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And is actually surprisingly good. (It's on after Sesame Street.) Looks like this will be a new version of the show, though... so I'm sure it's not going to be quite the same thing.

Very cool. I like Howie.

Argenis is a good middle-infieldery name.

Totally agree.

In defense of Wally, he doesn't say "Camden Yards situation," the owner of one of the business does. And I'd be upset if I was being forced out/priced out also.

"Inconceivable!"

If Mike Piazza signed with the Yankees, I would personally kick him in the gonads.

Team Leaders Name the Met who will lead the team in each category. Only stats earned while a member of the Mets count. Minimum: 400 PA, or 120 IP as a Met needed for rate categories (BA, ERA, etc. unless otherwise specified). One point for each correct prediction. Batting 1) Games - Reyes 2) Hits - Wright 3) Doubles - Wright 4) Triples - Reyes 5) Home runs - Beltran 6) RBI - Wright 7) Stolen Bases - Reyes 8) Caught stealing - Reyes 9) Runs scored - Reyes 10) Batting average - Wright 11) On base percentage - Wright 12) Slugging percentage - Wright 13) OPS - Wright 14) Strikeouts - Delgado 15) Walks - Wright 16) Pinch-Hits - Marlon Anderson Pitching 16) Wins - Santana 17) Losses - Oliver Perez 18) Strikeouts - Santana 19) Walks - Oliver Perez 20) ERA (starter - low) - Santana 21) ERA (starter - high) - Pedro Martinez 22) ERA (reliever - low - min. 50 IP) - Feliciano 23) ERA (reliever - high - min. 50 IP) - Sosa 24) Saves - Wagner 25) BAA (low) - Feliciano 26) BAA (high) - Schoeneweis 27) Games started - Santana 28) Games pitched - Heilman 29) Innings Pitched - Santana Player-Specific Predictions Predict the player's specific stats in the category selected. Two points if someone guesses the number exactly. If no one gets the exact number, one point will go to the people who are the closest to the actual result, either over or under. 28) Jose Reyes: OBP - .370 29) Jose Reyes: SB - 73 30) Jose Reyes: Extra-Base Hits - 59 31) Jose Reyes: Rank in League MVP Voting - 7th 32) Luis Castillo: OBP - .340 33) Luis Castillo: SB - 28 34) Carlos Beltran: HR - 37 35) Carlos Beltran: SB - 20 36) Carlos Beltran: RBI - 103 37) Carlos Beltran: Rank in League MVP Voting - 13th 38) David Wright: HR - 36 39) David Wright: RBI - 115 40) David Wright: Walks - 104 41) David Wright: SB - 34 42) David Wright: Rank in League MVP Voting - 2nd 43) Carlos Delgado: HR - 19 44) Carlos Delgado: RBI - 67 45) Carlos Delgado: K - 108 46) Carlos Delgado: Games Played - 128 47) Moises Alou: At-Bats - 312 48) Moises Alou: RBI - 50 48) Endy Chavez: At-Bats - 289 49) Angel Pagan: At-Bats - 190 50) Ryan Church: OPS - .790 51) Ryan Church: HR - 14 52) Ryan Church: Games Played - 138 53) Brian Schneider: OPS - .700 54) Brian Schneider: Caught Stealing % - 73% 55) Ramon Castro: Games Played - 60 56) Marlon Anderson: OBP - .380 57) Damion Easley: RBI - 30 58) Johan Santana: W - 17 59) Johan Santana: K - 230 60) Johan Santana: ERA - 2.88 61) Johan Santana: Rank in Cy Young Voting - 2nd 61) Johan Santana: Rank in League MVP Voting - 19th 62) Pedro Martinez: IP - 180 63) Pedro Martinez: W - 12 64) Pedro Martinez: K - 159 64) John Maine: W - 14 65) John Maine: ERA - 3.33 66) Oliver Perez: W - 13 67) Oliver Perez: K - 180 68) Oliver Perez: BB - 88 69) Orlando Hernandez: Games Started - 12 70) Orlando Herandez: IP - 102 1/3 71) Mike Pelfrey: Games Started - 17 72) Mike Pelfrey: ERA - 4.80 73) Billy Wagner: Saves - 38 74) Aaron Heilman: ERA - 3.13 75) Duaner Sanchez: IP - 70 76) Duaner Sanchez: ERA - 3.40 77) Pedro Feliciano: ERA - 2.70 78) Scott Schoeneweis: ERA - 4.63 79) Jorge Sosa: IP - 89 Name the top five Mets pitchers in Games Started in 2007. One point for each one named correctly. A bonus of five points for getting all five correct 80) Santana 81) Maine 82) Perez 83) Martinez 84) Pelfrey Team Categories 84)Team ERA - 4.18 85)Team batting average - .276 86)Record - 93-69 87)NL East Finish (1st, 2nd, etc.) - 1st 88)Games behind NL East Winner - 0 (3 games up) 89)Playoffs (Division winner, Wildcard winner, no playoffs) - division winner 90)Playoff finish - (Win WS, Lose WS, Lose NLCS, Lose NLDS, no playoffs - lose WS Tie-breakers 1st tie breaker - pick the NL Central Division Champion - Cubs 2nd tie breaker - pick then American League Champion - Tigers

