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Phillies looking to come back by hitting backie-to-backie doubles to open the home sixth. Mets up by three. Rain letting up some.

Make a soundbite and upload it. It's just so meaningful to not be alone in the thread anymore. Stupid Twitter.

d'Arnaud hitting. den Dekker not. Mets up 5-1. And the one was boochit. Dramatic rain coming down.

Lagares got a triboomm that coulda been an itp-er if he hadn't slud by the time the relay was bobbled.

This forum suxx. Two kabooms un-illustrated.

Well, there are two ready-for-prime-timers in this lineup, anyhow.

Hey, radio booth. The Chooch thing is a term of endearment for the home fans.

I hope this Wright guy gets a good look next spring.

I like the DP when the first baseman goes to first and then throws out the runner for the tag.

Replays remove all ambiguity. d'Arnaud tagged the guy.

Phillie scores first on a sac fly to Laggy. Guy looked out to me, but the ump had lousy position under any circumstances.

Well, their injuries occurred last fall and carried over into this season. You also need to take into account that being a Yankee injures the spirit. Gravely, in fact.

Well, they're officially ending Wheeler's season. Would it kill them to add another? Do they know glory is within their grasp? OK, you probably don't want to burn Schwinnie's last option, but be creative. Giancarlo Alvarado could make a start or two, and people would briefly freak out when they hear that the team has added somebody named Giancarlo. Matt Fox? Cory Wade? Eric Campbell hit .314 this season. Is nobody curious?

Eight ears is impressive.

Trying to do the math here. They don't say it explicitly, but it looks like getting to the end of the season, even if the team has to carry him there, gets him over the line plus four more days for good measure.

Two uniform related notions: [*:8wow4l8i]Don't re-assign the numbers of guys still in the system. If a guy goes up, plays for a time and goes down, and he's still grinding at it, what clearer message could there be that he's wasted his time, that the team has lost all faith in him? But moreover, it just undermines the sense of continuity and historical categorization that numbers can represent. In fact, I tend to go radically further and advocate for a player's number to be reserved as long as he's still active and in the league. Yeah, that means a lot of higher-end numbers get cycled through, but it reinforces the notion that when a guy plays for the Mets, he remains a Met spiritually even if we don't need him at the time, and we may yet need him again. When he retires (or utterly disgraces himself to the point of familial disowning, a la Ambiorix Burgos), then the number goes dramatically back into circulation. (Some guy at MbtN accused me of having a "plantation mindset" when I suggested this.) [/*:m:8wow4l8i] [*:8wow4l8i]Play with insignia-free hats during spring training. Maybe after a week, an insignia appears on David Wright's hat, then one by one, as it becomes cclear that you've made the team, you get the NY. But you don't wear the NY until you've made the team that represents NY.[/*:m:8wow4l8i][/list:o:8wow4l8i] Non-uni-related item. [*:8wow4l8i]I saw another team with a lesser broadcast booth pull of this nice move. During the sixth inning or so, you link up the English-language and Spanish-language broadcast booths. Switch to the Spanish at the top of the inning for a five or ten seconds of Spanish at the top of the inning, and then have Howie introduce the Spanish broadcasters. "How are you doing tonight, fellas? What are you talking about? What do you think of the way Mejia is throwing?" In general, get the Spanish- and English-language outreach out of their silos. Don't let the audiences be strangers to one another.[/*:m:8wow4l8i][/list:o:8wow4l8i]

If the pants are sweet The Phils will be beat

Laggy looking for some late beer action with his glove. Hawk too.

So, you concede the too-old thing, then, and you're not gonna die. Cool on both counts.

And... it somehow navigates through that minefield and becomes a dance romance. Who knew? Well, everybody but me, but still.

I'm sorry to kill you. Let's discuss before you die. Longshot for what? Longshot to ever play again play beyond the next 10 days? Longshot to start regularly? Longshot to be an All Star? Longshot to be included in special edition of baseball cards that make the editors of Beckett Almanac plotz? The median age of ballplayers in AA is 24. The average age of ballplayers in the Eastern League is 24.2 This guy just turned 22 on August 11, so he played most of the season as a 21-year-old. He's been young for his leagues most of his career. And of course, he's not in AA anymore, as he's graduated to the big leagues. So whatever his issues, being too old certainly isn't one of them.

We went halfway through last night and are preparing to re-enter this evening. As someone with some crazy in my family, it has been alternately engaging and horrifying. I'm very curious as to how they wrap this up. I'm guessing it won't be a neat little package. Sort of put me in mind of Observe and Report and Safety Not Guaranteed in the sub-genre of films with psychotic protagonists off their meds.

I thought it was Wright with the tuba. That series was awful --- culturally anyhow. The News seemed to want the rivalry so bad that they even ran a couple of articles encouraging fans to be dicks, and dispatched some gonzo to show us how it's done, provocatively acting like a dick in order to capture the experience for those of us who didn't have the time or scratch to head down to Philly to get drunk and beat up. It's a winning tabloid formula. Provoke violence. Make violence you incited your lead story. Sell papers. Cash checks. Still, for a brief moment in time, Mike Pelfrey was in ascendance to the point where folks were comfortable and excited even to have their hopes resting on his shoulders with first place on the line. Were we ever so young?

A longshot for what? He's already a big leaguer, jumping from AA, no less, leapfrogging the likes of Hicks, Bixler, and Sandoval. We should all be such longshots.