Elster88

Jennifer Connelly

That surprises you?

You take all the fun out of living.

]Changes: Moises Alou and Luis Castillo were removed from the original lineup, replaced, respectively, in left field and at second base by David Newhan and Ruben Gotay. Alou, according to Willie Randolph, "has a bump on his arm," and Castillo, the manager said, was merely given a day off. Alou had crashed into the left-field wall in Miller Park on Thursday, chasing a home run. He had jammed his left thumb sliding into second base Tuesday. Castillo, meanwhile, often ices his left knee.

CHICAGO -- Pedro Martinez remains prominent on the Mets horizon, though it now appears that horizon almost must be identified as September. The Mets don't say so. Indeed, they say little about him that is touched with certainty. And, increasingly, the words they use to characterize his progress and status are measured. Most statements are qualified as they were not in June. It may be only corporate caution that has created the vagueness. And no one has said Martinez has taken a step in the wrong direction during his rehab. But the increasing lack of definition occasionally raises eyebrows, even those in the clubhouse. "We don't know anything -- at least I don't," one player said Friday. "We just know what we read. And you know Pedro makes his own schedule. But it just seems like with what you hear now, it's harder to tell when he's coming back. I know they're saying we're not counting on him. But it seems like they were a little bit. But not now so much." General manager Omar Minaya, who watched Martinez pitch in simulated game conditions in Port St. Lucie on Thursday, said Martinez's next activity -- the timing and the type -- is undetermined, though it is likely to be in a Minor League game. "But that can change," Minaya said. He characterized Martinez's performance with these words: "He didn't feel too comfortable at first. He was a little apprehensive ... I want to say it was a positive outing." He said Martinez could pitch again in "five, six or seven days" and that Martinez's velocity was about 85-86 mph -- about where it was last season.

Farmer Ted wrote: Chalk up Zambrano's 7 BBs to nervousness as he was auditioning for a possible suitor for '08 and beyond. nah

Who the fuck is nightcrawler?

="Elster88"]="Elster88"]I hate to be the turd in the punch bowl, but Milledge's first 18 at-bats this year have given him a line of .222/.267/.444//.707 .262/.289/.452//.741 .284/.325/.473//.798

Frayed Knot wrote: Last night: Met Game; 8-4 final; 2:22 NYY Game; 9-4 final; 4:02 Makes me think the DH has nothing to do it. Course, that's just two games. The DH probably has a lot to do with it.

Frayed Knot wrote: Meanwhile, since TBS is an official MLB partner starting with this playoff year, they keep breaking in to show Barry NOT hitting HRs from the left coast. The one good thing about Bonds breaking the record will be not having to see any more of his at-bats.

bmfc1 wrote: Steve Phillips just said that the Braves will win the NL East. I can't be the only one who is extremely comforted by this.

Edgy DC wrote: Funky lineup. New YorkChicagoReyes ss Newhan lf Wright 3b Delgado 1b Anderson cf Castro c Green rf Gotay 2b Hernandez, pSoriano, lf Theriot, ss Lee, 1b Ramirez, 3b Floyd, lf DeRosa, 2b Jones, cf Kendall, c Zambrano, p Color me pleased when we win with this lineup in a game started by C. Zambrano.

metsmarathon wrote: our opening day lineup in 2003 was: 1. cedeno CF 2. alomar 2B 3. floyd LF 4. piazza C 5. vaughn 1B 6. wigginton 3B 7. burnitz RF 8. sanchez SS 9. glavine P with mike stanton as our primary setup guy leading to armando benitez and tom glavine is the biggest reason we sucked that year? sounds good. until the next agenda, that is. Wigginton is nasty

="cleonjones11"]Beltran has never seemed like the quick healing type.Let's hope its not a true rib cage pull..I'm sure when he does come back he'll be making that Oh it hurts so much face... Again..Beltran is on my lastings nerve... maybe Mark Kotsay is available.. ="cleonjones11"]News Flash Beltran pulls LoDucas groin is Beltran ever 100% I personally cannot stand beltran..total puss- Hey jackass, remember in 2005 when Beltran and Cameron ran into each other at full speed? "Beltran was diagnosed with a concussion and a minimally non-displaced fracture of a facial bone." He was back in the lineup in 6 days. Remember that, moron? I didn't think so.

I was just going to ask who the fuck Brent Gaff was after browsing UMDB. What did Keith say?

When we getting him back?

The ball struck Wright soundly on the outside of his right knee. He might have caught it, so might Clete Boyer. "I should have put my glove in a different place," Wright said. "Then it wouldn't have hurt." http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20070726&content_id=2110743&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym

DocTee wrote: ]Utley, batting .336 with 17 homers and 82 RBIs, didn�t think he�d be sidelined for a month. �I think it will be sooner than that,� he said. If this happened to Alou, he'd retire. No, he'd gleefully go on vacation and wait for his paychecks in the mail. I'm only 90% kidding.

Frayed Knot wrote: I was just about to note the fall that Smith has taken recently - and that it had gone pretty much under the radar - when the news came that he was dropped down. So here it is anyway since it illustrates things very well (does not include today) -----IPERHBBWHiPERAApr & May23.241480.931.52Jun & Jul14.67823112.324.91

SteveJRogers wrote: Spot on Greg! Glavine was brought in to be the 2003 version of Mike Hampton, to insure that Al Leiter would not have the pressure of being The Ace like he had been in 2001 and 2002. Glavine should get lumped in with the Vaughns and the Alomars, and to a lesser extent the next year with Kris Benson and Victor Zambrano. The only reason Glavine came here was because he would be surrounded by veteran pitchers like Al Leiter and Steve Traschel, if he knew that Leiter would be gone by the end of the 2004 season and Traschel would be at the end of 2006 and that he would front a staff of Jorge Sosa, John Maine and Oliver Perez would he still have come? Who knows, speculation is that he spurnned the Phillies because of the youth on their staff even though the Phillies were in much better shape than the Mets were in heading into the 2003 season. None of this makes any sense.

Can someone explain this one to me?

Damn just get that black hole out of the 3 spot and we're a sharp hitting team. SC = 95%

="Elster88"]I hate to be the turd in the punch bowl, but Milledge's first 18 at-bats this year have given him a line of .222/.267/.444//.707 .262/.289/.452//.741 Not including 2 for 2 today which puts his BA at .292 according to Gameday. Not sure how accurate those numbers are.

Are the Met bats waking up?

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I have to admit in the top of the first I thought, crap, Maine's lost it this half. Big win for him after 2 lousy starts. I blame the first inning run on Green. That was a lazy fucking fly ball that he let drop in front of him for LaRoche's single. Shoulda been caught.