Willets Point

] WP, by fabric, do you mean style or location? The retro, Ebbets Field-like exterior of the new Mets park may address some of the style concerns. There's little they can do about location in a different neighborhood no Location. I like that at Fenway, Wrigley, Camden Yards, and whatever-they-call-it-now ballpark in San Francisco you can just walk along the sidewalk and the ballpark is one of the buildings in the neighborhood. Shea and the future Mets home are divorced from the city by their location. The problem with the Ebbets Field retro-look is that it is a style for a neighborhood ballpark being used on a ballpark that's not in a neighborhood. The artificiality of it is unappealing.

If we're doing different lists for different days, here's my list for today. Dr. Strangelove A Fish Called Wanda Bringing Up Baby You Can't Take it With You The Trouble With Harry Breaking Away The Empire Strikes Back Glory Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Next Stop, Wonderland

I think whether the dimensions are symmetrical or asymmetrical are irrelevant. I just think that the reasons why old ballparks were asymmetrical is that they were built on oddly shaped parcels of lands, whereas building ballparks with asymmetrical dimensions for a stadium in the middle of a parking lot or other open space is artificial. Actually, I just don't like stadiums that are not built into the fabric of the city as much, one of Shea's great failings that will be continued in the new venue. In Baltimore and San Francisco they built ballparks into the neighborhoods and things like the warehouse and McCovey Cove affect the symmetry but it works because it is both natural and aesthetically pleasing.

No Husher? - an anti-librarian ordinance No Hasher? - a diner hiring for waitresses but no cooks No Hatter? - March Hare sips tea alone No Healer? - Jaerock Lee fails to show up for crusade No Heller? - Catch 22 never gets written No Hitler? - Read Making History by Stephen Fry for an alternate history of a world without Hitler No Heater? - Put on a sweater No Hooter? - Chipper gets to keep more of his salary

Watch 1967 AL.

FTB.

="Frayed Knot"]** SPOILER WARNING**Licoln dies and Booth gets caught!!!!Damn you! Next you're going to tell me the ending of Titanic.I've heard it said that Booth's apperance on the stage was thought to be a cameo appearance by some in the audience. He also knew the play and timed the assasination to be at the moment when the audience was laughing at a good joke.

Reading one of the classics I never read in school.

You expect him to grow into that glove?

Post of the day in my book.

The Mets would have to win 25 or so games between now and Aug. 31st for that to happen.

Unless the Mets have had a collossall collapse and find themselves behind the Braves.

Actually, in September I want the magic number in glowing numbers on the top of the page, not in a seperate thread.

Keep it all together at least until September, I say.

Beltran 2.5 Heilman .5 Maine 5 Sanchez .5 Valentin 1 Wagner 0.5

Edgy DC wrote: Thank you for a fun IGT, Crane Poolers. Sure, now you like it.

Damnit, of all the times of the day to be called in for a quick meeting!!!

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Can we get Lima here in a hurry? That would help end the game swiftly.

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Shall I be the first to say: Bunting if for losers!

TransMonk wrote: Wagner kicks ass! Good thing the Mets didn't have a 5-run lead. SC=72.789

Walk off wins are more fun anyway.

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Some pbp right this second would be nice. No.

Centerfield wrote: Beltran 3 run HR coming up. You heard it here first. Only three runs? But there are 3 batters up ahead of him, surely they'll all get on base.