Willets Point

Aaron "Bleeping" Boone still plays baseball. Geez louise.

Douglas Adams would love this thread.

Rockin' Doc wrote: Willet - "You're probably right. I studied French, Latin and Spanish and was never good at any of them but very good at mixing them up." I'm still trying to master English. Same here.

KC wrote: esta, I believe, not es. You're probably right. I studied French, Latin and Spanish and was never good at any of them but very good at mixing them up. Smith bails out Maine. Hooray!

I wanted Maine to get the third out SO bad.

Jose es en fuego.

These are the Mets I know and love.

Milledge spilledge as he misses the base hit.

Nice one 3-D.

I heart Jose.

Agree on Castillo hitting 8th. I thought Maine just didn't have it tonight, but then he comes back with a 1-2-3 inning all on ground balls just like that. Top of the order for the Mets. Lets hit some Chico.

Nice hustle on the IF single by Castillo.

Rats! HR Rats! Single. Rats! Extra base.

Wily Mo' pain for ya!

Some fans are posting images of the state of Maine instead of K's for each of John Maine's strikeouts. They got to talking about Maine, and Keith said dismissively that after the Revolution the British gave Maine to the US because they didn't want it.

I predict that Keith will receive much hate mail from the residents of the state of Maine.

It's nice he worked the count at least. Maybe the O can get to Chico in the next inning as a result.

Chico walks the Maine.

I swear I read your thread title and thought it said April 15 and didn't see one for the 16th. Close this thread. Use AG's.

This is Church's game tonight. All three putouts in the top of the inning and a homer in the bottom. Meanwhile, the Nationals' ballpark is being turned into a Church.

Settle down John.

I liked seeing every player on the field in 42. It's a nice gimmick.

This is something that's troubled me a lot as a Mets fan. As a child, I was drawn to the Mets because even though they were often awful the fans remained optimistic. They looked for and cherished the Mets Magic and miracles even if they came rarely. Fans would start a "Lets Go Mets" chant - without prompting - even with the team several runs behind in the ninth inning. When the Mets won it all in 1986 it made all that support and optimism justified. I was disgusted by the behavior of Mets fans at Shea and online last September. The Mets needed to win just 1-2 more games to make the playoffs, but instead of rallying behind the team to get those wins, the "fans" booed and vilified them. I was particularly disgusted by the scapegoating of individual players like Jose Reyes. At the time I made the analogy to Gil Hodges who during a desperate slump inspired Dodgers fans to gather together in prayer to end his batting troubles. I think not so many years ago, the type of Mets fans I grew up with would have rallied behind Reyes in a similar way. In Sept. 2007, they not only criticized his poor play but vilified his character as well. That's just wrong, and I seriously questioned whether I wanted to be associated with being a Mets fan after that. Eventually I decided I can only act for myself and be the most positive type of Mets fan I can be. The thing I kept hearing last September from Mets "fans" is that the team gave up. That may be true, but I believe the fans gave up on the team first. The fact that the Mets played before largely hostile crowds at home in the final weeks of the season is in my opinion a major contributing cause of the "collapse."

Pelfrey 4.2 Wright 3 Reyes 2.8

I'm down with an official "serves inexpensive but quality beer with good company" bar.