Ceetar

Valdespin ties it with a home run in the top of the 9th.

Cards score a single up the middle by Berkman though, but Beltran gets caught in a run down trying to advance to third.

Freese down swinging wildly (loses the bat, again)

two singles (one by Beltran) leading off the 6th, Santana Ks Holliday swinging.

55 pitches, 4 Ks, no walks or runs through 5 for Santana. (okay, one of those Ks was Westbrook)

Changeup gets Freese. Beltran struck out too. meanwhile on twitter: "@ryanfingawesome: A St. Louis fan literally brought a squirrel to this game and its running in the stands on the 3rd base side."

Yankees fans don't realize how good they have it on the radio. heh.

Wow, I know I don't listen to opposing broadcasts much so this is probably old news for many, but the Cardinals radio guys..omg. They randomly made up stats for Duda. I think they may have given the total stats for all Mets RFers last year. There was a racoon or something in the stands. They described 2 of the 5 pitches to Mike Baxter. Said Santana had a rough season coming back from shoulder surgery last season. Were astute enough to know that Beltran used to be Santana's teammate "once upon a time" Called "VAl..entino Pas...cucci" a "young" Steve Balboni. Hoped he'd have a longer career than Steve.

Cards got audio.

.298/.355/.450 13 HR, 98 runs, plays an okay second base.

.305/.392/.528 31 HR, 120 RBI, 31 SB, 150K, 1 triple.

Ankiel may still be available by OD, by virtue of sucking and getting released.

Tomorrow! The auction draft window is viewable if you want to get a sense for the controls. Anyone got any questions?

Still a chance Hairston makes it back in time too, could probably hold down CF for 4-5 games if Torres needs a couple days.

Has Nieuwenhuis played again yet? He had bee ndealing with an oblique too right? You hear less about these guys once they're sent to the minors camp.

I guess this will lend credence to the "Should've signed Ankiel" crowd. I imagine if Torres actually can't go beyond say this weekend they'll probably have to look to grab someone else from somewhere.

Amusing news out of Mets camp apparently, with Torres' sore/strained/missing calf, Jason Bay and ...Jordanny Valdespin! have been pegged to get reps in CF. It's about to get crazy? If only we had Juan Pierre.

they won a game, does this mean they won't lose 120 then?

metirish wrote: Left calf strain Gary says..... yeah, imagine we'll have more definitive news tomorrow on how it actually feels.

metirish wrote: Murphy gets eaten up by a sharp liner right to him on the edge of the grass....misjudged? , anyway Murph saw the fun of it between innings. was sorta an inbetween hop. Was a hard play that the better half of 2Bman probably make. no problem, he turned the double play flawlessly on the next play. now Tejada leads off with a double and Gee bunts him over. Loewen in for Torres who seemed to have a tender calf jogging off the field in the second.

metirish wrote: Christ, not sure I want Murph stealing bases in ST. heh. They've all been doing it. No better way to get real practice reading pitches and getting jumps.

First pitch, called strike. second pitch, swinging strike. ball fly out to Duda in right.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I'm not following you. Megdal makes a credible case that the $240M to be received by the Mets will be used almost entirely to make loan repayments. So according to Megdal, unless the Mets make large profits this season, the Mets are unlikely to increase payroll significantly. Because the money won't be there. You say the Mets spent the $40M on 2012 expenses? What expenses? The secretarial pool's dental plan? The team cut $50M in salary and jettisoned a whole minor league team. the 90+ million dollars they owe the players? The electric bill? salaries for the front office/ticket staff? I dunno, they took out the loan this year though. So it'll be on the ledger on both sides, debit and credit. plus the credit from the investors. Either you apply that credit to the team/expenses, or the Bank of America loan. but you have to do one. Megdal is not assigning the 40 million dollars they got from the bank that I saw.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ceetar wrote: You've been waiting your whole life for this moment. What I meant was, that money that they borrowed, was money they used for losses this year. for payroll, for salaries, for equipment. They bought things with it. Yes, it balances to 0, but you can't ignore the 65million INCOME from taking out he loan in the first place. But money received from loans isn't income either. The loan has to be repaid. Also, see my edit (OE). I did. The loan was taking out this winter. My point is the Mets got 40 million from Bank of America and 40 million from 2 investors. In a normal functional business, Money from the investors goes to the team. But the Mets didn't have that money yet, so they took money from the bank to give to the team, and sent the money from the investors to the bank. This isn't a Madoff fund that they simply lost money into a hole, nor is it repayment on a building. They got to use 40 million dollars on the team. When Megdal does his math there, he says "40 million out the door immediately" and then says the Mets have "no breathing room" to cover losses after other debt repayments. This math ignores the 40million they got from the bank. Where did it go? Towards expenses presumably, so it has to be factored in.

2012 expense. The BoA loan was taken out earlier this year. I don't recall what the MLB money was used for. maybe that's true, but the 40million from Bank of America was used for expenses this year. Sure, they paid 40 million back, but they still have the 40 million they took out in the 'coffers' so to speak, of which they're using to pay players and build walls and place phone calls to teams about Jason Bay.