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It feels like Reyes has been with the team forever. He must've been 13 when he was called up.

Shit.

Meanwhile, the Phillies are getting pounded in Boston. Sole possession of second place will be ours. Oh yes it will.

Maybe he should go to The Airstrip after a game.

From The 'Ropilitans: "�New Yorker Lady Gaga. She�s a lifelong fan whose family bleeds Yankee pinstripes. As she told MTV News, Gaga believes her approach to pumping out hit song after hit song and outrageous performance after outrageous performance is not unlike [Mariano] Rivera�s approach to closing out a tight game." MTV News As if Gaga weren't obnoxious enough.

Okay, I'm getting old and all. What's up with the whipped cream in the face? Is this one of those things that kids are doing these days like Lady Gaga and the youtubes?

Thanks to Metsfairy I have two tickets for the July 11th game versus the Braves. Unfortunately, the friend I was going with can't make it so I have ONE ticket available for anyone who wants to watch a Mets game with me from Metsfairy's seats.

Santana's going to need to pitch a perfect game and hit a homerun to get a win.

Lenny Dykstra needs to be there.

attgig wrote: you should listen to dibble on the mets-nats games. this guy seems to hate the mets, and roots hard against us more so than any other team... it's odd. Especially when Philadelphia is much closer by and so much easier to hate.

Ka-boom.

I predict that with the coming of Strasburg the blind will walk, the lepers will see, and the lame will call in to sports radio talk shows!

I saw "The Sweetest Swing in Baseball" in Boston a few years ago. It was entertaining. Don't expect a whole lot of baseball content though.

True confession. Shea Stadium, ca. 1980 at a Jets game. Our seats are in the endzone in front of the giant scoreboard. There are no concession stands near the temporary seats but there are beer vendors who come through the stands. Me, I'm six and whining about being thirsty. My Dad, fed up with the whining and having no other options, gives me a sip of his Budweiser. It's gross but it stopped me from whining. Knowing now what it's like to be the father of a whiny child, I don't judge my Dad. Thank God there were no cell phone cameras back then.

Edgy DC wrote: Edgy DC wrote: What kind of tweeting economy is that? I was hoping for: GMJ NG WO PED. NYM DFA. OMG! Even better. And you'd still have room to include: OMIR UP.

Edgy DC wrote: What kind of tweeting economy is that? I was hoping for: GMJ NG WO PED. NYM DFA. OMG!

I like metsmarathon's take on this, especially this part: so how is that appreciably different than installing a fifth umpire who is able to reinforce or overturn calls made on teh field when sufficient evidence is presented? i've gotta say that 99% of the questionable calls can be resolved by the television broadcasters before teh next pitch is made. why cannot a fifth umpire, with his ever-watching eye, also have a hi-def terminal with multiple simultaneous camera angles available to him to make a rapid assessment of the accuracy of a call in question? if he can't resolve the matter in 30 seconds, the call on teh field stands. That resolves a lot of the "delay-of-game/momentum" objections. In fact I've long thought the NFL should have a specified video replay referee instead of having a guy on the field go off and look in that little monitor window. A video replay umpire in a soundproof booth communicating with the on-field umpires by a cellphone and making quick decisions on contested calls sounds like an acceptable idea to me. I'm down with tradition but I don't think that we should also accept errors just because of tradition.

And so the 28-out Perfect Game goes down in history with the Grand Slam Single.

2005: Glavine.

Signing Tom Glavine.

I was a token Mets fan as far back as I can remember. Torre was manager when I can first remember being aware of the Mets. I started really following baseball in 1985 under Davey Johnson.