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more concerned about how Batista sucks and we keep squandering lead off hits.

Gwreck wrote: Everyone would request Kansas City and Houston, or for attendance purposes, the Yankees and Red Sox. well, obviously they can't all play the Royals. Maybe priority given if both teams request each other, then to the team with the worse record. Maybe intra division/league favored over interleague. I feel like it could work. Plus the 'requesting the crappy teams' could backfire if the team turns out to be good.

TransMonk wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: 3) I'm pretty sure they were once a regular rival but now we haven't played them in like three years or something. For what it's worth, I miss playing the Cubs more often. For a mid-western guy like me, that was a fun rivalry. I think it'd be cool if teams could request series. Have 4-5 wild series in the schedule, this way if say the Mets and Cubs wanted to play another set of games, they could request it.

Yanks have 17 (+1) to play and a seven game lead. sounds familiar.

my wife actually suggested we go. So we might.

dgwphotography wrote: Ashie62 wrote: Is that for real? Your lack of faith disturbs me.. someone less lazy than me go get the pictures Dickey tweeted Thursday or Friday. (who I think may be more excited than Jason)

1:10 start. Radio: CHC: WGN 720 NYM: WFAN 660 TV: CHC: CSN NYM: WPIX Wells vs. Capuano. METS Jose Reyes � SS Justin Turner � 2B Lucas Duda � RF David Wright � 3B Angel Pagan � CF Jason Bay � LF Nick Evans � 1B Mike Nickeas � C Chris Capuano � LHP

Frayed Knot wrote: How about Turner's single that went over the fence? Ventura in the building tonight.. Since the grounds-rule double is automatic, as long as Turner actually reaches 2B (and he did) it counts as a double. Robin's problem is that he never even got that far because - like that guy in Tiananmen Square - he had a tank in front of him. There was actually a pre-1920 rule which only gave the batter credit for the hit that was "needed" in walk-off situations (not that they called them walk-offs back then ... not sure what phrase was in vogue with the ESPN geeks at the time). Ruth lost a HR off his total when he blasted one over the fence in a tie game with a runner on 1st and was only credited with a triple. A big debate arose at the time this was discovered as to whether to augment his total to 715 (this was during the time when Aaron was approaching the record) but the ultimate ruling was to stick to the scoring rules as they existed at the time. Ruth lost other homers too, since balls that hooked foul AFTER clearing the fence were ruled foul. it's pretty hard to retroactively alter stuff like that. I'll chalk this one up to Wayne being Wayne then.

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Nice writeup on [u:1770ejsr]Fe Y Temor en Flushing[/u:1770ejsr] in the latest edition of Mets Magazine though. Comes with an English translation as well.

Gwreck wrote: How about Turner's single that went over the fence? It was a double. That's what I thought, but Wayne said single on the recap and I figured he was closer to the official scorer and should actually know. Gwreck wrote: Fun ending but a sloppy game. If I were the Cubs' manager, I would've pulled Soriano for loafing after that pop fly double that Jose had early in the game. If I were the Mets' manager, I would've pinch-hit for Pelfrey in the 6th. I like that they do a live in-stadium interview after walk-off hits, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that the whipped-cream pie-in-the-face is coming. yeah. Burkhardt even commented as such, that he knew it was coming. I was okay with Pelfrey for the 6th, but I would've lifted him after that. I wouldn't have sacrificed with Thole.

no harm. It just disturbs me when I check back in a thread and find myself being criticized. What was the first throw? I think I missed that one. I saw him double clutch and throw offline for the tying run, but in truth he didn't really have a shot and I feel like most CFers throw well up the line more than half the time too. Nice play by Thole coming out and keeping it from going to the backstop though.

so random attacks on me aside fun game tonight. place was mostly dead, and mostly empty. both the triple safe call at third, and the subsequent out at the plate seemed like blown calls. truth? How about Turner's single that went over the fence? Ventura in the building tonight..

Edgy DC wrote: This thread really implicates me. Well, even the best blow more than 1 out of 10. Acosta was kinda due.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Not that he was likely to have gotten him in this case, but Pagan's next good throw from the OF will be his first. Just tonight he's had two throws and both of them have been awful. Yes but if his bad throws were good, he'd be great. /Ceetar bite me. Pagan has a much longer history of above average defense than what he's shown for most of this year. But sure, he sucks. Let's just play Pridie because even though he sucks, he'll make less money next year.

Bryan LaHair RF? I bet he's bald.

metirish wrote: True, and I'll add that a ticket to see the Mets is very reasonable, and kids were free . I hope when the team is rising high and winning things these little things will remain. I'm sure given the digital age, the tweet contests and the like might. I doubt the 'hey, bring all your kiddies free' stuff will. supply and demand and all.

metirish wrote: The second paragraph is gold, the first?, those are the fans that should be cherished but they are not the ones they were thinking of when the stadium was being built, sadly. That's the formula of professional sports these days. Profit is king and you gotta keep up with the Jones/Steinbrenners. But at least the second part represents that they do actually at least remember we exist. They've been doing Thursday trivia stuff all season. They tried to do the first pitch thing last thursday, but the person that won wasn't actually _in_ their seat, so they couldn't find him in time to do it. They've done some other subtle stuff too, like having the '86 Met that's in the building come out and hand out the inbetween inning contest prize in person.

if I recall it was only Landshark for baseball. So it could be Dolphin on Sunday for the Dolphins, and then Landshark on Monday for the Marlins.

Your hero will be in attendence. David Wright will grace the cover on the new, and final for the season, issue of Mets Magazine. Mike Pelfrey will be on the mound against Casey Coleman (2-7, 6.61 ERA) I'm 4-7 at Citi Field this year. The Mets are at 70-73, with their hopes of .500 fading. New York Mets 1. Jose Reyes SS 2. Justin Turner 2B 3. Lucas Duda RF 4. David Wright 3B 5. Angel Pagan CF 6. Jason Bay LF 7. Nick Evans 1B 8. Josh Thole C 9. Mike Pelfrey RHP Chicago Cubs 1. Starlin Castro SS 2. Darwin Barney 2B 3. Aramis Ramirez 3B 4. Carlos Pena 1B 5. Alfonso Soriano LF 6. Marlon Byrd CF 7. Bryan LaHair RF 8. Geovany Soto C 9. Casey Coleman RHP

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yeah... the Mets really have to get to three before the Marlins do. before the Phillies too.

G-Fafif wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Mike Piazza? Didn't he play about a half-dozen games for the Marlins? Not even. Five games. He lives down there, I think. Must not be busy that afternoon. Presumably they pay these guys for appearances right? I wonder if that cast is getting more than the Marlins players do.

G-Fafif wrote: Happy 42nd anniversary to the black cat that crossed the Cubs' dugout path on this night in 1969. I wonder if my black cat wants to come to the game with me tonight.

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metirish wrote: Baseball-Reference has Tejada born on October 27, 1989 http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tejadru01.shtml UMDB has it as September 1st 1989 http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0878 BR is correct. I'd like to hack your database. I always find myself wishing I'd set up some databases so I can run SQL queries against it for random crap. I even downloaded all the retrosheet.org files, but never took the next step.