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Reyes 1 Vargas 1 Castillo .5 Heilman .5 Schoeneweis .5

Francesa understood that Randolph was fired at 11:00pm not 3:00am. Russo not so much. Francesa has been absolutely murdering Bernazard though.

What you don't know is that on NYC sportstalk radio today they are killing the Post for the fertilizer story. The fans do what the talkies tell them to. Hence they will not boo based on the fertilizer comment. They will call for the trading of Beltran to the Red Sox for J.D. Drew and Kevin Youkillis however.

]mostly as a demonstration of support for the managerial change

AG/DC wrote: I also have no problem using "black" to refer to Afro-Latins in the same sense that we refer to African-Americans whose ancestry ties to Africa through the US. Nor do I - it just seems that baseball does. I always assumed 'black' was a color.

Do you know for certain that Manuel is African American? I assumed Latino because of his name and because this is the first time I've heard him being referenced as the second black NYC manager.

Pelfrey 3 Beltran 2 Reyes 2 Wright 1.5 Wagner 1 Sanchez .5

bmfc1 wrote: If I didn't like Phil Mushnick so much, I would ignore The NY Post forever. Word.

Ah. So its more a measure of how many teams are in front of you. Not bad.

WTF is 'NGB'? Net Games Back? What does that mean and how is it calculated?

Really ridiculous. Especially after Jerry asked specifically that reporters please forget he said it and not do anything crazy with it.

msilva177 wrote: Yes they are downloadable to your ipod - go to www.nybaseballdigest.com and click on the iTunes link which is on the bottom right hand side - you should be all set to go. You could also look up NY Baseball Digest in the iTunes store Thanks I'll check it out. I tried looking it up on iTunes but couldn't find it. Not out of the realm of possibility though, is that I did something wrong.

Zvon wrote: Did Pelfrey stop wearing the mouth piece or did he just get a better fitting one? I believe that I read somewhere that he used to tip his pitches with his tongue so he got the mouthpiece to stop that. Then somehow they think he was tipping them with the mouthpiece so they 86'd that. I guess maybe they finally got him to control his tongue?

Are these podcasts or something similar? Are they downloadable to my iPod?

Holy thorough KTE Batman!

Here's an article and a video of the last two at-bats (including the switch-hitter) of the game. June 21, 2008 Double-Barreled Pitcher Provides Shot of Confusion By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI It was a lefty-righty matchup for the ages. Make that a righty-lefty matchup for the ages. Pat Venditte, an ambidextrous pitcher for the Staten Island Yankees, eventually got the matchup he wanted: right-hander vs. right-hander, which resulted in a game-ending strikeout after a long and bizarre pitcher-batter sequence � make that batter-pitcher sequence. On Thursday night at KeySpan Park in Coney Island, the Yankees led the Brooklyn Cyclones, 7-2, when the 22-year-old Venditte, making his professional debut, strolled to the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning and took part in his own version of the double switch. Venditte, a switch-pitcher from Creighton who can reach 90 miles an hour from the right side and the high 70s from the left, retired the first two batters he faced while pitching right-handed. Still pitching right-handed, Venditte allowed a single by Nicholas Giarraputo. Up next was designated hitter Ralph Henriquez, and he and Venditte engaged in a routine more vaudeville than Mudville. As Henriquez walked to the plate, Venditte, assuming Henriquez would bat left-handed, stood behind the pitching rubber with his glove on his right hand and the ball in his left. Henriquez, looking out at Venditte, then stepped across the batter�s box, determined to hit right-handed and gain a righty-lefty advantage. Seeing this, Venditte quickly switched his custom-made glove to his left hand and put the ball in his right, hoping to gain a righty-on-righty advantage. Henriquez stepped out and began asking the home-plate umpire, Shaylor Smith, to lay out his options, then summoned his third-base coach. With the matter unresolved, Henriquez again stepped across the batter�s box in an attempt to bat left-handed. Again, Venditte switched glove and ball. The cat-and-mouse game reached full comedic gear when Henriquez again strolled across the batter�s box to hit right-handed, and Venditte responded with the old switcheroo, setting up as a righty. �My interpretation of the rule is that we each get to switch once,� Venditte said before Friday night�s Yankees game against Hudson Valley at Richmond County Bank Ballpark on Staten Island. �After that, I thought I had the final decision.� Pat McMahon, the Staten Island manager, and Edgar Alfonzo, the Brooklyn manager, trotted onto the field for a discussion with Smith, setting off a series of separate discussions by confused members of the teams, which are Class A affiliates of the Yankees and the Mets. In the midst of those discussions, Venditte tossed warm-up pitches � with both arms. �I don�t think the umpires really knew how to handle it,� Venditte said. �It�s not something you see every day.� After a seven-minute delay, Smith ordered Henriquez to step into the box as a right-handed batter, and Venditte, now pitching right-handed, proceeded to strike him out, swinging. When asked before Friday�s game if he had ever seen anything like it before, McMahon paused before uttering softly, �Uh, no.� But Venditte, drafted this month by the Yankees in the 20th round, said he was involved in a similar situation during his sophomore year against Nebraska. In that game, umpires ruled that Venditte had to declare which arm he would use before throwing his first pitch and could not switch until the at-bat ended. Venditte decided to pitch left-handed, and a right-handed batter �hit a laser,� he recalled, �but fortunately, it was caught.� McMahon, who said Friday that he was waiting for an official ruling from higher baseball authorities on the subject of switch-pitching to switch-hitters, said that the way he understood it, �the rule dictates that the hitter establish the box and the pitcher establish the throw, and then each team can make one move, and then it�s play ball.� �That�s the rule that we got from the rule book of minor league baseball,� he said. McMahon, who said he shared that interpretation with Smith before Friday night�s game and would go over it with umpires as part of ground-rules discussions before every game, tipped his cap to Venditte. �I thought Pat handled it very well,� he said. �Here you had a switch-hitter facing a young man who throws with both arms. It�s a unique experience and one that players and umpires will probably take a little time to get used to.�

