Edgy MD

Hefner's breaking stuff making Butler look silly. Let's get Gordon.

And everything has gone pearish of shape since that mistake by Turner. Bases-loaded, one out, tied at one.

Oh, I don't buy that 80-90%. He's clearly worse at second, third, and first. He's about as bad as a shortstop can be. Murphy's probably a better hitter against lefties. Whatever Turner was two years ago, he ain't really now. It was one of Whitey Herzog's explicit values that you never want to give a bench player too much job security. He's siimply slow. And that's not not a good trait for your play-anywhere utility guy. And it's really not not a good trait for your play-anywhere utility guy when your bench is short and you're really gonna need him everywhere.

Of course you did. Any ball hit there is a double. But Turner's ass is getting large.

Too many burritos, Turner.

Nice to see Murph selling Byrd on how he pulled it off. Nice card.

Murph slugging against a lefty is a good thing. KAPOW!

Diving basket catch by Young of what might have been a routine fly had he positioned himself closer to normal.

Hope everything's well, Ash. End of one and scoreless.

Hefner swapped in as starter and did fine in the first. Young leads off with a hit for the Mets. Keith congratulating Gary with flourish for remembering that Jerry Royster replaced Ned Yost as Brewers manager, but GAry's got it wrong. It was Dale Sveum.

Ashie hasn''t started the thread, but the ump has started the game, so I'm jumping in.

Terrible to lose him, but I can't say I don't enjoy moving the parts around. Looking forward to seeing EY at second, glad to have a lefty on the bench again, and even will enjoy seeing Murphy at third. Hope Turner doesn't get one more at-bat than he'd otherwise get. I'm afraid that won't happen as such. Wondering if byrd or Hawkins or Buck or somebody becomes more positioned in a rleadership role. Get back soon, man.

Megdal wrote: Way back on May 27, Alderson talked up the possibility that the Mets would add talent in the summer period of baseball activity, with a Mets source pointing out, rightly, that "it�s hard to build an entire outfield in one offseason.� A few weeks later, on June 15, Alderson said this: "I do believe that over the next six months or so we will be in position to make some significant acquisitions, whether it's through free agency or trade. We're certainly looking forward to that possibility." Taking Alderson at his word, that means most of those six months, June 15-December 15, are now up. Only somebody incapable of doing math, somebody incapable of hearing anything but perceived insults, or somebody committed to maintiaining his fantasy of running the team would argue as such. But about that outfield, which Alderson was only recently telling fatalistic jokes about. "We've taken what seemed to be a fairly barren outfield at the beginning of the season and turned it over the last month into maybe the most productive outfield in baseball," Alderson said by way of explaining his inactivity on Wednesday. "So some positive things have happened. And we want to let that play out." Why does anybody need to be insulted to the point where they deliberately pretend to think that he's talking about anything but July?

And probably some Eric Young at second.

One minor bit of good news is that the 51s are playing in that great Pacific Coast city of Nashville. So Lutz or Flores or whoever should be able to get a redeye flight and be in Queens in time for tomorrow's day game, presumably as the starter at third base, if he's able to answer the bell.

Zvon wrote: I believe.

[bigpurple:1in61f5a]GOTCHAMOLOTCHA!![/bigpurple:1in61f5a]

This guy's mouth is all over his glove.

Nice to see Q not struggling tonight.

OAR may not be able to go on with the show, but are hopefully available as defensive substitutes.

Wowzers. MENDOZA!!!

I'm telling you, this guy uses the spitter.

Can't bunt Murphy. Too many strikeouts for Buck.

I'm all for using Wheeler. GO TERRY! Mendoza going to hair. Check him for substances.

Well, I guess that Lutz is about to get the call up the the big leagues and Dykstra will then head to Vegas.