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Ka-pow.

And every time he finished his inning, the offense came out and turned the game around. His name is Emmanuel, and he redeems ballgames.

Pretty good summary.

Yeah, this one didn't shake me up either. I think it's time for me to cash in my chips with regard to superduperguy films. yeah, if this one didn't do it for you, you can join Transmonk in the anti-unicorn faction. I'm not saying its the best thing since sliced bread (and how did that food product earn its reputation for greatness anyway?), or even the best superhero movie, but it's got a nice blend of character and action, and it delivers its silliness with a sense of humor and clever self-awareness that doesn't tip into cynicism or satire. I really don't know what else people want from a big summer action film. I dug Iron Man, and Hulk and Iron Man 2 to a lesser extent. I didn't find the quality in the character and story development that you did. I did enjoy much of what they were able to make the Hulk and Captain America do. The latter was sort of like a running back in the open field, pure intuition. But what tends to happen to me in these movies is that I lose all sense of what is going on --- what these characters are capable of and the battle topography and all. Just how strong is this guy and that guy? How invulnerable? The whys, too. Why are the quite mortal and breakable characters walking away from plane wrecks and getting up to fight? Why, when they're desperately outnumbered, do they elect to do their fighting standing in a circle in the middle of an intersection? That seems like a terrible tactical choice, to me. Spoilers: A lot of plot turns seemed to be taken from other films at a predictable and eyerollable level. The heroes all arguing among themselves because of the corruptive power of the evil talisman was right out of Fellowship of the Ring. The evil army that is overwhelming the heroes until a clever scrappy (but overlookable) hero gets behind the lines and takes out the mothership, and the army collapses --- it seemed like a replay of Phantom Menace (and Return of the King and Independence Day, also.) Hey, here's a thing, and I might've whined about this before, why do these films tend to have the earth placed in an existential crisis, leaving our titular heroes to save the day, but other heroes from the same universe don't even show up. Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, X-Men --- you all have bases in or around New York City, but when a giant creepy army from space vows to obliterate mankind starting with mid-town Manhattan, you guys all sleep in.

The question in the previous article. If you had a choice between 800 homeruns or finding true love (possibly with a ballerina played by Emily Blunt, but true love has many faces), which would you choose. Now, Chip Hall went for the homerun crown and Ike Davis went for the true love, but that's a little unfair, as Davis has a reasonable shot in his lifetime for something like half of the 800 homers, and many of us married folk are experiencing something reasonably like the fairy tale "true love." So perhaps take this test from the perspective of yourself being as utterly devoid of true love as you are of big league power.

The tack-on, three-run homer in Wednesday�s 10-6, sweep-completing win over the Phillies, after which Davis� on-base plus slugging is still .548, 22nd among 24 qualifying major league first basemen, has not happened yet. Two firstbasemen have been worse than Davis and haven't lost their jobs yet?

I guess I can be glad that they didn't spell it "Citi."

Then Hodges singled and the instant folk hero, Hot Rod Kanehl, ran for him, and with two outs Hobie Landrith pinch-hit for Ed Bouchee. (Don�t you just love all these 1962 names?) In that sequence there, it sounds like a Lousiana State game. A lot of old Southern Frenchie sounding names. Vinegar Bend Mizell would fit in that category too.

Guys, I work for a religious organization. In an open cube. Be cool about nsfw images, man.

Other dead strands: [table:2ckeq3kh][tr:2ckeq3kh][td:2ckeq3kh]February 5, 2002, Craig House selected off waivers by the Los Angeles Dodgers from the New York Mets.[/td:2ckeq3kh][/tr:2ckeq3kh][/table:2ckeq3kh] A waiver claim is worth a few thousand dollars, right?! [table:2ckeq3kh][tr:2ckeq3kh][td:2ckeq3kh]January 26, 2002, Ross Gload purchased by the Colorado Rockies from the New York Mets.[/td:2ckeq3kh][/tr:2ckeq3kh][/table:2ckeq3kh] Again, where did the cash go?! [table:2ckeq3kh][tr:2ckeq3kh][td:2ckeq3kh]January 28, 2003, Jeff D'Amico signed as a free agent with the Pittsburgh Pirates.[/td:2ckeq3kh][/tr:2ckeq3kh][/table:2ckeq3kh] Did we get a compensation pick for this Type Q free agent?! [table:2ckeq3kh][tr:2ckeq3kh][td:2ckeq3kh]June 5, 2008, Jose (aka "Joselo") Diaz released by the New York Mets.[/td:2ckeq3kh][/tr:2ckeq3kh][tr:2ckeq3kh][td:2ckeq3kh]On June 12, 2008, Jose (aka "Joselo") Diaz signed as a free agent by the Texas Rangers.[/td:2ckeq3kh][/tr:2ckeq3kh][/table:2ckeq3kh] Reunited with Victor Diaz!! Kole Strayhorn pitched in the Mets system through 2005 and got into a few games with the High-A Potomac Nationals in Washington's system in 2006. I'm guessing we didn't get any compensation there.

