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Frayed Knot wrote: Ceetar wrote: Is Terry Collins implying there is an unwritten rule between managers to not bitch about the neighborhood play? I don't think there's an agreement so much as the knowledge that bitching isn't going to get you anywhere. But if a replay shows that the fielder's toe was a half-inch off the base when he received the call how do the powers justify NOT overturning it? And once it's shown that they will overturn such calls challenges will be thrown all over the place for late-game DPs. Managers bitch about lots of things they can't do anything about. The neighborhood play doesn't seem to be one of them. I'm sure Collins is right that managers won't hesitate to appeal it if the game is on the line. But I wouldn't be surprised if they generally let it go. Plays like that, where the umpires deliberately give the benefit of the doubt, are different from plays that they simply miss--and those are the ones that replay review ought to address. Baseball has gone on for a long time with the understanding that some calls are going to be wrong, but that's life and you just have to live with it. That's a healthy, sensible way of looking at things, but now that the idea has crept in that it's possible, in principle, to get every call right, there's really no going back. The question is simply where you draw the line--which plays, and how many, are you going to decide to make sure of. And I think that line is going to keep moving, whether we or the players like it or not.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Behind the front row, it's Ike Davis ( hair on his head, sunglasses tucked in his shirt) and five guys who are all blood relatives of DEA agent (ABQ division) Hank Schrader. Ah. I confused Ike and Niese. No, that is Niese.

Frayed Knot wrote: Vin has made several mistakes already. Called EY Jr. "the son of a former Met", mispronounced Piscataway, and then the no-hitter gaffe. Seems to be losing a bit off his fastball. Are you saying that Eric Young Jr. isn't Anthony Young's kid? I've been confused about that myself.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: That's the second reference this week to "Willie Mays Hayes." I had never heard that name before, so I googled and found out that he's a fictional character from a movie. I think you're referring, perhaps, to Willie Mays Aikens? Not unless there was a President Aikens.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Hmmmm. Mets with presidential names: Johnson, Wilson, Carter, Jackson, Washington, Nixon, Taylor... am I missing anyone? Didn't Willie Mays Hayes make a stop in New York on his way to the bottom? Maybe that was only spring training. If it's presidents of Mexico, there's Carlos Diaz, VIctor Diaz, Wilmer Flores, Gil Flores, Ricky Gutierrez, Frankie Rodriguez, Rich Rodriguez, Raul Valdes, and Duke "The Silver Fox" Snider.

"Ron Swoboda Is Stronger Than Dirt"?

I was there! My first time at Citi Field, and I got Harvey's first shutout. I'm going to have to start coming to New York more often. Damn, he's good. Total control, beginning to end.

Happy birthday, Wilmer.

I think the thing to keep in mind here is that Jeter doesn't know he's a bad shortstop--he probably thought he was just as good a fielder as ARod. And that being the case, obviously it was the new guy who had to change positions. And who won the Gold Glove that year? Derek!

That's one way to give more value for the fans' money. Forty-eight is almost 5% of the total innings pitched this year. The New York Mets, now with 5% extra innings! Extra innings means extra cleaning power means extra fun!

Kelvin Chapman. Tim Leary. Jason Isringhausen. Here today, gone tomorrow, back the next day.

For what it's worth, Baseball Reference give the bunt as having no effect on the likelihood of winning (which was 96% at that point). It's a low-risk, low-yield strategy, but that actually makes some sense in that situation. Normally you want to try to score as many runs as possible, but when you're already up by two in the ninth, there's no real need to. There's not much difference, as far as winning, between one more run and two or three more.

Who will not be a Met tomorrow night? Jose Reyes Nolan Ryan Norman Vincent Peale Ella Wheeler Wilcox Sir Philip Sidney Alaric I, king of the Visigoths Randolph Scott Sally Rand Talleyrand Me Marlon Byrd God I hope I'm wrong about the last one.

Third base ump is calling all the check swings strikes. Q didn't swing.

G-Fafif wrote: I miss Jamie Moyer, my last major league elder. Geez, mine too. By like two weeks. Jamie Moyer, my secret twin; we even have the same initials. At least I'm still younger than the president. It's really going to hurt when that's not true anymore.

Minnie Minoso.

Edgy MD wrote: They're accurately rendered, just inaccurately labeled. Fielder looks like Jose Reyes. Pujols looks like Fernando Vina. Darvish looks like Aurelio Lopez. And Posey looks like Carlos Beltran.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: "If we go as a group, we can save $25.00. Each". If that's what you get for the group rate, I'm in.

metirish wrote: Mets � Willets Point wrote: I fell asleep during the game only to be awoken by Napoli's walk-off homer. Not a bad way to be awoken, but seriously these Red Sox vs. Yankees games are long enough without adding in 8pm starts and extra innings to the mix. As sucky as they played last night, the Sox are the first team to 60 wins in MLB, so I wouldn't rule them out. Amazing that they totally changed on the fly last season and turned that ship right around. So did the Yankees. Give them credit. They've got that ship headed right into a sandbar.

I'm getting a little worried about the level of hype. It makes me feel like some kind of crash is coming. Harvey's great and everything, but this is a guy with ten career wins. Ten. As for his enjoying the night life, good for him. That's nothing unusual. It's just a little surprising how candid he is about it.

Gwreck wrote: Apparently there was enough booing that Fox turned off the crowd microphones. Is that true? I really hope it is. I guess there were some people there who didn't realize that the game was being played in honor of Mariano Rivera. Christ, you're supposed to boo Rivera. Hating the other team in town, or your division rivals, or the team that stole a series from you five years ago is a good thing; it's a big part of what makes the game interesting and fun. Nobody's disrespecting Rivera. But this nonstop fawning is disrespecting what the game is really about, which is all the players, all the teams, all the fans.

Ceetar wrote: Good stuff and good typing. I like this part. Tejada: We have to be open minded about SS. nbever had power so value was OBP and that's declined 3 years. Defensively, range not what it was. We have to look at what he have. He has to work back to ML team. Here he is admitting what really he didn't have to (range has declined) and what Mike never would've asked him about (OBP), so good on him for owning up on Tejada's troubles. Interesting difference than with Ike. Seems like with Ike they want to see results, with Tejada they want to see process and that can be worked on in the minors. unfair or not, it seems like Ike's getting a "prove you don't belong" and Ruben a "Prove you do" Makes sense, I guess. Ike's a few years older.

Will the answer to this quasi-quiz be revealed tonight? Cause I'm keen to know. It's not a quiz. Oh, I see what you're saying. You saw the guy and you want to know who he is. Here's a team picture. If you can point him out, maybe we can fix you up.

Jay Payton, not clutch: All situations: .279 / .323 / .425 // .748 Late and close: .259 / /297 / .385 // .683 That son of a bitch was in the majors for twelve years. To be fair, I'd expect those late and close numbers to be lower for most players, not because of the pressure, but simply because they're more often facing a reliever brought in for the lefty-lefty or righty-righty matchup. Someone who hits at about his overall numbers when it's late and close is pretty clutch if you look at it that way.

When I hear that some player is really clutch, that he's at his best in the big games, I always wonder what the hell he's doing the rest of the time. Is he dogging it, saving himself for the TV cameras? Screw him. I don't want that glory hound on my team.