheres on the depth chart, too. but probably on the bottom of it.

I'm gonna be pretty pissed if anybody on Oakland lays down a sacrifice bunt.

Mets down early. Get mean mad.

Game threatened by mother nature, and by the limitations of the universe in trying to contain the awesome feelings generated when the Mets score in double digits. [*:mxny0002]Young, E., Jr., lf[/*:m:mxny0002] [*:mxny0002]Murphy, 2b[/*:m:mxny0002] [*:mxny0002]Wright, 3b[/*:m:mxny0002] [*:mxny0002]Campbell, 1b[/*:m:mxny0002] [*:mxny0002]Granderson, rf[/*:m:mxny0002] [*:mxny0002]Young, C., cf[/*:m:mxny0002] [*:mxny0002]d'Arnaud, c[/*:m:mxny0002] [*:mxny0002]Tejada, ss[/*:m:mxny0002] [*:mxny0002]Stealer's Wheel, sp[/*:m:mxny0002][/list:o:mxny0002]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The irony over this "bunt" brouhaha is that if major league baseball players weren't so fucking stupid, they'd understand that the Mets, by bunting, were in fact being merciful. Well, I wouldn't call it a brouhaha. I just brought it up because of all the moral ambiguity. I don't think Keith and Ron were endorsing so much as reporting the wherefores. It's a small thing to make a big stink over one way or the other.