Willets Point

To quote Jean Valjean: "Bring Him Home!"

Well, that keeps Franky out of the game at least.

Bases drunk. Don't fuck this up.

Keep it going Jose.

Do the happy sax dance. TIE GAME!

Bases drunk. Don't fuck this up.

He can't do that to our callups! Only we can do that to our callups!

Big rally here Mets. Don't fuck up my streak!

via Twitter Reyes-SS Castillo-2B Pagan-LF Wright-3B Beltran-CF Hessman-1B Francoeur-RF Blanco-C Johan-LHP

Christ, as recently as 6 years ago Joe McEwing and Todd Zeile were still on the Mets. Also, Zeile pitched in that game.

metirish wrote: Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: What evidence? They supposedly had a couple of offers out, at the same time, on guys like Molina and Piniero, which had they accepted would've been a decent boost in payroll over what they have now. Hard to believe they were bluffing those guys. I believe none of the nonsense floated in the offseason about the Mets allegedly making offers to this guy or that. I think a lot of that is crap floated by agents to drive up the price on whatever teams are actually talking seriously. Pineiro and Molina both confirmed that they had offers from the Mets, well after signing. either way, it's certainly more evidence than "someone told me that the Mets may not possibly be able to spend because of the possibility that they may have lost an undisclosed amount of money from Madoff" Really though, I don't think it is. Either the Mets evaluated what they thought the guy was worth and didn't offer him any more, or they evaluated what they thought the guy was worth and lowballed him because they were broke. Believe what you want to believe, but that's not evidence in my book. I'm perfectly happy they didn't up their bid on Benjie Molina. As am I. But if both players were to sign the contracts that were offered, the Mets payroll would be higher than it is now. More than Lily higher for example. So to say the Mets cannot afford to add a player would seem to me to be not true. All the quoting here makes my eyes sore. Can I quote you on that?

The Second Spitter wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU Funny. Before I even clicked the link I was thinking it would be funny if someone posted that quote.

The legendary turnaround continues tonight! Jaime Garcia for the bad guys vs. Johan Santana for our heroes.

I believe in comebacks.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: BTW... this is sheer coincidence that the team's had three guys come down with oblique strains in the last four weeks, right? No coincidence at all. The Mets were playing too well for his dastardly plans, so Fred Wilpon hired a hit man who specializes in straining obliques.

This is the game that will go down in history as the start of 'the streak.'

I'm talking World Series baby! Y'all were all jumping ship during the Mets' last slump in May.

I should be in double negative scores for sarcastic answers, but Edgy just ignores me.

Surely Cordell Walker is in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame.

George W. Bush should be in there for getting the government to build them a stadium and making massive profits from public money. Oh wait, that's the Hall of Shame.

I vote for Matt Frewer a.k.a. Max Headroom as Art Howe: "Yeah, I think I'm better than Chuck Swirsky. Freakin' liberal."

Magical link here. Game action picks up at the 1:00 mark but watch the whole thing. Well worth it. My first Mets game. I wish I could zoom in on those crowd shots and find my father, sister, and I.