metsmarathon

i think it'll go to holliday. he leads the league in average, rbi, and is up there in homers. and i don't think there's too much of an impression that he's a product of coors, regardless of the home/road splits.

honestly, i don't think that tag at third was anything more than landing off balance from trying to snag the errant throw from loduca...

i'd have dwright as a better candidate, in my mind, than rollins fer sure.

Smith 3.5 Sosa 1.9 Feliciano 1.6 Mota 1.3 Heilman 0.9 Castillo 0.8

Maine 5.0 Milledge 1.7 Castillo 1.1 Wright 0.9 Alou 0.7 Castro 0.6

Castillo 3.1 Schoeneweis 1.8 Heilman 1.7 Sosa 1.3 Delgado 1.2 Beltran 0.9

Martinez 5.9 Wright 1.8 Feliciano 1.0 Heilman 0.8 Green 0.3 Delgado 0.2

well, i'm glad i'm not the only one who isn't going to give maine a 6.0 for his near no-hitter! i mean, i've prolly gotta add in a ticker for that and perhaps also for a deep one-hitter, but i'd really have to cheat to grant him the extra points that'd drag him into a 6. maybe its an update for next year... or not. right now, he gets a 5.0

i'd've included yadier fucking molina and subsequently voted for him.

Reyes yes Milledge yes P. Martinez yes Wagner yes Pelfrey yes Castillo yes Chavez no Glavine no Feliciano yes Humber yes Beltran yes C. Gomez yes O. Hernandez yes Heilman yes Collazo yes Wright yes Easley no Maine yes J. Smith yes Muniz yes Alou yes Anderson no O. Perez yes Mota yes Bostick yes Delgado yes Gotay yes Sosa yes Vargas no Green no Valentin no Schoeneweis yes D. Sanchez yes LoDuca no A. Hernandez no Sele no B. Johnson yes Newhan no Castro yes Alomar Jr. no DiFelice no =green]Randolph =green]yes Peterson yes H. Johnson yes Henderson yes Manuel no Alomar Sr. no Conti no Minaya yes =blue]Blue - confirmed correct =green]Green - solidly correct Yellow - speculatively correct =orange]Orange - solidly incorrect =red]Red - confirmed incorrect

and i win as well, on a tie-breaker. yay, me.

glavine may try to come back to wash the stench off of his record. who knows....

the art howe years sucked worse than this one. the pre-vee years sucked worse than this one. and 88 left a more bitter taste of what could've been. and maybe i'm alone here, but yesterday redeemed this season for me. that was a hell of a thrill, and to even enter into this day with a chance, from where they were two days ago, was thrilling. this team has a lot of restructuring and mirror-looking and maturing and manning up, but i don't hate it one bit, tho it frustrates the hell out of me. so maybe that's your word. frustrating. but not hated.

steve, waah. carry on.

] September 29, 2007, 03:31 PM ET Postseason Odds Updates All Weekend As Games Finish by Clay Davenport At 4:00 eastern time Saturday the Mets� finished off a 13-0 thrashing of the Marlins. INDAY UPDATE: The Mets� thrashing of the Marlins raises their playoff chances from 21.0% to 31.1%: division champ chance up from 17.6 to 25.6, wild card up from 3.5 to 5.5. It cuts the Phillies� chances from 82.4/1.5/84.0 to 74.4/2.4/76.9. The chance of an NL East tie, which would require a playoff game, is up to 34.0%. The Mets� victory drops the Padres� wild card chances from 82.5 to 79.9 and the Rockies� chances from 4.4 to 4.0. The chance of a wild card playoff game is up from 16.3 to 19.8%; the chance of a three-way tie is up from 4.8 to 7.7 and a four-way tie is up from 1.8 to 3.0%. UPDATE #2: Philly fans go from yesterday�s high to a sad low, as a badly-fielded seventh inning costs them two runs in a 4-2 loss to the Nationals. The East division title odds are now basically 50-50, with a very slight edge to the Phils: 50.4 for them, 49.6 for the Mets. The wild card chance is 3.4% for each of them. Total playoff chance 53.8 Philly, 52.9 New York. The chance of a playoff game is 53.2%. In the wild card, the Padres go back up to 81.0% while the Rockies fall back to 4.1. The chance of a wild card playoff drops a little, down to 17.3, with the three-way tie down to 7.1 but the four-way tie up to 4.0 - not sure I understand that, but OK. UPDATE #3: It didn�t take long after that for the Padres to finish off a loss to the Brewers, 4-3 in 11 inning. That gives Arizona the western division title (there�s still a 17% chance of an Arizona-San Diego tie, but that would mean Arizona wins the division and SD wins the WC) and drives the wild card tie chances way up. The Padres are still a game ahead of everyone else, and so hold 79.7% chance of making the playoffs even with the loss. The Rockies (7.7), Mets (6.3), and Phillies (6.3), more or less split the 20% of the time the Padres don�t make it. The chances of tie games almost double with this decision: a playoff for the WC was needed in 32.5% of the simulations, with an 11.7% chance of a two-way tie, a 13.2% chance of a three-way tie, and a 7.6% chance for a four-way tie. The four-way tie situation is really another three-way tie, since it would also involve the Mets and Phillies being tied for first in the NL East, and the playoff for that would remove the winner from the wild card round. we're still the underdogs...

and we're back in first place....

given that my attendance is death on home teams, i really really wish i was in philly today.

motherfucker - its all my fault. i've been spending the entire afternoon making some darn' tasty chili for tomorrow, and its time for the meat & tomatoes to simmer for an hour, so i figure i can clean up my desk, so i turn on the tv, sit down, and there goes the bleeder. i know better. sorry.

i'm not ready to say that willie should be fired. i am, however, ready to say that willie needs to spend his entire offseason thinking about how and when to use relievers, and how and when to pull long relievers out of games in favor of pinch hitters after 0.1 innings of work. its not inconceivable that his (mis)management of the bullpen led to its ultimate collapse, but its more likely that the bullpen collapsed of its own accord, gathering a precipitous momentum that dragged along with it all other phases of the game. for that, i can blame minaya (lack of bp depth) and peterson (its his job, natch) more than willie. and both of them have had too much other successes for this failure to wipe away. their work brought the club to the point where the collapse of the bullpen is as calamitous as it is.

blurg.

off the budweiser can. nice.

kaboom goes carlos.

in david's defense, i don't think he was in a position to step on the bag from trying to catch the high throw... but, ugh... lets fucking go.

ollie came to play...

it can still be easy.