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Bell 1Padilla 2Hernandez 2Mientkiewicz 2Beltran 3

From Sportsline:Reyes ground-rule doubled to right, Cairo to third, Anderson out at second.Reyes to first.Huh?!?!

Jeff Weaver haunts my nightmares. He drives me nuts.

Stoooopid Jeff Kent. I hate that guy.

What, no Jay Satan post on the new boards?

In defense of Matsui, he was very good in Japan. VERY good. Not a world-beater, but very good. I'm willing to agree that they screwed it up, and they probably shouldn't have screwed with Reyes at all, but it wasn't a disaster at the time. This guy was going to come here, play every day (which he did in Japan), hit a handful of home runs (which he did in Japan, although we expected less than he hit there), steal bases (which he did in Japan), and be a catalyst (which he was in Japan). It sucks that it didn't work out, but it was not a complete disaster until recently. I believe most of the baseball pundits -- and a lot of us, IIRC -- figured him to have a solid year this year, now that he knew the league a little better. Now that he's hurt, and now that it's clear that he hasn't become the player we'd hoped, it looks ugly.I felt much more confident with Matsui's resume coming into 2004 than I would have with Marco Scutaro, or Ty Wigginton, or some random prospect from the Pirates who nobody had heard of until he arrived here. Besides, he was only 28! He's still not even 30! He's supposed to be in the prime of his career, and we didn't know that he would fall apart when he was signed.

Willets Point wrote:I hope you got a chance to roger her before she married Ben.Hells yeah I did!

="Willets Point"]Fess up! Which one of you is Michael Vartan?Nuts. One of you finally figured out my secret identity. Here I am with one of my best friends in the whole world, Jen Garner.It's good to be me.

Ishii 5Mientkiewicz 1Castro 1Cameron 1Reyes 1Wright 1

Number 3. They swept the Reds at Shea and... I don't remember the other one.

Elster88 wrote:Fantasy rule #1: Never start the opposing team's pitcher against your team.I did the same exact thing this week. Nuts.

Leave Quantrill in! Leave Quantrill in!Yes!Come on, Marlon! Let's make it a baker's dozen!

Nah, I'm here. Decided it wasn't worth driving 90 minutes to see Ishii give up fifteen baserunners in four innings.Guess I was wrong!Either way, too many kids there today.

="Yancy Street Gang"]Maybe Ishii would be more desirable than Looper. After all, he does have more Schaefer points.Can someone e-mail a link to those rankings to Theo Epstein? You know he's a numbers guy, and boy, numbers don't get more definite than Schaefer points! Come on, Theo! Kaz is a winner!

Glavine 2Padilla 1Reyes 2Beltran 2Piazza 2Cameron 1

I'd have to figure that if any ball headed towards home plate was intercepted by a batter, one of two things would happen: (a) if the ball was in play, then that's interference and at least the runner is out; (b) if it's a dead ball (like they're throwing it around the horn after a K, except they decide to include the catcher, but the next hitter runs up to the plate and whacks it), then... um... I just don't think that would happen.Either way, what Woody Williams did there was a balk in my book.

In fact, I'd make that deal right now. I'm still thinking there's no way Bert holds up over 162.

Nevin grounds into a double play, but the home plate ump says it came off Nevin's foot. Or something. So he called it foul. Which is crap. Come on, Willie! Argue or something! Get tossed! Get fired up!And Heilman K's Nevin anyway.

Hey! Pedro Astacio is warming up! You know? I actually liked Astacio. I liked the way he did the arm dangly thing when he looked in for the sign.

Welcome to the Big Leagues, Clay Hensley. Face the middle of the Mets' lineup.

Especially when it really was a balk. What was that little hop move? Times like this I miss Bobby V going crazy, imitating Williams' balk, and stomping around the infield.

Piazza seems like he's playing happier lately. You see that smirk on his face when he threw out Roberts last night, or again after the intentional walk? I think he's enjoying himself. He might just drop a bunt for the hell of it.

What everybody else said.

metirish wrote:Lucky for you Glavine is going.Never thought I'd see that sentence, unless you were talking about someone who was taking the "over" bet.="Bret Sabermetric"]Maybe we'll catch a ball. With Glavine going, you probably will have a good shot.(Just kidding, Tommy. Go get 'em tonight!)edit: I went to see where Glavine ranks in HR allowed. He's only given up 7, which is actually pretty good.However:BAA - .323 (105th out of 108 qualifying starters)OBP - .387 (107th out of 108)SLG - .445 (87th out of 108)OPS - .832 (99th out of 108)Yikes.

Ah, dammit. I was really hoping for Zambrano.90-plus degrees+probably resting starters+Kaz Ishii=gonna be a long one tomorrow. We should get seats in the shade.I hope they win tonight, so we don't have to "salvage the series" with Ishii.