Theoldmole

According to Curt Flood, the job of a first base coach is to say "Don't get picked off."

Scratch that. Multiplied by Plate Appearances.

For those of us hopelessly mired in the mid-20th Century... I actually do know what OPS is. And I can figure out the last part as divided by Plate Appearances. But what is plus or minus 60? Or 80?

Yeah, the Mets have had such bad luck on Latino ballplayers in the past few years, I'd pass on him without even looking at him.

Walter O'Malley and Robert Moses.

Foster?

the Mets have to get into the playoffs and the WS, because if they don't, we'll be forced to watch the NY football teams.

A perfect spot for everyone to meet. No Mets ever, sadly, but I did meet PeeWee Reese.

Martinez 2 Schoeneweis 3 Beltran 2 Delgado 1 Castillo 1 Alou 1

In case you're wondering why the Mets turned it around last night...my daughter went to the game, and she vowed not to go to the bathroom until the Mets won.

After all these years, it still boggles the mind.

I only left one game early in my life. It was a Giants-Eagles game. My girl friend's boss had given us the tickets, and she wasn't that interested in football, so to be genlemanly, I suggested leaving with about a minute and a half to go. The game was all but over, anyway. All Pisarcik had to do was fall on the ball three times......

Julie Franco, kitchen staff, Wayside Chapel Community Church

There's an incredible riff by Proust on gradually coming to understand music that I'll post if I can find.

]I really don't know what that means. How do you understand a beat? How can music make sense or not make sense? These are actually good questions. The second is pretty much the one Fozzie Bear asks at the beginning of The Muppets Peter and the Wolf, but that only adds to its creds as a good question. The way you understand a beat is exactly the way the kids on American Bandstand did..."I'll give it an 85, Dick -- it's got a good beat, you can dance to it." Or, if it doesn't have a good beat, which you understand by how well you can dance to it, you give it a 50. With jazz, it's a more complicated version of the same thing. You understand the beat viscerally, if not with your feet. The way the music is propelled forward (or sideways) makes rhythmic sense to you. The free jazz that Darling is a little overawed by makes a farther disconnect from the Dick Clark beat than bebop does, so the in the same way that the Bandstand kid may have to make a little aesthetic leap before he can feel the more complex beat of Max Roach -- but he may do it, in time -- Ron Darling knows that if he listens to enough of the late-period Coltrane, that even more abstract beat will start to make visceral sense to him. Darling comes across as an ace in this interview, Barra as an asshole.

Have they forgotten Ken McKenzie?

There can't be two smart pitchers?

Pelfrey - 3 Milledge - 3 Beltran - 3 Wright - 0.5 Castillo - 0.5

How about an all-star team of Exies? Without thinking about it too much, which will be a copout for my obvious mistakes LHP - Kazmir RHP - Bannister RP - Isringhausen C - Piazza 1B - Jacobs 2B - Kent SS- Keppinger 3B- Wigginton OF - Bay, Cameron, Nady

Do we have to have reasons for banning people?

Is Castillo a rent-a-player, or part of the Mets' future? Why is everyone so sure LoDuca is not coming back? Who else is probably staying, probably going?

Any replacement for Easley announced yet?

]I'm a racist, I'm a gambler, I'm a long way from home And if you don't like me, then leave me alone I'll date who I want to, if she's left junior high And if the papers don't kill me, I'll live 'til I die Edgy -- a month and a half lae, I finally ran across this. It's hilarious.

Glavine is a Met, and beloved.

Both catch phrases, but not obnoxious ones. I like "put it in the books." Of course, the best catch phrase of all by a Met announcer was "happy recap."