seawolf17

Come on, Carlos. Do the right thing.

The more you vote, the more you can bitch when somehow Jose Offerman winds up as the seventh most important Met in 2005. (Couldn't you see something ugly like that happening? Yikes.)

I always liked Tony Clark when he was here. The whole "changing from 00 to 52 because of Mr. Met" thing was endearing.

[url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20050710_NYM@PIT]Recap[/url]Martinez 5Reyes 4Beltran 1

[url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20050709_NYM@PIT]Recap[/url]Koo 2Cameron 2Reyes 1Floyd 2Beltran 1Offerman 1Ring 1

[url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20050708_NYM@PIT]Humberto Cota is promoted to AAA for the All-Time I Hate That Guy Team.[/url]Reyes 2Beltran 1Floyd 1Wright 1Castro 1Zambrano 4

[url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20050707_NYM@WAS]Recap[/url]Benson 4Bell 1Looper 1Reyes 1Beltran 2Floyd 1

[url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20050706_NYM@WAS]Recap[/url]Glavine 2Heilman 2Cameron 1Beltran 1Wright 1Floyd 1Anderson 1Castro 1

[url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20050705_NYM@WAS]Recap[/url]Martinez 5Anderson 2Floyd 1Reyes 1Wright 1

[url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20050704_NYM@WAS]Recap[/url]Ishii 2Hernandez 1Cameron 3Reyes 3Offerman 1

Can they just tell Ishii that the season's over, and that he can go home now? Maybe he won't realize there's a second half.

He's twenty-two years old! We can't reasonably expect him to be a Hall of Famer right now. Let him learn, let him grow. He's very good now, and he'll probably only get better... the only way to do that is to let him keep getting ABs, and teach him how to be a more complete hitter. As a fan, I have to have faith that someone -- someone in the organization, his dad, his old coach, Tony Gwynn, whoever -- will help him along the way. I know he needs to be on-base better than a quarter of the time... but he should, eventually.

Johnny Dickshot wrote:Eric Milton 4-10, 6.92Reports say Milton has studied the videotape and identified a delivery flawYeah, every pitch he delivers winds up 500 feet from home plate.

Oh, sure. NOW everybody gets to see Mr. Number One Draft Pick and Mr. Thumping Outfield Prospect, while I had to sit through monsoon season to see Brian Bounceypitch and Matty Mormon.

Well, we're a .500 team again.Sigh.We are what we are, I s'pose.

I believe they're ragging on him because he's funny-looking.

Pedro's done after seven. Here's comes the bullpen parade, starting with Bert.

Seaver is talking about how he called Rick White "Wick White" once while White was warming up as a Met, and how everybody gave him a hard time for screwing it up. I remember that game, but he called him "Rick Wheat." Of course, it could be that Seaver's so far lost that he just doesn't get anyone's name right, a la Kiner.Regardless, White is wearing 00, which I don't think any pitcher has ever done. Someone call Paul Lukas.

getalife wrote:I can deal with errors, noffense, bad luck ... but when stuff like that happens it's hard to watch a team that is out of control. I don't know whatever became of that kangaroo court thingy, but maybe they need to start removing finger-nails or something when a player makes a stupid blunder like that. It's just totally inexcusable at this level, and the base running vapor locks happen far too often for a team that should be hungry, not fucking lazy.I second that emotion.

Pitches/Plate Appearance Rankings, 2005 NL (among AB qualifiers):1. Bobby Abreu 4.5211. David Wright 4.0750. Cliff Floyd 3.6351. Carlos Beltran 3.6252. Jose Reyes 3.6169. Mike Piazza 3.4580. Christian Guzman 3.01 (last among qualifiers)I don't know that this really tells you anything, but I figured I'd add the stats in there.

Last time the Mets were more than one game away from .500 was entering the Yankees series, two weekends ago.

Thanks. Forgot this part:Schaefer BMotG:MLindstrom 3VHall 3JDuncan 2JRodgriuez 1JHietpas 1

Official Game Story:Brian Bannister lost his third straight start and two Norwich Navigators pitchers combined to limit the Binghamton Mets to five hits as Norwich took the first game of a four-game series 7-2 at Dodd Stadium Saturday in a game delayed by rain for nearly an hour and a half in the sixth.Norwich (40-47) got to Bannister in the first. Jamie Athas led off with a single, stole second, moved to third after Dan Ortmeier walked and Carlos Valderrama was hit by a pitch, and scored on a wild pitch for a 1-0 Navigators lead.Athas led off the fifth by doubling to right off Bannister (9-4) and scored on Ortmeier�s RBI single. After Ortmeier stole second and advanced to third on a flyout, he came home on an Eliezer Alfonzo base hit. Two batters later, A.J. LaBarbera made it 5-0 with a two-run homer.The B-Mets (40-43) rallied in the fifth for a pair of runs. Jeff Duncan led off by drawing a walk against Merkin Valdez (5-4) and stole second. Victor Hall drove Duncan home with a double to right and Hall would later score on a wild pitch, cutting Norwich�s lead to 5-2.After play resumed, the Navigators tacked on two more insurance runs in the eighth against B-Mets reliever Matt Lindstrom with Julio Cordido drawing a bases-loaded walk and Fred Lewis bringing another run home with a groundout to first. Norwich�s Matt Palmer relieved Valdez after the stoppage and pitched the final 3 2/3 innings for his first save.-------------------------------------------------Seawolf Game Notes:Brian Bannister was awful. I watched him warming up; he had to keep apologizing to Joe Hietpas, because he was bouncing balls all over the place. He threw two wild pitches in the first inning (the game story above calls it a SB for Athas, but it wasn't), scoring a run (I originally scored the first one a PB, but when he threw the second one, I went back and changed it). In the third, they smacked him all over the park, including a looooong home run. Every ball was hit hard.The Mets threatened in the fifth, so they pulled Bannister for a PH, but they only picked up two.Then the rains came. It monsooned for about ten minutes, but the grounds crew couldn't get the tarp on the field. They pulled it out, but started unrolling it too far in right field, so it didn't cover the whole field. So they tried to fold it back up and re-do it, but by that point, the rain was stopping, and the damage was done. A ten-minute rainstorm turned into a 90-minute rain delay while the grounds crew remade the field.We had to catch a 6:00 ferry, so we had to bolt after the delay, causing me to miss my adoptee, Matt Lindstrom, pitching in relief. We listened to the game on the radio the rest of the way; Lindstrom got punked by an error by 2B Aarom Baldiris on a double-play grounder, which eventually led to two unearned insurance runs.I forgot to take any action photos, but I have a lot of inaction photos, plus a short digital video of Bannister warming up (about 8 MB - if anyone wants to host it, let me know).Brian Bannister in the bullpenOFs Victor Hall and Wayne Lydon stretch1B Mike Jacobs2B Corey Ragsdale3B David BacaniMinor league baseball at its finest. Note that the Gators use two different styles of numbering on the back of the jerseys.The scouts were out in force; here they're gunning Merkin Valdez.The monsoons. Note how they started the tarp way out in right field, and as a result, it didn't cover the infield.Do-over.The B-Mets are not impressed.Finally, the sun comes out again. Sewaolf adoptee Matt Lindstrom (facing away) exits the dugout to head down and warm up. Note Mike Jacobs (far right) hanging out with fans.

Whoa! What happened? Cliff got into it with a fan? We just got home from CT. (Full report, with photos, from the B-Mets game tomorrow morning.)

Is Gary drunk? At least Ted Robinson (rightfully) picked Vagina Boy.