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Great break on the curve to strike out Simmons.

Nothing against Daisuke, but he should be the last man out of the pen today, shouldn't he?

Batting with the pitcher in a shadow must be... terrifying.

Wright suddenly unstoppable. Murph hanging in there too.

Young, I understand not quite getting to that ball, but how do you run 40 feet past it?

"Catch that, Simmons." --- Ruben Tejada

Come on, Brownie. Hit it to Uggla, not Simmons.

Lets walk 'em off.

Gattis is a fast man.

Ronnnie raving about how hard Simmons is to strike out and then he goes lunging at a two-strike curve in the dirt, and he still puts it in play by hitting it on a bounce.

Nope, Torres hanging in there.

Go get 'em, Farnie. You big maniac.

Zvon wrote: TransMonk wrote: Harper Pulled for Not Hustling, Nats Fall to Cards I don't see it. He ran up the line until the put out, then veered toward the dugout. I've seen Walter Matthau bust it better than that.

Wait, where are we getting "significant player"? The only reference to "significant" I've seen is that he's expected by one or more parties to be "more significant" than Thornton. This could describe any member of a --- sorry, Thorny --- rather vast field of players. Let's not set the Mets up to fail, here.

Which taoiseach did you get?

Stop with the details. I'm sure he could throw with his left arm if he wanted to. John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think it can be when it's a player selected in the prior draft before a year has passed. Another scenario is giving the Mets time to select among several guys etc etc. Really thought we'd have worked a 3-way for a shortstop. One of the scenarios I'm juggling is that the PtBNL is a possible shortstop still to come to the Pirates from another deal. Meanwhile, Didi Gregorius hit a walkoff homer last night to give the Reno Aces a 10-7 win over your Las Vegas 51s.

For a few weeks there, he really seemed to slay the lingering notion that Citi Field's dimensions were going to be a bane, more to us than our enemies. He was knocking 'em off the bridge and we were all "HA! We are LORDS of Citi Field!" That infield crash between him and Wright is probably the watermark of the Terry Collins era. We're still feeling affects from it all over the infield. All discussions at every infield position involve that collision.

Guess which 27-year-old career minor leaguer just moved up the depth chart?

Will be interesting to know if there were anything to those weird insinuations that his nightlife was part of the problem. I had forgotten all about that angle until last week when somebody asked what time the team will be getting into their hotel in Anaheim, and Irish(?) answered, "About two hours before Ike does." I liked the idea of Ike too, and I'm gonna miss the ceiling above and beyond Duda that he seemed to have, even if that was mostly an abstraction. Hope Duda can hack it all.

Booo. I hate the post-Ike era. I hate the sour homecomings.

The Mets love Ike and their hearts are heavy.

Our Zack facktor is getting noticeably high.

The only true verdict on the future is the future. But you do well to weigh more recent performances as more indicative of current trending.