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Aramis Ramirez?

I wonder if Rose won a Shipload of money when gambling. He appears to have won the Pulchritude Lottery.

Let's not kid ourselves, Rose will never be reinstated. His chances were vanishingly small before these revelations and they just got smaller. There's a lot of hoopla about this because it's just more evidence that Rose is and always has been a congenital liar. Trying to draw the line between managing and playing has been the strategy from Team Rose since the last set of Bombshell Revelations. I find it hard to believe that he developed a severe gambling habit just after he stopped playing.

I always thought it was Cardinal fans.

Ronnie went 0 for 5 in Gary's absence.

A-Roid.

Wonder what other needs in Columbia, SC are going unmet because local politicians tripped all over themselves to build a brand new ballpark to steal a team away from someone else?

Tenuous Metly connection: Drummer is wearing a Tidewater Grain shirt.

Emma Watson was the best thing about the whole movie and she's on screen for two minutes at most. The 'guys' are tiring. The world's ending and they whine too much. And the ending is beyond hokey/contrived. The party scene at the beginning was great, as was the impalement, strange as that sounds. After that, eh. But Hermione screaming, "I'm not f*cking around!!!!" was priceless. 2 1/2 stars. It was half-good.

METS UNABLE TO TRADE PITCHER, FAILED OBAMA POLICIES BLAMED

"Hi, I'm David Wright, and here are all the great things you can do in New York State, even though currently I can't do any of them."

Sorry, but I've had just about enough of Alex Torres.

Well, I've found that my rooting for them one way or the other has no effect on their actual performance. But their actual performance has an effect on my blood pressure. As they have one frickin hit through seven innings.

Hey, it's Father's Day, so I can have what I want. (Happy Birthday to all you Fathers out there, by the way.) My perverse wish? A 12-game losing streak. It's got to be one game longer than the winning streak, for emphasis. Because as long as the Mets are playing peek-a-boo with the Nats for first place and treading water a little above .500 they're going to stand pat, not just at the trade deadline, but in the offseason, too. ("Hey, we'll be adding Wheeler and Wright, that's like trading for two All-Stars!") A 12-game losing streak now will put an end to that foolishness at least in the eyes of the beat writers, Terry and Sandy and Jeffy's true constituency. Because to stay on this path just portends more pain in the future. You can't assemble this kind of a pitching staff and this kind of offense and defense. It's just ridiculous. But there's no impact player coming, no Hernandez or Carter or Piazza unless it's made so perfectly obvious that 'The Plan', such as it is, isn't going to work. What will work? Well, to begin with, you have to identify your problem. This team is playing defense that a bunch of eighth graders would be ashamed of. I've seen more brain farts this year than Rick Perry on a bad day. And this is not only because you have the wrong players playing positions, although that's a big part of it. Why does Grandy play right and Cuddyer left? Why do you play Ruben Tejada at third and Flores at short? You can have 5 Tom Seavers on the pitching staff but it won't matter if your defense can't catch the ball or turn double plays. Steven Matz is more than ready to come up, but why should he? He'd just lose 2-0 on two unearned runs. This doesn't even get to the offense. Nobody on this team can hit consistently. No one. There's a manager who's also prone to brain farts, who plays his favorites, overworks what little bullpen he has and generally just needs to go. There's a front office who lies when you can even figure out what they're saying. I'm guessing d'Arnaud will be out for more than a few days and David Wright won't be back by the All-Star break, just to name two things. I could go on. I think Wilmer Flores needs to be traded to a team that will put him at second base and let him play, for instance. And they need to get some real professional hitters and defenders, not the Cuddyers and Grandersons of the world. That'll require a commitment on the part of ownership that you and I both know is completely lacking. So they need to be embarrassed. They've got a 4-game head start. Let's see 8 more ion a row. Yeah, I'm just venting, but I'm tired of half-assed baseball. Rant over, please put your seat backs and tray tables in their upright and locked position in preparation for landing.

Ashie62 wrote: You mean the racist bastards at Chick-Fil-A. No thanks. Homophobic, too. Seem to have a soft spot for cows, though. Perhaps they're Hindu.

Score early, then stop- Check. Incomprehensible plays on defense allowing cheap runs to score- Double Check. Starter having to throw far too many pitches, opening the door to suspect bullpen- Check. Predictability, thy name is Mets.

Ashie62 wrote: 0-0 6th Anybody alive? Cuddyer, apparently.

I voted for all the Royals just to mess with their heads. The system is stupid and making an exhibition game count for something is even more stupid. So that's my protest. Go Royals.

After the last two games, it'd be nice if somebody paid a price. I nominate the Tomahawk-Choppers.

Edgy MD wrote: I really thing a year's worth of Mets should be a set unto itself, with each player getting exclusive rights to his number whether he shed it by April 3 or October 3. Things tie up nicely that way. You don't want to try figuring out years later who wore a number first. Dillon Gee was the 35 of 2015. Logan Verrett wore 32 that year. That's how it should be. It keeps the filing clean, if nothing else. Looking forward to reading what Breitbart News has to say about this. 32 is reserved for Steven Matz.

As soon as he sold the company, that was the end of the free seats.

METS APOLOGIZE; PLEDGE TO INCREASE GUN VIOLENCE, INVESTIGATE BENGHAZI

Colon pitched against Brad Hand of the Marlins earlier this year. Hand didn't start, but came in when the starter, Mr. Phelps, self-destructed early in the game.

They used to have a section at Shea for the Doubleday employees, where there'd be a lottery for free tickets. I saw a lot of the Mets for free in 1986 thanks to Nelson. My wife would hound people to put their names in even if they didn't know what a baseball was. Then if they won, they'd give her the seats. Decent seats, too, like section 17 of the loge, if I recall. She saw game 2 and 6 of the World Series that way. (Yes, THAT game 6.) I saw game 2 with her, but she promised her dad tickets to game 6. He had the ticket framed afterwards.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: It is funny where you've seen enough baseball to know that any pitcher can dominate any hitter on any night, and vice versa, but put a Jeff Francouer or a kid just up from the Florida State League onto a big league mound, and -- BLAMMO. No contest. Yeah, I felt bad for the kid. Hope he makes it back to whittle down that lifetime major league ERA a bit.