Theoldmole

During the Reggie era (and this was the only time in my life) I actually kinda liked the Yankees. I was at the World Series game in 1977 when Reggie hit the three home runs, and the place was wild with love. Don't forget Mike was booed a few times when he first came to the Mets, too.

Actually, I confess I got that from the NY Times. In any event, they aren't likely to see all that many lefties in the playoffs.

It turns out that the biggest difference in games started by left-handers and right-handers since July 31 is not necessarily in the Mets� hitting but in their pitching. According to Elias Sports Bureau, in the 25 games started by right-handers before last night, the Mets� starting pitchers had a 3.74 earned run average. It was 3.14 before two games that the Mets split last week with Marlins right-handers. In the 19 games that left-handers started, the Mets� starting pitchers had a 7.18 E.R.A. In other words, the Mets might have scored fewer runs against left-handers than they did against right-handers, but their offensive output against left-handers might have been enough to win some of the games if their own pitchers had pitched more effectively.

]so the grounds crew had to stay up all night fixing what the the vandalous fans had undone. He was a year away from being born,

Hey, we won!!!!!!

Nady should be encouraged. Buccos have some players to build a team on.

What's Reyes doing taking a called 3rd strike?

LoDuca is a tough out.

Green gets on, do you pinch hit for Ledee?

No argument here.

Better than fighting them in the streets of San Francisco.

I've always hated the MFYs. Well, almost always. For a short time -- Reggie, Mickey Rivers, Chris Chambliss -- I almost kinda liked 'em. And I was at the '77 Series game when Reggie hit three home runs.

Well, I did post a lifewatch thread a while back.

For the first time in more than three decades, there were seven shutouts in the major leagues on one day yesterday. In the American League, Boston beat Chicago, 1-0; Minnesota defeated Tampa Bay, 8-0; and Kansas City blanked the Yankees, 5-0. In the National League, Arizona defeated Florida, 4-0; St. Louis beat Washington, 2-0; Cincinnati defeated San Francisco, 3-0; and Milwaukee blanked Los Angeles. 9-0. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it was the most shutouts on one day since there were a record eight on June 4, 1972, when 16 games were played. Thirteen games were played yesterday. Milwaukee’s Doug Davis (four-hitter) and Cincinnati’s Bronson Arroyo (three-hitter) had the only complete-game shutouts. Among those who pitched complete-game shutouts on June 4, 1972, were Bob Gibson, Catfish Hunter, Tom Timmerman, John Curtis and Don Wilson. There was one similarity: Bruce Froemming, who umpired at third base in Milwaukee last night, worked at first base when Wilson pitched a two-hitter in Montreal.

Minnesota Twins shortstop (back when I living in Minnesota) Zorro Ver-sallies asked people not to give him a nickname he didn't want, and to pronounce his last name correctly -- Zoilo Ver-sigh-yez. But the best one was New York Ranger star Walter TAY-chuck, who, after several years as a star with the Broadway Blues, finally informed people that his name was Ka - CHOOK.

Scooby Doo isn't bad, especially if you watch it with a 5-year-old.

Chuck has the right answer. I used to be in this business. When we subtitled "Z," there was a long sequence where Yves Montand is in the hospital, dying, and everything is white -- the walls, the cabinets, the doctor's smocks. The subtitles were white on white, and unreadable. I asked if they couldn't make the titles black, just for those scenes, and was told it would have been expensive, and there was no budget for it. These days, they make a lot of subtitles yellow. The best subtitling job I ever saw was done by my brother Jon, for a film called "The Mother and the Whore" -- a terrific movie, mostly forgotten today, because its director, Jean Eustache, committed suicide at a young age, and didn't build up a body of work. "The Mother and the Whore" was a subtitlists nightmare, because it was immensely long, and all talk, talk, talk. There's one scene in which Jean-Pierre Leaud is sitting in a cafe, talking nonstop, and suddenly he launches a fusillade of untranslatable French puns. Jon agonized over this for a while, and eventually realized that the point of the scene wasn't so much what he was saying, but that he couldn't shut up. So his subtitle read: Here follow a series of untranslatable French puns.

I'm happy.

I just have the radio to go by.

Leg caught in the padding...listening on MLB radio. He's limping, but he's walking...

How serious is it?

Was watching on TCM last night, and thinking that if you remade this with contemporary special effects wizardry, with an A-List screenwriter and Spielberg directing, with music by John Williams, it still wouldn't be as good as the original. Then I discover it's being remade by Keenan Ivory Wayans,

It ain't the meat, it's the motion.

Don't forget Fran Pirozzollo. Who did not last long.

If we can trade Nickeas for Barry Zito, that would give Tim Bogar an uplift.