Zvon

Hellzyea, why not bunt for the single here. That would make sense for a change. Risky but with Young running I'd like the odds. And of course he's swinging away. Two strikes on him now.

T sac puts d' on 2nd, one out.

Travis has got to be tired. Don't try to hit it out d'. Just slap a double. Or a lead off single. Nice.

Frayed Knot wrote: You get the opinion that this game could go a few dozen innings without the Mets scoring. And now we have both Tejada AND Quintanilla in the lineup!! Wow, Q at third and really nice try there on the line single. Q trying to pull a Brooks. The only advantage we have here, and I mean the only, cause both teams offense were dead on arrival, is that we get last licks.

German makes quick work of him. Niiiiiiiice.

Frayed Knot wrote: I could say that we're at an advantage here as they have the bottom of their order up while we have the middle (3-4-5) of ours due up ... except that with this line-up that doesn't mean anything. Both teams have been hitting like shit with some pop. There's that. This is the guy I worry about. Our future outfielder Stanton.

Whew. Baseball is one caaaaaaRazy game. Hawkins does get thru that wacky and wild inning.

Come on Hawkins me boy, get out of this.

CRAZY THROW DAN! [bigpurple:7b506p43]GREAT[/bigpurple:7b506p43] TAG FLORES! WTF!? And now Murphy drops the force at second. Bad throw by Flores.

[bigpurple:ojzvs76o]WOW[/bigpurple:ojzvs76o]

Hawkins coming on in a 0-0 game. He's been pitching great. I'd really like to win this game. But we know whats gonna happen now, don't we?,... cuz we're Met fans.

Shame on you Muffy. That was a weird swing by Flores. The weirdest ever.

Murphy 2 Duda 1 Flores 0.5 Matsuzaka 5 Feliciano 0.2 Black 0.3 Hawkins 1

HA! Ruggiano is an idiot who sucks!

One of the best Ralph days. Some really nice stories. I like how he said he had a hitting secret he would never divulge, and then without even being prodded he gives it up,lol. Garys going over it now. He told stories I had never heard. Beating his pregnant wife! That don't look right out of context.

den Dekker 1 Torres 4.4 Germen 1 Francisco 0.4 Aardsma 0.4 Burke 0.8

Young 1 Brown 1.4 Duda 3.6 Niese 2.5 Atchison 0.4 Black 0.3 Feliciano 0.2 Hawkins 1

Winner always starts the next, as tradition has it. Great stories from Ralph today. He has sounded better. Still, as always, great to hear from him.

Now Ive got a little snap to fit Met border kit. Hey, it don't suck. Looks like he's getting ready to do what he did, which was leave town.

You didn't ask me but I got lotsa ideas. Here's one: I'd put up an installation with one Topps baseball card for every single Met ever. The cards would be organized alphabetically by the last name of each Met, and would be reorganized every time there would be additions to the exhibit. For the Randy Bobbs and Billy Cowans and Dave Schnecks and Bob Friends etc., who never got a Mets card, I'd pay Topps to go into their photo archives so that they could create cards for this installation. Every Met would be on that wall. I love the idea, but would do the wall chronologically (but would have a corresponding list by name that would get updated with every new addition). Chronological's OK. But aesthetically, I'd like it more when the card styles and player eras are all mixed up. I'd like to see a Stengel Met right next to a Valentine Met, for example. That's the specific reason I went alphabetical. Also, I'd change some cards each year. Because, assuming this exhibit was real, when you first add a player to the existing exhibit, it would logically be his debut card. But a future card of his might be more appealing. Jason my blog partner has long advocated a wall in which every Met's name is engraved, like the Vietnam Memorial but only less depressing, he claims. I like that, but I think I like this one better, especially the creation of Topps cards for the non-Toppsers. Shoot, they create sad looking cards on the video screen for the guys who don't have them, so yes, do it up right. Dave Schneck. How did Dave Schneck never get a card? And since we're paying Topps to create authentic looking cards for the Toppless Davey Schnecks, I'd have Topps dip into the ol' archives once more to redo some of those ugly capless and headless shots, especially the ones where the Met isn't even shown in the proper uniform. And one more thing I left out: Those Mets whose only Topps appearance was on a portion of a rookie card, shared with other players, like Les Rohr, or Jesse Hudson or Bart Shirley --- I'd have Topps create full cards for them, too. And if Topps doesn't have unused Mets photos of those players, they could simply use the photo already used on their original rookie cards, but uncropped, and bigger, to fill out the whole card. Did Topps save everything? Hard to find a decent color pic of Warren to use. I made this before you posted that one above, which is nice but not desirable. I will see how it looks in the border cause like Yogi said, you're never know how something will look until you see it.

I can't commit to the when but I'll try messing with it. We are gonna have plenty of down time pretty soon and we can do stuff like this in the off season. Yesterday I tried a mockup of a lighter colored brick. I did this in a few minutes using the magic wand and it's really an awful job (I wasn't even going to share it cuz it came out so bad), but it gives you an idea of how it would look. That's a clown stadium bro! I wonder if I did a tighter job if it would have looked better. It would suck if just a bad presentation like above would take the idea of another color for the brick off the board.

I'll take the split. metirish wrote: Hawkins as Gary noted has been brilliant .....congrats to Dice-K... Hawkins has been.

Frayed Knot wrote: Zvon wrote: I've been half watching these games. Any official word on the extent of FFs line drive to the wrist injury earlier today? Contusion (bruise) but no break. I was shocked at the 'no break' news. Really. It looked bad. But like when Bax squished his glove on that foul ball earlier, players today are quick to look dramatically fragile.

lmao, you can hear em real clear. Polanco tells the ump he stinks.

I've been half watching these games. Any official word on the extent of FFs line drive to the wrist injury earlier today?