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Actually, what's Cleon up to? He's not much older than Sheff.

A Pat Misch sighting! Wearing #48. DOUBLE FUCKING PLAY! SUCK IT, PUJOLS! Thank you, Creepy Sun Baby!

Okay. Seriously, Mets? It's fucking JUNE. PUT A GODDAMN CAMERA IN THE GODDAMN BULLPEN.

Kevin Burkhardt just tweeted that Evans will replace Fartinez.

I'm not concerned with wins/losses necessarily, more the overall outlook at the end of the half. They're three back in the division, 1.5 back in the wild card. I just don't want to be in fourth place come July 16. But considering the Braves' schedule is worse than ours, and the Phillies are hurting too... I think this is the time to make a little run.

WAIT WAIT WAIT. They're the (Devil) Rays and their mascot is a "sea dog"?!? No wonder they can't win shit.

The MFYs had a little case of Metsflu tonight, getting shut out by a kid fresh off a high school ballfield somewhere. (A guy against whom, of course, the Mets bucked convention and beat recently.)

Oooooooooooooooooor not. Fudge.

Well, I turned the game on just in time, apparently... bases loaded, one out, tie game? WTF?

Mora would have been my guess, but failing that, Phillips is a good guess also.

And Nick's been released after putting up a four-digit ERA so far with Binghamton. Ah, Nick, we barely knew ye. I'm still counting you in my Mets autograph collection, though, kid.

Well, it has to be someone in the DH era, and it has to be someone who is light-hitting and/or fast enough to bat ninth, but with enough pop to bat fourth on a day when the big guys are resting, like in September. Shinjo?

"Even if it's not for the Yankees"!?! Eff this kid, and eff "Mets Prospect Hub," whoever they are.

Like he thinks we can't find this stuff. The FBI should hire Edgy; he'd find Jimmy Hoffa in twenty seconds.

And speaking of which, how is this guy knocking Mr. Met, a Mascot Hall of Famer, when their mascot's name is "The Bird"? Seriously? That's the best the Baltimore think tank could come up with in 1979?

="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":2rjh078v]And if so, exactly how bad a won-loss record did that team have?[/quote:2rjh078v] Let's just say their mascot was the Oriole, if you know what I mean. seawolf17 Jun 17 2009 10:33 AM And speaking of which, how is this guy knocking Mr. Met, a Mascot Hall of Famer, when their mascot's name is "The Bird"? Seriously? That's the best the Baltimore think tank could come up with in 1979? metsguyinmichigan Jun 17 2009 12:16 PM "I mean I HATE the Yankees, yet because I've somehow have drunk some Yankee history kool-aid, and admit to buying Yankee gear, memorabilia..." Oh, Steve. I don't think this was a good idea. Some things, you just gotta keep to yourself, and this was numbers 1, 2, and 3. metirish Jun 17 2009 12:20 PM I'm curious about Stevo's previous 11 posts going back to 2006. DocTee Jun 17 2009 12:57 PM ]no one is the Yankees...the Mets do belong on...eh, maybe a third tier of great franchises. no comments needed Swan Swan H Jun 17 2009 01:21 PM Steve's lack of perception about how his words are perceived make him a natural fit for the Mets front office. seawolf17 Jun 17 2009 01:32 PM Like he thinks we can't find this stuff. The FBI should hire Edgy; he'd find Jimmy Hoffa in twenty seconds. Benjamin Grimm Jun 17 2009 01:52 PM ="Swan Swan H":1sd5lqgy]Steve's lack of perception about how his words are perceived make him a natural fit for the Mets front office.[/quote:1sd5lqgy] Remember that radio spot that used to run during Mets games? "Every time you speak, people judge you by the words you use." Edgy DC Jun 17 2009 02:07 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 17 2009 02:23 PM Let's take it easy on Stevie. If he wants to tag in on that guy for me, more power to him. Fight Non sequitur with non sequitur, so to speak. Triple Dee Jun 17 2009 02:12 PM The O's are my AL team. I feel an emotional breakthrough connected with this admission. John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 17 2009 02:15 PM I'm impressed with the O's fans' retience in engaging Rogers in combat. I think O's fans are good eggs generally and they certainly are our allies in MFY hatred. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 17 2009 02:27 PM ="Edgy DC":kjqp900i]Let's take it easy on Stevie. If he wants to tag in on that guy for me, more power to him. Fight Non sequitur with non sequitur, so to speawk.[/quote:kjqp900i] "Well, arguing that point is like trying to figure out the nose-shadow on the Elston Howard memorial in Monument Park, you know-- it just doesn't make sense. I hate that feeling of futility like I hate the 26-time World Champion New York Yankees!" "I understand that, Chief! Because I'm from Jersey, Doc!" Benjamin Grimm Jun 18 2009 12:48 PM Last night, as I'm watching the game, when Aubrey Huff stepped to the plate I, for an instant, forgot what decade I was in and thought I was looking at a young Rusty Staub.

