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Frayed Knot wrote: Always a nice thought. But if it's not him in the post-season rotation it'll be some combination of Garcia and/or Colon and one of these days one or both of those dudes are going to wake up an realize that their combined age is a two-digit number that starts with a 7 and that their combined weight is a three-digit number that starts with a 6 and are going to revert to pumpkins. Nothing a good shot won't fix. I'm sure Jeter has something hidden in his mansion somewhere. Stupid Yankees tied the game too.

Edgy DC wrote: Don't tell that to Ceets. he's pitched surprisingly well lately. I still feel like he's a ticking time bomb though. But hey, he's not Igarashi.

hmm, I have some sort of lingering google redirect virus. could use a couple more runs though.

give up two, score two (could've been three if Hairston tagged up better)

Detroit with a 4 game lead over Cleveland, facing off.

uneventful so far mostly.

Edgy DC wrote: A wet batter fryer. It's about time this thread got started. Look at Duda --- hanging in the cleanup spot against the lefty. Wearing the slugging 21 proudly. Hey, yesterday was my 5th IGT, and I lost the others. I forgot I was supposed to keep posting.

Pagan-CF, Turner-2B, Wright-3B, Duda-1B, Bay-LF, Hairston-RF, Paulino-C, Tejada-SS, Capuano-LHP Maybin CF, Barlett SS, Guzman 1B, Hudson 2B, Blanks LF, Cunningham RF, Darnell 3B, Johnson C, LeBlanc P

David Wright has 2,044 total bases and ranks second in franchise history, just three total bases behind Ed Kranepool (2,047). What do you call a monk swinging a bat in the rain?

on the Mets side as well TRAILING BY TWO: The Mets trailed by two runs entering the ninth inning last night...It was New York�s first win after trailing by two or more runs in the ninth inning or later since July 17, 2008 at Cincinnati when they trailed, 8-6, heading to the ninth, but scored four times and won, 10-8...Prior to last night, the Mets had lost their last 195 games in which they trailed by two or more runs in the ninth inning or later, the longest such streak in team history...Research courtesy of Elias Sports.

i'm still not convinced any of you actually exist.

page was too big for my scanner, but here: it's $45 for dinner. I think you can an entree and all the market table stuff. But I don't know, I haven't eaten there, just toured it.

Edgy DC wrote: I guess it's good that you had a crowd. What kind of prices does the A Club have that a family is expected to drop $200 on a moment's notice? I guess the only other plans are (1) to make fast friends with another party, or (2) get profoundly loaded. Anyways, I'm not saying this is an eponymous game (I didn't even give Duda my PotG vote) but it's quite the historical hashmark. Duda came off as quite the mumbling introvert on the post-game interview. Yeah, Duda definite didn't seem the prototypical baseballer. that $200 is ridiculous. I always boggle when they announce that. But maybe the idea is that you do drag a ton of people there and they 'experience' the Acela Club and want to go back? I mean, it is a cool place, it's just not a place I'm looking to be during a baseball game.

PiggiesTomatoes wrote: Was looking to throw something through the TV when they went down 8-4. What a tremendous win. Go Manchild! whatever you threw, the Mets would've hit.

I'm looking forward to themetfairy's breakdown of the Acela Club's dessert.

he's got a 105 Mets OPS. He's fast, he's got good range. (wish he could cut down on some of these sillier errors) .713 OPS since returning from the DL with a lowish .289 BABIP. (.318 for his Mets career) Figure luck puts him back towards .750 and he had a bad April. Anyway, I imagine he'll be teh starter with Niuwenhuis nipping at his tail if need be.

judging by my first picture, looks like Leather's got a little tongue thing going.

dgwphotography wrote: from the mouths of babes... My 13-year old, after Wright's homer: Have you noticed that Wright always homers when they're already ahead, and not when they're behind? stop letting him listen to WFAN.

Edgy DC wrote: That double-down on San Diego would be kinda pointless for me. If anybody want to grab one of them, I'll take one of the unsquatted end-times series. Not sure we need two considering how fast we play them anyway right?

The friars come to town for the first of seven games the Mets play against them over the next 10 days. (Kte? KTE? who are these guys?) The lineup to start the game Pagan-CF, Turner-2B, Wright-3B, Duda-1B, Bay-LF, Harris-RF, Paulino-C, Tejada-SS, Pelfrey-RHP

Nothing has changed.

Frayed Knot wrote: The AL has seemed to have their teams more spread out as compared to the NL over the last 20 years or so. Frequently they'd have one or two teams way up there in the Wins column (lately the Yanx & Sawx but others before that) at the same time as they had more bottom feeders. The NL, on the other hand, usually had their teams more accordian-ed together; fewer 95+ win teams but also fewer 95+ loss clubs as well*. The complaint from some about the proposed double-WC system is that it would pit the better WC team (currently the Yanx) up against some club which could be 10 or more games behind them in a real short (maybe one game) series. In my mind though that's not a drawback but rather a great incentive to win the division in the first place and it would put tons of added importance to a series like the one this weekend. * Just as an example, no NL team in the last quarter century has come close to the .667 record of the '86 Mets (Atlanta '93 with 104 wins is next I think). But in less than a 10-year span, three separate AL clubs crushed that that mark: '95 Indians, 98 Yanx, '01 Mariners Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I imagine having two less teams factors in somehow, as does the innate interleague advantage.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: Which gets to the crux of the problem with Wild Card spots. What should be an epic battle for first for the ages becomes a curiosity about who matches up with whom in the first round. I'd rather blame that on the crappy AL than on the Wild Card structure. It pretty much happens every year. Sure, somewhat, but it's hard to argue either team doesn't deserve the playoffs either. But it also seems to me the AL often lacks any real depth of quality teams to make it interesting in a wild card race. The point, I think, is that both teams might reasonably win 100 games, and if they were pitted against each other in a zero sum game only-one team-gets-in setup, their battle for first place might be, as Edgy wrote, "an epic battle for first for the ages". There are too many fans, and I'm one of them, that abhor the Wild Card races and unless their favorite team is involved, view the whole spectacle as one more Selig gimmick that enables the owners to enrich themselves even more but by sacrificing the game's quality. I don't really think it sacrifices any quality and often the last weeks, if not month, of the season would be virtually worthless for almsot every team if they switched back to a two division format. in terms of depth, I've always felt like the AL team beyond the top tier are just not very good. There often isn't any wild card race (as there isn't this year) because the league lacks a 5th 'good' team.

Edgy DC wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Which gets to the crux of the problem with Wild Card spots. What should be an epic battle for first for the ages becomes a curiosity about who matches up with whom in the first round. I'd rather blame that on the crappy AL than on the Wild Card structure. It pretty much happens every year. Sure, somewhat, but it's hard to argue either team doesn't deserve the playoffs either. But it also seems to me the AL often lacks any real depth of quality teams to make it interesting in a wild card race.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Papers today all about Girardi officially benching Dumbo, a crime against the (capitalized in the Snooze) Core Four. I always assumed "Core Four" was a steroid, and a proper noun, and that's why it was capitalized.