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Lines to left-center. Bay steps in front of Torres for the play. Get in the game, Crane Pool. Ryan Zimmerman stepping up... ... matches his Norfolk playmate David Wright with a two-out double.

Lombardozzi leads off and flies to the track. Some kid named Harper up now and Young wants nothing to do with him.

Maybe what we need is a veteran catcher who has been around the league and caught a few all-stars.

Strikes him out on the change. Let's dampen their spirits in the bottom of the inning.

Ike Davis, hitting .290 over his last 29 games.

Fucking flares one in and hustles to second. Guy is golden this year. Let's pick his sugary ass up.

David Wright digging in. Drove everything to the warning track last night.

Murphy up. Peerless builds America's best boilers. he went 2-2 last night after entering late as a pinch-hitter... ... and he skies that shit to right. Morse puts him away.

Ruben leading off. Six game hit streak.... ... pops to second.

Closed door meeting for the Mets. That's a well you can only go to twice a year.

Mmmmm... Rauch drainage. Meanwhile...

Won a lot more games then Anthony, though. I guess it's a pretty safe bet that Young is the winningest name in baseball history. Johnson is probably second. Maybe Niekro third.

I don't find fault with bringing in cold relievers (I would understand that they are all cold). I criticize bringing in anybody in place of pitchers who are succeeding and unfatigued, and in most cases pulling pitchers who are not meaningfully mismatched. Byrdak was certainly not succeeding, and he certainly was mismatched. The Mets had no good options. Byrdak's performance saw to that.

Beato isn't a rookie, and he wasn't so much just called up as he's just returning. Byrdak's OBP given up to righties is .407 for his career and .457 this season. Beato's was .276 on his career and .250 for his few appearances this season. Regarding "Shorty,": Yup, he's short. Manuel's black. Howe's bald. Let's lay off, for the love of the rest of us pocket people.

Well, somebody suggested Rauch and Batista were possibilities. Let me read back... ... oh, scratch that. It was you. I'm not sure who the right person is to bring in with the bases loaded and the game tied in extra innings on the road. Walter Johnson, I guess, but he's dead. The only answer is: the best available dude at getting people out. Maybe that wasn't Beato, but I hardly see strong evidence that it wasn't Beato.

There was on the radio. They were suggesting Wright watch for the squeeze also.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: There's obviously a disease of CAHfidence going around, I think Rauch and FrankFrank caught it first and just passed it onto the others. Or maybe it was Acosta, whose case was fatal. There is no cure but to will it back, one guy at a time, as a unit, and accept that relief pitching is unpredictable. Meantime, scoring more runs and making fewer errors would build some room for error. That's the stuff. It's tough medicine to swallow, but it's true. How about upgrading Ramirez? He still seems to have some swagger.

Well, I'm specifically responding to the notion that the bullpen definitively must be turned over 100%. That's more vindictive than thoughtful. The main reason the team had only one righty on the bench is that the team was so stacked with righthanders in the lineup. Part of platooning liberally is having the opposite hitting platoon group as your bench for the day. Was a short right-handed bench a factor last night?

Signed by the Brews, but hasn't appeared yet.

He may not have signed a contract but I have your signature right here on his adoption papers. You've got to stay with this guy.

Well, I don't want knee-jerk management of the organization, certainly. And if that makes Alderson seem aloof, well, long live aloof.

Yeah, I meant to link to his baseball-reference page just so the Deadspin portrait wouldn't be definitive.

It doesn't work like that with relievers, though. It would be easier if it did, but it doesn't. An guy who is impregnable one year is highly permeable the next. One year Doug Sisk is the Man Without an ERA, the next year he can't keep his slider down. One year Randy Myers is throwing batting practice, the next he's got the batters in tears. Messy Fiasco to Jesse Orosco. Tug McGraw spent most of his "Ya Gotta Believe" year as the worst pitcher on the team. Couldn't be touched down the stretch, though. So you can't just say, "You failed, you're gone; you guys haven't failed yet, welcome aboard." You've got use judgment and shit, painful as it is to have to reinforce some of that judgment through bad results. But we've had mostly bad results through a bullpen merry-go-round for six years now. I don't know what to say, but I don't think cleaning house gets us forward. Part of Casey's gospel was that if you've got two good relievers, one of them will go bad on you the next year, so you'd better get a third. That's smart, but it's hard to apply in an era where teams put themselves in a position to need five-seven good relievers.

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Ceetar wrote: actually, why was Edgin brought in for the Righty and the Switch hitter? He got the lefty Harper out..maybe that is a spot you can question Terry at.. Yeah, that's really my main question with Terry. I questioned him pinch-hitting Murphy instead of Turner, and I may have some ammo if Murphy didn't smack a hit, but he did and I don't. Beato was probably as good as any other choice. His control is probably as good as or better than the other righthanders available. I might have gone to Rauch just because Moore has likely never seen anybody that big, but he might've thrown one against the backstop too. The grounder before that... did we have a chance at a double play? OE: Oh, and Angel Hernandez.