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DC went 3-3 with a triple, walk, and stolen base yesterday. He's going from top hitter on the Cyclones to top hitter in Cyclones history.

When I say insane, that's what I'm talking about. What are those benches made out of that they support those guys?

I demand Bruce Willis as Art Howe or I'm not making the picture.

Long Beach State Dirtbag Rylan Sandoval gets some nice ink today in the News. Adopt him and his beauty queen name.

The Avengers was always kind of insane to me.

Sounds like The Spirit of '76.

Yeah, Mario Van Peebles was really typecast in black roles. I didn't know Pele ever did gay porn. Really, all you needed to get backing for an eighties movie was a tagline of "They've got nothing in common but..."

This thread has had over 16,000 hits. I wonder if it's drawing non-Mets traffic for us.

Those three starts? They weren't fill-ins here and there. Those were his last three consecutive appearances, throwing four, seven, and six scoreless, respectively. He's thrown 23 2/3 consecutive without giving up a run.

Photo editors feeling kinda stupid? I hope so. TeamLeagueWLERAGGSCGSHOSVIPHRERHRBBSOGO/AOAVGSAVSAL501.0125300153.13776017451.6.201

After (mostly) getting his ass handed to him for the first month of the season, Joe Smith Smith spent May and most of June in Columbus. He is now unscored upon since June 28, stretching 5 2/3 innings. I can't make this picture make sense in my head.

Senior citizen diabolists. Textbook creepy.

Nobody takes you seriously when your name looks like two other names impacted, but it took openings elsewhere in the system for Jordanny to get some reg'lar PT this season, and he's starting to heat up, going 9-18 over four games last week --- and then going 0-12 this weekend. Anywhich, Jordany's a solid .296 /.330 / .453 // .782 for the St. Lucies this summer, splitting time between short and second.

Can somebody tell me the big holy diff between Rugby Union and Rugby League?

Yeah, airless is fair. Whatever strength it musters gets sapped by not one, but two cheesy triumphant ballads. Perfectly fine performances, but some sloppy story development. I know more about Mandela's philosophy and (some) more about his burden, but I don't really feel I know him or Francois Pienaar very well. Not that everything has to tie up perfectly neatly. Disney sports movies always do that, and still mostly suck. But, I don't know, I guess I don't walk away as big a fan of the sport or the team as I should, considering their tremendous accompliment.

Trade him to the Orioles for someone named Shea.

Foul weather and foul music can't stop the B-Mets and Sean Ratliff:

Seannie-Boy headed up to Bingo to replace Nieuwenheis, and threw up five homers and 12 ribs in 13 games. Girls love that sort of shit. "I was excited to get the call-up and see what I was made of at a higher level with a little bit better pitching. The fact that I came out and swung the bat well the first week here was big for me, and I had to make a statement to show I was ready to play at this level." Oh, yeah, bland and beautiful. Isn't chew banned in the minors now?

What? And leave TJ Chism behind?

This Beltran guy down in St. Lucie is pretty good. How about his teammate Eric Campbell, though? He's havnig a genuine 3-4-5 season (.336-.415-.524), having never sniffed that stratosphere before. He was born in the baseball hotbed of Evansville, IN., but comes out Norwich, CT. He plays first and third, and should be in Buffalo by next year.

What a jerk!

Bam!

Bob Klapisch: Wrong.

Somebody needs to ride this white pony, and that somebody is going to be me. Sean, who spells his name according to the Irish standard, has had a solid start in St. Lucie, going .275 / .331 / .432 // .763. Not great, but solid for a centerfielder. But solid enough that he got the call up to AA when Kirk Nieuwenhuis developed a sore shoulder. Joining the team with Silky Smooth Josh Satin, his first seven games there have been Power City, going .323/.323/.677 // 1.000. Yeah, no walks and eight strikouts isn't the golden path to success, but he's new at this AA business. Sean shares Chris Carter's Stanford pedigree. (Sociology major, yuck.) I'll additionally have you know that he went 4-0 as a part-time pitcher his senior year (with a 6.68 ERA --- thank you, Pac-10). His Stanford career, in fact, added up to a hell of an MLB season, hitting .307, with 152 hits, 115 runs scored, 26 doubles, eight triples, 34 home runs, 117 RBI and 18 stolen bases in 150 games (123 starts). He was the Mets fourth-round pick in 2008, has had a steady minor league career, but was looking like an organizational player in search of a breakthrough season. And you don't want to waste that sosh degree by becoming a rotting organizational player. So with two homers yesterday against the New Briton Rock Cats, maybe this is his moment.

Puerto Ricans = dark caucasians Italians = fair caucasians.