Wily Mo's only 27 years old. Why can't he have a future with this team? I know it feels like's he's been around forever, but he signed when he was in elementary school. His b-r.com similar batters by age aren't bad -- Pete Incaviglia, Jesse Barfield, Cory Snyder, and Bob Allison. I'd stick any of them in the outfield over a 20-year-old kid.

Ugly win, but a win. Thanks, guys.

Come on, Frankie. Get this fucking guy.

Three years, and both teams have turned over their entire pitching staffs except for one guy? Wow.

What's sad is that Thursday night, in our hotel room, my friend and I -- and she's a crazier fan as I am -- couldn't even remember that Stokes was on the roster. We had to look him up. As they were bringing Takahashi in to pitch, we knew Sean Green was left, and figured they wouldn't use Frankie... and simply couldn't figure out who the missing guy was. Sorry, Brian.

="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":12yogybj]="Edgy DC":12yogybj]Well, I heartily concur that there haven't been enough visible consequences for fundamental mental errors. I don't think that can be made up in one grand gesture, though. Got to give the Yankee runners credit. They ran. It may seem like an award for walking erect, but apparently it's not automatic.[/quote:12yogybj] That's what kinda gets me... if the situation were reversed, I don't think the Mets win. Because the Mets probably wouldn't be running. I need to stop thinking about this game. Really.[/quote:12yogybj] You're so right. Teixeira needs to get a ton of credit for hustle there... it's really easy to just jog it out and give up, and I thought the same thing would have happened were the roles reversed. metirish Jun 13 2009 05:14 AM I feel terrible for Castillo, he's worked hard this season and got back in the fans good graces(if that means anything) and now this. I don't think it will ever be forgotten. G-Fafif Jun 13 2009 05:14 AM I honestly thought "game tied, runner on third." Those bastards know how to play the game. The case for immediate release here[/url:1tlb5tzu]. John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 13 2009 07:00 AM In think some people need a few days off from the Mets. dgwphotography Jun 13 2009 07:33 AM I really think I'm one of them.... Kong76 Jun 13 2009 07:57 AM I think most of us have been there at least once or twice over the years. But FAFIF sounds like his cheese may have slid off it's cracker. Someone please check on him ... we're here for you, man! bmfc1 Jun 13 2009 08:02 AM I'm with G-Fafif, cheese and cracker status notwithstanding. Castillo had no business being resigned, certainly no business being resigned through 2011, and shouldn't wear the Mets uniform any longer. It's one thing to drop a pop-up (as chronicled elsewhere, future HOF'er Jeff Kent cost the Mets a game that way once), but Castillo was using one hand--perhaps using two might have balanced him better and allowed him to grab the ball before it hit the ground--and then threw it to the wrong base. I'm sure he'll be out there again today but he shouldn't be. Thing is, our GM is so bad that there's no alternative. Ashie62 Jun 13 2009 08:39 AM Umpires, Divorce lawyers and Castillo suck but they aren't going away. Maybe Castillo thought it might go yard I took 3 days off from the Mets..time for 2 more themetfairy Jun 13 2009 08:43 AM I could get into a torches and pitchforks kind of mob over this. smg58 Jun 13 2009 08:54 AM ="bmfc1":d3tven2u]Castillo had no business being resigned, certainly no business being resigned through 2011, and shouldn't wear the Mets uniform any longer.[/quote:d3tven2u] Maybe, absolutely, and in an ideal world yes. But we have zero infield depth right now, and I doubt we could get any in return for him. We have to hope he redeems himself. MFS62 Jun 13 2009 08:54 AM ="Ashie62":3tsn5m79] Maybe Castillo thought it might go yard [/quote:3tsn5m79] Great 62 minds think alike. I beat ya' by a few minutes: http://cranepoolforum.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=11844&start=140 Later holychicken Jun 13 2009 09:34 AM ="seawolf17":23h2thif] You're so right. Teixeira needs to get a ton of credit for hustle there... it's really easy to just jog it out and give up, and I thought the same thing would have happened were the roles reversed.[/quote:23h2thif] I am honestly not convinced about this. They were just jogging around the bases and even Teixeira himself said that he "turned it on" when he got waved around. If Castillo had thrown to home instead of second, they probably would have gotten him. . . if he had been hustling, they wouldn't have gotten him. The ball was up in the air for a while. Swan Swan H Jun 13 2009 09:42 AM It would be unseemly to suggest that the great and hallowed Yankees were the mere beneficiaries of a gift victory, following the failures of their closer and big-money cleanup hitter. A scenario must be concocted whereby they 'earned' it somehow, and Teixiera's 'hustle' is slightly more plausible than the gnarled ghostly hand of Miller Huggins tugging on Castillo's elbow. OE: I'm starting to feel like Dean Wormer talking about Delta House. I should go watch an episode of 'Pushing Daisies' and chill before 4:00. Frayed Knot Jun 13 2009 09:52 AM ="holychicken"]="seawolf17"] You're so right. Teixeira needs to get a ton of credit for hustle there... it's really easy to just jog it out and give up, and I thought the same thing would have happened were the roles