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What I want the Mets to do to the Nats

Willie, you must be kidding.

Joe Smith isn't the same pitcher now.

A couple of hours at the most, yeah.

Moises Alou is my fucking hero.

A mark of a good pitcher: when somebody hits a home run off of you, you don't fall to pieces. Humber sure didn't.

Boston is leading Oakland, 11-5 in the 8th. Mike Piazza hit his 427th career home run.

And we chase Bacsik after 2 and 1/3.

KABOOM-BOOM!!!!!! Let's keep it going!

Humber > Lawrence. Eat some crow, Willie.

LOL @ Belliard! Castillo drives in Gomez!

It's a miracle! Gomez got a hit!

Humber can work out of jams, too. If he does well, I'd really like to see him on our postseason roster.

30 Alou is fucking incredible.

Thanks, Z. Comments and such are welcome.

Not fucking Gomez again...

Having met Rick Peterson, having spent a good 10 minutes or so talking to him, I can tell you for certain that he's not the kind of guy that would inspire you. He might be able to show you things that could inspire you, but he can't do it himself. He doesn't have that kind of personality. He's more a stubborn, absent-minded professor who is quick to judge.

Angels are losing to the Rangers, 11-2 in the 7th. Sammy Sosa hit his 609th career home run.

There's apparently quite a rift between Prince Fielder and Cecil Fielder. Prince's reaction to being the youngest player ever to hit 50 home runs in a season was that all he cared about was hitting 52 home runs and winning an MVP award so he can stick it to his dad, to "shut him up." Article

We just need to look for better situations to steal in, then. Could be a one-run or two-run difference to each ballgame.

Lawrence is a two-pitch pitcher who tops out in the low 80's. I still don't know why they started him last week.

The way the Aaron award has been managed is ludicrous. Arbitrarily come up with finalists? Let the idiot masses vote on it and screw it up like they do All-Star selections? Please. I'd turn it into something the players and/or managers vote on, making sure that they can't vote for a teammate.

I think there's still hope left. We just gotta focus on us. Also, our bullpen needs to be better managed, and we gotta steal more bases. That's one thing that's been missing recently. But we've got plenty of hot bats.

Edgy digging up the Benson Bunch reminded me of my foray into the same kind of thing with SAABP, which I was quite proud of. I started thinking about what might be going on inside the Mets clubhouse right now. So here goes: All right, you guys. Everybody here? Yeah. Yup. Uh huh. Si! SI!!! The whole team's here, David. I think I see everybody... Wait, where's Lastings? I gotta finish my drink, fool! Son, put that shit away. Alcohol isn't gonna solve this. Well what the FUCK are we SUPPOSED to goddamn do?!?!? Us hitters keep going out there busting our asses, and our fucking pitchers blow it EVERY FUCKING TIME!!! It's not all our fault... If you position players didn't make no errors all the time, we win more games! Eat me! Foooooood... I didn't mean that literally, you fat fuck! Guys, guys!!! Dookie, chill out. These are both valid points, guys - our pitching blows and our fielding sucks. And Jose... what the hell is wrong with you? What you mean? I feel real good right now. You're playing sloppy baseball, Jose. And your eyes look all fucked up all the time now. I found box that say "Doc's Medicine Kit" that they dig up building new field. It has plants and powders in it that I eat for past month, make me feel good! Want some? Hit me up with some of that! No, you idiots! That's Dwight Gooden's secret stash! He told me about it when he was with Houston! Jose, you've been high all month! Stop taking that shit right now! But I feel good... Do as he says, Jose. We need you playing better. We all need to play better. Let's get our heads in the game. Anyone have something to fire us up? How about you, Conine? You've been awfully quiet. What do you think we should do to our opponents when we take the field tonight? They shall all drown in lakes of blood. Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark... now they will learn why they fear the night. That's a little... um... morbid there, Jeff. Hey, what are you doing with your bat? No one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts. THIS you can trust! That time, he actually made fucking sense! We just gotta trust ourselves. And our bats! And our gloves! We just gotta trust in ourselves to play good baseball! If we all believe in ourselves, we can have faith in each other! Let's go out there and beat the snot out of them!!! Ready? Let's go!!!