Not something you hear from a GM everyday... ]"Do you know that the guy really doesn't like baseball all that much?" Riccardi continued. "Do you know the guy doesn't have a passion to play the game that much? How much do you know about the player? There's a reason why you're attracted to some players and there's a reason why you're not attracted to some players. I don't think you'd be very happy if we brought Adam Dunn here." Love this: ]"If anything happens, I ain't going to Toronto," Dunn said. "I can eliminate one team. I'm not converting my dollars to loonies and toonies just yet."

But isn't the goal of a good farm system also the ability to produce good players to trade to acquire good players? And isn't that what the Mets were able to do in the Santana deal? Seems like critics are wanting to have their cake and eat it too.

bmfc1 wrote: The way I understood it was that the Mets told the Twins that they would include Guerra to get Santana. When the Twins said that they were ready to deal, Omar knew that the Twins had no alternatives so he could have pulled back Guerra from the deal. However, he didn't think that was the right thing to do so he kept his word. ="metirish"]I never heard that take on the deal , if that is the case Minaya should be fired. He should be fired because he chose to be ethical rather than ruthless? Tough room, irish, tough room.

The umps didn't seem to have clue as to what the rule is, so you could quite possibly be correct. I think that the announcers (Gary Apple was one, couldn't recognize the other voice) said that Venditte had more velocity - high 80's to mid 90's - from the right side, but could only get it up to about 85 from the left. They did say he had a good 'frisbee slider' from the left side. They showed the at-bat on Geico Sports Nite so if you watch a re-run late tonight or tomorrow you'll see it.

They lost 7-2. In the 9th inning the SI Yankees put in an ambidextrous pitcher who was using a six-fingered glove that he'd put on either hand. He got the first two righty batters throwing righty. The next batter singled and the next guy up was a switch-hitter. He stood in the box righty and then when he saw the pitcher - Pat Venditte I think was his name - getting ready to throw righty, he turned around to bat lefty. Venditte then switched his glove to the other hand to throw lefty. The batter then moved to the other side of the box again. Hilarity ensued. The managers and umpires conferred for a good 5 minutes until it seemed that they decided that the batter had to choose a side to bat from for the entire at-bat but the pitcher could do what he wanted. Batter stood in righty, pitcher threw righty and struck him out on 4 pitches I think. It was interesting.

'Don't worry I've had a vasectomy' Oh, you mean as they relate to the Mets? Never mind.

And Willie's a winner!

Irrefutable PROOF of Jerry actually trying to stab Willie in the back! Mr. Met with a cig hanging out at MSG made me chuckle.

Reyes - 1.5 Delgado - 1.25 Easley - 1.25 Perez - 1.25 Wright - 1.25 Anderson - 1 Wagner - 1 Sanchez - .5 Schoenweis - .5 Smith - .5