reversed. I am honestly not convinced about this. They were just jogging around the bases and even Teixeira himself said that he "turned it on" when he got waved around. If Castillo had thrown to home instead of second, they probably would have gotten him. . . if he had been hustling, they wouldn't have gotten him. The ball was up in the air for a while. I didn't see a camera angle showing Teixeira (and, really, why would there be one) but Ray Knight, on a play involving a huge error that some of you may remember, claimed later on that he "was busting it the entire way" when film clearly shows him doing nothing of the sort. He didn't turn on the jets until it was pointed out to him that the ball 'got by Buckner' at which point he could have crawled home and still made it. Credit for hustle - and/or memory of it - many times gets selectively assigned. Edgy DC Jun 13 2009 11:58 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jun 15 2009 10:27 AM We're in perspective trouble any day Ashie is the one credited with displaying his "great mind.." How about this. This is the speach Skipper Edgy gave his troops in his dreams last night. (Throw 15 bats across the clubhouse floor.) OK, sit down. I don't want nobody heading toward the shower and it won't matter if you do because I told the clubbie to turn the water off. First of all, Luis, I'm not going tell you you fucked up, because you know you did. But you commited two mental errors that completely undermined everything. You didn't use two hands, and you threw behind the winning run. Making an error is one thing, playing with your head up your ass is another. I shouldn't need to tell you but I apparently do. You stunk. Your teammates have stunk by making simple lazy mental plays like that --- not running balls out, one handed catches --- and I've stunk by tolerating it all without consequences for too long. For you, you don't play the next two days, no matter how despearate I get. You show up, dress, sit on the bench, support the hell out of your stinking teammates, and go home. Other than that, this weekend is over for you. After that, we'll never speak of this. And I don't think we'll have to, because you'll be running hard, catching the ball with two hands, and keeping your stinky head in the game, right? As for the rest of you stinks, that's our new standard. Mental errors will get you pulled from the game straight away and another day on the bench to get your fool head straight. Multiple violations will be dealt with in a more serious and humiliating manner which I haven't thought of, because I frankly don't expect there to be multiple violations, and that's a dark part of my imagination I don't like to visit until I have to. Tonight, as I said, they'll be no showers. Razor is handing out subway cards. You'll all be putting on your street clothes over your stinky stinky bodies and taking the subway home so the good people who gave their time and money to support you tonight can ride next to you and tell you how much you stink. Fernando, you're a fine player and hopefully will be a big league all star someday, but tonight you're taking a bus to Buffalo. Usted va al Buffalo en un autobus. I don't want you anywhere near these stinking stinks right now. It leaves from Port Authority in an hour. I know 11 hours is a long time for your stinky body to be on a bus to Buffalo, but, if you don't like it, you can get off at Binghamton. If your manager says you're hustling and playing smart, you'll be back. Otherwise, get used to the busses. Delgado, Nieve is starting tomorrow. You make sure he gets home. The rest of you stinks are on your own. Enjoy travelling like real people and coming home to your wives all funky and shit. Personally, I think that's too good for you. I'll see you tomorrow which I fucking expect to be the hustlingest day in New York Mets history. Because if it's not, I will go apeshit. Now I'm letting the reporters in. Tell them how much you stink. Don't hang this on Luis alone. You all have been humiliating yourselves and the city on the front of your jersey. Tell them that. Stinking stinkers. (Overturn post-game spread.)How about that? Ashie62 Jun 13 2009 12:29 PM Works for me..don't think Willie would ever consider it..Now Bobby V..yes, yes he would MFS62 Jun 13 2009 01:10 PM Edgy, I hope in your dream that the window was wide open and you delivered it in your best Albert Finney voice. Or maybe you were just channeling this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLMl0CLIDLg Later Edgy DC Jun 13 2009 01:31 PM No, my model is more from Vincent Gardenia's performance in Bang the Drum Slowly. If you notice, I withhold the shower, rather than chase them into the shower. And I avoid exclamation points. I can't lose my temper anymore. Just can't. John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 13 2009 05:36 PM Is this position looking silly yet? metirish Jun 13 2009 05:41 PM ="John Cougar Lunchbucket":vio99rtk]Is this position looking silly yet?[/quote:vio99rtk] Very ...... Vic Sage Jun 15 2009 10:19 AM fire Jerry, hire Edgy! Now! Kong76 Jun 16 2009 03:10 PM I hope FAFIF isn't sore with us for ribbin' him. What a weekend.

I'm going to pin juuuuust a little bit on Frankie for the walks, though.

Okay, two things there. First. TWO HANDS, LUIS! TWO FUCKING HANDS! And second... Why are you banging Alex Rodriguez on the helmet, Yankees? He did shit in that at-bat. Shit. Fuckin' hell, Mets.

Wait WHAT?