sharpie wrote: Clerks II beats out Citizen Kane. Mostly because it was a better movie.

Those Steinbrenner quotes are infuriating.

Yanks cut Billy Crystal That's it?!? The guy gets you all that free publicity and you just cut him? Rough, dude. What a bunch of jerks.

Wow!

Carlos Delgado (100) - Probably not. Too many 1B in line ahead of him: Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas immediately come to mind. Carlos Beltran (71) - Give him another couple of years, and he's a definite maybe. He has the ability, and he's certainly paid like a HoFer, but can he hold up over time? John Franco (124) - HA! Johan Santana (63) - See Beltran, Carlos. Billy Wagner (104) - HA! David Cone (103) - Interesting, but no way. Again, too many guys in line ahead of him. Jeff Kent (124) - Here's a good case. His most similar careers are all catchers (!!) -- Yogi, Fisk, Pudge, Bench -- but their scores are in the 800s, which means they're similar but not that similar. GettingHoF catcher offense out of your second baseman? That's pretty good. Combine that with the MVP votes, and he's got a compelling case. I don't think he gets in right away, but he could be a guy who hangs around the periphery for seven or eight years as people realize what a good player he actually was. Jose Reyes (25) - Waaaay too early to tell, but I'd love to say yes. David Wright (40) - See Reyes, Jose.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Wow! Is it really that surprising that Doc would bring his son? I mean, really.

Have you all been calling Citibank "Shittybank" for the last thirty years? Didn't think so. Citibank paid for the rights, they can name it whatever the hell they want. If they want to name it "Fred Wilpon Is An Asshole Field," then I'm sure Fred would have happily taken their money, and we'd all be referring to the FWIAAF. Me, I don't care what logo's on the outside, I'm calling it Bob Murphy Stadium.

Bring back the midget.

Since he went spikes-up into Shelley Duncan.

Again... you have a whole state full of ninety-year-olds, and they can't find someone to do hip surgery? Maybe they're just all booked.

I'd go with Kiss Me Deadly before Rock Me Slowly. I think the fans should write in Ronan Tynan for the seventh inning stretch and force the team to acquire him from the Yankees.

That's another thing that's lost in this. Elliot Johnson cleanly bowled over a 22-year-old catcher who nobody had ever heard of, so they plunk the Rays' top prospect and Duncan spikes one of their other big stars? What a bunch of classless jagoffs.

Note to self: Don't give Edgy Jose Reyes in the parody contest next year.

That's the same reason Pettitte mysteriously couldn't start yesterday, so they could start some AA pitcher nobody'd ever heard of, so he could drill one of the Rays' top prospects and get ejected and nobody would care. Thanks, kid. Here's your ticket back to minor league camp. Losers.

Maybe we can trade him for Coco Crisp.

Cancel is not a small dude.