metsmarathon

see, i should know about this thing, too, as it's gonna wreak all kinds of havoc with my hamptons marathon on saturday...

oh. right.

MFS62 wrote: Here are the reports for the rest of the week: http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hazlebo01.shtml If you are the Mets management, would you cancel games to rest the pitching? What do you think they would do? Later (Merged from The Weather This Week., 9/24/2008) why does that not look like the right link...?

i wonder if hank even realizes that the same hated divisional playoff system which will allow joe torre's silly dodgers team to make the playoffs is also the same silly system whereby his team was allowed into the playoffs to win world series number 26. in 2000, the yankees had only 87 wins, fewer than all the NL playoff squads, and fewer than the 90-win cleveland squad that didn't make the AL playoffs thanks to a 91-win seattle team. prolly not, and i'm not sure he'd care either, so long as the yankees made it, and won.

sorry. i was only hoping to give him the benefit of the doubt. it won't happen again.

the yankees had standins for teh deceased? i had not heard that. i mean, it doens't toally surprise me, but still, wow.

hank's got a point. i mean, in teh first world series ever played, the 1903 series, both the NL and AL representative had 91 wins, and no team that was left out of the playoffs had more wins than any team that made the playoffs. granted, they screwed that all up to hell in the 1905 series... pittsburgh had 96 wins to 57 losses, yet lost the NL to the giants' 106 wins. the scrub AL winner, philly, had only 92 wins! what crap! of course philly didn't win, either. 1906 screwed it up also, where the giants this time had 96 wins, and stayed home while the sucky white sox and their 93 wins played in and won the world series! they must've gotten lucky or something. order was restored in 1907, when the two winningest teams in all of baseball went to the world series. but that would only highlight te travesty of 1908, when not one, but two teams with more wins than 90-win tigers were kept from teh postseason. the pirates and tigers both had 98 wins, yet the inequitable, shameful two league playoff system prevented them from postseason play. i'd go on, but i'm sickened at the shameful history of major league baseball teams being kept out of the postseason despite having more wins than another team that made the post season. leagues, divisions, wild cards - fie on it all! put 'em all into one fucking league, have em all play against each other, and at the end of the day, give the fucking trophy to the team with the most wins, period! enough of this 'league' bullshit, and the fakery of declaring a champion after a fucking seven game series! if somebody's got more wins than you, and they're not in the playoffs, then you shouldn't be either, no matter if you played against totally different teams or not. end it all now! are you with me (and hank)??? i said, ARE YOU WITH ME (and hank)!!!!

jeez, i hope leyritz'll be free that day...

ah.... silly picture of girl with bad teeth didnt come through the internets at work. i dont feel like my life has been vastly improved by having now had the opportunity to gaze upon her.

i feel like i'm totally missing out on a huge chunk of the conversation here... what the hell does billy martin have to do with anything, and what girl?

i cant even find the answers to #4 with a relatively quick google search!

jeez!

jeez...

whew...

well this is only slightly maddening, isn't it...?

um, lets just hope they don't get those two confused...

i [heart] church at the 2

i worry at times that i'm not enough of a sports fan because i don't often find myself looking for puppies to kick or kittens to drown after tough losses, or pulling my hair out over the thought of a meager one-game lead midway through september. i mean, its not like expletives ever leap forth, escaping my mouth to reverberate around the room after yet another bullpen collapse steals a win from johan santana, but i find that for the most part i'm rather even keeled throughout the whole season. maybe part of it is that i listen to way too much sports talk radio, with caller after caller screaming at the top of his lungs and the end of his wit, "don't be like me!" and so i am better able to remind myself not to. its just a game, and i can live and die with every one, but it's not going to change the outcome one iota. and the outcome of any one game rarely is deterministic as to the outcome of the whole season. we may have blown a two run lead last night with five runs in the ninth, but that really doesn't mean at all that we cannot win the next game, or hold the next lead, or hold off the phightin' phils. its one game out of 162, with, what, 14 to go. breathe, relax, and remember the tired old cliche about marathons and sprints.

steve hates the yankees. but loves many a yankee.

i don't think the answer to 2) above is going to change in any way val's hate of mariano and all yankees, steve.

mark grace really is not pleasing to the ears. how the hell do they go about hiring awful, awful announcers like him? i mean, there's gotta be better guys out there than this, just hoping for a job, right?

yknow, i love the apple, but i'm not sure how long i've known it was popping up out of a top hat. i just thought it sort of just popped up...

well, teh fly in the ointment, of course, is that neither rivera nor wagner chose enter sandman to be their entrance music; rather it was assigned to them by their respective teams at the time. such may be the case elsewhere. of course, the swatter to my fly is that the entrance music being chosen for them is merely emblematic of the aggressiveness expected, demanded, and required of them, which may then influence that same aggressiveness outside the diamond, particularly in those who may already be on the borderline to begin with...

i'd rather see it at the beginning of the season as opposed to the end of the season

Who will hit #250,000? 250,000 HRs in MLB History #250,000: Gary Sheffield (DET) off Gio Gonzalez (OAK). #249,999: Gary Sheffield (DET) off Gio Gonzalez (OAK), Sept. 8. #249,998: Magglio Ordonez (DET) off Gio Gonzalez (OAK) , Sept. 8. #249,997: Jason Bay (BOS) off Edwin Jackson (TBR), Sept. 8. #249,996: Carlos Delgado (NYM) off Cole Hamels (PHI), Sept. 7.