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Nice to get a laugher and rest the pen. I think tomorrow is a BIG GAME.

In the post game handshakes, Floyd and Wright kind of jumped sideways into each other, which I guess is what they were doing in the picture in the Caption This thread. Looks like Wright has made a friend, and isn't just a bellboy.Also a hilarious shot of two Padres fans looking at Wright's homer with their mouths wide open and "holy shit" looks.

Edgy DC wrote:I can't believe he's mine.It is kind of hard to believe. Hopefully you'll be saying the same thing about Beltran one day.

There are so many better options to start at first base than Offerman. One of them is in the broadcast booth.Wright with a blooper to drive in Cairo. 1-0 Metropolitans.Aargh! I'm posting as Vince!!!

I'd just as soon he not show up for spring training in Port St. Lucie next year. He's a nice man and all, but he's only valuable as a defensive replacement, and those aren't very valuable when the position is first base.

]Mientkiewicz said the flight to San Diego from New York on Sunday night was the "most uncomfortable, miserable five hours of my life." But that misery won't compare to what he will endure if he must return to Port St. Lucie, where he spent time during his last DL stint. "If they send me there, I'm not coming back," he said. "See you in Spring Training [next season]." [url]http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050809&content_id=1164147&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym[/url]

Should Mackey Sasser be considered? Brett Butler also starred in a long running sitcom, as a woman.

True. Will, play Kazu, okay?

Sorry, just cranky. Will delete.

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The Padres are hitting Pedro hard. 4-0 in the third.

I haven't looked at your data yet, but I'd seriously question Agbayani over McReynolds for starters.

Given the all-time Met win percentage, Metly probably means something along the lines of "played poorly for a last place team." Big Mac fails both ends of that sentence except for his last year here.

You're forgetting that time that Takashi Kashiwada squared off against his brother, Bob.

NY Times]Second baseman Kazuo Matsui, who went on the disabled list June 21 with a bruised left knee, will rejoin the team for the start of the three-game series with San Diego. He went 2 for 4 with two stolen bases for Class AA Binghamton yesterday

I'm not sure how long this will remain on the host website, it's one of those daily photo galleries.

With the steroid controversy, there are lots of nominees for this award, but I'd give the nod to this talk show host. Here's Felipe's response:[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2127192[/url]SAN FRANCISCO -- Giants manager Felipe Alou called a one-week suspension given to a radio host for making racial remarks about the team's Latino players "a slap on the hand" and said he wouldn't accept an apology from Larry Krueger."He came to apologize to me? You have to be kidding me," Alou said Saturday, one day after the suspension. "There's no way to apologize for such a sin."Alou said he wasn't in position to accept an apology on behalf of the "hundreds of millions" of people offended earlier this week when Krueger went on the Giants' flagship station, KNBR, and went off about the struggling club and its "brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly." � There's no way to apologize for such a sin. � � Giants manager Felipe Alou "All of these people have been offended by this idiot," Alou said. "I can't speak for hundreds of millions of people. This guy offended hundreds of millions of people."KNBR program director Bob Agnew said all comments on the subject would come from Tony Salvadore, the station's senior vice president. Salvadore did not immediately return a message left on his cell phone seeking comment. KNBR owns approximately 1.5 percent of the team.Krueger, who apologized on the air Thursday and offered to apologize to the team, will not be on the radio again until Aug. 15. In his comments after Wednesday night's game he also criticized Alou, saying "you have a manager in Felipe whose mind has turned to Cream of Wheat.""It's a slap on the hand," Alou said, slapping his own hand for emphasis. "He could come back with something else in a week."Alou also said he would no longer do his pregame radio spot with the station."My voice and the voices of others can't be coming out of the same wave," Alou said. "No way. I am a man of principle. I always have been and always will be."The anger from the Giants organization and players did not die down a day after the controversy became public. Because Krueger is a talk-show host and not an announcer, the Giants have no control over his punishment.Omar Vizquel compared the talk-show host's remarks to those made by former Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker, who in a 1999 interview with Sports Illustrated bashed gays, minorities and foreigners.The 70-year-old Alou, who faced racism as a black Dominican minor leaguer in the South nearly five decades ago, warned his Latino players to be "on guard" for racist remarks.Moises Alou, the son of the manager and an outfielder for the Giants, called it an "ugly incident" and said unfair treatment of Latino players by the media was not new."It's been going on a long time," he said. "They blame steroids on Mexico and the Dominican Republic. I guarantee you can get steroids in the United States, too."Moises Alou said much of the problem stems from the fact that Latino players are thought of as "dumb" because of the language barrier they face."Just because you don't speak English when you first come to this country, that doesn't mean you're stupid," he said.The Giants, who have struggled most of the season, have won three straight games since Krueger made his comments. But Alou and the players dismiss any idea that the controversy has motivated them."I don't really think players care too much about what a guy says on the radio or what people write," first baseman J.T. Snow said. "Our job is to go on the field and play."

I am usually the last person to acknowledge morale and chemistry as important parts of baseball. But this team is winning me over. Between the giggling on the bench and the way everyone jumps around (in a non-phony, non-Jeter way), to celebrate wins and good play (see recent Caption This thread) it looks like they're having fun. I think one of the reasons to believe this team has a chance is that they believe.

I know several people who played for Eastern over the past five years. I'll ask around about his study habits, in case he's hiding anything from his new stepfather.

Zambrano 5Floyd 1.5Wright 1.25Beltran 1.25Piazza 0.5Cairo 0.5

Bang, pow.

Seo 6Reyes 2Looper 1Koo 0.5Hernandez 0.5

Hey, just think if we had held onto one of those leads against Milwaukee.

Yay for Zambrano.

Every time I give up on this fucking team.....they pull me back in.