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But how many of them can there be with that kind of disposable income? Is the target is "kept women spending their sugar daddy's dough?" Do they drive monstrous SUVs? I imagine that if they live in the city, they take cabs everywhere? If the target is women who aren't kept women but think they're cool and sexy enough to be, they just don't have that kind of scratch, and what money they do have goes into shoes and accessories and gym memberships.

Matt Harvey and unwritten rules. Future is now for Mets thanks to imposing duo of Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler Jeff Passan, Yahoo dude ATLANTA � There is a story about Matt Harvey, one whispered around the New York Mets' clubhouse. It sounds fictitious. People who know Harvey swear it isn't. They saw it themselves. He stared down a giant bully, threatened to whip his ass and watched Goliath slink away. Harvey would prefer not to talk about it, because he knows better than to gloat. "I'm not gonna discuss it," he said Tuesday, one of the biggest days of his career, an even bigger one for the franchise he now and for the distant future will embody. Now, in fact, is the perfect time, for the tale runs so wonderfully parallel to the Mets' recent history. During his rookie season last year, Harvey was tired and decided to take a nap in a side room of the Mets' clubhouse. One of baseball's stupid decrees goes something like: Rookies pretty much can't do anything. That includes nap. The self-appointed enforcer of this rule was Jon Rauch, the 6-foot-11 relief pitcher with head-to-toe tattoos and the sort of perma-snarl reserved for nuns and rabid dogs. Rauch, according to people who saw the incident, barged into the room with bucket of ice water, which he proceeded to dump on Harvey. It waterlogged Harvey's phone, which was resting on his chest as an alarm, and incited an even more electrical reaction inside Harvey. He bounded up and challenged Rauch to a fight. Right there. Right then. He gave up 7 inches, about 75 pounds and a gallon or so of bad ink. It didn't matter that he was a rookie. Harvey would not be a joke. He would not be a punch line in Rauch's re-telling. He would not let some mediocre clown play him. Rauch backed away. From that day forth, everyone who witnessed the incident or heard about it understood a new Mets commandment: Thou shalt not trifle with Matt Harvey. And they gleaned something that they may not have understood at the time but certainly will going forward: If he can stand up against the big, bad leviathan and turn into the alpha dog just like that, so can the team that for the last five years has been nothing but joke after punch line after clown bait. (blah, blah, blah... Harvey and Wheeler are awesome... blah, blah...) http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mets-future-matt-harvey--zack-wheeler-065630022.html

In a flash of deja vu, Brown once again joins the Mets as they take on Atlanta, and once again displaces Collin Gowgill. When healthy, this guy has absolutely been the bee's pancreas in Las Vegas, going .346 / .432 / .660 // 1.093 in about 180 trips to the plate, which would make him third, first, second, and first in the league in those categories with a handful more plate appearances to qualify him. He's got 15 doubles, six triples, and 15 homers, knocking in 41 and scoing 39. If he can produce at 80% that level in the bigs, we could use him. Heck, if he can produce at 60% that level, we could tolerate him.

Caught the Brewers in the league-wide standings. Next-to-last was really getting old.

Yup, stands tall next to C.J. Nitkowski as the best bloggers in Mets history.

I had to check out that Cadillac commercial. How did the agency sell that? "See, your target demographic is rich, un-self-aware, manipulative, hateful young women. They're EVERYWHERE. We're gonna make you a ton of dough."

Memories of McHugh, of course. His first game was his best game, casting an outsized impression and making me think he had more in him than he perhaps in fact did.

Takes Hairston's and Davis's place as the legacy guy.

Young's a passable infield guy in addition to being a bad outfield guy. As far as trades go, I kinda like it, as it's just the sort of trade the generally trade-averse Sandy doesn't make.

Somebody's gonna come up with an abomination like "MATT-ZACK-LY!" Probably the Post.

One of those tabloids has to go with "Young Guns," right? It's like, the law.

Does it every time.

Can't go winless forever and ever, Shaun. If the boys can shut the Braves down, a man like you can.

A flailing Freeman. What a beautiful ending. Gain two games in the standings in one day.

Oh, that's been fixed.

Anybody else notice that Swan Swan H has slowly but definitively become the funniest guy on the forum? Step it up, LWFS.

The Braves guys are saying so anyhow. Is it 1,499?

Career Hits as a Met 1. David Wright 1,500 2. Ed Kranepool 1,418 3. Jos� Reyes 1,300 4. Cleon Jones 1,188 5. Edgardo Alfonzo 1,136 6. Mookie Wilson 1,112 7. Bud Harrelson 1,029 8. Mike Piazza 1,028 9. Darryl Strawberry 1,025 10. Howard Johnson 997

Y'know, Nietzsche says: "Out of chaos comes order."

Talk about the breaks. If Valvaro kicks that ball to a fielder, we're in the bottom of the inning with Aardsma or somebody and hanging on by the skin of our teeth.

Q breaks game open.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm not impressed at all with the Braves, beyond, you know, acknowledging they have a few good players. But jeez they ain't a 15-games-over-.500 team are they? They've somehow done it with half a lineup all year. Maybe it's the rest of the division all not having their shit together.

Thanks, Jus'. Love me that two-out-rally action. Hey, I just got to third base with Anthony Recker! OHMYGAWDOHMYGAWD!!

OHMYGAWDHE'SBACK!!![/bigpurple] (See if you can guess which one I am.)

That's a Jackie Robinson-type run right there.