Just to show where one of those other extensions of this branch died off. [table:3glnykrp][tr:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp]On March 24, 2002, Lou Collier was traded to the Montreal Expos for[/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][/tr:3glnykrp][tr:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp]Jason Bay[/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp]Jimmy Serrano[/td:3glnykrp][/tr:3glnykrp][tr:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp]On July 31, 2002, Jason Bay was traded (along with Josh Reynolds and Bobby Jones) to the San Diego Padres for[/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp]On July 5, 2003, Jimmy Serrano was purchased by the Kansas City Royals from the New York Mets[/td:3glnykrp][/tr:3glnykrp][tr:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp]Jason Middlebrook[/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp]Steve Reed[/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][/tr:3glnykrp][tr:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp]On February 9, 2004, Jason Middlebrook signed as a free agent with the Anaheim Angels.[/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp]On January 23, 2003, Steve Reed signed as a free agent with the Colorado Rockies.[/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][td:3glnykrp][/td:3glnykrp][/tr:3glnykrp][/table:3glnykrp] So the Lou Collier extension of the branch has died off, although in theory, you can say a minute strand of it carried on in the cash they got for Serrano living on in the next new cash transaction the Mets entered into after that deal. That would likely be the bonus paid to one of their June draft choices, or maybe it's October 9, 2003 waiver claim of Matt Watson from the Athletics. It's a philsophical muddle at that point.

That ain't five, Mordecai.

If I count correctly, there are 10 men (at least) that Mike Nickeas is heir to as a Met. Ten men and seven GMs along the way keeping the DNA strand of all them alive. Alive in one man --- the backup catcher and more or less the 25th guy on the roster. All that legacy, hanging on by the thinnest of threads. Go, Mike!

Dennis Quaid is a randy, dimpled cajun detective on the streets of the titular New Orleans, and he's dirtier than a blown out oil rig. Ellen Barkin is a prissy DA investigating... police corruption! Can these two wayward souls somehow find love when the only thing they have in common is... a pile of dead bodies!

Whatever Rocket is eating, order me some o' 'dat. WLERAGGSCGSHOSVIPHRERHRBBSOGO/AOAVG010.4710000119.07310827[/bigpurple]1.00.119[/bigpurple]

I dunno. I don't think that walk rate is anything to break a career over.

Good memory, Knot. I remember more when Mets have been caught by it. I remember Strawberry falling for it, and I think Carter fell for the hidden ball trick in the same season (1987?). I'm OK with it being kept too. Lefties have a disadvantage? Well, they have five times the advantage with holding runners on first.

The Daily News schedule ties it all together.

Hey, check it out. My Net Games Back has been adopted by baseball-reference as GBsum. http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2012-standings.shtml

Well, if that's not a temporary illusion, then I'm going to have to accept that our players are awesome, through and through.

Good call. Thanks. I guess that makes him the first Met ever so placed.

Seoie giving us his first post in a week.

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That's the stuff. YEAH! Bring on the Fish!

There's something to be said for post-season performance (and certainly a World Series MVP) that's not really. From one perspective, the entire 162-game 1969 season was about the Mets winning a division and triumphing over the other five teams in that division. In winning the playoff series over the Braves, they defeated the champion of another division of six. So they are no longer atop a pile of six, but a pile of 12. From that perspective, the three-game series accomplished just as much as the 162-game season (or more, as 6 > 5), and so accomplishments by players in that series could reasonably be argued to be as weighted with importance as a any season's worth of performance. Similarly, the defeat of the Orioles would be worth as much as the 162-game season and the NLCS series put together. We weight the seasons for their post-season success, but certainly not at that level. And we don't weight the players by their performance in those post-seasons. I'm not sure my logic floats, but doing so would certainly take a step toward reconciling our rankings of Clendennon and Knight with ESPN's.